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. .I THE LONG WAIT FOR OUR MESSIAH—
BACKGROUND
Roots is an American TV mini series based on Alex Haley 1976 novel entitled “The Saga of an American Family. Roots received 37 prime time awards nominations and won 9 of them. Roots won a Golden globe and a Peabody award. And received unprescendented neilson ratings rating for the finale which stills holds the record for the 3 rd highest rating episode of any type of TV mini series. It was the 2 nd most watched of any TV series in TV history. No one knew at the time that Halry best seller and block buster TV series aired a year later, was to be the beginning of a genealogy craze that would sweep our nation.4 decades later geneology is the 2nd most popular hobby hobby next to gardening in the US. And the 2 nd most visited web site. Genology is a BILLION $$$$ industry that has spunned profitable websites, TV shows, tons of books and an astronomical over the counter genetic testing kits, and DNA ancestry and DNA testing. Someone has said I trace my history so, I ll know who to blame. Every tree has some sap in it.
INTRODUCTION
In Jesus family tree is not the exception. The Gospel of Matthew and Luke reveals a w hole host of characters. There are spies, foreigners, kings, thieves, paupers, prostitutes and military heros. And yet we must learn from each one of them, because we know:
All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, in order that the person of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
2 Peter 1:21
Can we learn from this section of scriptures in which some of the words are extremely difficult to pronounce. The Jewish people had not received and word from the Lord for over 400 yrs. After the close of the O. T. the end of Malicah to the book of Matthews 4 centuries passed by without a word from the Lord. Just what would God say when he would speak for the first time? I promise you none of us ould have done it this way. begins with a 17 verse ; 40 names geeology.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez became the father of Hezron, and Hezron became the father of Aram, and Aram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, and Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David the king.
And David became the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon became the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam became the father of Abijah, and Abijah became the father of Asa, and Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram, and Joram became the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah became the father of Jotham, and Jotham became the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh became the father of Amon, and Amon became the father of Josiah, and Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
And after the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel, and Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud, and Abiud became the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim became the father of Azor, and Azor became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Achim, and Achim became the father of Eliud, and Eliud became the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar became the father of Matthan, and Matthan became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ are fourteen generations.
This passage of Scripture teaches that Jesus earthy lineage back some 2000 yrs and 42 generations. The geneology begins in vs. 1 with the mentioned of Jesus and ends in vs 17 with Christ Jesus mentioned again. This is the genology of Jesus. W ith the surprise of many, Chtist is not Jesus last name. Christ comes from Greek: meaning the anonointed one. or the chosen one. Christ is the N.T. Greek equivalent of the O.T. Messiah. So my brothers abd sisters Jesus Christ means Jesus the Messiah. Or Jesus the Annointed One. He did not get into trouble in his society, because of His name , buhe got into troble in his society because he claimed to be the long awaited Messiah. The O.T. is filled with 100 od passages promissing the coming of a Messiah.Here are a fwe. More than 700 yrs before his birth Isaiah predicted that the Messiah would be borned of a virgin.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin is with child and she is about to give birth to a son, and she shall call his name ‘God with us.’
Emanual means “God with us”
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
too small to be among the clans of Judah,
from you one will go out for me,
to be ruler in Israel;
and his origins are from of old,
from ancient days.
Isaiah 7:14
And nations shall come to your light,
and kings to the bright light of your sunrise.
Mica
Then you shall see
and you shall be radiant;
and your heart shall tremble
and open itself wide,
because the abundance of the sea shall fall upon you;
the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isaiah 60:
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Thus says Yahweh,
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation, the weeping of bitterness.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted because of her children,
for they are no more.”
Jeremiah
All of these O.T. prophecies were predicted 700 yrs before, concerning the first advent of the Savior; our Lord Jesus the Christ…Scholars said there are about 48 directly to the birth narrative of Jesus. Mathematicians Peter Stoner estimated that the probability of fullfilling 48 prophecies concerning this event, was 1 chance in a trillion, trillion, trillion 3 x’s. The human intellect will not comprehebd a number that astronomical. This is too staGGERING FOR THE MIND TO GRASP. iT IS equal to the number of atoms in a trillion, trillion, trillion, billion universes the size of our universe. The odds alone says it would be impossible for any one to fullfill all the O T prophecies… Only Jesus can through out history manage to do it. If I were an unbeliever and I studied the prophecies concerning the birth of Jesus alone, I would be so overwhelemed that I would bow down on my knees and cry out for the Lord to Save me, Right now..Absolutely no one has ever done anything like that.
A. His Genealogy Breaks the Barrier Between Men and Women
B. His Genealogy Breaks the Barrier Between Jew and Gentile
C. His Genealogy Breaks the Barrier Between Saint and Sinner
D. His Genealogy Breaks the Barrier Between Then and Now
II. THE LONG WAR AGAINST OUR MESSIAH
A. The Battle at Creation
B. The Battle at Christmas
C. The Battle at the Cross