The Christian bible does claim that Jesus was the "king of the Jews" -- but this is patently untrue. Jesus was never a king. Jesus did not have the right to be a king (he did not have the correct lineage). Jesus was never anointed as a king. Jesus never ruled as a king. Try it -- say "I am a ,king (or queen). It doesn't make you one, now does it? After David of the tribe of Judah was anointed as a king by the prophet, Samuel, G-d sent Samuel to anoint David in Shmuel Alef / 1 Samuel 16:1. Since that time the only rightful kings of the Jews must be a legal descendant from the tribe of Judah, descended from King David and from his son Shlomo (Solomon). Some missionaries will claim that the "promise" that the throne must pass through Solomon is conditional, but this is untrue. Shmuel Beit / 2 Samuel 7:12-16 – When your days (King David) will be completed and you will lie with your forefathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, that which will issue from your loins, and I shall establish his kingdom. (13) He shall build a Temple for My sake, and I shall make firm the throne of his kingdom forever. And then read Divrei Hayamim Alef / 1 Chronicles 22:9-10 – Behold a son will be born to you; he will be a man of peace, and I shall give him peace from all his enemies around about, for Solomon will be his name, and I shall give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. (10) He shall build a House in My Name, and he shall be to Me as a son, and I to him as a Father, and I shall prepare the throne of his kingdom forever. This right (for Kings David and Solomon being from the tribe of Judah) is prophesied in B'reshit / Genesis: Br'eshit / Genesis 49:10 says “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the student of the law from between his feet, until (it or he) comes to Shiloh, and to him will be a gathering of peoples.” Jesus was not of the tribe of Judah. He was not a legal descendant of Kings David, or of King Solomon. The Christian bible may call him a "son of David" -- but the two conflicting lineages given are for Jesus' "non" father, Joseph. If Joseph's sperm did not impregnate Mary those lineages are worthless to Jesus. Who is a Jew" passes maternally (see D'varim / Deuteronomy 7:1–5, Vayikra / Leviticus 24:10, and Ezra 10:2–3) and lineage (tribal status) passes paternally (by the father -- assuming one first has a Jewish mother) -- and ALL of this is found in the written Torah. Sh'mot / Exodus 6:14, 6:25, B'midbar / Numbers 17:21, 34:14, 36:1, Y'hoshua / Joshua 14:1, 19:51, 21:1, 22:14, Ezra 1:5, 2:59, 2:68, 3:12, 4:2-3, 8:1, 10:16; N'ḥemyah / Nehemiah 7:61, 7:69-70, 8:13, 12:12, 12:22-23. According to the Torah, lineage/pedigree, a blood right, is passed exclusively by a biological father to his sons. Ergo the virgin birth totally disqualifies Jesus from being the messiah. Some missionaries will try to say that Joseph "adopted" Jesus. Try that in any royal family in the world -- it does not "fly." In Judaism the concept of adoption exists -- but it never changes the tribal status of a child at birth. Thus a child, if born to a priestly family, may be adopted by a Davidic heir -- but the child will always remain a kohein -- a Jewish priest. Even if Joseph had fathered Jesus biologically Jesus was not eligible to be a king -- and neither was Joseph. The Christian bible gives two conflicting lineages for Joseph, but both disqualify him or any of his heirs from kingship. Because the two conflict missionaries will claim that Luke is actually giving Mary's lineage. "Mary" (if she even existed) was Jewish, her tribal affiliation is completely irrelevant as her offspring's tribal status would have been that of the biological father. A woman does not pass tribal status, and her status changes to that of her husband's tribe upon marriage Both Matthew and Luke's lineages disqualify Joseph. Matthew completely re-works the genealogies of the T’nach (Jewish bible) and distorts them. From Abraham to David the lineages given by Matthew aligns with the lineages in the T’nach. From Solomon forward Matthew changes things. First Matthew 1:17 claims are the 14 generations from David's son Solomon to the exile of Jeconiah. Matthew 1's lineage for Joseph is different from the lineages given in the T'nach -- the bible. Read M'lachim I / 1 Kings 1 through M'lachim II / 2 Kings 24. Then peruse Divrei Hayamim I / 1 Chronicles 3:10-17, and Divrei Hayamim II / II Chronicles Chapters 1-36. Matthew skips five kings altogether:
Jehoiakim son of Josiah between Josiah and Jeconiah. Jehoiakim is the son of Josiah and the father of Jeconiah. Yet Matthew's genealogy skips from Josiah to his grandson Jeconiah. All in all from Solomon to Jeconiah and his exile are 18 generations of fathers and sons who were King of Judah – not the 14 claimed by Matthew. This is nearly 100 years’ worth of kings! The last king on the list, Jeconiah, is the one that disqualifies Joseph and his heirs from any possibility of kingship. The T’nach tells us that Jeconiah and all of his descendants are cut off from being kings of the Jews. See Yirmiyahu / Jeremiah 22:30 “So said the L-rd: Inscribe this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days, for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David or ruling anymore in Judah.” Matthew 1 includes Jeconiah and his heirs in Jesus (and Joseph’s) lineage – which thus removes them from any possibility of being a king (messiah) of the Jews. What of Luke and his lineage? It also disqualifies Joseph from the royal line. Luke has Jesus supposedly come through David's son, Nathan -- not his son Solomon. The rightful king must come from Solomon's line -- not Nathan's. This makes Luke's lineage for Joseph "moot." Read M'lachim Alef / 1 Kings 8:15-20;and Divrei Hayamim Alef / 1 Chronicles 17:11-15, 22:9-10, and 28:3-7. The Torah specifies that blood rights, such as tribal lineage, are transmitted exclusively from a father to his biological sons when the mother is a Jewish woman. All of this is much ado about nothing. Jesus was not only ineligible to be a king -- he was also clearly never anointed as a king or rule as a king. The last Davidic king to rule was was Tzidkiyyahu / Zedekiah, who lived some 600 years before Jesus was born. In Judaism a king or priest must be anointed with a very specific type of holy oil which is described in the Torah. If the line is unbroken from generation to generation the heir need not be personally anointed (this is true for Jewish priests). Since there was a 600 year "break" between Tzidkiyyahu / Zedekiah and a Davidic heir alive 2000 years ago that person would have to be anointed with this special oil by a known prophet. And this never happened to anyone -- not Joseph, not Jesus (who did not have the right) -- not to anyone. The Hebrew word "messiah" is inseparable with the concept of the special oil used to anoint kings and priests. This oil is called שֶֽׁמֶן מִשְׁחַת קֹדֶשׁ shemen mish'ḥat kodesh (“Oil of Anointment of Sanctity”) in the passage of Sh'mot / Exodus 30:22-33. which gives the formula for making it and how to properly use it. . . "G-d spoke to Moses, saying: 30:23 You must take the finest fragrances, 500 [shekels] of distilled myrrh, [two] half portions, each consisting of 250 [shekels] of fragrant cinnamon and 250 [shekels] of fragrant cane, 30:24 and 500 shekels of cassia, all measured by the sanctuary standard, along with a gallon of olive oil. 30:25 Make it into sacred anointing oil. It shall be a blended compound, as made by a skilled perfumer, [made especially for] the sacred anointing oil. 30:26 Then use it to anoint the Communion Tent, the Ark of Testimony, 30:27 the table and all its utensils, the menorah and its utensils, the incense altar, 30:28 the sacrificial altar and all its utensils, the washstand and its base. 30:29 You will thus sanctify them, making them holy of holies, so that anything touching them becomes sanctified. 30:30 You must also anoint Aaron and his sons, sanctifying them as priests to Me. 30:31 Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'This shall be the sacred anointing oil to Me for all generations. 30:32 Do not pour it on the skin of any [unauthorized] person, and do not duplicate it with a similar formula. It is holy, and it must remain sacred to you. 30:33 If a person blends a similar formula, or places it on an unauthorized person, he shall be cut off [spiritually] from his people." Sh'mot / Exodus 30:22-33. The Christian bible never claims that Jesus was anointed with this, the only method, for anointing of Jewish kings. The Christian bible describes Jesus being selected by an expensive perfume by a woman, who pours over Jesus the contents of an alabastron jar of "nard" (or spikenard), a very expensive perfume. Acts 10:38 speaks of Jesus being anointed by the "holy spirit." This also does not "count." G-d makes it clear in Sh'mot / Exodus that the necessary oil for anointing is the שֶֽׁמֶן מִשְׁחַת קֹדֶשׁ shemen mish'ḥat kodesh (“Oil of Anointment of Sanctity”) in the passage of Sh'mot / Exodus 30:22-33. The various claims in the Christian bible are meaningless when it comes to being anointed as a king (or priest). Bottom line: yet another false prophecy. Jesus was not born a king. Jesus had no right to be a king. Jesus' non-father, Joseph, had no right to be a king. Jesus was never anointed as a king. Jesus never ruled as a king. What of the specific passage of Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah 30:9? Read it IN CONTEXT. G-d tells Jeremiah that the days are coming when G-d will restore His people, the nations of Israel and Judah, to the land He gave their ancestors. This did not happen in the time of Jesus -- this is a true messianic prophecy that has yet to unfold. Most Jews lived outside of Judah (Israel) 2000 years ago -- and within 100 years of Jesus' death the Jews living there were exiled from the land. Jesus did not fulfill this prophecy. Further G-d, in this time, will save the Jews and end of the nations that oppressed them. Rockets rain down on Israel today -- antisemitism is on the increase. This did not happen in the days of Jesus and has not yet happened today. Read from line 7 to line 9 and it is clear that this does not apply to Jesus: "Ho! For that day is great, with none like it, and it is a time of distress for Jacob, through which he shall be saved. And it shall be on that day, says the L-rd of Hosts, [that] I will break his yoke off your neck, and I will break your thongs, and strangers shall no longer enslave them. And they shall serve the L-rd their G-d and David their king, whom I will set up for them." Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah 30:7 - 9 . This quite simply does not apply to Jesus.
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