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.
What is your conclusion about the curse of Jeconiah?
And AFTER JESUS WAS BORN, what happened to Jews keeping genealogy facts?