The “book” is the writings of Matthew. The first chapter of that book is the generation of the Messiah, called “Jesus.” That He was generated is made obvious by his forthcoming genealogy. God was generated as a man with genes. It began with Abraham, and no further back, according to Matthew because God endowed him with clean genes. That places a great significance on Abraham.
Matthew often wrote of Jesus as the “son of David,” but David was the son (yhios) of Abraham. “Son” in that sense is not the offspring of one father and one mother but the seed of all the progenitors before. Hence, Jesus was the “seed” of Abraham that was promised in the Covenant that God made with Abraham.
The inheritance of the Abrahamic Covenant is repeated from part one of my commentary for memory’s sake: 1) to make of Abraham a great nation 2) to give Abraham's descendants all the land from the Nile River to the Euphrates, and 3) for Abraham to be the father of many nations and of many descendants, and the land would belong to his descendants.
Therefore, Jesus, as the seed (identity) of Abraham, would be a great nation. Of course, so many thought that Jesus would be the Lord Proprietor of the land of Israel, but the Abrahamic Covenant was esoteric. The “Great Nation” of Abraham was Christianity and the “Bride” of Christ, the Church. The Great Nation was an idea, just as when Abraham was king of Canaan and without any land. Canaan belonged to the Canaanites, and they were “caretakers” in a sense, until the heavenly kingdom would be given to all the heirs of God’s Invisible Empire.
The Covenant was to give all the land of the fertile crescent to “seed” of Abraham. Of course, “seed” is semen and in the head of each sperm is the chromosome of the parent. The flesh of Jesus was from Abraham’s seed through Mary. She passed down in her mitochondrial DNA, the humanity of Abraham, into Jesus. Jesus was of the flesh of Abraham, and as such he was of the “house” of Abraham and was the fulfillment of that promise. Jesus was of the gens (family) of Abraham, and kingship was his birthright from Abraham. As such, Jesus was rightful heir to what God promised Abraham.
Only one other place are “sons of Abraham” mentioned and that was with Isaac and Ishmael (1 Chron 1:28). Both of those two sons were to make a great nation since there was an appendage to the Abrahamic Covenant that applied to Ishmael. As it turned out. Ishmael received the land, and his seed squandered it by miscegenation. On the other hand, Isaac’s part was the heavenly “Israel.”
Both grants, one for land and the other for space, were Paradise. It seems that immediately a great portion of Ishmael’s Paradise was destroyed by fire and brimstone (Gen 19:24). It had been “the Garden of the Lord” (Paradise) before that great fire (Gen 13:10).
Since the Kingdom of David no longer existed because Herod, as an Ishmaelite, squandered the land by killing off all his legitimate first-generation heirs. That left the “Garden of Eden” (Judea) with no king. Then along came Jesus! He was the son of David and the son of Abraham. Because of David whom God anointed, Jesus would be king, and because of Abraham, He would be “King Of Kings.”
Just what is a “king of kings”? Imperators — Caesars. All the kings of the fertile crescent paid tribute to Caesar and were appointed only by his anointing. As “King Of Kings,” therefore, Jesus was not just king of the Jews but a “Caesar.” Whereas, the kingdom of Caesar was on Earth, the Kingdom of Jesus was in another realm. Caesar’s representative, Pontius Pilate, would come to understand that, and had no problem with it, but Herod had tried to kill the newborn king.
Herod could have killed the rightful heir to his kingdom, as he had his own sons. He could have killed the baby Jesus immediately, but Josephus wrote that Herod killed the innocents in death. Without revealing that Herod was dead, his soldiers executed his will by killing off all the contenders for the Herodian throne.
As it turns out the true king — Jesus — escaped death when His parents took him to Egypt. Get this: Herod endeavored to kill the new legitimate king from Hell! He was the “principality” who sought Jesus from Hades: For, Jesus was, “Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come” (Eph 1:21). Even though Herod would not get Jesus when he was alive, after he died the ghost of Herod still pursued Him from another realm. Because Herod endeavored to kill God, just like Judas, he would have Satan in him; he would be the “Antichrist” of that age.
For the third part of the Covenant, Jesus would be heir to the land of the Kingdom of David, and Jews still value that over the “Real Estate” in heaven. Jesus made it clear many times that it was not the kingdom of David that He sought, but the entire Kingdom of God’s whose Estate was in another realm (John 18:36).
They all (Herodians, Hasmoneans, the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadduccees, and the soldiers) all missed the point; they were all trying to protect their interests for both the land and their religious Laws. Jesus would be crucified for claiming a far-a-away “land” that could be entered only by death. Ironically, those who murdered Jesus provided for Him a throne whereon He now sets as the “right hand of God,” as Josephus explains; with all the power and authority as a son of Caesar would have.
So, Jesus was much like His progenitor, Abraham — a king whose kingdom was not of material property that was corruptible but incorruptible spiritual property that few will ever see… “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you” (1 Pet 1”4). Whereas the Jews still seek land, Christians seek eternal proprietorship of glory — new improved genes from God.
Abraham was an important progenitor of Jesus. As I have written before, it is implied in scripture that Abraham was impotent, but that God endowed him with a Divine Impulse. In other words, Abraham would be the one to fire the “Divine Spark” of God into the barren womb of Sarah. Therefore, the seed of Abraham would not be from Abraham but from God from the loins of Abraham.
Isaac was a chosen and peculiar son (Deut 14:2). His genes were a gift of God to the Israelites. As it turns out, Jesus is “Israel” in the sense that Hs genes were of Israel. Because Jesus was of Isaac, then Jesus is of the genes of the son of Abraham. That makes, Jesus the “Lord Of Lords” because he had the authority and genes of the Lord!
Now for David. Although, God granted the Kingdom to Abraham, it was ruled by David, the son of Jesse. As the “son of Abraham” Jesus had title to the Kingdom of God, and because of David, He had would be the inheritor of the land as well. When Jesus died, He allowed all the contenders fight for the land, and they still do! On the other hand, the “Real Estate” in heaven is a free gift for having the genes of Jesus imbued within from above. As written before, “born again” in the Greek is literally “engendered from above” (Strong’s).
Christians have the “seed” planted when they first believe, but when Jesus comes for them, they will be regenned from above! That believers are the “Church,” and the Church is the “Bride of Jesus,” means that Christians will be inseminated by the Divine Spark to become glorified as Jesus Himself was at death (John 7:39).
That Jesus was both a son of David
and Abraham and of their genome, then Jesus is rightful King of the Jews. But
who is a Jew? Not the one that was born a Jew:
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom 2:28-29)
Jews, because of the Covenant, are outwardly identified by the cutting-away of the foreskin of the genitalia. Anybody with great caution can identify Jews. However, that is because of the flesh. But a Christian is a Jew inwardly because the whole “flesh” has been cut-off. The use of the word, “heart,” is symbolic; it is not just with all the heart, but the heart, soul, and mind (Mat 22:36-39). That is with your entire existence — the entire image, your identity — your genes, in which mankind was made. The “heart” is the seat of all knowledge, will, and desires. None of those are obvious in reality but are very much so in spirit!
To be an heir, with entitlement to God’s Estate, the person must be in Christ, or better said, with Christ in you. Just how are the genes of Jesus implanted into a sinner? First, the sinner must be cleansed for the implanting. The Holy Ghost is the “Living Water” that washes away all sin, and once that is done, the “Holy Ghost” of Jesus plants His seeds to grow a mature Christian — one who is like Christ but not perfect like Christ… not Him but in His Image just as when Adam was glorified in the beginning!
No longer is genealogy significant because now the genes of God’s children are not passed down by worthless DNA in the flesh (Tit 3:9) but spiritual “DNA” from Jesus Himself. Jesus carried the genes of God and Man as the “son of God” and the “son of Man.” Our genes have been corrupted to the extent that mankind is depraved; so depraved that even biogeneticists cannot help! Only by the Blood of Jesus with His genes can any sinner be saved.
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