Posted on 12/21/2024 6:06:22 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
When we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating one of the most improbable miracles in all of human history. You see, the truth is that not just anyone could have showed up and claimed to be the Messiah. According to the Scriptures, the Messiah had to come from a very specific bloodline, the Messiah had to be born at a very specific place, and the Messiah had to be born at a very specific time. It was exceedingly unlikely that anyone would ever be able to fulfill all of those prophecies, but Jesus did. The prophecies about the first coming of Christ that we find in the Bible are powerful evidence for the reality of the Christian faith, and yet these prophecies are rarely taught in our churches today.
Even though the birth of Christ is most commonly celebrated on December 25th in the western world, scholars openly acknowledge that Jesus was not actually born on December 25th.
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God the Father had decided, even before the universe was made, that He was going to do this amazingly improbable thing. His foreknowledge is completely beyond our comprehension.
He did it out of a love the magnitude of which none of us can even begin to comprehend. But oh! How thankful we should all be!
In my new book entitled “Why”, I explain that the Scriptures mandate that the Messiah must come from an extremely unique bloodline…
-He had to be a descendant of Abraham. (Genesis 12:3)
-He had to be a descendant of Isaac. (Genesis 21:12)
-He had to be a descendant of Jacob. (Numbers 24:17)
-He had to be a descendant of Judah. (Genesis 49:10)
-He had to be a descendant of Jesse. (Isaiah 11:1)
-He had to be a descendant of David. (Isaiah 9:6 and Jeremiah 23:5)
-He had to be a descendant of Solomon. (2 Samuel 7:13)
In addition to coming from a very specific bloodline, the Scriptures also require that the Messiah must be born in the town of Bethlehem.
If one is a descendant of Solomon, then one is also a descendant of his father David and his grandfather Jesse. And then one is a descendant of Isaac and Abraham the father of the Jews, by default.
It is not as if many bloodlines improbably merged. There is only one bloodline with different ways of naming it.
How many descendants did Solomon leave? His son Rehoboam had 70 or so children.
The improbable, impossible, miraculous thing is Mary the virgin conceiving of the Holy Spirit.
Then Joseph believed the angel.
Anything else is small details, prophesied but not improbable.
Thanks for your post! Song for this time of year with the message. What we should be paying attention to.
Thanks for your post! Song for this time of year with the message. What we should be paying attention to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUM83DphpQ
Ahhh, but you miss the point: He couldn’t be descended from just ANY Solomon, but the one whose lineage goes back to Abraham.
In the years before The Savior’s birth many Jewish boys were born and named Jesus - That was a popular name then. Virtually every Tom, Dick, and Harry was named Jesus AND a Jew! But only one would be born of an Abraham > Isaac > Jacob > Judah > Jesse > David > Solomon lineage AND be named Jesus.
I would add that all three Persons of the Trinity decided that.
All the Jewish Solomons descended from Abraham. All the Jews descended from the twelve sons of Jacob, the tribes of Israel. Descent from Abraham is not improbable but a certainty.
Descent from the royal house David and Solomon the house builder would be more rare but again, not truly improbable.
Then there are differing genealogies in the gospels, and differing interpretations of the differences.
I figure that part can wait for heaven.
God breaks the rules, is born of a virgin, comes into the world small and helpless, suffers and dies for us, with us.
What is your conclusion about the curse of Jeconiah?
I would add that all three Persons of the Trinity decided that.
Ascribing decisions to Persons of the Godhead becomes tricky, doesn't it, for our finite minds, that is?
And would you also add that all three Persons of the Trinity so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son?
And AFTER JESUS WAS BORN, what happened to Jews keeping genealogy facts?
Not for me, because I don't attempt it. Where the Bible specifies it, I embrace it; otherwise, I don't presume. Suit yourself.
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