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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
The genealogy, as you know, was a historical and legal record to prove a family's background. I would note that generally only males were included, but in the Book of Matthew three Gentile women were named, which showed that God cared for people outside of the Jewish line as well.
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Having a Moabitess included into a record didn’t mean that God cared for people outside of the TRIBAL lines. People tend to use the word Jewish like they are talking about Asian, African, European, when in fact Israel wasn’t just made up of one tribe, but many different tribes.. Jews today are of no tribe. You repeating your self that there has to be someone doesn’t line up with what you explained to me above. The lineages were mandertory. Everyony had to have an authentic genealogy. For Jesus to tell them that the generation He was speaking to wouldn’t end until everything was completed would of been understood by His audience. We Pentecostals allow that statement to wiz right over our heads.
You have to remember that you were really not taught much about Bible lineage genealogy. So when someone brings it up it is discounted and gets placed on the pay no mind list. The Gentiles being placed in Jesus’ lineage are important to show when females were married into a tribe. Not one word about showing how God cares about those outside the line of Israel. Because Abraham was once a pagan among pagans. The Bible is about come out from among them. It isn’t about a DNA strand only linked to one race. It is about repentance and conversion. Jesus’ linage also has an individual who was cursed. Does that mean God wanted to show He thought about those He cursed? No, lineages were to show who was qualified for what and who you were connected to. You have no genealogy? Then you CANNOT PROVE you were part of that physical covenant made in flesh. We are to no longer be concerned with ENDLESS genealogies. Because they are no longer any concern with God.
What we called Israel over in the Middle East means as much to God as Borger Texas. Borger isn’t in the Bible, and neither is the new country called Israel.
No one in Israel today can prove any lineage to Ancient Israel.
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