Son of David, Son of Abraham
The relationship of the Church with the Jewish people:When she delves into her own mystery, the Church the people of the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish people,the first to hear the Word of God.The Jewish faith unlike other non-Christian religions is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant.To the Jews belong the 'sonship,the glory,the Covenants,the giving of the Law,the worship and the promises';to them belong the patriarchs and of their race according to the flesh is the Christ,for the gifts and call of God are irrevocable.Catholic Catechism.
The relationship of the Church with the Jewish people:When she delves into her own mystery, the Church the people of the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish people,the first to hear the Word of God.The Jewish faith unlike other non-Christian religions is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant.To the Jews belong the 'sonship,the glory,the Covenants,the giving of the Law,the worship and the promises';to them belong the patriarchs and of their race according to the flesh is the Christ,for the gifts and call of God are irrevocable.Catholic Catechism.
Pope Clement I"What think you, beloved? Did not Moses know beforehand that this would happen? Undoubtedly he knew; but he acted thus, that there might be no sedition in Israel, and that the name of the true and only God might be glorified; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen" (Letter to the Corinthians 43 [A.D. 80]).
And he came to Nazareth,where he had been brought up;and he went to the synagogue as his custom was,on the sabbath day.He stood to read;and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah.He opened the book and found where it was written,''The spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach good news to the poor,He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,to set at liberty those who are oppressed,to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.''And he closed the book,and gave it back to the attendant and sat down and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.And he began to say to them,''Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing'' Luk.4:18-21.Here Jesus declares himself the Messiah and look at what they said in Luk.4:22 .All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips, ''isn't this Joseph's Son?'' they asked. That,s a good question,who was Joseph?...'he belonged to the line and of the house of David' Luk.2:4.Well that's important because in order for Jesus to be the Messiah he was to be of the tribe of Judah and the House of David ''But you,Bethlehem Ephrathah,though you are small among the clans of Judah out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel,whose origins are from old,from the ancient times''. Mic.5:2 Notice his origins 'from old...the ancient times ' He would be eternal..Ps.2:7.'he said to me' 'You are my Son today I have begotten you ' Here we learn that Joseph was not his biological Father,God said 'I have begotten you' to beget is to make offspring. Joseph was only engaged to Mary....before they came together,she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit...and notice Joseph's reaction...he did not want to expose her to public disgrace,he had in mind to break the engagement quietly. Mat.1:18-19 He obviously didn't understand what was going on and was embarrassed about it (any man would be) and then an angel appeared to him in a dream and said ''Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife because what is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit''. Mat.1:20-21 This child would be special The virgin will give birth to a Son and they will call him Immanuel which means 'God with us' Is.7:14.
The Covenant with Abraham:
The call...''Leave your country and your people and your fathers household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and will bless you;I will make your name great and you will be a blessing, I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you''. Gen.12:1-3.The promise... ''Look up at the heavens and count the stars-if need you can count them'' Then he said to him ''So shall your offspring be'' Gen.15:5. The covenant oath...''your name will Abraham,for I have made you a father to many nations...I will bless her and will surely give you a Son by her.I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations,kings of peoples will come from her.....my covenant I will establish with Isaac whom Sarah will bear to you..." Gen.17:2-16 'Here God makes 3 promises to Abraham,to make him a great nation,to give him a great name and to make him a blessing for all nations.He later upgrades these promises into a Covenant and swears an oath to Abraham to make him a great nation and kingdom..'kings of peoples will come from her'God fulfilled his first promise under Moses when he delivered them out of Egypt and into their own land....''to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey''...Ex.3:8.God's second promise is fulfilled under David ''Your house and kingdom will endure forever before me,your throne I will establish forever.'' 2 Sam.7:16 And God's third promise is fulfilled at the coming of Christ,Luk.1:68-74 "Praise be to the Lord,the God of Israel because he has come and has redeemed his people.He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago)...to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,the oath he swore to our father Abraham:to rescue us from the hand of our enemies"...The relationship between Abraham and Isaac is in the likeness of the relationship between God the Father and his Son Jesus...the only Son who is in the bosom of the Father...John 1:18..He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all..Rom.8:32 and "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son...John 3:16,which is the same as in Gen.22:12....you have not withheld from me your son,your only son.'' And in Gen.49:10 it says.... 'The scepter will not depart from Judah nor the rulers staff from his between feet until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.''
The Covenant with Moses: '' When Israel was a child, I loved him and out of Egypt I called my Son'' Hos.11:1. Now God is ready to fulfill his promise to Abraham,he is going to make his name great and make him into a great nation.He identifies himself to Moses as '' I AM the God of your father,the God of Abraham...So now,go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt. And why did Matthew quote Hos.11:1 in his Gospel ? The Child Jesus had to escape to Egypt because King Herod gave orders to kill all boys under two just like Pharaoh instructed the midwives to kill all the Hebrew boys that were being born.Here we begin to see God as Father..''Israel is my first born son....let my son go'' Ex.4:22 Is he not your Father who created you? Deut.32:6 Israel was God's first born son as Jesus was God's one and only Son.Now on the night God was to bring then out he commanded them to slaughter a lamb,take some of the blood and...put it on the tops and the sides of the doorframes...that same night they are to eat the flesh...with unleavened bread.Ex.12:7 .This would become 'the feast of passover' for when God saw the blood he passed over the house of Israel.This was a prefigure of Christ the Lamb of God...but with the precious blood of Christ,a Lamb without blemish or defect.1Pet.1:19 ...for Christ our passover has been sacrificed.1 Cor.5:7....he was led like a Lamb to the slaughter...Is.53:7....he will sprinkle many nations..Is.52:15.When the Israelites passed through the Red Sea it would be a prefigure of baptism...they were all baptized into Moses...in the sea...1 Cor.10:2 .And when they were hungry God gave bread from heaven to eat Ex.16:16,Jesus would be ''the true bread from heaven...who comes to give life to the world''.John 6:32,33.As Moses delivered the Israelites out of slavery,so too would Jesus..''I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin...So if the Son sets you free you are free indeed.'' John 8:34,36.When God gave Moses the Law on Mount Sinai it says...Then moses went up to God...Ex.19:3,just like Jesus went up on a mountainside an sat down.Mat.5:1.He did not..come to abolish the Law or the Prophets,but to fulfill..Mat.5:17.He would be in the image of Moses, ''The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me....you must listen to him.'' Deut.18:15 but would be greater,Heb.3:3. Jesus has been found worthy of a greater honour than Moses....After the Law was given ,the people swore an oath saying ''We will do everything the Lord said;we will obey.'' Moses than took the blood,sprinkled it on the people and said ''This is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you....'' Ex.24:7,8. In Luk.22:7,20 it says Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed....after supper he took the cup and said ''this is the New Covenant in my blood,which is poured out for you''
The Covenant with David: ''The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you...I will raise up your offspring to succeed you,who will come from your own body and I will establish his kingdom....I will be his Father and he will be my son...Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me;your throne will be established forever." 2 Sam.7:11-16 God chose David and anoints him as king ''The Lord has sought out a man after is own heart...'' 1 Sam.13:14 As opposed to Saul who ''rejected the word of the Lord'' 1 Sam.15:23.In his Covenant with David He promises him divine sonship,a Temple and a royal dynasty.Jerusalem is also described as ''the city of David'' 1 Sam.5:7,9 but also ''the throne of the Lord'' 1 Chr.25:8. Now David's first job as King was to restore the 'Ark of the Covenant' which was at the heart of Israel's worship and became the identity of the Temple that Solomon would build.And under Solomon the Kingdom reaches it's pinnacle.He was the 'son' who would build the Lord a house.The King was to be a 'priestly mediator' between the God and his people Ps.110 and was addressed simply as 'The Lord's Anointed' (Messiah),and would also have a 'queen' mother 1 kin.2:19.see also Rev.12:1.God fulfills yet another promise he made to Abraham...''kings of peoples will come from her.'' Gen.17:16.Within one generation the ''everlasting Kingdom had fallen''. Why?...the King must not take many wives,or his heart will be led astray.Deut.17:17 And what did Solomon do? King Solomon,however,loved many foreign women....1 Kin.11:1.''When he does wrong, I will punish him with rod the of men...'' 2 Sam.7:14,1 kin.11:31-39.After Solomon's death 1 Kin.11:43,the Kingdom split in two,ten tribes in the north (Israel) and two tribes in the south (Judah). In 722 B.C the Assyrians conquered the northern tribes and were never heard from again and in 586B.C. the Babylonians conquered the southern tribe of Judah but were allowed to return.The Judahites as they were called would be later be known as the Jews.But their Kingdom,national identity,and all hope was lost.During this dark time prophets were sent to remind the people of 'David's everlasting kingdom'In the last days,the mountain of the Lord's Temple will be established...The Lord will rule over them...the former dominion will be restored to you;Kingship will come to...Jerusalem. Mic.4:1-8 But who would rule? Remember David's Covenant was based on divine sonship and his throne was anointed by God himself thus 'The Lord's Anointed' would be known as 'Messiah.' His name would be Yehoshua (God who saves in Hebrew) Jesus (God who saves in Greek) Is.11:1-2. A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. It says in Is.9:6,7.....and the government will be on his shoulders...Of the increase of his government and peace there will no end. Jesus and David have many comparisons,seeLuk.6:3-4 and 1 Sam.21:2-7. David was a Sheppard 1 Sam.16:11,Jesus was the Good Sheppard 'who lays down his life for the sheep'. John.10:10.But Jesus was greater than David,''Brothers,I can tell you confidently that the patriarch,David died and was buried and his tomb is here to this day...God has raised this Jesus to life and we are witnesses of that. Acts.2:29,32. The fact that God raised him from the dead, never to see decay is stated in theses words:''I will give you the sure blessings promised to David'' So it is stated elsewhere ''You will not let your Holy One see decay'' Acts.13:34-35.Now Jesus came saying ''The time is fulfilled the Kingdom of God is at hand;repent and believe the good news.'' Mar.1:15 And in Mat.21:5 ''Say to the Daughter of Zion,See your King comes to you gentle and riding on a donkey on a colt,the foal of a donkey.'' But the Kingdom would be a present reality,within ''The Kingdom does not come with your careful observation.....because the Kingdom of God is within you.'' Luk.17:20-21.But also a future event;''For the Son of Man in his day will be like lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky one end to the other " Luk.17:24 ''But first he must suffer and be rejected by this generation.'' Luk.17:25''Therefore,let all Israel be assured of this God has made this Jesus,whom you crucified both Lord and Christ'' Acts.2:36 .But when will all this take place? ''So then,the days are coming declares the Lord'' Jer.23:7-8 He will bring them...''up out of the land of the north and out of the countries I have banished them'' ...''Then they will live in their own land''. In Is.11:12 it says, He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel;he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Are we living in those days? Let's pray and watch! Mar,13:33. Now like Solomon,Jesus would build a Temple John 2:19 ''Destroy this Temple and I will be build it in three days''.see also 1cor.3:10-11. Jesus would become the divine son of David,son of Abraham;Mat.1:1,he would become a priest king ''you are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek'' Heb.9:17 (ps.110:4) He would become the Lord's Anointed (Moshiach Ben David) Rev.11:15...''The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ;and he will reign for ever and ever.' I Jesus,have sent my angel to give this testimony....I am the Root and the Offspring of David,and the bright Morning Star.'' Rev.22:16.The angel said to me,''These words are trustworthy and true.'' Rev.22:6
The Covenant with Moses: '' When Israel was a child, I loved him and out of Egypt I called my Son'' Hos.11:1. Now God is ready to fulfill his promise to Abraham,he is going to make his name great and make him into a great nation.He identifies himself to Moses as '' I AM the God of your father,the God of Abraham...So now,go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt. And why did Matthew quote Hos.11:1 in his Gospel ? The Child Jesus had to escape to Egypt because King Herod gave orders to kill all boys under two just like Pharaoh instructed the midwives to kill all the Hebrew boys that were being born.Here we begin to see God as Father..''Israel is my first born son....let my son go'' Ex.4:22 Is he not your Father who created you? Deut.32:6 Israel was God's first born son as Jesus was God's one and only Son.Now on the night God was to bring then out he commanded them to slaughter a lamb,take some of the blood and...put it on the tops and the sides of the doorframes...that same night they are to eat the flesh...with unleavened bread.Ex.12:7 .This would become 'the feast of passover' for when God saw the blood he passed over the house of Israel.This was a prefigure of Christ the Lamb of God...but with the precious blood of Christ,a Lamb without blemish or defect.1Pet.1:19 ...for Christ our passover has been sacrificed.1 Cor.5:7....he was led like a Lamb to the slaughter...Is.53:7....he will sprinkle many nations..Is.52:15.When the Israelites passed through the Red Sea it would be a prefigure of baptism...they were all baptized into Moses...in the sea...1 Cor.10:2 .And when they were hungry God gave bread from heaven to eat Ex.16:16,Jesus would be ''the true bread from heaven...who comes to give life to the world''.John 6:32,33.As Moses delivered the Israelites out of slavery,so too would Jesus..''I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin...So if the Son sets you free you are free indeed.'' John 8:34,36.When God gave Moses the Law on Mount Sinai it says...Then moses went up to God...Ex.19:3,just like Jesus went up on a mountainside an sat down.Mat.5:1.He did not..come to abolish the Law or the Prophets,but to fulfill..Mat.5:17.He would be in the image of Moses, ''The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me....you must listen to him.'' Deut.18:15 but would be greater,Heb.3:3. Jesus has been found worthy of a greater honour than Moses....After the Law was given ,the people swore an oath saying ''We will do everything the Lord said;we will obey.'' Moses than took the blood,sprinkled it on the people and said ''This is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you....'' Ex.24:7,8. In Luk.22:7,20 it says Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed....after supper he took the cup and said ''this is the New Covenant in my blood,which is poured out for you''
The Covenant with David: ''The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you...I will raise up your offspring to succeed you,who will come from your own body and I will establish his kingdom....I will be his Father and he will be my son...Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me;your throne will be established forever." 2 Sam.7:11-16 God chose David and anoints him as king ''The Lord has sought out a man after is own heart...'' 1 Sam.13:14 As opposed to Saul who ''rejected the word of the Lord'' 1 Sam.15:23.In his Covenant with David He promises him divine sonship,a Temple and a royal dynasty.Jerusalem is also described as ''the city of David'' 1 Sam.5:7,9 but also ''the throne of the Lord'' 1 Chr.25:8. Now David's first job as King was to restore the 'Ark of the Covenant' which was at the heart of Israel's worship and became the identity of the Temple that Solomon would build.And under Solomon the Kingdom reaches it's pinnacle.He was the 'son' who would build the Lord a house.The King was to be a 'priestly mediator' between the God and his people Ps.110 and was addressed simply as 'The Lord's Anointed' (Messiah),and would also have a 'queen' mother 1 kin.2:19.see also Rev.12:1.God fulfills yet another promise he made to Abraham...''kings of peoples will come from her.'' Gen.17:16.Within one generation the ''everlasting Kingdom had fallen''. Why?...the King must not take many wives,or his heart will be led astray.Deut.17:17 And what did Solomon do? King Solomon,however,loved many foreign women....1 Kin.11:1.''When he does wrong, I will punish him with rod the of men...'' 2 Sam.7:14,1 kin.11:31-39.After Solomon's death 1 Kin.11:43,the Kingdom split in two,ten tribes in the north (Israel) and two tribes in the south (Judah). In 722 B.C the Assyrians conquered the northern tribes and were never heard from again and in 586B.C. the Babylonians conquered the southern tribe of Judah but were allowed to return.The Judahites as they were called would be later be known as the Jews.But their Kingdom,national identity,and all hope was lost.During this dark time prophets were sent to remind the people of 'David's everlasting kingdom'In the last days,the mountain of the Lord's Temple will be established...The Lord will rule over them...the former dominion will be restored to you;Kingship will come to...Jerusalem. Mic.4:1-8 But who would rule? Remember David's Covenant was based on divine sonship and his throne was anointed by God himself thus 'The Lord's Anointed' would be known as 'Messiah.' His name would be Yehoshua (God who saves in Hebrew) Jesus (God who saves in Greek) Is.11:1-2. A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. It says in Is.9:6,7.....and the government will be on his shoulders...Of the increase of his government and peace there will no end. Jesus and David have many comparisons,seeLuk.6:3-4 and 1 Sam.21:2-7. David was a Sheppard 1 Sam.16:11,Jesus was the Good Sheppard 'who lays down his life for the sheep'. John.10:10.But Jesus was greater than David,''Brothers,I can tell you confidently that the patriarch,David died and was buried and his tomb is here to this day...God has raised this Jesus to life and we are witnesses of that. Acts.2:29,32. The fact that God raised him from the dead, never to see decay is stated in theses words:''I will give you the sure blessings promised to David'' So it is stated elsewhere ''You will not let your Holy One see decay'' Acts.13:34-35.Now Jesus came saying ''The time is fulfilled the Kingdom of God is at hand;repent and believe the good news.'' Mar.1:15 And in Mat.21:5 ''Say to the Daughter of Zion,See your King comes to you gentle and riding on a donkey on a colt,the foal of a donkey.'' But the Kingdom would be a present reality,within ''The Kingdom does not come with your careful observation.....because the Kingdom of God is within you.'' Luk.17:20-21.But also a future event;''For the Son of Man in his day will be like lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky one end to the other " Luk.17:24 ''But first he must suffer and be rejected by this generation.'' Luk.17:25''Therefore,let all Israel be assured of this God has made this Jesus,whom you crucified both Lord and Christ'' Acts.2:36 .But when will all this take place? ''So then,the days are coming declares the Lord'' Jer.23:7-8 He will bring them...''up out of the land of the north and out of the countries I have banished them'' ...''Then they will live in their own land''. In Is.11:12 it says, He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel;he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Are we living in those days? Let's pray and watch! Mar,13:33. Now like Solomon,Jesus would build a Temple John 2:19 ''Destroy this Temple and I will be build it in three days''.see also 1cor.3:10-11. Jesus would become the divine son of David,son of Abraham;Mat.1:1,he would become a priest king ''you are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek'' Heb.9:17 (ps.110:4) He would become the Lord's Anointed (Moshiach Ben David) Rev.11:15...''The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ;and he will reign for ever and ever.' I Jesus,have sent my angel to give this testimony....I am the Root and the Offspring of David,and the bright Morning Star.'' Rev.22:16.The angel said to me,''These words are trustworthy and true.'' Rev.22:6
And when one considers the future,God's people of the Old Covenant and God's people of the New Covenant tend towards similar goals:expectations of the coming or return of the Messiah. But one awaits for the return of the Messiah who died and rose again from the dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God,the other awaits the coming of a Messiah,whose features are hidden until the end of time and accompanied by the drama of not knowing or misunderstanding Christ Jesus. Catholic Catechism
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