Wednesday, July 3, 2013

The Jesus Genealogy According To The Bible

By Jeanette Riggs


The Jesus genealogy can be found in two books of the Good Book. First it can be located in Luke. The second is in Matthew. Matthew's rendition begins with Abraham and then moves on to King David's boy named Solomon and goes through the line of the kings down to Jeconiah, of which was cursed by God be barren. Next you will find Joseph, the legal father of Jesus.

Luke follows a different line. His account goes all the way back to Adam. Next it follows one of Davids sons and on to Nathan of which will bring you back to Joseph. In both statements, it is said that Jesus was not begot of Joseph but, from God himself. The lists are both the same when it come to following between Abraham and David. After that they are totally different.

There are numerous theories that try to explain the differences in lineages described in Luke and Matthew. Most Christian scholars believe that Matthew's story follows the lineage of Joseph, while Luke's story follows the lineage of Mary. Both bloodlines show the connection between Jesus and David, which is important because God had already told David that a blood descendant would one day sit on the eternal throne.

He obtained a legal tie to the throne from David. He was endowed with the blood ties to it because of his mom. He seemed to obtain the blood line tying to David and did not get the problem of Solomon. Solomon was also an ancestor of the apostle John.

Each of the accounts describe Jesus having privileges to the Israel's throne. Since he was Joseph's earliest kid, he also had the right to Solomons throne as well. Solomon's ties to it seemed to be unclear basically because he had not been David's earliest son. Furthermore, Solomon seemed to be David's son from his sinful relations with Bathsheba.

Nevertheless, Jesus was an heir to David's throne through Nathan due to Mary's origins. The residents of their interval realized, that the union of Jesus earthly parents, would end up linking the ties on the throne even Israel along with putting them together in Jesus, their oldest boy.

This set up the competition with the Sanhedrin later in the Bible. Since Jesus is the inheritor of the throne and unifies the competing statements to the throne, the Sanhedrin the government associates of the Romans, at first considered if Jesus, as King of the Jewish people, would side with them to toss off the yoke of Roman oppression. However, when he belittled the Sanhedrin, they switched on him, obligating the Romans to crucify him to sustain their power.

It seemed though that that was already Gods strategy. Christ was the king of a religious dominion and followed a plan to atone the sins of all of humanity. He supplies all the world absolution if they all will only believe, be baptized and repent. This is the layout to the Old Testament and it allows one to comprehend the main plot when studying the Gospels and the Jesus genealogy.




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