The Nativity

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Q: Was it really necessary for Joseph to adopt Mary's baby?

A: It was essential because God selected Jesus to inherit David's throne.
(Luke 1:32)

Mary was directly related to David; but the monarchy passes down through
David's son Solomon (1Kgs 1:16-39).

Jesus' mom wasn't directly related to Solomon, so baby Jesus couldn't
inherit the monarchy through her. And besides, Israel's monarchy always
passed down through David's males; never his females.

Q: Where'd you get this adoption theory of yours?

A: At Gen 48:5-7, Jacob set a patriarchal precedent by adopting his two
grandsons Manasseh and Ephraim; and by doing so installed them in
positions equal in rank, honor, power, and privilege to his twelve original
sons; thus legally increasing Jacob's total number of tribal heads from
twelve to fourteen.

Jacob's motive for adopting Joseph's two sons wasn't for himself; it was in
sympathy for his beloved wife Rachel being cut off during her child-bearing
years, which subsequently prevented her from having any more children of
her own. Ephraim and Manasseh bring Rachel's legal total up to six: two of
her own, two by the maid Bilhah, and two by Asenath.

Q: If Jesus inherited the Davidic monarchy via adoption, then wouldn't he
have inherited Jeconiah's curse right along with it? (Jer 22:29-30)

A: Yes; because the monarchy and the curse were a package deal.

However; the wording "to rule again in Judah" indicates that the curse on
Jeconiah's royal progeny was limited to the era of the divided kingdom. That
condition came to an end when Nebuchadnezzar crushed the whole country
and led first Samaria, and then later Judah, off to Babylonian slavery.

When Messiah reigns, the country of Israel will be unified. His jurisdiction
won't be limited to Judah within a divided kingdom, but will dominate all the
land of Israel. So the curse doesn't apply to him.

● Ezek 37:21-22 . .You shall declare to them: Thus said the Lord God: I am
going to take the Israelite people from among the nations they have gone
to, and gather them from every quarter, and bring them to their own land. I
will make them a single nation in the land, on the hills of Israel, and one
king shall be king of them all. Never again shall they be two nations, and
never again shall they be divided into two kingdoms.
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[Jay Ross]

When Messiah reigns, the country of Israel will be unified. His jurisdiction
won't be limited to Judah within a divided kingdom, but will dominate all the
land of Israel. So the curse doesn't apply to him.

● Ezek 37:21-22 . .You shall declare to them: Thus said the Lord God: I am
going to take the Israelite people from among the nations they have gone
to, and gather them from every quarter, and bring them to their own land. I
will make them a single nation in the land, on the hills of Israel, and one
king shall be king of them all. Never again shall they be two nations, and
never again shall they be divided into two kingdoms.

Your understanding of these two verses is the traditional way many have adopted their understanding to be.

God's promises in these two verses, as also reflected in other verses in Ezekiel is that God will gather all of Israel from among the nations of the earth and bring them into their own good field of learning about God and His promises and that He will make then as one nation in the whole earth where they will be living amongst the nation and God will teach them on the Truths of His which will come down from heaven and Grow to become the highest mountain/religion in the whole earth with one King having God's ordained dominion over them. In doing this God will give them a renewed heart and will write His statutes upon that heart and He will enter into a renewal of the Covenant that He had made with the Nation of Israel at Mt. Sinai which they had rebelled against when they made Golden calf idols to worship while Moses was still up on the Mountain talking with God face to face.

The Promised Land to be inherited by Israel in the whole earth. The promise is that they will once again become a Kingdom of Priest and a Holy Nation and God's possession amongst the Nations and they cannot do that if they are collected as you have indicated just into the Land of Canaan. They have to be in the whole earth so that the gentiles who live around them can be taken by them up to Jerusalem to worship God collectively together.

For too long the focus of the Evangelical Church has been on the land of Israel and not on the High mountains of Israel, i.e. God's teachings and statues.

Shalom