What is the purpose of the millennium? Since the fall in Genesis, the world has not been the way God had imagined it. God gave us free choice, and it was this gift; that the devil or Satan used to allow sin to get between God and man. God told Adam you can eat freely of every tree in this garden except one. This tree was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, Satan got Eve to eat of this tree because he told her God did not want her to eat of it, because she would become like God. The lie Satan told her would be like God. When Eve ate the fruit of this tree, she had broken the bond between God and her; when she had Adam also eat, the separation was complete. The only way to restore this bond between God and mankind was through a Redeemer. Jesus Christ is that Redeemer! When Eve sinned(disobediance of God's Word), she allowed sin into the world. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). The only way to restore the world was through a Redeemer, and this Redeemer had to be sinless. How is this possible? Free choice makes man susceptible to sin. For this reason we would need someone stronger, to be able to resist the temptation of sin. This required a God-man to become the redeemer. This is what exactly happened. Jesus was virgin born, meaning he had no earthly father. Jesus is proof of this God-man. Matthew 1:1-16, is the genealogy of Jesus Christ; there is another genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3:23-38. Why are there two different genealogies of Jesus Christ?
The one in Matthew belonged to Joseph, the husband of Mary. Joseph had to be of the line of David in order to be forced to move from Nazareth to Bethlehem by order of the Roman Ceasar. God made this happen; the Romans did not believe in the Most High God, and would not have done anything to help with fulfilling of this prophecy. This puts Joseph Mary's betrothed at Bethlehem, but there is no reason for Mary to travel there. The fact that Joseph was her betrothed made it possible for this to be accomplished. If you look at the genealogies, both are of David's line, but the one in Luke is the unbroken line, this is the line of Mary. Women were not treated with much importance during this time in history. Why would Mary's genealogy be mentioned at all? Mary had to give birth to her God-man in Bethlehem to fulfill God's prophecy.
These two genealogies prove that Joseph was not the father. If you go back to Genesis 3:15, God curses both the seed of woman and the seed of man. The woman's seed is the seed of God; the man's seed is the seed of the serpent or of Satan. This explains why we have two types of people, one that serves God and one that serves evil. This explains that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, Redeemer, King of Kings!
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