The King Is Here (Biblestudy concerning the Birth of Jesus).
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The tale of two kings:
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
So let’s consider all of the warnings that the LORD gave concerning their future kings:
He will draft your sons and assign them to his chariots and his charioteers, making them run before his chariots.
Some will be generals and captains in his army.
Some will be forced to plow his fields and harvest his crops.
Some will make his weapons and chariot equipment.
The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake, and make perfumes for him.
He will take away your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves and give them to his officials.
He will take a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest and distribute it amongst his officers and attendants.
He will take your male and female servants and demand your finest cattle and donkeys for his use.
He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you will be his servants.
You will beg relief from this king that you demanded but the LORD will not hear you.
So we see that according to biblical history, that Saul is the first king of Israel. We see then, as his story unfolds, we see that Saul enlists men to be in his army. They don’t have chariots yet, but they are well on their way and we see the prophecy that Samuel shares with the Israelites have already start to unfold.
As we read the books of 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, 1 Kings, 2 Kings. We see everything that Samuel prophesies came to past.
Every king of Israel, even after the great divide of Northern Israel and Judah, we see that scripture fulfills itself over and over again.
From King Saul........(who is the last king of Israel/who is the last king of Judah) in the Old Testament? Ans: King Hoshea of Northern Israel (2 Kings 17:1-6) and King Zedekiah of Judah (2 Kings 25).
From this point, in biblical history, the Israelites or rather Judah had foreign kings that ruled over them. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, King Evil-merodach, King Belshazzar, King Darius of Mede. Then we have Alexander the Great who conquered Judah.
From that period we have the Maccabees revolt that freed Judah and Palestine for a short period before they are ruled by Gaius Octavius also known Cesar Augustus.
We then have the first king of Judah in a long-time by the name of Herod the Great. Herod the son of Antipater of Judah who was a proxy governor installed by Mark Antony and Julius Caesar to procurator Judea. Antipater made his son Herod governor of Galilee in which 6 years later, Mark Anthony made home tetarch of Galilee.
After a civil war had broken out in in Judea, Rome voted that Herod the Great be installed as a king, provided him an army, and without question or challenge, took over the land of Judea and became their king.
Herod was an Edomite, or what is considered to be of Arab descent. He converted to Judaism and rebuilt the 2nd temple and expanded it.
This king, was a king that not only lived to please the Jewish people, but he also lived to please Rome. For this, many of the Jewish hated Herod. In his later years, King Herod suffered both mental and physical illness. He was prone to fits of jealousy, he was paranoid, so much so that he had members of his own family killed. His own family members plotted to remove him from the throne and because of his mental instability and paranoia, he had three of his sons executed, his wife Marriamne killed, his mother-in-law, and grandfather.
In a sense, because he was placed as king of Judea he was considered to be “king of the Jews”. This was not done on accident, and as we consider the gospels as a whole, this whole thing was a setup to begin with.
Fast forward to the closing of Herod’s life, there had been some rumblings of a new king that was on the way.
Messianic Prophecies:
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
So these are just a couple of the scriptures written through the Old Testament from the prophets concerning the coming of the Messiah.
So now, in Luke’s gospel, we see that the king is born. But he didn’t look like a king. He was born in a manger. A real manger is not the edifice of wood that we see in a nativity scene. A real manger is an animal trough, it is a box which holds the food in which the animal comes to eat out of.
Jesus, the King of king and the LORD of Lords is born in a dirty animal trough. He didn’t look like a king. Usually when a king is born, he is born in a palace, he is wrapped in pricely garments and given the best care. But not this king, he was born outdoors in possibly a cave, and he didn’t have the best nurses to take care of him, he didn’t have a royal court surrounding him, he was surrounded by a bunch of farm animals.
The Bible declares, that it was around the time in which it was time to pay taxes to Caesar Augustus.
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
Mary and Joseph came to Bethlehem their family home, their family village, being descendants of David to pay their taxes to Caesar.
Yet when they got there, the town was so crowded with people, that they couldn’t find a place to stay and they had to stay with the farm animals that night.
So while they were in Bethlehem, her water broke.
But let’s back up, how did we get here?
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Joseph was engaged to Mary, but they had not consummated yet. He had not had sexual intercourse with her to consummate the marriage.
But look at what the word says:
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, 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 thee shall be called the Son of God. And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. For with God nothing shall be impossible.
So we see Isaiah 7:14 is being fulfilled just like it was foretold by the prophet Isaiah.
So Joseph’s fiance is pregnant with child. How does he feel about the woman that he is suppose to marry being pregnant and the child is not his, because they never had sexual relations. I suppose he is crushed, he could have had her stoned to death.
But the scriptures declare:
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
While he was trying to figure out what was going on, while he was trying to figure out what to do about this situation. The bible declares in verse 20 that an angel appears to him in a dream.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
So verse 24 declares that after Joseph wakes, he obeys the angel of the LORD and took Mary to be his wife, but did not have sexual relations with her until after Jesus was born.
Going back to Luke 2. So now Mary and Joseph are in Bethlehem and the water breaks. She gives birth to a son and they name Him Jesus. This Jesus would be different than all of the other Jesus’ who had came before him. Because nobody has been able to live up to that name. Jesus/Yahushua means “The LORD saves” “Yah” means God and “Shua” means save or salvation. Remember that there are no “J”’s in the Hebrew alphabet. Just the same as there are no “Y”s in the Greek alphabet, neither are there any “J”s in the Greek Alphabet. So now there is a problem, how do we spell out Yahushua in greek if there are no Y’s? Futhermore, we can’t spell out Jesus neither because there are no J’s. Well in the greek it is spelled “IESOUS” which today is translated Jesus. Yahushua/IESOUS/Jesus is one and the same.
Regardless of which I use, it works!!! When I call on Jesus, he saves!!! When I call on Jesus he heals!!! When I call on Jesus......he delivers!!! The name works!!! There is power in the name of Jesus!!!
So Jesus is born, and the scripture declares that Mary wraps him in swaddling clothing. It is not an outfit, but they take strips of cloth, and they make a diaper for Jesus.
Jesus is born, first his a born of a virgin, check. Now we see Micah 5:2 fulfilled:
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
A ruler whose going forth have been from of old, and from everlasting? You mean Jesus was alive before any of this? Yes, the pre-existing Christ. Remember the end of Isaiah 7:14 is “his name shall be called Immanuel” which is interpreted as “God with us”. It is a incarnate name, it means that God/El/Yah would put on human form.
But brother preacher, what is see here is a baby that looks like any other baby. He doesn’t look like a king and he doesn’t look like God.
End Lesson
Begin 12/21/22
Jesus has been born, but he doesn’t look like a king. Matter of fact, no one locally has referred to him as being a king. Oh, but the prophets have. The problem that many have is that he dosen’t look like a king. Even when Jesus grows up and comes into his earthly ministry, he just doesn’t look like a king at all, that is according to man’s view.
This king was a different king than all of his predecessors. He would not rule like they ruled. Matter of fact, this king wouldn’t be king over any physical earthly realm, but this king would be the King of Kings and the LORD of Lords. His kingdom would be a spiritual kingdom that at the end of the age would be consummated into that of both a spiritual and physical kingdom in a New Heaven and a New Earth.