THE LIGHT COMING DOWN

 Joseph was more than a poor carpenter. He was a “just man,” meaning that the supposed father of Jesus was honorable, virtuous, fair, righteous, and upright in a moral sense, following God’s divine laws religiously. As we soon find out, neither was he a tax cheat because he came to his hometown to pay the taxes that he was obligated to pay.

Joseph would have paid taxes to Judea to pay tribute to Caesar for Judea, a tax to the High Priest, but a “head tax” (tributum capitis). When Joseph would go to pay the Roman tax to support Caesar, while there, it would increase due to the new baby Jesus.

Jesus was born worthy. He was worth about one denarius to Caesar! Joseph would have paid Caesar money for Jesus’s right to exist. Although Jesus is God Himself — the Existence (“I AM THAT I AM”) — Joseph would pay Caesar for God to Exist on Earth in the Roman Province of Asia.

Not only that, but Joseph was himself rightful heir to the throne of David, to wit: 

²⁰ But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” (Mat 1:20)

 There was already a king in Judea and elsewhere around Egypt. Herod the Great, was king of the Jews and others. To be rightful king (just), according to Mosaic Law, the king of the Jews (Judea) was required to be a Jew — an “ethnarch” — a leader over ethnic Jews.

Herod was Arabic (an Idumean) who converted to Judaism for political reasons; and as such, he was not a just man like Joseph. It was Joseph who should have been king, but Marc Antony selected Herod, and Caesar honored that because Herod sucked up to him after Antony died.

Herod was converted from Antony to his enemy, Octavian Caesar, to retain his own power.

On the other hand, Herod would endeavor to kill Joseph, Jesus, and any other pretender to his throne, even in death because, according to Flavius Josephus, Herod’s edict was carried out after his death with the people thinking that Herod was still alive.  The wise kings from the East failed to persuade Herod to be the “right hand of God,” Jesus, who would be the rightful king once Herod was dead.

In the key verse, the angel called Joseph, “the son of David.” As such, the angel recognized Joseph as the legitimate king of the Jews rather than Herod. No wonder Joseph and his family would flee to Egypt. Herod was afraid that his Herodian empire would be replaced just as the Roman triumvirate had been replaced by ambitious men.

Perhaps Joseph would not be given a room in the inn when Jesus was born because there were many contenders to the throne and the Davidian dynasty was only one of the many.

Scripture says that Joseph was the “supposed” father of Jesus (Luke 3:23).

The public thought that Jesus was the son of David and rightful king of the Jews, like Joseph whose lineage would be well known by the Jewish tax collector at that time.

If it had been Matthew, he would have known the great worth of Jesus and charged the royal family one denarius for each male. Of course, Matthew was surely just a child himself when Jesus was born.

It appears that whoever was the tax collector was also a just tax collector, and a just man like Joseph; no wonder Jesus chose a fair tax collector as one of the twelve.

Perhaps Matthew would even known that Jesus owed no taxes, “for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” Joseph would rightfully owe no taxes because Jesus is the Son of God and was only the supposed son of Joseph and of the Davidian line. Matthew, if it had been him,  would not have given Joseph a tax break because of his royal bloodline.

That which was conceived (gennao) in Mary was of the Holy Ghost. The Greek verb “gennao” points toward genetics. The angel revealed to Joseph that Jesus was not his son, not the gens of David, but the gens of God Himself. Joseph was persuaded that although Jesus was not of his genes; that Mary had been engendered by God above via the Holy Spirit of the Father.

Jesus would speak of that type of conception when He matured; to Nicodemus, He said, “Marvel not, ye must be born again” (John 3:7), or literally you must be “engendered from above” just as He had been to be a product of the Holy Spirit.

In the King James Version alone, the Greek word “pneuma” is used for both the Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost.

Refer to John 7:39 (KJV). The Holy Spirit appears to be generally the Spirit of God whereas the Holy Ghost the specific portion of the Spirit of God in each person — the Spirit of the person in “bodily shape” (Luke 3:22) that is the exact Image of God (a phantom Spirit) shaped like the person with the very Substance of God.

Jesus was engendered in Mary, not by Joseph nor any other man, but the bodily shape of God Himself. In other words, God came close to Mary and breathed life unto her, perhaps through her nostrils as with Adam (Gen 2:7).

There was no carnal knowledge involved with the incarnation of Jesus. God would take on flesh Himself, and the zygote of Jesus would be entirely of God with no contribution at all from Mary. The Spirit, or “Seed of God” was implanted in the womb of Mary and perhaps even her ovum had no part in the conception. Nowhere, is it written that Jesus is the son of Mary but only that He was of the Holy Ghost.

As such, Jesus was not half man and half God but totally God in the vessel, or shape of a man, that Jesus called His “cup” (Mat 26:39). As such, the body of Jesus was the “vessel” or “ark” wherein God would exist throughout His stay on Earth.

Never say, “Jesus and God” because Jesus is the one and only Person of God. With that said, God is not three persons but three substances in one Person — in homeostasis. When Jesus appeared, his form was of a man, but His Substance was fully God within His Body.

It was never just a man that was crucified, but God in all three substances that suffered death. The flesh of Jesus was discarded for glorified flesh (John 7:37), the Holy Ghost departed its vessel (Mark 15:37), and the Father withdrew from the body of Jesus, (Mat 27:46).

As I wrote in my book, Adoil Come Down: Arkhas Came Undone, Jesus came undone when the Light of God came down to imbue Mary with the Holy Ghost. The virgin birth was Adoil coming down and the crucifixion was surely Arkhas undone, or all the substances of the godhead separating.