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My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge: Hosea 4:6.

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[Trumpet 1]

Corn grew in the Old World. Who knew. I thought corn was a new world crop.

[ducttape45]

Both accounts lead to different parents, Matthew to Joseph, Luke to Mary.

These kinds of teachings lose me right there. If one reads the genealogical accounts carefully, each of them ends with Joseph, neither goes through Mary's lineage. The most likely explanation is this one from Albert Barnes:

It has been said also that Joseph was the legal son and heir of Heli, though the real son of Jacob, and that thus the two lines terminated in him. This was the explanation suggested by most of the Christian fathers, and on the whole is the most satisfactory. It was a law of the Jews that if a man died without children, his brother should marry his widow. Thus the two lines might have been intermingled.

So when anyone starts teaching about how Luke's account teachings of Jesus' genealogical account coming down through Mary's side of the family, don't buy into it.

[skr]

Bfl

[Patriot777]

Awesome teaching! I will certainly look up Depths of Pentecost!

[Ezekiel]

David was thinking about his hungry men because David's heart was filled with mercy. The Messiah is the son of David, having the same character traits. Like father, like son.

Verses containing son, David, and mercy (KJV)

The predominant theme in those verses is an appeal:

Son of David, have mercy on me.

Could be that the average people [without doctrinal expertise and reputation] recognized this key identifying trait because they knew David's beautiful heart through his Psalms (songs of comfort and encouragement). Like father like son... chip off the old block... that's him, no question.

But remember that Joseph wasn’t actually Jesus’ biological Father...

Sure he was; it's a very simple explanation. And Joseph was a just man, gentle and merciful, desiring to quietly put away Mary for what appeared to be a reprehensible act warranting the death penalty. Yet everything made sense in totality given a little time for Joseph to think it through, and dream. After all, something didn't quite add up because Mary wasn't "the type".

A dogmatic, by-the-book automaton would have wasted no time alerting authorities and dispensing knee-jerk "justice". That way he would have enjoyed a good night's sleep, having "done good" by ridding the community of a degenerate harlot.

David's heart *is* the pattern for the Kingdom, beginning with a front porch that reached into the heavens.

Luke 17:20-21 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

It's like when Dorothy realized how to get back home.

[MHGinTN]

David pleaded WITH THE HIGH PRIEST to be fed. The essence of the difference reaches back to Cain and Abel.