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Dec. 5, 2015 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Royal Line of David
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Joseph's Royal Line Curse 00:06:52
But a really cool thing, you know, we talked about the last days of Israel.
Well, in the last days of Judah, the southern kingdom, there was a king named Jeconiah, and a son of David, and he was evil.
And judgment was coming in his time.
And he actually set himself against Jeremiah the prophet.
And the prophet warns him.
But he ends up being taken to Babylon in judgment.
And God gives a prophecy to Jeremiah.
and says this.
He says, write this man down, this is talking about Jeconiah, as childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days, for none of his descendants shall prosper sitting on the throne of David and ruling anymore in Judah.
Now, here's the royal line, but he's an evil man, but he's of the royal line of David.
But God tells him, after this, he's going to be taken away, your sons will not rule anymore on the throne of David.
It's a curse, basically, on Jeconiah, and a curse on his, basically the throne.
These are the royal children, but they cannot rule on the throne anymore.
So here's what happened now, is that later on you have a descendant of Jeconiah when they come back, you know, the judgment comes, then they come back to Israel, and they come back under Zerubbabel.
Zerubbabel is a descendant of Jeconiah.
Zerubbabel is a righteous man, but there's a curse there.
He cannot be king.
He should be, it should be king Zerubbabel.
But there couldn't be because it says your sons will not sit on that throne anymore.
So Zerubbabel was a governor, but he was not king.
So what happened to the royal line of David?
Now we know Messiah, Messiah, has to be the royal line of David.
But there's a curse on this line now.
So what happens to the royal line?
What happens to the heir to the throne?
Well, they lose track of them.
You know, the one who's the heir to the throne is going to be this firstborn son of the firstborn son of the firstborn, unless somebody, there's a change, but it's going to go down.
But they lose track about who it is.
Centuries go by, and the house of David, the royal line, kind of goes underground.
And you have powers coming up that reign over Israel, but not the royal line of David.
And you have then the Romans come in and all that.
Well, what happened to them?
Well, what happened is they descended lower and lower and lower and lower.
And now here's where we are.
We come to a little hilltop, out-of-the-way, no-place city, and it's called Nitzeret.
Poor people there, pretty much.
There's this one synagogue, pretty much, his families.
It's an obscure place.
And there's a poor man living there.
And he builds.
He's a technical man.
His name is Joseph.
Joseph, he is the royal heir to the throne.
Joseph, God doesn't do things halfway.
God does things exactly.
He, Joseph, who nobody looks at, nobody really cares about him, he's an obscure person.
He's the true king of Israel.
And yet he's living because there is the curse of Jeconiah, he cannot sit on the throne.
And so instead, he grows up poor.
He grows up humble.
He's a righteous man.
And look at what the angel said to him.
They said, called him, didn't just say Joseph.
He said, Joseph, Yosef Ben-David, Joseph, the son of David.
Now, he could have, so you didn't have to say that.
Angels aren't going to waste their words.
And also, angels could have said, Joseph, son of, you know, son of Martin, whoever your father was, doesn't say that.
Joseph, you're the son of David.
He says, he's waking him up.
He's saying, Joseph, Ben-David, son of David.
So here it is.
I mean, imagine being in Nazareth and this one, this man is just living his daily life, working on building the wood.
He's the true king of Israel, but who cannot sit on the throne of Israel.
And so now God does things exactly.
And so yet it says that of Messiah, he will, we talked about this early on, he will sit on the throne of David.
Unto us a child is born, a son is given, the government will be upon his shoulder, and the throne of David, he will be there.
So here you have Joseph.
I mean, just get the picture.
You're walking around, hey, that's Joseph.
That's Joe.
He's the true king.
And yet he can't sit there, but he is the son of David.
Son of David.
So how is Messiah going to be born and to be able to be on the throne of David?
Because on one hand, he needs the royal line.
He needs to be of that, but he can't be of the curse.
So what happens?
Well, here's the thing.
There's another, because the prophecies say that Messiah will come, actually Jeremiah, and he will prosper on the throne of David.
So how's it going to happen?
It happens because on that same hilltop village is this little poor woman, teenager, named Miriam, or we know as Mary.
Miriam, Mary, is also a descendant of David.
We know that because Luke focuses on Mary and he has a different genealogy that comes from David.
So she doesn't, and by the way, Joseph probably doesn't realize this until the angel says something and he realizes, I'm chosen to do this.
Mary certainly doesn't realize this.
Mary is also a royal descendant of David.
Except, if you look at the line in Luke, which at the end it says son of and counts Joseph, but this is her line.
At the end of that, you look at her line, it doesn't come through Solomon and Hezekiah and doesn't come through Jeconiah.
It comes through another son of David who was never cursed.
It's another line that never had the curse on it.
Wow.
So God has here these two people.
They have no idea what's going on.
I mean, they love God.
They're righteous, holy people.
Joseph probably has to be one of the most righteous people ever to be descended in the throne of David.
And yet they're living their lives loving God, but not realizing they're poor people, not realizing it.
And God causes the two of them, in a sense, it could be the only two in Israel, to fall in love or meet or have their parents say, yes, let's do it.
And they are arranged to be married.
And so here's what happens.
So what happens is, but at the same time, Joseph is of the royal line, but has the curse.
So what happens?
How can you get around that?
The virgin birth happens.
Because of the virgin birth, there is no curse that goes through to the baby.
At the same time, because Joseph is counted as the father, he is the royal Messiah.
Jesus gets the royal line through Joseph that sat on the throne, but can't now.
And yet through Mary gets the bloodline with no curse, he can sit on the throne.
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