Okay so Mathew starts off with a whole lot of begetting, a list of thirty nine names and sometimes where they are from, like Salmon who begat Booz of Rachab, and my favorite name of the generations, Zorobabel. So there were fourteen generations beween Abraham and David, fourteen generation until the move to Babylon, and fourteen generation until Christ is born.
While Mary was espoused to Joseph, she was knocked up by the Holy Spirit. I’m not entirely sure what espoused means in this situation, it could mean married, or joined, or betrothed. Joseph might have been a bit put out by this but was prepared to not publicly shame her, and instead just kind of tuck her away out of the public eye. Which is pretty decent.
Then the angel of the lord comes to Joseph in a dream and tells him don’t be afraid it’s all good, the baby is just the holy ghost’s, nothing at all spooky or alarming about that. Anyway, Mary’s going to bring forth a child named JESUS (all in capital letters) and he’s going to save man from his sins.
I guess a prophet had said that a virgin going to be with child who will be called Emmanuel which means “God is with us”. But the lord must have changed his mind because it’s clearly spelled out that the baby should be called JESUS in all capital letters again.
Joseph decided that tucking his pregnant wife away wasn’t a good idea, but he wouldn’t sleep with her until the baby was born. He might have been afraid, because it’s the child of the holy ghost in there. It might be half human, half ghost, it might be able to roam around at night scaring people like a regular ghost. It might be offended by the whole sexual process. I think Joe was just playing it safe and being very respectful.
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