Jim Bakker Show - The Royal Line of David
Aired: 2015-12-05
Duration: 06:52


=== Joseph's Royal Line Curse (06:52) ===

[00:00:00]  But a really cool thing, you know, we talked about the last days of Israel.
[00:00:03]  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.
[00:00:11]  And judgment was coming in his time.
[00:00:15]  And he actually set himself against Jeremiah the prophet.
[00:00:20]  And the prophet warns him.
[00:00:22]  But he ends up being taken to Babylon in judgment.
[00:00:26]  And God gives a prophecy to Jeremiah.
[00:00:29]  and says this.
[00:00:30]  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.
[00:00:46]  Now, here's the royal line, but he's an evil man, but he's of the royal line of David.
[00:00:51]  But God tells him, after this, he's going to be taken away, your sons will not rule anymore on the throne of David.
[00:00:59]  It's a curse, basically, on Jeconiah, and a curse on his, basically the throne.
[00:01:05]  These are the royal children, but they cannot rule on the throne anymore.
[00:01:09]  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.
[00:01:20]  Zerubbabel is a descendant of Jeconiah.
[00:01:23]  Zerubbabel is a righteous man, but there's a curse there.
[00:01:26]  He cannot be king.
[00:01:28]  He should be, it should be king Zerubbabel.
[00:01:31]  But there couldn't be because it says your sons will not sit on that throne anymore.
[00:01:35]  So Zerubbabel was a governor, but he was not king.
[00:01:38]  So what happened to the royal line of David?
[00:01:42]  Now we know Messiah, Messiah, has to be the royal line of David.
[00:01:46]  But there's a curse on this line now.
[00:01:48]  So what happens to the royal line?
[00:01:50]  What happens to the heir to the throne?
[00:01:52]  Well, they lose track of them.
[00:01:54]  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.
[00:02:01]  But they lose track about who it is.
[00:02:04]  Centuries go by, and the house of David, the royal line, kind of goes underground.
[00:02:08]  And you have powers coming up that reign over Israel, but not the royal line of David.
[00:02:14]  And you have then the Romans come in and all that.
[00:02:16]  Well, what happened to them?
[00:02:17]  Well, what happened is they descended lower and lower and lower and lower.
[00:02:21]  And now here's where we are.
[00:02:23]  We come to a little hilltop, out-of-the-way, no-place city, and it's called Nitzeret.
[00:02:31]  Poor people there, pretty much.
[00:02:33]  There's this one synagogue, pretty much, his families.
[00:02:36]  It's an obscure place.
[00:02:37]  And there's a poor man living there.
[00:02:39]  And he builds.
[00:02:40]  He's a technical man.
[00:02:42]  His name is Joseph.
[00:02:45]  Joseph, he is the royal heir to the throne.
[00:02:49]  Joseph, God doesn't do things halfway.
[00:02:52]  God does things exactly.
[00:02:54]  He, Joseph, who nobody looks at, nobody really cares about him, he's an obscure person.
[00:03:00]  He's the true king of Israel.
[00:03:03]  And yet he's living because there is the curse of Jeconiah, he cannot sit on the throne.
[00:03:09]  And so instead, he grows up poor.
[00:03:12]  He grows up humble.
[00:03:14]  He's a righteous man.
[00:03:16]  And look at what the angel said to him.
[00:03:18]  They said, called him, didn't just say Joseph.
[00:03:20]  He said, Joseph, Yosef Ben-David, Joseph, the son of David.
[00:03:25]  Now, he could have, so you didn't have to say that.
[00:03:26]  Angels aren't going to waste their words.
[00:03:28]  And also, angels could have said, Joseph, son of, you know, son of Martin, whoever your father was, doesn't say that.
[00:03:34]  Joseph, you're the son of David.
[00:03:36]  He says, he's waking him up.
[00:03:37]  He's saying, Joseph, Ben-David, son of David.
[00:03:41]  So here it is.
[00:03:42]  I mean, imagine being in Nazareth and this one, this man is just living his daily life, working on building the wood.
[00:03:49]  He's the true king of Israel, but who cannot sit on the throne of Israel.
[00:03:53]  And so now God does things exactly.
[00:03:56]  And so yet it says that of Messiah, he will, we talked about this early on, he will sit on the throne of David.
[00:04:02]  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.
[00:04:09]  So here you have Joseph.
[00:04:11]  I mean, just get the picture.
[00:04:13]  You're walking around, hey, that's Joseph.
[00:04:15]  That's Joe.
[00:04:16]  He's the true king.
[00:04:18]  And yet he can't sit there, but he is the son of David.
[00:04:21]  Son of David.
[00:04:22]  So how is Messiah going to be born and to be able to be on the throne of David?
[00:04:28]  Because on one hand, he needs the royal line.
[00:04:32]  He needs to be of that, but he can't be of the curse.
[00:04:34]  So what happens?
[00:04:35]  Well, here's the thing.
[00:04:37]  There's another, because the prophecies say that Messiah will come, actually Jeremiah, and he will prosper on the throne of David.
[00:04:46]  So how's it going to happen?
[00:04:48]  It happens because on that same hilltop village is this little poor woman, teenager, named Miriam, or we know as Mary.
[00:04:58]  Miriam, Mary, is also a descendant of David.
[00:05:03]  We know that because Luke focuses on Mary and he has a different genealogy that comes from David.
[00:05:08]  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.
[00:05:14]  Mary certainly doesn't realize this.
[00:05:16]  Mary is also a royal descendant of David.
[00:05:21]  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.
[00:05:27]  At the end of that, you look at her line, it doesn't come through Solomon and Hezekiah and doesn't come through Jeconiah.
[00:05:35]  It comes through another son of David who was never cursed.
[00:05:39]  It's another line that never had the curse on it.
[00:05:41]  Wow.
[00:05:42]  So God has here these two people.
[00:05:44]  They have no idea what's going on.
[00:05:46]  I mean, they love God.
[00:05:48]  They're righteous, holy people.
[00:05:49]  Joseph probably has to be one of the most righteous people ever to be descended in the throne of David.
[00:05:55]  And yet they're living their lives loving God, but not realizing they're poor people, not realizing it.
[00:06:00]  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.
[00:06:11]  And they are arranged to be married.
[00:06:14]  And so here's what happens.
[00:06:15]  So what happens is, but at the same time, Joseph is of the royal line, but has the curse.
[00:06:22]  So what happens?
[00:06:23]  How can you get around that?
[00:06:25]  The virgin birth happens.
[00:06:27]  Because of the virgin birth, there is no curse that goes through to the baby.
[00:06:33]  At the same time, because Joseph is counted as the father, he is the royal Messiah.
[00:06:41]  Jesus gets the royal line through Joseph that sat on the throne, but can't now.
[00:06:47]  And yet through Mary gets the bloodline with no curse, he can sit on the throne.