Eusebius (c. AD 263–339), known as the father of church history and a biblical scholar, writes about the genealogy of “the relatives of the Lord according to the flesh” in which he gives an account of the archives of the Hebrews that were kept by the Desposyni (blood relatives of Jesus) to “preserve the memory of their noble extraction“, “on account of their connection with the family of the Saviour“.
In any case the Gospel states the truth… (And at the end of the same epistle he adds these words:)
“Matthan, who was descended from Solomon, begat Jacob. And when Matthan was dead, Melchi, who was descended from Nathan begat Eli by the same woman. Eli and Jacob were thus uterine brothers.
Eli having died childless, Jacob raised up seed to him, begetting Joseph, his (Jacob’s) own son by nature, but by law the son of Eli. Thus Joseph was the son of both.“ (Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiae, 1:7:11, 1:7:13-14)
The above was a more original and accurate quote from the genealogy of Jesus in the gospel than what we have in our bibles today, having been preserved by Jesus’ own descendants. Obviously, the text in the synoptic gospels was corrupted to match the doctrines of the church of that later time, which has continued to the present.
The True Genealogy of Jesus
Joseph’s father and step-father were actually half brothers. His mother was Heli’s widow. Since she left Heli no heirs at all, so Jacob “raised up seed to him” and begat Joseph.
This explains why there are actually two genealogies in the gospels, both of them seemingly being Joseph’s. The genealogy in Luke was not of Mary as the church teaches, but it was actually Joseph’s since he was a son “by law” of Heli. So in this respect, he was the son of both Joseph and Heli. The genealogy in Matthew is his physical one and the genealogy in Luke traces his lineage through Joseph’s step-father, Eli.
The Messiahship of Jesus
If Joseph had not been the biological father of Jesus, then he would not have qualified to be the king of the Jews, since the royal lineage comes only through the males and never the female and Mary was not of royal lineage.According to 1Chron 28:4-8 the Messiah was to be a descendant of Solomon a son of King David. These are some excerpts from the prophecy:
And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel… I will establish his kingdom for ever… I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father… (1Chron 28:4-8)
Jesus was a Leviticus priest
Mary’s parents were Joachim and Anna who were Levites. This is where Jesus inherited his right to the priesthood. If Mary’s lineage had been though Judah, as the church would have you believe, then Jesus would not have been able to be the priest that he actually was.
According to James, the brother of Jesus, in the gospel written by Matthew, “The Gospel of the Birth of Mary”, her parents were Joachim and Ana. Heli was Joseph’s step-father by Levirate marriage — not Mary’s father. Zachariah and Mary’s cousin Elizabeth, were Levites which makes Mary a Levite on her mother’s side (or her father’s side, depending on which of her parents were related to Zachariah and Elizabeth).
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
And it came to pass, that while he (Zacharias) executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,
According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. (Luk 1:5-9)
We know that Mary was the cousin of Elisabeth and also we know from the synoptic gospels, that she was a Levite. So that makes Mary’s mother, Anna, a Levite woman. According to the law, priests had to be of the tribe of Levi and Joachim was a priest. What’s more a priest could only marry a Levite woman, which Mary’s mother was. According to “the Gospel of the Birth of Mary”:
Mary herself was not of the tribe of Judah but of the tribe of Levi; her father being a priest of the name of Joachim. (https://www.orthodox.cn/patristics/apostolicfathers/mary.htm)
Note: The above is the original quote. Subsequently, it has been changed to this:
The blessed and ever glorious Virgin Mary, descended from the royal race and family of David, was born in the city of Nazareth and educated at Jerusalem in the temple of the Lord.
So Mary was not the daughter of Eli (or Heli), as the church would like us to believe, but of Joachim and Ana of the tribe of Levi. Both Mary’s father and her uncle were priests. So the likelihood is extremely strong that Mary herself was a Levite.
At any rate, Heli was NOT Mary’s father according to Eusebius, “Heli died childless”. Therefore it was impossible for Mary to be of the tribe of Judah. Furthermore, all the evidence points to the fact that she was from the tribe of Levi.
Jesus was a high priest as we are told he was called of God as was Aaron.
And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. (Heb 5:4-5)
If Mary were of not the tribe of Levi, but of Judah, Jesus would not qualify to be a high priest. Joseph, his father, was of the tribe of Judah, and that’s where Jesus gets his royal blood. According to this he could have been a priest in addition to being a king. Jesus could only have gotten his Levite lineage through his mother, Mary.
The royal descendants of Jesus
The term Desposyni comes from the Greek meaning “of or belonging to the master or lord” refers to blood relatives of Jesus. Whether Jesus himself had any offspring — we have no indication of this from the bible. However, we do know that he had flesh and blood siblings as was an accepted fact by the early Christian church.
Despite the church’s doctrine of “perpetual virginity” of Mary, the natural conclusion that one would draw from reading the gospels is that Jesus actually did have flesh and blood relatives.
According to the bible James the brother of Jesus became the leader of the church at Jerusalem and the others also held positions of leadership in the early church.
The word “Desposyni” literally meant, in Greek, “belonging to the Lord.” It was reserved uniquely for Jesus’ blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had always been governed by a desposynos, and each of them carried one of the names traditional in Jesus’ family—Zachary, Joseph, John, James, Joses, Simeon, Matthias, and so on.
These blood relatives of Christ demanded the reintroduction of the Law, which included the Sabbath and the Holy Day system of Feasts and New Moons of the Bible. Sylvester dismissed their claims and said that, from now on, the mother church was in Rome and he insisted they accept the Greek bishops to lead them…
This was the last known dialogue with the Sabbath-keeping church in the east led by the disciples who were descended from blood relatives of Jesus the Messiah. (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church)
As strange as it may seem, the Roman church forced Jesus’ relatives out of leadership; changed the mother church from Jerusalem to Rome; exchanged the doctrines, laws and commandments of Jesus; for Pauline doctrines, doctrines of the orthodox church, Greek mythology and strange new doctrines that Jesus never would have approved of. They changed the Sabbath to Sunday; the law was no longer necessary, and all Jewish Christian customs were forcefully and purposely thrown out, many times at the threat of death.
Jesus was made into a god-man; he took a back seat to Christianity and his words were altered, taken away, and added to.
They even modified the genealogy of Jesus to make it conform to their idolatrous teaching of Mary being the “mother of God” and her “perpetual virginity” and make it look like Mary’s father was Eli so that it would look like his royal lineage came through Mary and the third person of the Trinity (the Holy Ghost) was Jesus’ father.
Mary was of the tribe of Levi and Joseph, Jesus’ biological father, was of the royal lineage of the house of David.
Since Joseph had to be Jesus’ biological father (being a descendant of king Solomon) in order to become the Messiah, king of the Jews, it is impossible that the Holy Ghost or God or an angel could be his biological father (not that God couldn’t do it, but that in reality He did not).
The church fathers corrupted the gospels to make them conform to their doctrines and myths. It truly is astonishing how the world has been deceived by some of the church fathers. May God help the world to see the real truth.
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