Dig Deeper Preview: Why does Jesus have two family trees shared in the Bible?
Today’s class is a special preview of the upcoming Tuesday Bible Class series: Dig Deeper.
Why does Jesus have 2 family trees?
1. One in Matthew 1:1-16
2. One in Luke 3:23-38
And they are different. So let’s look a little deeper.
The major accepted answer has been that one tells the genealogy of Jesus’ mother, the Virgin Mary, and the other the genealogy of His step father, Joseph. There is evidence to support and suggest that that is the case.
1. Matthew 1:1-16 The Legal Genealogy – Jesus is legally accepted as Joseph’s adopted son and Joseph is a descendant of king David.
2. Luke 3:23-38 The Physical Genealogy – born of the Virgin Mary.
But as we did deeper what do we see?
There are differences. They are different.
Matthew
Abraham
David
Solomon
Jehoiachin
Jacob
Joseph
Jesus
Luke
Adam
Abraham
David
Nathan
Heli
Mary
Jesus
Is there significance that the lineage changes following David? Yes, dramatic significance:
1. Matthew traces Jesus’ legal genealogy from David to his son Solomon. Matthew is telling us that Jesus as the legally adoptive son of Joseph, is a descendant of David and all of the kings of Judah who followed.
2. Luke traces Jesus’ physical genealogy from David to his son Nathan. Luke is telling us that Jesus is a descendant of David in the flesh but not through Solomon but through Solomon’s brother Nathan.
And this is fascinating because the prophet Jeremiah was given this word: – A word about David’s decendants ending with Jehoiachin the last of the kings of Judah to survive. Jeremiah 22:30 “This is what the Lord says:’Record this man [Jehoiachin] as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.'”
The curse came upon the line of David after the time of Solomon until the time of Jehoikin and then God says no descendant of the kingly line of Jehoichin will ever sit on the throne.
Jesus inherits the kingship that could never have been given to any descendant of Jehoiachin. He receives that through legal means by his adopted father. But he is the descendant of David in the uncursed line who will reign for ever.
This is just what the angel told Mary – the angel Gabriel announced Mary that she would give birth to a son. Luke 1:32-33 ” He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
Legally Jesus was part of the royal line.
In the flesh Jesus descended and born of the Virgin Mary – He is the One on whom there is no curse. He is the only one who can reign on David’s throne and He will reign forever!
That’s who Jesus is – the Living God come to earth for us – who fulfills every detail the Hebrew Scriptures.
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