Break out your Bibles and study the messianic Psalms.
The words of Jesus prophesized 1,000 years before Christ
Psalm 69 8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Psalms 69:8
“I am become a stranger unto my brethren, (His fellow Jews) and an alien unto my mother’s children.” Now there’s one group of people that don’t like that verse. And who are they?
Well, the Roman Catholics are just exercised by the thought that Jesus had physical brothers. Yes, Mary and Joseph had sons beyond Christ. She was just a human mother. She wasn’t the mother of God. She was the mother of human beings. So here is a good verse to show these people. That He is “an alien unto my mother’s (Mary’s) children.”
Now stop and think. When did the family of Joseph and Mary recognize and believe who Jesus was? Not until after, I think, His crucifixion. Hey, they detested Him just as much as anybody else in Nazareth for the longest time. But I think they finally came to believe that He was who He said He was. So it’s evident that Joseph and Mary had other children after Christ was born (Matthew 13:55-56). All right, read it again.
Psalms 69:8-9
“I am become a stranger unto my brethren, (His fellow Jews. His family) and an alien (He was a castoff.) unto my mother’s children. (Who would have been His physical brothers. Half brothers!) 9. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.” In other words, all the anger of Israel in rebellion against the Grace of God—they heaped on Him with their scorn and their ridicule and their demand in that He be crucified.
Psalms 69:10-11
“When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11. I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.” Now what’s He referring to? Did He walk up and down the streets and highways of Israel in the apparel of the kings and queens? NO! But what? As almost one who had nothing.
And I think He put it best when He said that birds have nests and animals have dens but He does not have a place to lay His head. See, He was absolutely the poorest of the poor from the physical aspect, so that no one could use that as an excuse for rejecting Him. He was right on their level, and yet, they hated Him. Verse 11 again:
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Great passage. Thanks.
Interesting point. I suspect Jesus Christ did appear alien to His mother’s children. When He appointed John to take Mary as his mother and Mary to receive John as her son, I suspect He also was considering how an unbelieving body might treat her after He passed.
If the Israelite crowds insisted on beating and crucifying Jesus based upon their interpretation of the Torah, imagine how they would treat the “Mother of God”.
>> Psalm 69:8
“I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.” <<
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Yes, scripture quickly demolishes all catholic dogma, and by scripture I mean the words that Yeshua called scripture; those words written centuries before the words that the catholics seek to confuse.
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