by Alvin Mitchell

Created on: August 31, 2009   Last Updated: September 07, 2009

Chapter 2

The Genealogy

of Jesus Christ

Everything that God does is done for a reason. Everything proceeds according to a set plan. Nothing is ever arbitrary, nor is it an afterthought due to some unforeseen, unexpected circumstance. So it is with the birth of our Lord.

If, as stated previously in the opening remarks Jesus Christ is a Man of Jewish descent then, it must also follow that as such, He must also have a genealogical record. The Biblical narrative actually records two such listings of His ancestry. The question dogging the minds of the curious and the inquiring is, why? While conceivably, both records could be His, are they? Should there not be only one? Which, then, is the correct one? Is there a solid, sound, biblical resolution to this apparent conflict?

The birth of Jesus Christ was not only the product of a definite, predetermined plan and purpose, it also followed, a specific route plan, in terms of His genealogical record. Again, one might say, that plan (like the blue print for the creation itself) was formulated, and finalized long before the first 'pillaric' particles (quarks and electrons) upon which the entire universe rests were called into being (Eph. 1:4). Thus, we conclude that following the satanically instigated Adamic fall, God set in motion His eternal plan, with the promise to the devil behind it that, while you will in the interim bruise His heel, He will in the finale crush your head (Gen. 3:15). This statement hop-scotches across the centuries and millennia to comeby-passing all of His (human) progenitorsto the time when satan will kill His pure, sin-free but mortal body of flesh, yet never touch His eternal Spirit and, in so doing, seal his own already sealed fate (His heel having been bruised, the death-nail, on which hangs the devil's eternal destiny, has been driven home).

In addition to several groups of Old Testament listings, the New Testament gives two genealogical records of Jesus Christ of Nazareth: one according to Matthew's gospel, the other according to Dr. Luke's gospel. Each is strikingly different, yet, there are similarities. One ultimately has positively nothing to do with the coming of Christ; the other is His biological lineage, as far as that goes, and demonstrates that God ultimately rules in the affairs of men, and that it is He who in the finale makes the decision as to who sits as king among men, regardless of one's background (it does not matter who tradition or cultures says is next in line

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