[00:00:00] You're listening to Theology and Apologetics with Thomas Fretwell, bringing theology to life.
[00:00:12] So if you remember, we've gone through everything, all this history that led up to this time where the Son of God will arrive on this earth.
[00:00:21] Remember, Paul referred to it as the fullness of time, the set time, the appointed time.
[00:00:26] Everything carefully arranged in world history for that momentous event when Jesus would be born into this earth.
[00:00:35] We're going to look at that more now as we study what we've called the pedigree or the lineage, the genealogy of the Messiah and it's quite interesting.
[00:00:44] Now, genealogies. Do we enjoy them? Or do we not enjoy them?
[00:00:50] They're not your common devotional read. Basically, there are a long list of names that are quite hard to pronounce and you don't know if you're doing it right.
[00:00:58] I actually have a messianic Bible where they put all of the names in Hebrew and it was quite fun.
[00:01:02] I did practice reading it. I was going to give it a go but I changed because it actually ended up taking up like 12 minutes of the whole sermon to do it and the whole thing.
[00:01:10] So I won't do that but it's good fun to do. But we're going to actually try and make it a little bit more.
[00:01:17] We're going to go behind what we would just do in devotional reading and try and study the purpose of why these are in here because we often don't spend the time looking at genealogies but they are, in fact, quite important for the narrative that we're going to see.
[00:01:31] And hopefully some of the groundwork that we've already laid will explain that to us.
[00:01:36] But let's just look broadly for a moment. Why do we have genealogies?
[00:01:41] Just not just Bible genealogies, general genealogies. They are to really show someone's lineage but one thing that that does is it roots that person in real history.
[00:01:52] You don't have genealogies really for people who are myths or mythological or anything like that.
[00:01:59] So this is one thing that we can immediately say is a blessing when we look at these genealogies and I went on quite a diversion.
[00:02:08] I actually ended up taking way more of my study time than I anticipated. But it was fun because I was looking at the genealogy of Jesus Christ with that in mind he was a real person who lived and you can look at how many people in his genealogy can we actually confirm archaeologically outside of the Bible?
[00:02:29] Because that's quite an increscent question because we're not just talking about kings and queens of England here or kings and queens of some great empire.
[00:02:35] We're talking about people who are actually in the genealogy of the Messiah.
[00:02:41] And you can actually confirm archaeologically six different kings within the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
[00:02:49] Now mine not sound like a lot but archaeologically speaking that's insane.
[00:02:53] Like that's a huge amount of people in one genealogy to be able to confirm and they're not just the trivial people, they're pretty crucial people.
[00:03:02] The main character, theologically in Matthew's genealogy is King David and we'll come back to that. Look at verse six.
[00:03:11] So you're going to need as we go through this study Matthew chapter one open and you're going to need Luke chapter three open.
[00:03:17] Keep your fingers in both of them. I will try and put the relevant scriptures up on the screen.
[00:03:23] Like I said we're not just going to read two whole genealogies. I'm going to pick out the bits that have got the interesting points for you.
[00:03:30] So you're going to need to all stay with me because we're going to go behind the scenes hopefully and have a look at why we have these genealogies here.
[00:03:38] So Jesse was the father of David the King and David was the father of Solomon by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Eureia.
[00:03:46] So we'll talk more about David in a minute but firstly he's the most important person because Messiah had to be a descendant of King David.
[00:03:53] Obviously that was part of one of the qualifications to be the Messiah and we actually have at least three archaeological inscriptions now that indicate King David, the mention King David as a real person.
[00:04:08] One different stelaise and things from a Syrian empire and stuff like that that mentioned him and that's fascinating.
[00:04:14] Also Aisa or Uzair sorry let me read to you this I don't know if you can read that. Let's read the whole thing. We will do some of these names.
[00:04:23] Aisa was the father of Jehosefat, Jehosefat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzair. Uzair was the father of Jotham, the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.
[00:04:34] Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Ammon. Ammon the father of Josiah became the father of Jekuniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
[00:04:46] So Jehokuniah is important, we'll come back to him. But you have Aisaah, Ahaz, Hezekiah and Manasseh mentioned all quite crucial kings to the narrative of the Bible there.
[00:04:56] They actually there's a lot about them for good and for evil. We can also archaeologically confirm all of those kings through writings of the ancient Near East,
[00:05:05] Cuniform tablets and things like that. That is also quite amazing. Six historical kings of Judah who are actually included in the lineage of the Messiah, again like I said,
[00:05:17] rooting this in real history in this world. So any of these Jesus mythicists or people like that have real trouble engaging with this sort of data.
[00:05:27] This is the idea. And then there were other people associated with these kings that we can also confirm that we won't digress into that now.
[00:05:34] But that is huge anyway. So that's was one thing that is worth noting about genealogies. They do root us into real history.
[00:05:42] Now another thing that is not typical for genealogies, but we do find it in Matthews, is that he has the inclusion of four different women in his genealogy.
[00:05:52] Now just I say it's not usual because the Jewish tradition was that they always used the male name and they just came down through the male line.
[00:05:58] That was just how it was done in those days. But Matthew here breaks tradition and he includes, so let's read it verse two, a number of different people.
[00:06:08] Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah was the father of Peres and Zeara by Tamar.
[00:06:18] Peres with the father of notice how it changes there. It doesn't just say the father of Cernso, it says by Tamar.
[00:06:23] So he makes a like an inclusion into this otherwise straightforward genealogy of Tamar there.
[00:06:30] Peres was the father of Ezra and the father of Ram. Ram was the father of Minadab, Minadab the father of Nashon.
[00:06:36] Nashon the father of Salmon. Salmon was the father of Boaz and we see it again here by Rahab.
[00:06:42] Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth and Obed the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of King David.
[00:06:48] David was the father of Salmon by Bathsheba. So we have Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba.
[00:06:55] All mentioned here in this genealogy and they all stand out actually for a number of reasons in this genealogy.
[00:07:02] Firstly because that was not the traditional way that you would do it. It almost seemed like the Holy Spirit wanted to include these women for particular purpose in this genealogy.
[00:07:12] And they're quite interesting to look at because in many ways when you see the name I think the idea is you're supposed to relate it to the story of the narrative that we find in the Old Testament as in what was particular about these women.
[00:07:24] And you'll find that all of the stories are a dramatic display of the grace of God in the fact that they ended up in the genealogy of Messiah.
[00:07:34] Because if you think they give a good cross section of the world the stories that we find. Tamar, Tamar's story is not a fun one to read in the Bible.
[00:07:42] She was forced in many ways into deceit and sexual sin and that was the story there. It also indicted all the men in that story too, particularly her father.
[00:07:52] And it just reminds us that the world is very very sinful. The world is broken in that regard. That's Tamar's story. Rahab she's known as Rahab the Harlet.
[00:08:02] She was a Canaanite prostitute. Yet we also see that she was the one that lied in order to save Joshua and his men when they came to spy out Jericho.
[00:08:12] So it's again we see this sort of brokenness going on here in the world. Ruth, everyone knows the story of Ruth probably one of the nicest episodes in the Old Testament but Ruth herself was a Moabites.
[00:08:23] Now the Moabites and the Ammonites were born out of an incestuous relationship. That whole nation came from that relationship right at the early time of history.
[00:08:33] So again in that sense, just a reminder of the sinful world but at the same time she became the great grandmother of King David.
[00:08:44] So we see that being included in there too. And then Bathsheba again the story is one of adultery, of the abuse of power, of sin, of murder, of deceit for both men involved women, David, everyone's no one does well in those stories.
[00:08:59] And this is again just reminding us so that you might think we read this and we think why are we being reminded of all these sorts of things when we're talking about the Messiah.
[00:09:09] And we're talking about the lineage of the Messiah. And I think it's a reminder of what Jesus came to do to this earth.
[00:09:18] It doesn't really matter what your background is, what your sins are, what broken situation the world has thrust upon you and that you've had to deal with.
[00:09:26] The good news is that God does redeem, restore, and ultimately his great grace and his plan will triumph.
[00:09:35] It was through all of those events still that he ended up having the perfect time, the appointed time for when the Messiah would arrive on this earth.
[00:09:44] And it reminds us again that the story is very much about Jesus not so much about the people that we might want to elevate the saints that we might want to elevate throughout the Bible.
[00:09:55] However, there is one more woman mentioned in the genealogy of course.
[00:10:01] Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom Jesus was born who was called the Messiah in Matthew 16.
[00:10:10] Mary of course we see coming through a woman it was actually through the woman that all the fulfillment of all the promises would be fulfilled.
[00:10:20] She gave birth to the Messiah. We'll look at that more as we go through in the coming weeks.
[00:10:24] However, we can also talk about the men. The genealogies are filled with saints and sinners if I could put it like that.
[00:10:32] You have good kings, Josiah, Hezekiah, then you have some of the most wicked kings in this genealogy too.
[00:10:38] Manasseh he was evil above all else but yet he is still there.
[00:10:43] So standing back again it does just show us a number of things.
[00:10:46] The global reach and scope of the ministry of Jesus Christ almost prefigured in his prehistory in his genealogical line.
[00:10:53] The Messiah would be for both Jew and Gentile.
[00:10:57] One thing about all those women that were mentioned none of them were Jewish, they were all Gentiles but yet
[00:11:02] they all ended up in the line of Messiah, that's quite amazing.
[00:11:06] The Messiah would be for both male and female.
[00:11:08] The Messiah would be for both Saint and Sinner if I can phrase it like that.
[00:11:13] Out of all of that darkness that sin that broken us God brought about the most amazing thing
[00:11:20] as we said last week the indescribable gift that was given to us in the Messiah.
[00:11:25] It's like a summary message of everything that he would do after he came to this earth but yet
[00:11:30] prefigured in the line that would actually bring him to this earth.
[00:11:33] So that's your observations, now let's talk about the fact we have two different genealogies.
[00:11:39] The one in Matthew is different to the one in Luke and we need to dig into this a little bit.
[00:11:44] They appear at different places in the narrative.
[00:11:47] If you look at the gospel of Matthew he opens with it.
[00:11:50] Matthew chapter one is the very first thing he does is give this genealogy,
[00:11:54] whereas in the gospel of Luke he doesn't bring it until Luke chapter three.
[00:11:58] He decides to go through the whole story of Christmas, the whole virgin birth and the whole
[00:12:03] arrival of Messiah. In fact he takes it up to the baptism of Messiah before he feels it
[00:12:08] necessary to put the genealogy in there. Look at the difference of how they begin.
[00:12:13] Matthew one one. The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah,
[00:12:18] the son of David, the son of Abraham. Now this is significant. Again remember every word
[00:12:24] is significant in the Bible. Remember our study a few weeks back when we looked at the unique
[00:12:29] purposes of each gospel. We noted how the material selected for each gospel would fit that
[00:12:35] purpose. What was the purpose of the gospel of Matthew? It was to present Jesus as the king
[00:12:40] of the Jews. The king of the Jews so it's really no mistake that straight off the back he
[00:12:46] connects the Messiah to two of the most pivotal figures in Jewish history. King David and Abraham,
[00:12:52] of course Abraham being the father of the Jewish people himself but the real thing is the
[00:12:58] covenants that are connected to these two people. That's the thing that's going on behind the text.
[00:13:03] He associates and puts the record of the genealogy of the Messiah connected to both Abraham
[00:13:10] and David because of the covenantal promises. Remember he's showing that Jesus fulfills these
[00:13:16] promises. What were these promises? Do you remember the covenant with Abraham, Genesis chapter 12,
[00:13:22] verse 3, I will bless those who bless you, curse those who curse you and in you all the families
[00:13:28] of the earth will be blessed. That's the one, the seed of the woman there, that all the families
[00:13:34] of the earth will be blessed. Jesus is the Messiah and he is the one who will fulfill that promise
[00:13:40] through him all the families of the earth will be blessed. And then what about David?
[00:13:47] David was given a covenant that we call the Davidic covenant. This is the promise that was made to
[00:13:52] King David that they would always be a seed to rule on his throne, that he would have an eternal
[00:13:58] throne, eternal house and an eternal dynasty. And we see this in 2 Samuel 7. I'll read it to you
[00:14:04] you don't need to turn there. 2 Samuel 7 the final bit verse 16 and 17 it says your house
[00:14:10] and your kingdom so that's his dynasty, his kingdom shall endure before me forever. Your throne shall
[00:14:16] be established forever in accordance with all these words and all these visions so Nathan spoke to
[00:14:21] David and in a parallel passage it says he will never lack a man to sit on your throne
[00:14:26] and the point being because Jesus is eternal and he came all those years ago even though there's
[00:14:32] no throne of David operating today he fulfills that because he is the man who was ready to take that
[00:14:37] throne at the right time, the house, the kingdom. This is what was promised to David and this was
[00:14:43] something that was at the forefront of the Jewish mind when they were waiting for the Messiah. It was
[00:14:47] the kingly aspect which is why the whole gospel of Matthew was framed around the narrative of the
[00:14:52] king, the coming king offering his kingdom. The kingdom being rejected will explore all that
[00:14:57] as we go through so that was Matthew's but what about Luke? Luke starts very differently. Luke starts
[00:15:05] like this, Luke chapter 3 verse 23 when he began his ministry Jesus himself was about 30 years of age
[00:15:13] being as was supposed the son of Joseph the son of Ellie or Eli. Most people presume 30 that was
[00:15:22] the age when priests in the Old Testament begone their priestly ministry. Most people assume
[00:15:28] that's why it says here he was about 30 because he's now stepping into the role that Jesus had
[00:15:33] preparing to offer that high priestly sacrifice of himself there, that's the idea. And then Luke
[00:15:39] if you trace his genealogy back he proceeds to go all the way back to David and then he also goes
[00:15:46] back to Abraham but then unlike Matthew he goes all the way back from Abraham so before the Jewish
[00:15:53] people were called out he goes all the way back to Adam. And if you remember this fits the purpose of
[00:15:59] Luke's gospel, Luke's gospel was to show that Jesus is the son of man it focuses on his humanity in
[00:16:05] general not just his Jewishness so this is why that genealogy goes all the way back to Adam
[00:16:10] he's related to humanity as a whole but let's dig in a little bit further. Both genealogies show
[00:16:18] that Jesus was a descendant of David okay so you'll only need to stay with me here. So why do we
[00:16:24] have two genealogies? If the real thing was about actually being descendant of David and both genealogies
[00:16:31] show that he was a descendant of David why do we have two? Now the most common answer that you'll
[00:16:35] get, it'll be in 90% of your commentaries will go something like this. Matthew's genealogy
[00:16:41] was to show that Joseph was of the royal line that he was here and then Jesus as his adopted son
[00:16:49] had the legal right to take the throne. That's usually how that is explained and then in Mary
[00:16:54] in the other genealogy it's shown that he himself was a descendant of David so he has both the
[00:16:59] actual biological right but also the royal right, the legal right and that's usually how it's left
[00:17:06] it's never really explored in huge amounts of death. Now I'm going to give you a different view
[00:17:11] for that and I'm not saying I'm absolutely right on this I'm just saying this is a different view
[00:17:16] that I think is much more appealing because that one still leaves a few questions up in the air
[00:17:22] why do we have these two genealogies? So I would say the actual point of the Matthew genealogy
[00:17:28] is completely the opposite of that it's actually to show that he could not have the legal right to
[00:17:34] the throne from that, from Joseph and let me demonstrate that as we go through and show you
[00:17:40] you see the Matthew genealogy if you turn there let's go to Matthew genealogy for a moment
[00:17:46] you see historically to be a king, to be the Vedic king you had to obviously be from the royal
[00:17:53] line of David if you wanted to take the throne in Jerusalem and that is true. That was the only
[00:17:59] qualification really at that one stage in Israel's history however during a particularly bad period
[00:18:07] of Israel's history there was a king who was so bad that God in fact put like a curse on him
[00:18:14] basically he restricted the qualifications for kingship so let's read it in Jeremiah chapter 22
[00:18:21] please Jeremiah 22 I haven't got the slides for this so and I'll explain it to you afterwards but
[00:18:29] this is just I want you to see what is going on here and now all of this might sound like while
[00:18:34] you study why are we looking into all of these old relationships between these people ultimately
[00:18:39] because we're doing what the genealogies are supposed to do and affirming the right of Messiah
[00:18:45] to the throne that is what they are trying to do but in a different way. Jeremiah 22 verse 24
[00:18:52] as I live declares the Lord even though Kaniyat or you Bible might say Jekaniyat that's the long
[00:18:59] name in the short name same person the son of Jehoiachim king of Judah where a signet ring on my
[00:19:04] right hand yet I would pull you off and I will give you over into hand of those who are seeking your
[00:19:09] life yes into the hand of those whom you dread even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
[00:19:14] and into the hand of the Calilians I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another country
[00:19:19] where you were not born and there you will die and as but as for the land to which they desire to
[00:19:24] return they will not return to it is this man Kaniyat a despised shattered jar or is he an undesirable
[00:19:31] vessel why have he and his descendants been hurled out and cast into a land that had not known
[00:19:37] O land O land land hear the word of the Lord thus says the Lord write this man down childless
[00:19:44] focus on this bit a man who will not prosper in his days for no man of his descendants will
[00:19:50] prosper sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah. This king of Judah Jekaniyat
[00:19:57] was so evil that the Lord said you're going to get taken to captivity in Babylon and none of your
[00:20:02] descendants will ever rule on the throne of David again so whereas now the qualification had been
[00:20:09] you only had to be a descendant of David now after this episode you had to be a descendant of David
[00:20:15] but not of the House of Jekaniyat so it's a further restriction on who could rightfully rule
[00:20:21] the throne if one with me okay that that's important to know it's a big episode and in Jewish
[00:20:27] thoughts this was a massive point there's huge amounts of talented writings about the curse of
[00:20:31] Jekaniyat and so I want you to remember we're trying to get back into the mindset of the Jewish
[00:20:35] people in Matthew's gospel that Jesus is writing to this would have been an issue you present someone
[00:20:40] as the king you need to find out whether he's related to Jekaniyat whether it's a actual rightful
[00:20:45] ascent to the throne so back to the two genealogies look at verse six in Matthew Jesse was the father
[00:20:53] of David the king David was the father of Solomon by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Eureia
[00:20:59] and Solomon was the father of Rehoboam the father of Abbajaya and Abbajaya the father of Aisa
[00:21:06] so Joseph was a descendant of David through David's son Solomon and then verse 10 we won't
[00:21:13] read again we'll skip certain bits but verse 10 hezekiah was the father of Manasseh
[00:21:18] Manasseh the father of Ammon Ammon the father of Josiah and then look Josiah became the father
[00:21:25] of who? Jekaniyat and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon and after the
[00:21:32] deputation to Babylon Jekaniyat became the father of Sheelto so Joseph's lineage that we're seeing
[00:21:38] here he was a descendant of David but he was also a descendant of Jekaniyat which actually means
[00:21:47] he could not pass on and he had no legal right to the throne because that line had been said
[00:21:52] you'll never rule on the throne so the argument that says Matthew's genealogy was to show the
[00:21:57] legal right to the throne it's actually the exact opposite Matthew's genealogy is to show that
[00:22:02] he could not have the legal right to the throne because many people of course didn't know
[00:22:07] the virgin birth and all these different things they would have seen Joseph as the parents
[00:22:11] and they would have said we've got to go through the father but he's disqualified he can't be the
[00:22:15] he can't be Messiah in that respect this is the stuff that's going on in their head what Matthew
[00:22:20] is in fact doing is presenting the Jekaniyat problem straight away but Joseph was a descendant of
[00:22:25] Jekaniyat he needs to deal with that straight away if the Messiah's going to come or be he's going
[00:22:30] to be the adopted parent of the Messiah and how does he do that obviously he does it we know the
[00:22:35] story with the virgin birth that that is how he solves that problem so you see this is really what
[00:22:41] is going on in the background to the Matthew issue so Matthew is immediately presenting this problem
[00:22:47] and he's immediately solving it with the virgin birth Jesus was not Joseph's biological son
[00:22:53] and thus there was no Jekaniyat problem verse 16 makes this very clear
[00:22:59] Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary by whom Jesus was born who was called the Messiah
[00:23:06] and the word whom there in my bible in Greek that is a singular and it is feminine
[00:23:12] and it is the idea is to emphasize that it was through Mary alone that the Messiah came in
[00:23:18] to the world i.e Joseph's biological lineage through Jekaniyat disqualification had absolutely
[00:23:25] nothing to do with it so he's presenting this to the Jewish people the problem and the solution
[00:23:31] all in one genealogy okay everyone get that it is important to show why he's got this in here I
[00:23:38] know it's maybe not the most thrilling thing but like I said big picture here we're doing the whole
[00:23:43] study of the gospels we want to look at all these little things so that is Matthew's genealogy now
[00:23:49] let's switch gears that kind of understands a little bit of that now let's go to Luke
[00:23:54] he see Luke doesn't address this problem the Jekaniyat problem at all remember Luke's writing
[00:23:59] to a much wider audience many people wouldn't have been thinking about these sorts of intricacies of
[00:24:04] Jewish history however Luke is remember he was a very good historian he researched everything
[00:24:13] Luke sticks to the strict tradition of how you write a genealogy okay so he has no women's names
[00:24:19] in there he doesn't skip generations like we actually find Matthew does do that a little bit
[00:24:24] and this creates a bit of a problem you see most people look at the genealogies and if you go on
[00:24:31] Bible mistake website those critical atheist websites showing me all these mistakes in the Bible
[00:24:37] this is one that they often say they'll look at Matthew and they'll read this Jacob was the
[00:24:44] father the father of Joseph the husband of Mary by whom Jesus was born Jacob was the father of
[00:24:50] Joseph okay that's what Matthew says but then Luke seems to imply that someone else was the
[00:24:58] father of Joseph he says when he began his ministry Jesus himself was about 30 years of age
[00:25:03] being asked for supposed the son of Joseph the son of Eli so that's the question is Joseph the
[00:25:09] son of Jacob or is he the son of Eli the genealogies seem to say both they can't both be right that's
[00:25:14] a problem and critics make a big deal of this but as always the problem is 21st century critics
[00:25:22] applying misunderstanding standards of ancient history of the way we do things now the answer to
[00:25:27] this problem and the reason for Luke's genealogy is basically that it's not Joseph's genealogy
[00:25:34] although it says Joseph there it actually marries genealogy that were being given here now the
[00:25:40] Jewish tradition was that you would use the male names okay but that gives us a problem if you
[00:25:46] had to use the male names what do you do if you want to actually do a female line if you want to
[00:25:51] show the lineage of a female how do you do it the Jewish law had a way that they dealt with this
[00:25:56] they specified that in that situation you would just use the name of the husband to start the
[00:26:01] line off and then that gives us another problem if that's the case how do you know whether the gene
[00:26:06] neology is the husband or the wife's if that's what you had to do so it's kind of problem after problem
[00:26:12] but they had solutions for all of these things sounds so odd to us but to them that was just how
[00:26:18] they did it that's what they thought they were aware of it as we will see again it's the English
[00:26:22] that actually complicates it and stay with me again here in Greek is much simpler now in English
[00:26:29] we don't put definite articles before proper names I'm not the Tommy or the David or the Joseph or
[00:26:35] the Abraham the Mary it sounds odd as we don't do that but in Greek is totally acceptable to do that
[00:26:41] and when you go through Luke's genealogy there is a definite article in front of every single name
[00:26:48] except one name and that's the name of Joseph at the beginning okay and that would have been
[00:26:53] the indicator that this was not Joseph genealogy it was Mary's and the text does try to allow for
[00:26:59] this because you notice it says as was supposed the son of Joseph that's the as the indicator it's
[00:27:05] like an editorial gloss there that something is different in the Greek and that was the clue that
[00:27:10] you that's what we jump on here so although Joseph's name is used he then traces Mary's line just
[00:27:16] using his name as the filler which was common practice of what they used to do in those days that
[00:27:20] was the Jewish law okay you're never going to want to touch a genealogy again are you after this
[00:27:26] there we go hopefully at the end you'll get it so Luke works back okay says Mary's line now he does
[00:27:32] work back all the way to David just the same as the Matthew one did but notice remember as Matthew
[00:27:38] tracing Joseph went through his son Solomon Mary Mary's genealogy doesn't look at verse 30
[00:27:45] the son of Simeon the son of Judah the son of Joseph the son of Jonah the son of Ylakhim the son
[00:27:50] of Melia the son of Menna the son of Matafa the son of Nathan the son of David so Mary was a descendant
[00:27:58] of David through Nathan not through Solomon and thus not through Jack and I are at all so Mary did
[00:28:06] not have any blood of Jack and I are running through her veins and therefore there was no problem with
[00:28:11] the Jack and I issue there going on she was a rightful descendant of David though and therefore as
[00:28:17] she alone was simply responsible for the flesh of the Messiah for the birth of Jesus Christ in that
[00:28:22] respect he too is also a rightful son of David apart from the line of Jack and I and therefore
[00:28:28] fulfills the qualification where he is the rightful heir to the throne okay now that's a very long
[00:28:34] way of going through the details to show you that the genealogies are there to show you that he is
[00:28:39] the rightful heir to the king but that would have been a question that was on the mind of the people
[00:28:44] at this time he was in fact the right person descendant of David but not through the disqualified
[00:28:51] line and that came through his mother Mary okay you'd be glad there's any two genealogies in the
[00:28:58] gospels and we've done them now we've done them all so let's just take a big picture as we step
[00:29:04] back from this this is what was going on here and he goes all the way back Mary had no Jack and I
[00:29:10] are blood in her veins and she was the royal descendant basically Messiah through her was the royal
[00:29:15] descendant these are not devotional readings but they are important because they do establish
[00:29:20] the historical qualifications for the messianic claim and the Jewish people would have been very
[00:29:25] interested in that and in fact just looking into the research for this you can go online today
[00:29:30] there are because of the DNA research that we can do now there's a whole group of people in
[00:29:34] Israel who are descendants of David also and there's a whole they put together and the main Rabbinic
[00:29:40] Rabbinic authority over there doesn't like to talk about it because they don't want the Messiah
[00:29:45] and the David and all this kind of talk and stuff like that but there's a whole group of them
[00:29:48] but of course they're not looking for they're still looking for Messiah they don't understand
[00:29:52] the historical lineage here but it's quite interesting to look at there's still our descendants
[00:29:57] of David around alive and well today that we can track down now but we're not looking for
[00:30:03] another descendant of David we know that the Messiah the true king has already come and he
[00:30:08] is the one who will take the throne we've studied so we've seen in these genealogies that Jesus
[00:30:12] was a real person tied to real earthly history and this tells us that he can redeem anyone
[00:30:18] and everything that he chooses to in that respect he came for mankind all of mankind he came for
[00:30:24] the Jew for the Gentile for male for female slave and free he fulfilled both the Abrahamic
[00:30:29] covenant to bless the whole world he fulfilled the Davidic covenant to be the rightful king who would
[00:30:34] eternally rule on an eternal throne over an eternal dynasty over all the earth he is the rightful
[00:30:41] king he is the seed of the woman we know that he is the Messiah all of those qualifications he
[00:30:46] fulfills and there are many more that will see as we go through the gospels he had a human ancestry
[00:30:52] he had Jewish ancestry he also had Gentile ancestry he had a royal ancestry he had a lowly ancestry
[00:30:59] Mary was poor as poor could be in those days he also had a holy ancestry his ancestry was imperfect
[00:31:07] full of sinners he was immortal in that sex well he wasn't mortal but he had a mortal ancestry
[00:31:12] in that respect but he also had an immortal ancestry too we studied that last week in the beginning
[00:31:19] was the word the word was with God and the word was God all of these things have to be held
[00:31:24] together and you only begin to glimpse the pedigree of the one we call Messiah amen you've been listening
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