Today,
reply is on using genealogy and secular knowledge to argue and
debate concerning Jesus Christ as Messiah. GOD has used family as a
major tool to establish existence and life. Can the high levels of
acceptance, accountability, commitment, discipline, love, respect,
and trust that should appear within human families also appear within
the family of GOD? In the same way Adam and the device of family
were used by GOD as a sacred tool to populate the entire earth, the
family and household of Abraham were chosen as a tool to transform
the earth, and a single family, that of Jacob, was selected to exist
among the nations as a kingdom in covenant with GOD. Even so, those
focusing on carnal, material, practical, and social things often
become overwhelmed by misinformation and spiritual confusion.
Through operations of divinity, Christian believers acknowledge Jesus
Christ as the Son of GOD and the promised primary heir to divinity
who is granted the double portion of the full inheritance to complete
the “unfinished business” left by the benefactor. Even during
the life of Jesus on earth under the government of Rome, the goal of
restoring united Israel with a return to the “golden age” led by
King David continued as an imperative within the culture. The law
was believed to favor those promoting themselves as a Jew (i.e., one
whose origin was Jerusalem; one from the tribes of Benjamin, Judah,
or Levi; those having identity as Hellenized Jews, and legally a
Greek or Roman citizen). Family background was carefully examined
for those released from captivity and exile imposed first by the
Assyrians, then, by the Babylonians, Persians, Medes, etc. Renewal
of the Levitical priesthood required proof of ones lineage to the
point that marriage contracts made with Gentiles were annulled,
children from “mixed” marriages were disinherited, and there were
exhaustive efforts to trace property ownership. It is written: 1st
Timothy 6: 17-21, KJV: 17 Charge them that are rich in this world,
that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in
the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That
they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute,
willing to communicate; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good
foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on
eternal life. 20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy
trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of
science falsely so called: 21 Which some professing have erred
concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. One of the
many fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion
and Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile is
shown) posted the following:
Titus
3:9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and
quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.?
Is
this a confession that Christianity has failed to prove Jesus had any
lineage to be the Jewish Messiah?
How
are they "unprofitable and worthless"?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things
of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the
Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind
is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit,
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (Romans 8: 5-9, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Divinity Embodied In Flesh (12/30/2018); A Descendant
of David? (03/18/2018); The First Common Ancestor? (05/24/2017); A
Curse Removed (12/26/2013); Intercession (12/27/2013); The Bible and
Genealogy (09/10/2013); Why GOD Does Not Tell All (09/11/2013)
“Anonymous”,
the authentic humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ are known and
correctly acknowledged only through operations by the Holy Spirit,
and by believers receiving a fresh endowment of life essence
(we say, breath; spirit; divine substance; word). Using finite tools
of human intellect, logic, and willpower, there can only be
well-meaning conversations and discussions that rely on carnal
reason, history, philosophy, politics, science, and secular
knowledge that do not respond to the multiple streams of sacred
truth. There are many subtleties (barely visible differences; hidden
and sudden shifts in meaning and value) that contribute to spiritual
confusion including tracing inheritance, property ownership, and
transfers of wealth. Consider again the following that uses language
from the Bible, and a selection from the music ministry of Wintley
Phipps:
1.
Exodus 4: 22-24, King James Version (KJV): 22 And thou shalt say
unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is
my son, even my firstborn: 23 And I say unto thee, Let my son
go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold,
I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
2.
In the plan of GOD for ancient Israel, there were to be no disputes
about property ownership and the transfer of wealth. The economy of
their nation was to be stable, and every family received an allotment
of land and resources that were to be maintained in perpetuity by
sacred law that included provisions for assistance to the poor as
well as for sale and recovery of the land (redemption; jubilee).
3.
The lawful inheritance of Jesus Christ as a son of man included the
provision of a “promised land” established through promises to
Abraham, acknowledgment by divinity as a son of GOD by the
proclamation of GOD through Moses, and the covenant to continue
dynasty and rule over the people of GOD as a nation on the earth
through one from the house of David.
4.
Hebrews 8: 7-12, KJV: 7 For if that first covenant had been
faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I
made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to
lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my
covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write
them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be
to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know
me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more.
5.
Isaiah 63: 16, KJV: 16 Doubtless thou art our father,
though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not:
thou, O LORD, art our father, our
redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1chIw0lq3qc.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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