Netanyahu: I will name a golan town after trump

[TK Burk]

Biblically, to be considered “Jewish,” a person would either be born of Jewish parents, born of a Jewish mother or be a gentile converted according to Old Testament Law. This latter group is known as a “proselyte.” Though proselytes converted to Judaism, they did not gain entry into a Jewish tribe, since their conversion did not add them to the already ongoing history of Jewish lineage. The only way to become part of this genealogy was to marry into it. Examples of such conversion are a Canaanite named Rahab (Rachab), and a Moabitess named Ruth. Both of these former gentiles are mentioned in Jesus’ Jewish genealogy (see Matthew 1:5). When these gentile women married their Jewish husbands, they became believers in the one true God, and they agreed to keep the Old Testament commandments (see Joshua 2:9-11; Ruth 1:16). As a result, they became members of their husband’s Jewish tribe. This is why we find both Rahab and Ruth in the lineage of Judah, and why they are both listed in the ancestry leading back to Abraham and Adam. Such inclusion into a Jewish tribe was never available for gentiles who remained in idolatry.

The Law requires that Priests provide a written lineage to prove they derived from a pure Hebrew bloodline (see Exodus 6:14-25; Numbers 3:1-5, Numbers 3:17-39, Numbers 26:57-61; Nehemiah 7:4-73; Nehemiah 12:1-26; Matthew 1:1-16; Luke 3:23-38). This evidence had to be a written account proving an untainted bloodline tracing back to the time of Abraham and Adam. DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) can't—and never will—do this since it cannot prove there was never any gentile blood in their descents. The Bible disqualified a priest and his offspring if there was ever any intermingling with gentiles (see Nehemiah 7:5, Nehemiah 7:63-64; Ezra 2:61-62, Ezra 10:11-19). In addition to this, if you were a priest during the time of Herod’s Temple, you had to prove, not only Levite lineage, but also, more specifically, a lineage from the Levite tribe of Zadok (see Ezekiel 43:19, Ezekiel 44:15-17, Ezekiel 48:11-12). The Jewish lineage records were burned and destroyed during the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. Thus, no such records remain that can prove an untainted bloodline dating back to the time of Adam.