The Life of Christ

• It’s the younger, up and coming generation, who will lead the way for the supernatural.

Lk. 1:35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God.”

In the plan of God, it was essential that the mother of Jesus have an immaculate conception.

• If Jesus was conceived normally, as a man He would have had an Adamic nature flowing with Adamic blood (Lev. 17:11).

• The genetics coming from the Holy Spirit — not Mary — produced the bloodline within Jesus.

• It’s a medical fact that the bloodstream of the mother never comes into contact with the bloodstream of the fetus due to the wonder of the umbilical cord. This explains why a mother and child can have different blood types.

• The bloodline within Mary came from Adam; the bloodline within Jesus came from the Holy Spirit.

Lk. 1:36 “And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.”

• Some translations read “your cousin” Elizabeth.

The Greek word for “cousin” is also translated in a number of other translations “kinswoman” (Darby, ASV, Wuest New Testament, RSV, Young’ s Literal Translation).

• Mary and Elizabeth were most likely not closely related by blood simply because they each came from different tribes. • Lk. 1:5 specifically says that Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron, meaning she was a Levite; her genealogy extended back to Aaron. Mary’s genealogy shows her descending from Judah (Lk. 3:23, 33).

• In that culture it was unusual for people to marry outside their tribes, since in most cases they grew up within their ancient land allotments.

• Regarding Levites, great care was taken in the selection of wives for the Jewish priests, so that the line of priests might be kept in every respect unsullied. One authority states: “It was lawful for a priest to marry a Levite, or, indeed, a daughter of Israel, but it was most commendable of all to marry one of the priest’s line.” Zechariah was especially honored in having for his wife one of the descendants of Aaron. 4

The word “kinswoman” is a general term, meaning “of the same fam ily.” 5

• In Romans 9:3 Paul uses the same Greek word, but in the masculine gender, when he writes, “For I wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, who are Israelites….”

4 Freeman, James M.; Chadwick, Harold J.: Manners & Customs of the Bible. Rev. ed. North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 1998, S. 497. 5 Vincent, Marvin Richardson: Word Studies in the New Testament. Bellingham, WA: Logos Research System, Inc., 2002, S. 1:260.

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