~ Proof of the Emmanuel Message ~

Today, April 28, 2003, I was thinking about the message, which God gave me that Jesus was the virgin Isaiah prophesied about who would be with child and bear a child. God then took me into the genealogies in Matthew and Luke and gave me the PROOF.

Both the genealogy in Matthew and the one in Luke are of Joseph, yet they list different men. I have wondered about this a long time. The genealogy in Luke starts with Jesus as being the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, etc. all the way back to Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the Son of God.

Each time it says this one was the son of that one. See to be the son of someone, in the Scripture is showing the flesh; humanity. It is peculiar that counting from Abraham to Jesus is 56 generations. Yet in Matthew counting from Abraham to Christ is 42 generations.

Going backwards in Luke from Jesus to Adam is 77 generations. Counting God is 78. But if you start at Adam and come to Jesus then Jesus is that 77th generation. Seven is God’s complete number. Eight starts anew.

So Jesus would finish up that Old Testament Generation. He came under the law and finished the law age and laid it away, to start the new thing God said He would do.

Now the proof that Jesus was the virgin who bore the Christ:

Now you know I taught where Paul said in Romans 1 that Jesus was begotten in the likeness and image of God on the day of his resurrection. So this being coming out of the grave was the beginning of the New Thing God is doing. He is the beginning of coming forth from the dead into everlasting Life in the glory of God the Father.

Now go to the genealogy in Matthew. It starts with Abraham. It goes no further back than Abraham because God said that Abraham is the Father of the righteous. Adam is not the father of the righteous, for he was not righteous. He was the wicked one.

This says Abraham BEGAT Isaac. Isaac begat Jacob, etc. Now this is speaking of placing the spirit of God into the next son. It is not fleshly. It is showing how the spiritual SEED traveled down from righteous Abraham down into Joseph then into Jesus.

Although Joseph is not the fleshly father of Jesus he is listed as his father, for he raised Jesus and placed the teaching of God’s Word into Jesus; thus carrying that righteous seed down from Abraham into Jesus. That is why some of the men listed are different from those listed in Luke.

This is very important:

Matt. 1: 17. So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

From Abraham to King David are 14 generations. From King David to the captivity is 14 generations. And from there to Christ are 14 generations.

Now that is how precise God is. The second 14 are kings. The next group are priests. I don’t know for sure if all of them were priests, but I know some of them were. Have not studied that out yet.

But if you will take the time to list them on paper --- start with Abraham and number down to 14 you will come to David. Then number 14 again. This group starts with Solomon and ends with Jechonias. Now list 14 again.

This list starts with Salathiel. Joseph is number 12. Surprise. Jesus is number 13. So where does that leave us? The Word said, From Abraham to Christ is 42 generations. But at Jesus is only 41 generations.

So? This is solid PROOF that Christ is a different generation from Jesus. Jesus was that virgin which bore a Son of God to God. His perfected life finished at Calvary. It ended there. Jesus said the things concerning ME have an end. It ended there in that grave.

At the resurrection was the Christ coming forth, being born from the dead a new creation. A new work of God. This is where God made man in his own likeness and his own image. This is Gen. chapter one.

This Christ is the final generation. This is the beginning of Sons being born in the likeness and glory of God. This Christ is the virgin born Son of Jesus.

The woman with child in Rev. 12 was this Jesus as He had the seed of God inside his soul. At His resurrection, this Christ, the only begotten Son of God came forth from this man Jesus.

Christ is the New Beginning. There will never be another one. This is why the genealogies end here. There are no more. Now everyone is either in that line of Adam or the spiritual line of Christ.

You are either fleshly or spiritual. All of the true Christians now have the seed of Christ forming in us. If we endure until the end of our earthly lives, we will come forth at the resurrection as children begotten of Jesus into the likeness of God and we will be Christ.

Jesus Christ.

Jo Christ.

Christ is our Family Name. But we will not be Christ until we come out of the grave in His Likeness and His image.

Jo Smith--4-28-03