Apparent Bible Contradiction - Geneology of Jesus

I don't have the strict answer, but I do recalll some studies in this area about ten years ago, wherein pertinent issues were associated with fulfillment of Prophecy and relationship between God and Israel at the time of those kingdoms.

There was also significance in Joseph's heritage as well as Mary's,

Also noteworthy was an apparant Satanic ploy centuries earlier to disrupt or attack the lineage as a method of apparantly trying to pre-empt Prophecy and preventing its fulfillment.

I suspect the real answers lay in the grace of God and its testimony in comparison to the policy of evil by Satan and its impotence to defeat His grace.

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