by DDSP | Sep 30, 2025 | Archives, Jesus Christ
The Origin of Jesus – Why Jesus Was Not Born Into Herod’s Royal Line
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.” – Matthew 2:1-2
Jesus was prophesied to reign some millennia before and was later born as King at His birth.
On the surface, it would seem like an irony that He was not born into the royal family of Herod the Great [37-4 BCE], the monarch during His days, or even into one of the imperial Caesar’s families. This was so for the reasons we shall highlight below.
Firstly, Jesus was always going to be born to an Israelite family; the Caesars were Romans, in modern-day Europe, and not from the Middle East, where Israel was located. So, He couldn’t have come from Rome, as that would mean God contradicting Himself.
Secondly, in answering why He was not born to the family of Herod the Great, the king of Judea, at the time of His birth, it is for this exact reason. Although Herod was a descendant of Abraham, he was not an Israelite. He was from Idumea, a region occupied by the descendants of Esau, the elder brother of Israel (Jacob). So, Herod was an Edomite, as the descendants of Esau are called, not a Jew or an Israelite, the tribe or nationality of Jesus.
Therefore, Jesus could not have been born to his family outside a tribe in Israel.
Now, Israel as a nation comprised 12 tribes. And since we are affirming that Jesus was prophesied and must be born from one of those tribes, does it mean that He could have been born through any of the tribes? The answer to that is also no, because God is so specific in His ways; He has already outlined the tribe through which Jesus must come among the 12 tribes of Israel.
We shall discuss this in greater detail when we continue tomorrow.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. – Habakkuk 2:14
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by DDSP | Sep 29, 2025 | Archives, Jesus Christ
What’s in a Name? The Journey from Yeshua to Jesus
Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus. – Matthew 1:24-25
Across the ages, there have been debates about the name of Jesus Christ as we know it today. The critics of the choice of His nomenclature based their argument on the fact that Jesus was not actually the given name of Christ, it was something else.
While that is true, the real question is, what’s in a name?
This question takes us back to the first-century Galilee. This was the world Jesus called home, where He grew up, preached, healed, and walked its dusty roads. It is important to note that the language of the Galileans and the people during Jesus’ time was not English, Greek, or even the Hebrew of the Scriptures. It was Aramaic. That was the everyday tongue of Jewish families after centuries of empires and migration.
So, what was Jesus actually called in His own day? Scholars point out that His name in Aramaic was “Yeshua,” a name common among many Galilean boys. Some traditions even shortened it further to “Yeshu.” This tells us that the name we cherish today, “Jesus,” has traveled a long way through history, translation, and faith.
While the journey of Jesus’ name began as Yeshua in Hebrew, it evolved into Greek as “Iesous” and then into Latin as “Iesus”. Each evolution of the name reshaped the sound because those languages did not have the same letters or sounds as Jesus’ own native Aramaic. The Greek tongue, for example, lacked both the “Y” and the “sh” sounds, so “Yeshua” was adapted into something the alphabet could handle.
Centuries later, yes, you read that right, it was hundreds of years later when the letter “J” entered the English language that “Iesus” finally became “Jesus.” In fact, early copies of the King James Bible, printed in 1611, still used the old spelling “Iesus.”
All this means that the name “Jesus,” as we know it today, is relatively new in history. Yet the truth behind it has never changed. Whether spoken as Yeshua, Iesous, or Jesus, the name carries the same saving and healing power.
While Jesus’ actual name may have shifted across time and cultures, the Person remains the same. He is the Savior, the Messiah, and the Son of God.
So, what’s in a name? Even as we have seen through the eyes of history how “Yeshua” became “Jesus,” Heaven has shown us something greater over the years:
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. – Philippians 2:9-11
Therefore, whatever language, whatever culture, whatever situation, whenever His people genuinely call on Him, He answers.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. – Habakkuk 2:14
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by DDSP | Sep 26, 2025 | Archives, Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ the Fulfilment of Prophecy: Over 300 Promises Kept in Him
So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” – Matthew 1:22-23
Another interesting fact we need to note about Jesus is the number of prophecies that He alone fulfilled. He was an embodiment of prophecies through and through.
Scholars claim that He alone fulfilled approximately 300 prophecies made at different times in the Old Testament, some of which were made thousands and hundreds of years before He was even born.
The predictions made about Jesus dated back to the Garden of Eden when God proclaimed that the Seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent. Subsequent encounters between God and His people have also led to references to His coming or His activities on earth, even though the full extent of His mandate has been misunderstood to date by those of His earthly race and those millions of others who claim to follow Him. Notwithstanding, the number of foretells about Him alone is stupendous, and no other person in history commanded such spotlights as Him.
That is why the Scripture says, all the promises of God in Him are both ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’ (2 Corinthians 1:20), because He fulfils them all.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. – Habakkuk 2:14
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by DDSP | Sep 25, 2025 | Archives, Jesus Christ
The Origin of Jesus – Conception through Supra-Radioactive Technology
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. – Matthew 1:18
Although He was born to a woman, Jesus was not conceived through a natural or biological means. Further, His pregnancy was not conceived like any other pregnancy on earth. In this tech age, His conception can best be described as a consequence of a supra-nuclear or radioactive technology. The kind of innovation that is not yet known to earth or accessible to science.
Read the description below, as His mother was being informed what would happen to her:
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. – Luke 1:35
This passage attests to the point that the conception of Jesus occurred through a highly advanced technology, which resulted from a dynamic combination of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Mary and her being encapsulated by the power of God. There is no record of anyone being born in this manner before Jesus or after Him, despite the vast advancements in science and technology in modern times.
And while there has been significant progress in this age that has led to nuclear or radioactive medicine, a highly specialized field that uses a modicum of radioactive materials to diagnose and treat various medical conditions, it has not advanced to the height of pregnancy conception as described in the above passage.
Therefore, Jesus remains the only person ever conceived through this means because He is of God. The interesting thing is that God has proven to be above all in the business of creation. While Eve remains the one and only human ever to be cloned into existence [please read How God Creates: Creating by Extraction], Jesus also remains the only one ever to be conceived through a nuclear means.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. – Habakkuk 2:14
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by DDSP | Sep 24, 2025 | Archives, Jesus Christ
The Imperfect Genealogy of Jesus Christ – Lessons from His Lineage
Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers. Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon. Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. – Matthew 1:2-6
Even though He came into the world through a virgin birth and He lived a pure life all through His 33 years on earth, Jesus nevertheless did not have a similar stainless origin.
By the mere fact of coming to earth through a biological process, it is already predisposed that He was bound to have imperfections in His background because the earth, this hemisphere where we humans exist, is only inhabited by imperfect people. There is no perfect person living or who has lived on earth. No, not one. Incidentally, only Jesus Himself had the singular honor of living without sinning. Every other person who had lived before or after Him had failed and fallen at some point in their evolution as a human being.
That is why it is not surprising that in the lineage of Jesus were recorded such social maladies as incest, prostitution, outcast, generational curse, confusion, murder, and adultery. In fact, every time a woman was mentioned in His genealogy as seen in Matthew 1:2 16, it was because there were some abnormalities surrounding the referenced women.
The first woman so referenced was Tamar, who had to sleep with her father-in-law in order to have her own children after the death of her husband. The next woman was Rahab, a very well-known prostitute and a heathen, who nonetheless made enough of an impression on Salmon and gave birth to Boaz for him. Boaz himself followed his father’s footsteps by marrying Ruth, a Moabitess, an accursed tribe, not to mention that Moab itself was a product of incest between father and daughter.
Finally, and perhaps more shocking, was the involvement of David, a great king, the sweet psalmist of Israel and a man after God’s own heart, who had an adulterous affair with the wife of one of his warriors and had the husband killed at the battlefront when he discovered the woman was pregnant.
This, with some confusion thrown into the mix as to which of David’s sons Jesus actually came from, whether it is the womanizing Solomon (Matthew 1) or the unknown Nathan (Luke 3:23-38), adds to the imperfections in the origin of Jesus Christ.
But, through all this, God is perhaps teaching us a lesson we have often heard but do not seem to have imbibed as evidenced in our reactions to scandals or someone’s fall, that imperfections are the mosaic He uses to weave a great destiny as well as accomplish great things on the earth.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. – Habakkuk 2:14
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