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==Not literal==
Thomas uses metaphor to interpret the prophecy. This is the correct method of interpretation, but it is not literal. Either he must concede that a literal rod will grow... or that the method of the apostles was to use metaphor in interpreting the prophecy. The difficulty in such a concession is that Thomas does not know how to discern between free-for-all metaphor and the methods that the apostles used so that their interpretation was not free-for-all. It is much easier to say that metaphor is part of literal and ignore the question of how meaning is derived from metaphor.
Modern exegeses makes use of metaphor all of the time, and often it is nothing more than free-for-all interpretation. But scholars wink at each other, not demanding rigorous proof of the meaning.
Why is the name 'Jesse' used if the prophecy applies to the offspring of David? Jesse had other sons. Would their offspring have sufficed to fulfill the prophecy? Because we have not been permitted to read the scriptures like the apostles, this has become a rather useless prophecy. All it says, even permitting the metaphor that a rod is a son, and a branch is a son, is that a son of David will rule. How many of the kings of Israel were sons of David? They could all use the prophecy to justify their decrees as being righteous whether they were or not.
Furthermore, Jesus did not rule as a literal king.
==Fulfilled in Sensus Plenior==
===Rod===
[[חטר]] 'choter' or 'rod' has the [[glyph]] "[[ח]] One who fully understands [[ר]] the prophecy [[ט]] takes a bride as the Son of Man." The Son of Man obtained his bride through his death. The word rod [[חטר]] represents [[חטר |judgement]] as do it's synonyms.
:[[Isa 11:4]] But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
[[גזע]] 'geza‘' stem or stock of a tree. The tree represents the cross. The [[glyph]] means [[ג]] To pursue [[ז]] the bride [[ע]] with mercy and grace without the sacrifice of the messiah (by teaching).
:[[Isa 11:2]] And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
[[ישי]] Jesse represents the Trinity, two in heaven, and the son of man who took a bride. The prophecy is significant because Jesus would be fully God and yet the Son of Man. As the rod from the trunk of Jesse, he would come with judgement from the teaching of the cross of God. Don't be misled by Jesus's statement that he did not come to judge. As a man who resisted sin, he put us all to shame and condemned us, removing all excuses for sin. Though he brought judgement, he also took it.
[[נצר]] 'netser' branch, keeper, or watchman. The branch is a [[נר]] lamp with [[צ]] righteousness (holiness and grace incarnate) in the heart.
:[[Isa 11:5]] And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
:[[Ac 13:23]] Of this man’s seed hath God according to [his] promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
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