Judah's blood of corruption he bore, t'was Judah's blood which the Savior shed. He removed from himself that corruption, the corrupt blood of Judah, and thus he was raised in incorruption, no longer being of the blood of Judah but to be of the promised descend of the house of Joseph. Thus for this reason, not fully understood, Jesus was to bear the blood of corruption of the tribe of Judah. But because Jesus was not legally of the tribe of Judah but was of the tribe of Joseph, Jesus by right could shed the corrupt blood of Judah and still rightfully lead the way to redemption as the rightful heir of the covenant house of Joseph, having shed from himself that thing which he really was not, Jewish, and attaining to that which he was, the firstborn of the covenant which in heaven was to be the firstborn son of the Father in the spirit and on earth to be the heir of the firstborn son of Israel under whose name all the nations of the earth would be brought unto redemptive salvation.

Why was it needful for the Messiah to be of the blood of Judah? Consider the following: 1) Of all the creations it was to this earth that Lucifer and his angels were cast down to. 2) Under such an influence, the children of Adam were so corrupted that coming to the flood of Noah, the Lord told Enoch that of all the creations, 'among all the workmanship of his hands there has not been so great wickedness as among they brethern.' (Moses 7:36) 3) And by the time of Christ the Book of Mormon states that he would 'come among the Jews, among those who are the more wicked part of the world; and they shall crucify him—for thus it behooveth our God, and there is none other nation on earth that would crucify their God.' (2 Nephi 10:3)

Thus there is a line of thought which has been expressed a number of ways which places this earth where Lucifer dwells as having the most wicked influence upon its inhabitants to exceed that of all other creations and that of the nations of this most wicked earth, only the Jewish nation of the time of Christ was wicked enough that they would crucify the Messiah, their own God. Certainly by being of the blood of Judah, Christ has descended below all, having come to the wickedest nation of the wickedest earth of all the creations of the Lord's hand in all the universe.

Blood is a symbol and also a fact of this earth's corruption. The Resurrected eternal body is one of flesh and bone. It is not one of blood, and flesh, and bone. It is the blood that corrupts. It is the blood of Judah which was the corruptions taken upon himself, which the Messiah did by becoming of the 'blood of Judah', he 'blood of corruption'. And it is also in the shedding of that blood in the garden of Gethsemane by which the sins of the world, the corruption of the world is removed.

In this respect Christ need to be of the blood of corruption, which corruption was best presented by the blood of the tribe of Judah. This is the tribe which since the days of Judah himself, had usurped the legal and rightful position of leadership which did belong to the anointed of Jacob, which Jacob had pronounce upon the head of Ephraim.

Now it was not by the Savior's 'right' through the blood of Judah that he had the right to perform as the redeeming Lord. He did not obtain that right through such as the 'blood of corruption'. Rather is was by the right of the firstborn in Israel that the Savior had the right to be the redeemer of the covenant. And that right, like all the rights and blessings of the covenant were preserved through Joseph of Egypt and his son Ephraim.