WAS JESUS BORN TO VIRGIN MARY?

WAS JESUS BORN TO VIRGIN MARY?

God Almighty created the first man out of dust of the earth and then breathed life. After that God created sleep to fall upon man while he was resting. When that man was in deep sleep, God took a rib from his body and created Eve. Abraham was ninety nine years old and Sarah ninety years old when this Godly woman conceived miraculously and after nine months, Isaac was born to her. So, from the dust of earth, from a rib, and from a woman of ninety years, whose womb must have been almost closed due to the age, God created life.

If God is a real God, a wise and sovereign God, who could create the entire universe just with a word from His mouth, then are we not surprised at His wonderful creation? To elevate Him as supreme and omnipotent God, man expects that kind of abnormal things from our God. If God is capable of bringing life into existence from the dust of earth, from a rib and from a dead womb, then we can strongly believe that nothing is impossible to God to make a Godly Jewish young virgin to conceive and deliver the baby Jesus after nine months.

Believers should not be perturbed and dismayed when the unsaved would mock at such things like virgin Mary gave birth to a divine child. Especially the citizens of heaven should not feel the slightest doubt regarding the virgin birth of Jesus, though some unbelievers like Gnostics say such things are unnatural and unbelievable. Let us not become sad by that kind of untrustworthy comments from that type of devil incarnated people and lose our faith and belief that an omnipotent God super- intended a virgin birth as part of His plan to rescue man from the sinful life is without doubt ennobling enriching and librating.

It is still unfortunate and tragic that there are some who called themselves Christians and question the birth of virgin Mary’s giving birth to a divine child. Their dwarfish thinking must have prompted them to believe that only through physical union of man and woman the birth of a child is possible. And such people with their faith should not say like this – “Be thou removed and thou cast into sea”. (Matthew 21: 21)

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The birth of Jesus through virgin is not an option to be considered. It is a vital truth clearly explained in scriptures and that should be embraced by true Christians with their faith. Without the birth of Jesus through virgin Mary, there is no salvation for humanity. Without virgin birth, the death of Christ is nothing more than the vain martyrdom that the Galilean Jew experienced. The Bible is called Holy Scriptures, wherein everything is explained in full details. It is holy because it is the co-operation effort of both God and man. Apostle Peter wrote ‘Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit’ (2 Peter 1: 21). Only with the influence of the Holy Spirit, holy men gave to the world the Holy Scriptures. It is nothing but an intimate partnership. To be brief, if the Bible is called the Holy Scripture, Jesus must be called the holy child. Jesus is called holy because He is the fruit of the co-operation effort of God and Jewish maiden.

Apostle Luke, in his Gospel mentioned the angelic annunciation of the birth of Messiah in the following way ‘The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of shall be called ‘ the son of God’. This is also called the intimate partnership of the spirit of God and a chosen young virgin gave us the holy child. The holy child is living logos (Word). The holy Bible is the written logos. Apostle John commenced his Gospel with the following words. In the beginning was the Word (logos) and the Word was with God and the Word was God (John 1:1). Jesus in His flesh and blood is the revelation of heavenly Father. The scriptures are also the revelation of the attributes and works of God.

According to the Biblical history, Mary was the direct descendant of David (Matthew 1:1). Since the Spirit of God came upon her (this subject is too deep and too complicated for a common man like us to comprehend) and her child was called the Son of God. The child to whom virgin Mary gave birth two thousand years ago was without doubt a unique child because Mary was spotless virgin and her child was perfect human being untainted by sin.

As the Spirit of the Lord overshadowed her the child became an undiminished deity. So, the God man finally became divine and fully human.

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Even the theologians after breaking their heads over the topic of the unnatural birth of Jesus came to a conclusion and called that ‘hypostatic’ union. What a glorious mystery to believers?

It became a popular saying in certain parts of the world during Christmas season that the birth of Christ to virgin Mary has became a reason for the season. That is to say, without the virgin birth Christmas or incarnation would have become the biggest fraud that has come down in the human history. God created Adam and Eve in His own image and kept them in the Garden of Eden. As they were divine creation they could have intimate communion with the Creator in their perfect holiness. But in course of time they disobeyed God and His commandment their holiness was tested by Satan.

Unfortunately, both Adam and Eve surrendered themselves to the wicked plan of Satan and committed the unforgiving sin. They ate the fruit of the forbidden tree. So by disobeying the Word of God they sinned against the Almighty. Even then if they had repented and asked God’s forgiveness, the story of Adam and Eve would have been different in the Bible. But they did not accept their sin with lame excuses by saying it was the serpent that tricked them to eat that forbidden fruit. So, by disobeying the Word of God, Adam and Eve committed the first sin.

Not only this, they committed the second sin also; that is doing something wrong which is unpardonable and not repenting for that they tried to blame others for their mistakes. Therefore doing something wrong by themselves and blame others for their fault is called the second sin. This is against the Holy Spirit and for such people there is no salvation when God questioned Adam and Eve. Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed Satan but they never accepted their sin. Even though God made both of them in His own image, the consequences of their fall and sin blocked their image and likeness of God.

After they were necked out of the Garden of Eden, they bore children and they bore them in their own image. Adam lived hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own image. Men are not sinners originally but only after

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Was Jesus Born To Virgin Mary? doing some sinful acts because they are born with a sinful nature what God created was very good, but man made his life very bad by himself. Even John Milton a famous Epic poet in English wrote a wonderful poem about man’s disobedience and the result of that sin; the name of that poem is ‘Paradise Lost’. It starts with the following lines – ‘Of man’s first disobedience And the fruit of the forbidden tree’

It is said this poem was translated into 78 languages in his time and people read this in the place of Bible. In the society man may not require instructions to become bad, but to become good one needs proper guidance and instructions. The history of humanity is the history of outworking of man’s sinful nature under Satan and the purpose of God to redeem man by His mercy and grace.

According to some theologians, every man has some symptoms of sin because he is the offspring of Adam and Eve and he possessed that sin nature. But Jesus was exempted from such sin because He was virgin born. We can say about Him that He was holy and separated from all sinners (Hebrew 7: 26).

Matthew in the first chapter of his Gospel listed out the descendants of the royal family of King David who was a Jew; and his genealogy ended with Joseph the betrothed husband of Mary(Matthew 1:16). According to that list the fourteenth descendant of King David lineage was Jeconiah. There was a curse upon him and so he could not become the King. God pronounced a curse upon Jeconiah “Thus saith the Lord write ye this man (Jeconiah) childless a man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah”.

This major curse was enforced upon Jeconiah by God. Actually he had seven sons but none of them nor shall his descendants sit on the throne of David. Here we can see one main problem that is those who were legally eligible to occupy the throne were barred from such occupation because of the curse on

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The Redemption Plan of God Jacona and Joseph the betrothed husband of Mary. Joseph was a direct descendant of Jeconiah. According to this information although Joseph inherited legal right for the throne of David, because he was in the Kingly line for the throne through Solomon, he lost the right of the throne as the curse started with Solomon and continued with Jeconiah. Therefore Joseph the direct descendant of Jeconiah also became disqualified for the throne of David as the curse continued.

The problem is quite clear now, though it appeared to be critical and unchangeable. If Jesus Christ happened to be the physical son of Joseph, He too must have come under the curse which was pronounced on Jeconiah’s seed and in such conditions it could not have been possible even for Jesus to sit upon the throne to rule over Israel and ultimately the world(Revelation 11:15). This complicated issue posed a humanly impossible dilemma and consequently caused three conditions to be met to substantiate the authority of the Messiah. And these three conditions appeared to be impossible to be fulfilled.

1.To sit on the throne of David and rule over Israel Jesus must be a direct

descendant of David in order to satisfy God’s promise to David that his seed

only sit upon the throne.

2.Jesus also must be the legal son of Joseph in order to inherit the right to sit

upon the throne of David.

3.As Jesus could not be physical son of Joseph the curse that God imposed

upon Jeconiah had nothing to do with divine birth of Jesus as He was the

direct descendant of Jeconiah.

If the critical position had to be dealt with by different writers in their own way in those days, they would have depicted God as erroneous and powerless in creating such unsolvable situation to the entire humanity. As they were writing about God and His wonderful creation they would do only according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and God molded them what to write and how to write. And the infinite God solved that complicated problem with the miracle of virgin birth.

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The genealogy of David was shown to Joseph in Matthew chapter 1. Jesus was not the physical son of Joseph. And the scriptures clearly spoke about the point that Joseph was born to Jacob and Timna and Jacob was the descendant of Jeconiah. The parents of Mary were Jachim and Anna; and Jachim was the descendant of Nathan another son of David, a spotless man and finally virgin Mary was from that Nathan. So, Jacob begat Joseph husband of Mary to whom was born Jesus Christ.

The expression of the word virgin is a feminine singular in Greek language. This statement clearly indicates that Jesus was born to Mary alone but not to Joseph and Mary. The Bible also pointed out at the time of Jesus’ birth Joseph did not know Mary as his wife. At the same time, Jesus was the legal son of Joseph as he raised Him even though He was not his physical son. As a legal son of Joseph, Jesus inherited the right to the throne of David. Then, there arose another problem. The prophets of Israel, prophesized that the Messiah would be a lineal descendant of David. Again we have to brood over this point how far this could be fulfilled.

We can have the correct answer to this problem from the Gospel of Luke. He gave us the genealogy of Mary mother of Jesus as recorded. According to that information, Mary was also the direct descendant of King David but not through the lineage of Solomon from him came Jeconiah who became a victim to God’s curse. Mary was the descendant of another son of King David by name Nathan (Luke 3:23). Therefore, the curse of Jeconiah that caused some hindrance to Joseph did not hinder Mary or her son Jesus.

We can explain briefly in an understandable way that Jesus is the lineal son of Mary and direct descendant of David and deserved his throne with his background. We can conclude that Jeconiah’s curse would no way affected Jesus to sit on the throne of David. In the New Testament it is pointed out that Jesus was “virgin born”. So it is explained by Apostle Matthew in the following words. “Now all this was done that I might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by a prophet saying “Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son

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The Redemption Plan of God and they call His name “Emmanuel” which being interpreted as God be with us” (Matthew 1: 22-23). The prophet mentioned in this context is no other than prophet Isaiah. He wrote the following words about seven hundred years before the birth of Jesus. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name “Emmanuel” (Isaiah 7:15).

The word “virgin” is a translation from Hebrew word “almah”. The theologians who were always ready to explain and especially the contemporary Jewish translators who penned to keep Jesus out of the Old Testament seemed to have twisted the meaning of the word “almah”. They said “almah” does not mean virgin but it simply means “a young woman”.

This translation took place about 250 years before the actual birth of Jesus Christ. Seventy Jewish scholars as a team were asked to translate the Hebrew Old Testament in to Greek language and this translation took place in Egypt. Then it was called by the concerned authorities as “Septuagint”. This was also encouraged by the ambitious Emperor Alexander the Great. Whoever he won the battle, he introduced Greek language and culture to those people.

So, in a very short time this Greek language spread into many places including Israel. Added to that, Greek language became part of Jewish business magnets. This became advantageous to Jews to read the original Hebrew Holy Scripture in Greek language. But the Jewish scholars it seems did not do their translation work honestly with devotion and with the support of the Holy Spirit. As a result the translation was not up to the mark and even to some words they gave strange meaning according to their whims and fancies. One example for that is the word “almah” in Hebrew, and they translated that to “a young woman” instead of “virgin”.

At the time of their translation work they must have looked into the Book of Isaiah and the Hebrew word “almah” then Greek word “parthemos”. For these two words, the suitable English translation should have been “virgin” but their translation was “a young woman”. For centuries, millions of people had claimed

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Was Jesus Born To Virgin Mary? the “Aero polis” of Athens to see the ruins of Parthenon. It was called so because of temple of “Athina” a pagan virgin Goddess of wisdom. If the infant child of whom prophet Isaiah spoke was not virgin born then the Jewish translation of Greek made this grave and unpardonable mistake and inexcusable blunder intentionally. In such conditions, we may have to blame the seventy Jewish translators directly for their negligent translations.

We can take it for granted that some attempts have been made to take away some of the precious words concerning to Jesus in their translations from the pages of the Old Testament Scriptures. There is no doubt it was done either by literates who denied the wonderful divine prophecy or by some of the Jews who bluntly rejected and justified themselves their action regarding the Messiah fulfillment of Jesus: ultimately futile and valueless.

Apostle Paul also in his letter to the Corinthians provided the following statement. He wrote “For I deliver unto you, first of all which I also received how that Christ died for our own sins according to our Scriptures. And that he was buried and that he rose again on the third day according to Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15: 3-4).

The cream of all Gospels is about the life of Christ, His ministry, His doing of some miracles to make believe, that He was the Messiah, His death and burial and finally His resurrection. If He had not risen from the dead then there are no believers and no Christianity. If Jesus was not virgin born, the good news would have become bad news for the entire Christian faith. He came to this world to pay our debts that which we could not pay. He died in our place as our substitute for our benefits. So, this is once and for all sacrifice of the Son of God on our behalf, sacrificed fully and eternally the holiness of God. And without virgin birth the sacrifice of Jesus would not have been acceptable. As a result of that His Father would not have raised Him from the dead; and finally all of us must have to die for our sins.

The virgin birth is like the second coming. It is a crucial and glorious part of the body of truth and we call Gospel. If people say, Jesus died for our sins and

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The Redemption Plan of God reject His virgin birth then it amounts to our faithfulness. The Scripture also said “Believe on the Lord Jesus and they shall be saved” (Acts 16:31). He came for the purpose of sacrificing Himself for our sins. He is coming again as a lion of Judah to consummate the salvation of the saved; Judge the wicked and bring in an age of righteousness Justice and peace. We can finally conclude this topic with the following four points.

1.The Bible clearly teaches us about the virgin birth of Jesus.

2.Without virgin birth the death of Christ on Calvary would not have paid the

prize to redeem man from the consequences of his sin.

3.Virgin birth is a critical doctrine an integral part of the Gospel message and

so it must be boldly proclaimed by all those who truly love the Lord and His

Word.

4.The virgin birth is not a myth- it is a divine miracle and Biblical faith – So

every Christian must glorify the Lord Jesus with faith and prayer.

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GENEALOGY OF THE KING OF KINGS

We can find in the first verse of the first chapter of the first book of New Testament with the following wonderful words. We may also call the book of the generation of Jesus (yeshua which means “savior”) Christ, (the messiah means, the “Anointed one”). The son of David, the son of Abraham (Mathew 1:1). We need not doubt about the astonishing words because they spoke about the marvelous incident that occurred thousands of years ago.

God foretold about “the seed of the woman” who would crush the head of the serpent and when that seed was physically present in His creation (Genesis 3:15). A close Jewish observer, during the first century A.D., must have studied the scriptures of Israel, and certainly understood about the coming of Messiah. Had the Jewish people lived with longing hope of the coming messiah, then we also today felt happy about the genealogy of Jesus as mentioned by Mathews in his gospel is true. A genealogical record of the Jewish people was carefully preserved in a feeding called the “house of records” near the temple mount. This record house was considered to be the most important because of three reasons.

1)They used to settle all important legal matters regarding land inheritance

rights within the families.

2)The records were used as a proof card authentic about the priesthood that

they must be the real descendants of Aaron. According to the Mosaic Law.

3)The record was used to substantiate all legitimate heirs to the throne of

Israel because it was decided upon try God Himself that the legal heir had

to come from the tribe of Judah and from the royal family of king David only

Unfortunately, “the house of records” and King Solomon temple were set on fire by the Romans in 70 AD. To speak the truth, if the promised seed of the woman (messiah) did not appear be3fore the destruction of the temple and

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As we see in the Bible, the Pharisees Sadducees and Herodias challenged the teaching and actions of Jesus Christ on every possible occasion. Their main purpose was only to discredit the image of Jesus before the Jewish multitudes. But those hypocrites could not challenge the genealogy of Jesus because it has enough proof to substantiate His right to Davidic throne was irrefutable and always available to see personally in the “house of records” and believe.

Apostle Matthew presented the authentic information to all his readers with full details of the genealogical tree of begots ( Matthew 12:16) then he gave a brief description of the genealogy of Jesus in the following words.

“so, all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the carrying away unto Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations (Matthew 1:17).

As Matthew mentioned the true fold reference of fourteen generations was much decreased. Though Matthew stressed more emphasis on this verse of scripture it remained untouched by the commentators. In the first place, the genealogy of Christ was Israel from Abraham to David where it momentarily paused, because David was first divinely appointed king in the line of Messiah. He reigns of king David was considered by Israel as the golden age of his time and also in the history of Jews.

As the second point the genealogy was traced from King David unto Babylonian captivity, where in again, there was momentarily pause, because the Babylonian captivity brought to a half the reign of David i.e. Dynasty and begins the times of gentiles. The times of gentiles were a period when there was no descendant of David in to messianic line was available to rule over Israel. Therefore, during that period only gentile nations, one after another happened to rule the Holy land with her capital Jerusalem.

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Genealogy Of The King Of Kings This period of pagan rule, was graphically depicted in Nebuchadnezzar dream of an awesome image and its meaning was wonderful interpreted by prophet Daniel (Daniel 2:36-45). Daniel spoke about four gentile nations in this connection, which would rule the holy land. They were Babylon Persia Greece and Rome and all of them consecutively rule Jerusalem the Babylonian captivity took place in 586 BC. And that period was called the worst of times in the history of Jews. The Jewish nation (Israel) which was supposed to teach the word of one true God to the whole world was now controlled and ruled by idolatrous pagan nations filled with sin.

God could not tolerate the wickedness of His chosen people, and the sin committed by them. So he took revenge by handing over them to pagan rules as a punishment and for their repentance.

The third point is, the genealogy pointed out that from the Babylonian captivity to the birth of Christ where it pauses one more time, because after six hundred years of gentile rule a descendant of King David and a rightful heir to the throne was born and his coming was foretold at the dawn of human history. According to the prediction he would be born to a virgin in a small village at that time called Bethlehem, which is just five miles away from Jerusalem.

This miraculous and unforgettable event provided to Israel, the most glorious and promising of times. The very presence of the Jewish king the rule of gentiles that continued for centuries came to an end. This is the real important message apostle Matthew wished to give to his readers to understand in the very beginning of his gospel and in the very beginning of the New Testament. If we see the early history we can find how the sovereign God had chosen Israel to be just an instrument through which to seed of the woman would come into this world. Inspire of many attempts made by Satan, throughout the Old Testament era, to keep away the “seed” from coming by destroying the Jewish nation from which He would come, and now He was present among His people. This was understood on the most appropriate occasion to shout “Hallelujah” “Praise ye the Lord”.

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Israel was now called to do one thing. It was not required to do great scarifies but one thing most essential. There was no other way for the people if at all they wanted to receive the blessings of God. That essential thing is they had to recognize and accept their Messiah Jesus Christ, and trust Him as their savior and king. Abraham (believed) amend the words of God, concerning the coming ‘seed’ and it (his faith) counted unto him for righteousness. Two thousand years later Abraham’s descendants were called upon to show the same faith as their patriarch.

The credentials of Jews as the promised seed was to bring salvation to the whole world. His genealogy as earlier noted was available to everybody to examine in the house of records. He was born in Bethlehem the city of king David as the scriptures foretold the Messiah would (Micah 5:2).

“He was born of a virgin” as prophet Isaiah said, He was born at the right time as revealed by the praise chronology given by prophet Daniel (Daniel 9:24-

The Jewish leaders were focusing more on the coming of Messiah who would rule the kingdom with power and glory. But they did not give any creditability to the humble Nazarene who was born in a manger in a stable in Bethlehem. The Jews completely overlooked the truth that the suffering of the first coming had to precede the glory of His second coming. The prophets of Israel also reminded them time and again that the lamb had to deal with the sin first and then as the join of Judah He had to establish His kingdom and rule.

With their own understanding about the Messiah many orthodox Jews awaited many centuries for the coming of messiah and ignored totally the fact that He had come already and for many centuries at the time of Passover feast. Each year they had been waiting for the coming of Elijah prophet to announce

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Genealogy Of The King Of Kings about the coming of the Messiah. When the prophet did not come on any Passover festive occasion they hoped and comforted themselves by saying Elijah would come next year Passover feast to announce the coming of Messiah but they never realized and repented that He had already come and living with them.

Most of the Jews unlike their patriarch Abraham, and unlike their greatest king David, refused to believe the word of God as it is and what the prophets of Israel had foretold. (Isaiah 6:9-10; 53:1-3). Even the apostle John told his people with heavy and painful heart that “He came unto his own” (creation) and his own nation received him not. Through out the Old Testament, the Satan had been trying his best to destroy the Jewish nation from which Messiah would come to crush his head. But God was faithful to all his promises and so controls all the attacks at every stage and protected the nation.

The nation underwent so much humiliation but still gave birth to the promised seed ( Jesus Christ) in the midst of corruption and treachery of its leaders who finally played important role in his marvelous. At last with the crucification of Christ, Satan must have reasoned within himself or painfully told “I tract your checkmate” means “your king is dead” with the death of Jews on the cross, Satan must have thought that there was no one to crush his head.

But Satan was actually prematured in his assessment of the power of Jesus. He was not at all “checkmated”. He had one more move that must thrill the heart of the believers with endless pause. He shed his blood on the cross for our sins, as a penalty. Eternally satisfied the holiness of His father and rose from His grave on the third day. He conquered death. So, Satan was miserably defeated by the lamb, in His first coming. And this Satan well again receives the fatal head injury by the Lion of Judah at His second coming.

At the same time, the ruling of Jerusalem by the gentiles would continue till the allotted time by God is fulfilled and till the rightful king to the throne of David come. This could be fulfilled only in His second coming; as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And about that day the Lord Has said;

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And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall look upon me when they have received and they shall mourn for him as one mourned for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first born. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness (Zechariah 12:10; 13:1).

Then in 70 AD. Jerusalem was captured and the holy temple on Mount Zion destroyed. As a result of this unfortunate event most of the Jews lift Jerusalem and scattered into many parts of the earth. At that time Constantine of Babylonian Empire happened to rule Jerusalem for certain period doing fourth century A.D. he embraced Christianity with his mother Heliona and did wonderful things for the spreading of Christianity. In nutshell he built four churches, made Sunday as Sabbath day instead of Saturday abolished cross punishment and so on. In seventh century A.D. “Islam” a recently emerged religion moved towards zoest from Arabia in military conquest and ruled Jerusalem for some period. After Islamic rule Syria, Egypt and Iraq ruled Jerusalem for some period. Then for about two centuries Jerusalem was ruled by crusaders who came from England, France and Germany. The first crusades began in 1099 and continued their power until they were driven out in 1291 AD. The crusaders called themselves Christians beet there was not even an iota of Christianity in their regular life. Once again Egypt, ruled the Holy land for about two centuries after this came the Turks who stayed force log time. It continued for four centuries. From 1517 to 1917 the Ottoman and the Turkish Empire ruled the Holy land.

Then during the first world war the Turkish people and Germans joined together and fought against the British, but utterly defeated since then that is from 1917 to 1947 Jerusalem was under the control of the British government and finally Israel was declared independence.

Due to the reign of different countries the Jews in Jerusalem and other places left their home land and scattered into many places of the world and experienced the intensity of persecution and humiliation as nobody would have in the history God must have taken revenge against them in that way and even

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Genealogy Of The King Of Kings showed them hell in this life itself, for about two millennia they found no rest either to their body or to their soul. Moses prophesied and described clearly those days in the following words.

“And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people from one end of the earth even unto the other and there thou shalt some other Gods which neither stone nor they fathers have known even wood and stone. And among those nations shalt thou find no case, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest feet the Lord shall give thee a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrows of mind. And thy life shall hand in doubt before thee and thou shall fear day and night and shall have none assurance of the life (Deuteronomy 28:64-66).

Then let us see how God took revenge against the Jews. In 1096 as many as 12,000 Jews were killed in Germany within three months. In 1290 Jews were mercilessly vanished from England. In 1309 Jews were vanished from France. In 1348 Jews were blamed for the European plague. In 1492 both “Ferdinand and Isabella” planned to make Spain completely a catholic nation.

In such conditions Jews were forced either to convert themselves and Baptized or they must be killed or imprisoned or driven out of Spain. At that time it was estimated that about 1, 10,000 Jews had to flee from Spain for their lives. Like that Jews were driven away from one place to another. They had no protection and no shelter. They were like ‘gypsies” (wanderers always without a permanent place). In addition to that they had to face even robbers and murderers frequently. They were the people finally, without an inch of the land of their own anywhere on the earth when they were in such, pathetic and helpless situation they had to face another shocking rumour that spread against them, which became a common talk among people. The shocking news was that Jews were killing gentile infant children and their blood was used in the observance of Passover.

Jews were after asked to wear a type of badge for their identification. The women had to wear or keep bells at the bottom of their dresses. Regarding their livelihood, the Jews used to lend money for interest merchandising, shoe repair

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The Redemption Plan of God and frequently managing of wealthy estates. In 1516 the first ghetto where the Jews were gathered together and placed in a restricted area was established in “Venice.”

Then in the beginning of nineteenth century the largest Jewish population was found in “Russia” and these Russians started an infamous program called an organized massacre of Jews. In course of time this programs was implemented and as a result about 500 Jewish villages were affected through 1200 programs and with their plan more than 60,000 Jews were killed and many more times of that member were wounded.

Then during 1900 and 1945 the greatest genocide of the world took place in Germany. It was perhaps the most important in the history. This happened under the leadership of “Adolph Hitler” a dictator of Germany and it was the time of Second World War. It is said about 60, 00,000 (six million) Jews wee snuffed out in the death-camps, gas chambers and firing squads. Many nations of the world would have rescued and saved a good number of fleeing European Jews with their power and influence.

But no nation came forward to take such risk. No nation took any action and even refused to increase the immigration quotes. So that they could open their borders to help the disparate Jews. So for nineteen hundred years most of the nations of the world must have written at their borders “No Jews wanted”. Then in 1947 after the Second World War, the British government could not control the conflict between the Arabs and Jews at that time which was called Palestine.

Then for a suitable solution their conflict was referred to the recently formed “united nations organization” As a result of the appeal to the UNCO. Israel was declared independence on May 8 1948.

This happened for the first time in nineteen hundred years. But immediately the very next day, six Arab nations attacked Israel by dishonoring the resolution of the U.N.O. and this was the root cause for the present more than sixty years conflict between the Palestinians and Jews. Yet the U.N.O

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Genealogy Of The King Of Kings remained silent on this issue and in the mean time Israel had to fight five major wars with “wicked terrorist’s attacks. In such critical situation, the U.N.O. “European union” “NATO” and many nations of the world supported those people who wanted to destroy Israel.

It seemed Satan the father of lies was behind all these tragic events. Added to that all the nations kept their embasis in tell Aviv instead of Jerusalem, thought were the capital of Israel. The reason why other nations did not keep their Embassies in Jerusalem has great significance it is no surprise to the Bible readers and the word of God. The Lord Jesus Christ said and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the gentile nations until the time of the gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24).

The greatest burning issue today among the believers is this- who is going to rule the world from Jerusalem for Anti-Christ or True Christ. If the Jewish people were assimilated or annihilated in the Old Testament Jesus Christ a descendant of Abraham and David would not have been born and we could be without savior dying in our sins. In the same way if the Jewish people are without their own nation called Israel, at the end to the age, and the capital city Jerusalem, then the believers would have been left without a blessed hope.

The blessed hope is our Lord’s guarantee. Whether we passed from this life or remained alive at his second coming, we will be without doubt resurrected or ruptured to be with our Lord. But our blessed hope will be materialized only after the return of our Lord. Jesus will return as a legitimate heir the legitimate throne over legitimate people.

As a bonafide king of Israel Christ will be king of all kings and Lord of all Lords finally, no gentile nation would rule Israel but Israel through her king will rule all nations (the whole world). When Jesus returns as the lion of Judah, Satan will be thrown into the “lake of fire” and there will be a new heaven a new earth and a New Jerusalem. Then Jesus will not turn the world upside down but he will turn the world right side up.

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