King David's Family Tree - The Importance of Genealogy

Hello dear reader,

      I apologize for the delay in posts this week but this has been one of those weeks that has kept me preoccupied with other tasks outside the blogging world. However, I hope I can make up for the silence with an important post concerning family, and genealogies in our Holy Torah.
      The first question that comes to mind is: Why is genealogy important? Tracking families, and tribes in Judaism is important from a number of reasons. I've a couple points:

1. Genealogy reflects a consistent line that shows the absence of break in Jewish history.
2. Genealogy can reflect a point in time of Jewish Observance. This is particularly important because it tracks back to point 1 due to the fact that 3,000,000 people received the Word of HaShem on Mt. Sinai at the same time. All received The Torah.
3. When looking at Genealogical lines [tracing your family tree], you build another unique connection to Torah, Your People, and G-d. This is without a doubt true.

• Point to be made concerning Jewishness and lineage is that you fall under your tribe via your fathers line, but you're only Jewish through your mothers line:  Deuteronomy 7:1–5, Leviticus 24:10, Ezra 10:2–3 as well as Numbers 1:18 (below)

Numbers 1:18

      By looking at these three simple points you can see how profound they really are. Judaism is not just a simple personal connection and observance of G-d and His Torah, but the multitude of connections, observances, and relationships that our ancestors shared in, something common and unique only to our people. In fact, our The Tanach in inundated with genealogies. I admit they can be boring to read if you're just reading them. But when you study them, all the more profound they become. It is this very reason I wanted to share this special information on the genealogy of King David and his lineage concerning the person we refer to as The Messiah-

      We well know that The Messiah is to come out of "the rod of Jesse", through King David, and his son King Solomon. Where this is stated is in Isaiah 11 concerning the Davidic line, and that this person will sit on the Throne of David which is shown to be an everlasting throne unto only the House of David as per 2 Samuel 23. Furthermore we know that a King could not only just rise from David, but also only through King Solomon who built the First Temple 2 Samuel 7. However, there is one very important stipulation: None can rise out of the line of Jeconiah was a very wicked King. So wicked in fact that his name was contracted to Coniah removing the essential and divine part of his name "Je" which is "Ye" in Hebrew (Jeremiah 22, 36, 37.) The divine curse was pronounced upon him that was to last forever, that none of his descendants would ever again sit on the throne.

      Now that we have established the firm foundation blocks for this study, let us examine the genealogies of Jesus of Nazareth:

      What I have done is compiled the list of names according to Luke, and I wanted to make a couple notes where we see a very specific problems:

1. Neri does not exist.
2. Shealtiel is the son of Jeconiah
3. Zerubbabel is the grandson of Jeconiah, and was never King. Though he was righteous in G-d's eyes, G-d's curse on Jeconiah was a curse to last forever as stated in the above citings. Zerubbabel was only ever a Governor, but never King. No King would ever come from Jeconiah.
4. What is further interesting is that the father of Zerubbabel is omitted entirely, his name being Padaiah.
5. Do you see the name Nathan in slot 2? Nathan is not even of the special Davidic covenant as we had shown earlier. Only the King would rise out of the line of the one who builds the first Temple- That person being King Solomon. It could never be Nathan.
6. To pick up from point 5, these names do not come from Nathan either. Only King Solomon.

I went as far as going through 1 Chronicles 3 to record the lines on a spread sheet for you pleasure:

      I have gone through a recorded the lines in their birth order as provided by the texts, and marked in red the start of the cursed lineage. As you can see, Luke's genealogy not at all jives with the Torah on this subject.
      What is further surprising is Luke's attempt at manipulating the tests by removing names, and then even going as far as renaming Jeconiah to Neri in an attempt to hide the simple fact that it is a cursed line. This is why he also omitted Pedaiah, because then any regular person not versed in Chronicles would not have a clue as to what Luke was trying to do. I only learned this through simple study of the lineages because of a particular verse that I will bring to light later.

We will now examine Matthew's genealogy:

At this point we can see that we have 4 names omitted being Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah, Jeconiah's father Jehoiakim, and Pedaiah (again).

      Furthermore, yet again we see the cursed lineage repeated yet again. At least they are consistent in affirming that Jesus based solely upon the family tree could never be the person we refer to in this day as The Messiah. The Messiah is going to be a King, a powerful leader of Israel who will build the third and final Temple, hopefully in our day. When revisiting Jeremiah 22, 36, 37. it is clear that both of these highly doctored family trees are completely useless anyhow.

     Some people say Jesus was adopted by Joseph and thus fell under his line (does not exist anywhere in the N.T.), you can see that it is a cursed lineage. And, of course we can see why they wanted a virgin birth (never once prophesied, but instead completely fabricated) from Mary so that if Jesus was begot by Joseph we would have that immediate problem of the cursed lineage. However, by examining Mary's lineage (Luke and Matthew both assert it is through Joseph that Jesus is royal, not Mary- But Christian tradition says Mary concerning Luke's genealogy), we can see that it is *not* a Kingly line since hers comes from Nathan, and then bleeds right into the cursed lineage anyhow. You cannot cut it any other way. Both lines are completely disqualified.

So why the interest in genealogical trees? Simply examine The Christians New Testament and you will see:

Titus 3:9, "But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies, and arguements, and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitables and useless."

1 Timothy 1:4, "Nor to pay attentions to myths and endless genealogies, which give ride to mere speculations [questions] rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith."


      When you  read these as well as a number of other verses during the building of the Church you can understand why they would say these things. If a Christian convert from Roman polytheism, or some other origin were to talk to a Jew to spread their word, and the Jew were to say, "Wait a minute. Simple examine this. Can't you see that it's wrong? Can you not see that Jesus is entirely disqualified?", this would create great problems for the new Christians. So what Paul had to do was build the framework to cause people to distrust the Jews who were righteous in their adherence to the Torah and its contents.

 
      I want to make the point that I'm not here trying to change peoples [Christians] minds. By I feel it is important for you to understand and know the truth of things. Most importantly, I am trying to speak to those Jewish Christians out there who just do not know. I didn't know, and I had to study. It is your responsibility to study, and seek out the truth of things. Our Sages of blessed memory teach us that the answers to all things are contained within the Torah which was written so that even an uneducated person could read and understand. There is so much truth in that.
      The Torah is amazing in its firm framework, and contingency plans. G-d literally sets up all of the defenses against anything that might lead His People astray. He shows us genealogies because of their importance in understanding family purity, as well as understanding blessings and curses upon a given line. He makes these points so that if anyone comes along and says contrary to His Holy Torah, we know then that whatever the person is trying to peddle is absolute falsehood.
      G-d does not change His mind. If He says a King will never rise out of your line forever, He means it. He does not make exceptions to that rule. If He did, He would have for Zerubbabel who was righteous in His eyes, but he could never be King. And none of the line of Jeconiah ever was for that matter. No, it had to go through Zedekiah and his line instead.
      But by having this important information at hand. Having read it, and understanding the truth of the matter you are now bound to act upon the truth. Blind faith is not righteous. Simply hoping and believing that maybe, just maybe, the Christian New Testament is correct and holy. However, having this information you should know, as I came to discover very quickly, it is not. It never will be, nor can it ever be. G-d is clear that you should never change His Torah. Do not add to, nor diminish- We have spoken of this before in the past. And what you have above is a direct violation of that very important commandment.


      I again apologize for the lack of posts this week, and I promise that I will be better next week. I have a bit of new research I am doing that I think will be very interesting and enlightening. I hope that through this post I was able to impart crucial information effectively, and clearly.

I hope you have a fantastic Shabbat, and I will see you Monday!