May 1, 2025 • 9 mins
Yes, the virgin birth is crucial to the deity of Christ and no less important is His adoption by Joseph; hence the title of this small episode.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New TestamentFramework.
Today a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Because what's about to happen here is very, very,
very interesting.
We notice in verse 1 that thisis a genealogy, right, no
complications, the record of thegenealogy of Jesus the messiah.
Notice the first personmentioned after the messiah.
Who is it?
David, okay, most mentioned guyin the chapter.
(00:32):
I think he's mentioned sixtimes or so in this chapter.
Okay, um, so he's obviously avery important person in this
chapter.
Who's the second personmentioned after David, the son
of Abraham?
So we got the Davidic covenantright and we've got the
Abrahamic covenant and these areall definitely connected to the
(00:53):
Messiah Verse one.
Then he starts to give thisgenealogy okay, and it's in
three groups of 14 people.
Each David's name in Hebrew, novowels.
So DVD, everybody says I knowwhat that is.
You stick it in the machine andyou watch the movie.
But no DVD.
And each letter has a numericalequivalent D is four, v is six.
(01:14):
The last D is four.
Four plus six is how much?
10 plus four more 14.
We got three groups of 14.
Who is the key?
David DVD.
He's the key to this wholegenealogy.
(01:38):
But that line was cursed, right.
That line was cursed throughConiah, right?
So you know that from the OldTestament because you're a Jew.
Now you know the Old Testamentas well as a Jew.
Right, maybe not, but you'regetting there.
Okay, we're getting there.
So let's start at verse 2.
Abraham was the father of Isaac.
Watch this.
It's going to say father overand over.
The word that's used over andover is father, father, father,
abraham, father of Isaac, isaac,father of Jacob, jacob, father
of Judah and his brothers, judah, the father of Perez and
(02:00):
Zerubbabel Tamar.
She wasn't a very goodcharacter, but look, she's
thrown in the line of Christ.
She deceived her father-in-lawso you can have a child through
her.
Not exactly your model lady,okay, but there she is, right in
the line of Christ.
Perez, the father of Hezron.
Hezron the father of Ram Ram,father of Abinadab.
(02:21):
Abinadab father of Nashon, okay, of ram ram, father of minadab
and minadab father of nashan.
Okay, it goes on and on.
Father, father, father.
Now you got boaz, and by rahab,oh, rahab, she got in the line
of christ.
How'd that happen?
How'd harlot get in there?
Um, well, you know, becausegod's saying something right
boaz, the father of obed, byruth, there's a moabite, and
(02:42):
obed, the, the father of Jesse.
And then says Jesse, the fatherof who?
David?
And look what it calls him, theking.
That must be really important,because it didn't say that about
anybody else, right, and it'sabout him.
It's really about David.
It's about David, the Davidiccovenant, it's about David and
his throne rights.
That's what this is all aboutthrone rights.
(03:03):
So David is the father ofSolomon.
Now, that's very.
This is all about throne rights.
So david is the father ofsolomon.
Now, that's very important.
You would underline solomonhere, because when god made the
covenant with david, he madesure that the next person who
sat on the throne was solomon.
Right, it wasn't.
David had a lot of differentson, but the the covenant was
(03:23):
going to be to David throughSolomon's line, not through any
of David's other lines, justthrough Solomon's line.
And then it says Solomon byBathsheba and everybody goes.
Are you kidding me?
You know her.
She's not exactly the model ofmodesty, right?
(03:47):
I think people go.
I I think I think this is someof the reason why these are in
there people like rahab orbashivis, people, people go well
in the old testament, they gowell.
I'm not.
I'm not a harlot or immodest,and and I think what god is
saying is like get over yourself.
I use these people becausethese are the people who had
(04:08):
qualities I wanted to bring intothe line of my Messiah, and
it's reminding us that you knowwe're all sinners.
You know you're not better thansomeone else.
I don't care what they did.
You know you did your stuff,they did their stuff.
Okay, you're all sinners.
God can use this to bring aboutsomething tremendous.
So these people get into theline of Messiah.
(04:30):
So David, through Solomon, andit keeps going.
So-and-so's the father ofso-and-so, so-and-so's the
father of so-and-so.
We come all the way down toverse 12.
And we just read about this inJeremiah 22.
After the deportation toBabylon, who's the guy mentioned
?
Jeconiah?
If you knowation to Babylon,who's the guy mentioned Jeconiah
(04:52):
?
If you know your Old Testament,you read this.
All you can think about isJeremiah 22, 30.
All you can think about is thatthis guy's line is cursed and
nobody from this line canpossibly ever sit on the throne
of David and rule and prosper.
Right, do you agree with me?
Do you agree with me?
Do you agree with god, that ifsomebody is listed at the end of
(05:13):
this line or after this guy,jeconiah they have no right to
ever sit on the throne and rule?
Good, because you agree withgod, that's exactly right.
So let's see what happens.
So-and-so's father, you knowhe's the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father ofZerubbabel.
It goes on and on and on.
(05:33):
You get down to verse 16, andhere's what it says Jacob was
the father of Joseph, thehusband of Mary, by whom Jesus
was born, who is called Messiah.
Notice how it does not say sayJacob was the father of Joseph,
(05:53):
who was the father of Jesus.
It doesn't say that, does it?
It says that Joseph was thehusband of Mary and that Jesus
was born by her.
Okay, if Jesus was born ofJoseph, if Joseph is the father,
(06:16):
then Jesus is under the Coniahcurse, right, and he can't rule
and reign then.
But this verse indicates thathe's not.
Then the question becomes why inthe world did you put this long
genealogy here?
Just so I could find out thathe's not?
Then the question becomes whyin the world did you put this
long genealogy here?
Just so I could find out thathe's not in that line?
He's about to answer thequestion.
(06:39):
He has done all this as a setup.
He said look, this is a curseline, this is a cursed line.
Joseph is in the line, you know, but could he exercise throne
rights?
No, because he's a naturaldescendant of jeconiah.
He couldn't rule.
So we come to the answer andthe solution in verses 18
(07:02):
through 23.
Now the birth of jesus christwas as follows because
everybody's saying, well, okay,well, who was his father?
If jose's not the father,mary's the mother, who's the
father?
That's what we all want to know.
Now the birth of Jesus Christwas as follows when his mother,
mary, had been betrothed toJoseph.
So they're basically engaged,but it was legal, betrothal or
legal engagement.
(07:22):
They were considered married,they were considered husband and
wife, but before they cametogether so no formal wedding
yet and they had not consummated, right, it says she was found
to be with child by the HolySpirit.
So now we know how the childgot in her.
It wasn't by Joseph, it was bythe Holy Spirit, right, and
Joseph her husband.
(07:42):
Because it was a legalbetrothal.
Being a righteous man and notwanting to disgrace her, he
planned to send her awaysecretly.
He says well, I mean, it'sobvious that she's cheated on me
, she's pregnant, I mean.
But I'm a righteous man, Idon't want to make this public.
I love her, so I'm going to puther away secretly.
He was a great guy.
But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord
(08:05):
appeared to him in a dreamsaying Joseph, son of David,
notice, it says who Son of who?
David, make sure we know.
Oh, don't forget David.
Okay, this is the Davidiccovenant, this is the Davidic
line Joseph, son of David, donot be afraid to take Mary as
your wife.
Now, why is the angel soinsistent that he marry her?
That's another question.
Like who cares?
(08:25):
I mean, she's got the baby inher.
If she has the baby, it's goingto be the Messiah, right,
that's what everybody says.
And it'll sit on the throne ofDavid and rule.
No, no, he will not just sit onthe throne and rule just
because he's born of a virgin.
That is not true, that's a lie,it cannot possibly be.
This guy has got to marry her.
That's why the angel'sintervening here.
(08:47):
Why does he have to marry her?
Because he has throne rights,because he's why the angel's
intervening here.
Why does he have to marry her?
Because he has thrown rights,because he's from the house of
David and he can give them tohis adopted son legally under
the Mosaic law, but at the sametime, not be the father and get
him under the curse.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with
Jeremy Thomas.
If you would like to see thevisuals that went along with
today's sermon, you can findthose on Rumble and on YouTube
under Spokane Bible Church.
That is where Jeremy is thepastor and teacher.
We hope you found today'slesson productive and useful in
(09:25):
growing closer to God andwalking more obediently with Him
.
If you found this podcast to beuseful and helpful, then please
consider rating us in yourfavorite podcast app, and until
next time, we hope you have ablessed and wonderful day.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New TestamentFramework.
Today a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Because what's about to happen here is very, very,
very interesting.
We notice in verse 1 that thisis a genealogy, right, no
complications, the record of thegenealogy of Jesus the messiah.
Notice the first personmentioned after the messiah.
Who is it?
David, okay, most mentioned guyin the chapter.
(00:32):
I think he's mentioned sixtimes or so in this chapter.
Okay, um, so he's obviously avery important person in this
chapter.
Who's the second personmentioned after David, the son
of Abraham?
So we got the Davidic covenantright and we've got the
Abrahamic covenant and these areall definitely connected to the
(00:53):
Messiah Verse one.
Then he starts to give thisgenealogy okay, and it's in
three groups of 14 people.
Each David's name in Hebrew, novowels.
So DVD, everybody says I knowwhat that is.
You stick it in the machine andyou watch the movie.
But no DVD.
And each letter has a numericalequivalent D is four, v is six.
(01:14):
The last D is four.
Four plus six is how much?
10 plus four more 14.
We got three groups of 14.
Who is the key?
David DVD.
He's the key to this wholegenealogy.
(01:38):
But that line was cursed, right.
That line was cursed throughConiah, right?
So you know that from the OldTestament because you're a Jew.
Now you know the Old Testamentas well as a Jew.
Right, maybe not, but you'regetting there.
Okay, we're getting there.
So let's start at verse 2.
Abraham was the father of Isaac.
Watch this.
It's going to say father overand over.
The word that's used over andover is father, father, father,
abraham, father of Isaac, isaac,father of Jacob, jacob, father
of Judah and his brothers, judah, the father of Perez and
(02:00):
Zerubbabel Tamar.
She wasn't a very goodcharacter, but look, she's
thrown in the line of Christ.
She deceived her father-in-lawso you can have a child through
her.
Not exactly your model lady,okay, but there she is, right in
the line of Christ.
Perez, the father of Hezron.
Hezron the father of Ram Ram,father of Abinadab.
(02:21):
Abinadab father of Nashon, okay, of ram ram, father of minadab
and minadab father of nashan.
Okay, it goes on and on.
Father, father, father.
Now you got boaz, and by rahab,oh, rahab, she got in the line
of christ.
How'd that happen?
How'd harlot get in there?
Um, well, you know, becausegod's saying something right
boaz, the father of obed, byruth, there's a moabite, and
(02:42):
obed, the, the father of Jesse.
And then says Jesse, the fatherof who?
David?
And look what it calls him, theking.
That must be really important,because it didn't say that about
anybody else, right, and it'sabout him.
It's really about David.
It's about David, the Davidiccovenant, it's about David and
his throne rights.
That's what this is all aboutthrone rights.
(03:03):
So David is the father ofSolomon.
Now, that's very.
This is all about throne rights.
So david is the father ofsolomon.
Now, that's very important.
You would underline solomonhere, because when god made the
covenant with david, he madesure that the next person who
sat on the throne was solomon.
Right, it wasn't.
David had a lot of differentson, but the the covenant was
(03:23):
going to be to David throughSolomon's line, not through any
of David's other lines, justthrough Solomon's line.
And then it says Solomon byBathsheba and everybody goes.
Are you kidding me?
You know her.
She's not exactly the model ofmodesty, right?
(03:47):
I think people go.
I I think I think this is someof the reason why these are in
there people like rahab orbashivis, people, people go well
in the old testament, they gowell.
I'm not.
I'm not a harlot or immodest,and and I think what god is
saying is like get over yourself.
I use these people becausethese are the people who had
(04:08):
qualities I wanted to bring intothe line of my Messiah, and
it's reminding us that you knowwe're all sinners.
You know you're not better thansomeone else.
I don't care what they did.
You know you did your stuff,they did their stuff.
Okay, you're all sinners.
God can use this to bring aboutsomething tremendous.
So these people get into theline of Messiah.
(04:30):
So David, through Solomon, andit keeps going.
So-and-so's the father ofso-and-so, so-and-so's the
father of so-and-so.
We come all the way down toverse 12.
And we just read about this inJeremiah 22.
After the deportation toBabylon, who's the guy mentioned
?
Jeconiah?
If you knowation to Babylon,who's the guy mentioned Jeconiah
(04:52):
?
If you know your Old Testament,you read this.
All you can think about isJeremiah 22, 30.
All you can think about is thatthis guy's line is cursed and
nobody from this line canpossibly ever sit on the throne
of David and rule and prosper.
Right, do you agree with me?
Do you agree with me?
Do you agree with god, that ifsomebody is listed at the end of
(05:13):
this line or after this guy,jeconiah they have no right to
ever sit on the throne and rule?
Good, because you agree withgod, that's exactly right.
So let's see what happens.
So-and-so's father, you knowhe's the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father ofZerubbabel.
It goes on and on and on.
(05:33):
You get down to verse 16, andhere's what it says Jacob was
the father of Joseph, thehusband of Mary, by whom Jesus
was born, who is called Messiah.
Notice how it does not say sayJacob was the father of Joseph,
(05:53):
who was the father of Jesus.
It doesn't say that, does it?
It says that Joseph was thehusband of Mary and that Jesus
was born by her.
Okay, if Jesus was born ofJoseph, if Joseph is the father,
(06:16):
then Jesus is under the Coniahcurse, right, and he can't rule
and reign then.
But this verse indicates thathe's not.
Then the question becomes why inthe world did you put this long
genealogy here?
Just so I could find out thathe's not?
Then the question becomes whyin the world did you put this
long genealogy here?
Just so I could find out thathe's not in that line?
He's about to answer thequestion.
(06:39):
He has done all this as a setup.
He said look, this is a curseline, this is a cursed line.
Joseph is in the line, you know, but could he exercise throne
rights?
No, because he's a naturaldescendant of jeconiah.
He couldn't rule.
So we come to the answer andthe solution in verses 18
(07:02):
through 23.
Now the birth of jesus christwas as follows because
everybody's saying, well, okay,well, who was his father?
If jose's not the father,mary's the mother, who's the
father?
That's what we all want to know.
Now the birth of Jesus Christwas as follows when his mother,
mary, had been betrothed toJoseph.
So they're basically engaged,but it was legal, betrothal or
legal engagement.
(07:22):
They were considered married,they were considered husband and
wife, but before they cametogether so no formal wedding
yet and they had not consummated, right, it says she was found
to be with child by the HolySpirit.
So now we know how the childgot in her.
It wasn't by Joseph, it was bythe Holy Spirit, right, and
Joseph her husband.
(07:42):
Because it was a legalbetrothal.
Being a righteous man and notwanting to disgrace her, he
planned to send her awaysecretly.
He says well, I mean, it'sobvious that she's cheated on me
, she's pregnant, I mean.
But I'm a righteous man, Idon't want to make this public.
I love her, so I'm going to puther away secretly.
He was a great guy.
But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord
(08:05):
appeared to him in a dreamsaying Joseph, son of David,
notice, it says who Son of who?
David, make sure we know.
Oh, don't forget David.
Okay, this is the Davidiccovenant, this is the Davidic
line Joseph, son of David, donot be afraid to take Mary as
your wife.
Now, why is the angel soinsistent that he marry her?
That's another question.
Like who cares?
(08:25):
I mean, she's got the baby inher.
If she has the baby, it's goingto be the Messiah, right,
that's what everybody says.
And it'll sit on the throne ofDavid and rule.
No, no, he will not just sit onthe throne and rule just
because he's born of a virgin.
That is not true, that's a lie,it cannot possibly be.
This guy has got to marry her.
That's why the angel'sintervening here.
(08:47):
Why does he have to marry her?
Because he has throne rights,because he's why the angel's
intervening here.
Why does he have to marry her?
Because he has thrown rights,because he's from the house of
David and he can give them tohis adopted son legally under
the Mosaic law, but at the sametime, not be the father and get
him under the curse.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with
Jeremy Thomas.
If you would like to see thevisuals that went along with
today's sermon, you can findthose on Rumble and on YouTube
under Spokane Bible Church.
That is where Jeremy is thepastor and teacher.
We hope you found today'slesson productive and useful in
(09:25):
growing closer to God andwalking more obediently with Him
.
If you found this podcast to beuseful and helpful, then please
consider rating us in yourfavorite podcast app, and until
next time, we hope you have ablessed and wonderful day.
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