[Prince of Desmond]

“If a Moabitess converts to Judaism can she be the grandmother of a King of Israel and have the Messiah as her descendant ?”

Sure. But conversion to Judaism didn’t grant her a personal claim to the Holy Land. She was a stranger who married into the royal family of the Biblical chosen people. She herself was a foreigner with no special heritage or ancestral membership to the chosen people. And that by no means demonstrates that a person who converted to Judaism after the coming of Christ shares in God’s Old Covenant promise to Abraham.

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Sure. But conversion to Judaism didn’t grant her a personal claim to the Holy Land. She was a stranger who married into the royal family of the Biblical chosen people. She herself was a foreigner with no special heritage or ancestral membership to the chosen people. And that by no means demonstrates that a person who converted to Judaism after the coming of Christ shares in God’s Old Covenant promise to Abraham.

1. The stranger who joined Israel inherited the same law and promises, according to the Law of Moses.
2. Even after the coming of the Messiah the commandments apply to Israel.
3. Even after the comming of the Messiah the promises apply to physical Israelites.

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.


Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.


I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Exodus, Catholic chapter twelve, Protestant verses forty eight to fifty,
Matthew, Catholic chapter five, Protestant verses seventeen to twenty,
Romans, Catholic chapter nine, Protestant verses one to five,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James