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Four Gentile Women Are In Matthew's Genealogy
Posted : 7 Nov, 2012 06:05 AM
Four Gentile Women Are In Matthew's Genealogy
In the genealogy of Jesus Christ, in Matthew 1: 1-17, Matthew includes the names of four gentile women brought into physical Israel, the Old Testament people of God -- Ruth, Thamar, Rachab, and Bathsheba. In going against Jewish tradition of ordering a genealogy only through the male line, Matthew was, in part, showing that even in old physical Israel there were gentile members, which forecasts the inclusion of Gentiles in the Israel of God of Galatians 6: 16 and the spiritual house and chosen generation of I Peter 2: 9.
Since Jesus Christ was to be the savior of all who accepted him, regardless of their genetics, it is fitting that in the physical, he had gentile ancestors. Hebrews 11: 31 calls Rahab a harlot, but she repented of that sin - and Bathsheba committed adultery with David, and again was forgiven. What is important is that Jesus Christ came to give us spiritual life and he gave us forgiveness of our sins if we become new creations in him, have some of his mind in us, and repent of former sins. Old physical Israel was chosen to bring Christ and his salvation to the world from their ranks - and their ranks were not perfect in the bloodline from Abraham to Christ, since it included at least four gentiles.
The insistence that only bloodline provides the door to being the chosen people of God, and as some Christian Zionists say, even though all physical Israel rejected Christ and are enemies of the Gospel, yet they are still beloved by God and the chosen people, (Romans 11: 28), is a fairly recent apostasy and error of the man made theology begun in the 1830s by John Darby, Edward Irving and carried on by C.I. Scofield and others in America. The Christian Soldiers fighting for All Physical Israel as now the chosen people misread Romans 11; 28. It says as concerning the election (to salvation) they (those who accepted Christ,
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