week 2

 WELCOME TO WEEK 2

Welcome to week 2 HERE is video of class, If you missed, you are required to watch and text Dave a short summary by Wed night

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Detail from class:

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We started with this video below, and explained an extra credit related to it.

Here is a link to the other video you will need to complete it. Use any artist Dave mentions in it.

Genealogy of Jesus : 

MATTHEW 1

1An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
2Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, 4and Aram the father of Aminadab, and Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6and Jesse the father of King David.
And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, 8and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 9and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, 11and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Salathiel, and Salathiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah.
17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.




--Dave on Jesus' genealogy:

We began looking at the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1, noting

-that since "genealogy" is literally "genesis" ("beginning"), there is an inclusio from the first sentence of Matthew to the very last sentence ("till the end of the age"). Point:  Who is Jesus in Mathew?

He is the Beginning and End.

We also noticed that strikingly, against Jewish tradition, women were mentioned in the genealogy.

Not only that, but most were controversial and GENTILES (outside the bounded set of Judaism.

We noted yet another inclusio from beginning of the gospel (Gentiles highlighted in the geneoalogy in chapter 1 and end of gospel ( "Go and make disciples of all nations [literally "Gentiles"] 28:18-20

• not just women, 
• but 5 (hmm, remember that number)  women,
• and 5 women who had a "shady reputation".

=That's no accident; we decided that  one way to answer 
"Who is Jesus in  Matthew?" is

"One who includes all types, even outcasts, in his family"


  
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a chart revealing the "skipped" names from an article( link)

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We also noticed that strikingly, against Jewish tradition, women were mentioned in the genealogy.

Not only that, but most were controversial and GENTILES (outside the bounded set of Judaism.

By the way, how many controversial Gentile women show up here?

5...hmm. Must be no accident

Who is Jesus in Mathew?

The One who is not ashamed to include  four triple outcasts:  gentile/women/people with a shady reputation in his family tree.  The fifth woman was =Mary, who fit all three categories except "Gentile".  All women have a) a ":sexually suspect" reputation

and were surprisingly and sovereignly used of God.

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We know for a fact they were not Jews.  Uh, oh, RED FLAGs.

Hhhhmmm..and we are only in chapter 1!

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In addition to Dave's genealogy video  ABOVE, you may want to  watch ONE (at least)of these videos:

 

Melly Howard, FPU:

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  Watch this:
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  "The central theme in the ministry and teaching of Jesus is the kingdom of God, or as Matthew calls it, the kingdom of heaven. 1 This key idea ties his entire message to gether. The "kingdom of God" permeates all of Jesus' ministry, giving it unusual coherence and clarity. It is the core, the very essence, of his ministry. "

   -Kraybill,  in your reading this week from the Upside Down Kingdom pdf
  

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