Continuing in the Book of Matthew, so and so begat so and so, commencing with Abraham to the Diaspora, to David, and then from David to Jesus.
The word, “begat” is from the
Greek, “gennao” whose root is “genos” or “genus” in English. Genus
is a taxonomical classification in between family and species.
Species are individual creatures
that can interbreed whereas a family are those with a common ancestor. So, a
genus is a group that are of one family but technically should not breed one
with the other, thus incest is forbidden by God because it is unnatural.
As such, those from Abraham to
Jesus were of the same family of the species and were so closely related that
their genes remained pure, not engaging in parent-child intercourse. Jesus was
what we call now, “pure-blooded” — He was a Hebrew in his paternal genome.
Jesus had to be pure-blooded to be pure, and also to be the son of David.
Luke added the genealogy of Jesus
from His supposed father, Joseph back to God through Adam. Luke
indicated that Jesus was pure-bred to God through Adam’s kind.
Note that Jesus was without
guile. His mother was not Mary who carried the mitochondrial DNA of Eve, the “mother
of all living.” Mary was not His mother… and Jesus verified that (Mat
12:47-49). Mary was the “vessel” that God chose to transport Himself from one
realm to another.
Eve was beguiled; Jesus
was not, so Eve was not the mother of God at all.
John got it right; Jesus was the Son
of God and had no mother. His genome fit the genome of Melchizedek, “Without
father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor
end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually” (Heb
7:3). “Made like” in that verse is “aphomoioo” — a model image of
the Son of God — Jesus.
On the other hand, John gave the lineage
of Jesus without the begatting. All those of that genus were supposed
ancestors of Joseph and hence the genealogy of Jesus through Joseph was insignificant.
However, they do point toward Jesus as the supposed rightful king of
Judea as the supposed gens of David.
Matthew 1:1 says, “The book of
the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”
“Son of David” is just “yhios,”
meaning “descendant” whereas in the Hebrew Jesus was the “ben” of God,
meaning family. Therefore, yhios would mean that Jesus is of the
family of both Abraham and David, thus fulfilling the Abrahamic Covenant — “To
make Abraham the father of many nations and of many descendants and give
"the whole land of Canaan" to his descendants” (Wikipedia; Gen
17:2-9).
David owned that land of Canaan
at one time; all the way from Egypt to the Euphrates River — the “fertile
crescent” which is perhaps the “bow” that Noah saw as he looked toward that land
in the western horizon from the headwaters of the Euphrates.
That land was the “promised land”
and Abraham was king of the promise. He resided in the promised land (Canaan) and
was a king according to the Book of Jasher, but his “land” was in
the realm of heaven.
Jesus was both heir to the land
and the promise, “My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this
world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the
Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence” (John 18:36), Jesus said. His kingdom was the kingdom of Abraham which
Luke called “Abraham’s Bosom” (Luke 16:22).
Jesus denied the landed kingdom
at the crucifixion, but claimed the throne of Abraham who in death was king pro
tem (the time being before the crucifixion) of the invisible kingdom
where Jesus now reigns.
So, now, if nothing else, the
reader should have learned that Abraham’s Bosom is the Kingdom of God in Paradise,
but it was only until the time of Jesus’s reign. Those who died before rested
in Abraham’s Bosom because he was king of the Promised Land in another realm.
As the son of Abraham and the son
of David, Jesus had rights to both kingdoms, but rejected to be a king in this
world, preferring to be a servant to mankind in this realm.
That brings us to the conclusion
of Matthew’s genealogy of Joseph because Jews always kept their genealogy. It
was a very necessary thing to show that they were sons of Abraham and of David.
Most fit the son of Abraham quite
well because they were Hebrews. However, only a small fraction were sons of
David, and as one of the few through Joseph, Jesus would be heir to the throne
of Judea which was without a king during the maturity of Jesus.
That Jesus was the son of David
was not significant to Jesus but that He was the son of Abraham would be because
Abraham’s kingdom was not of this world. He was rightful heir, and now
Christians lie in the Bosom of Christ, and Abraham has fulfilled his purpose —
to reign over Paradise until the real King reigned.
The son (ben) of Abraham
and Sarah was supposedly Isaac. I have written before that since Sarah
was barren and surely by then, Abraham was impotent (she laughed), then Isaac
was the son of God and without a mother, just like Jesus as Melchizedek. Not
that Isaac was another Jesus but a “placeholder” until Jesus was born, thus as
Paul wrote, “He is a Jew, which is one inwardly” with a circumcised heart (Rom
2:29).
A ”Jew” is a native son of Judea
whereas a Hebrew is of the family or gens of Abraham, the Hebrew, with incorruptible
flesh. Thus, they were peculiar people because God chose them (Deut
14:2), and because Christians are inwardly Jews, they too are God’s chosen and peculiar
people (1 Pet 2:9) having the gens of Jesus induced when they are born
again (John 3:7).
That means that Jesus the Christ
was a chosen and a very peculiar person; one that could raise the dead, walk on
water, and share His virtue with all the world! He was a Hebrew outwardly but
God inwardly!
So, all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. (Mat 1:17)
David wrote, “Forty years long
was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in
their heart, and they have not known my ways” (Psalm 95:10). What I am getting
at, from Abraham to Jesus was a sacred “generation” of 42 generations or 1794
years or so. The next sacred generation would have been about 1788 AD and the next
about 3576 AD.
1788 was when the Age of Reason
was nearing its climax with the French Revolution and the losing of heads because
of it in the manner of John the Baptist.
Perhaps 3576 or so is the second
coming of Christ, or possibly the end of His millennial reign. If so, then in
2023 AD, we are in the Age of the Antichrist, and that just happens to coincide
closely with both the Age of Pisces (November 2019) and the Great Reset (June 2020)
(ibid).
With that said, according to
Matthew, generations has great significance in the time of God. His
engendering is based on times of about forty-years so for each forty generations
(about 1794 calendar years) expect some great thing happening.
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