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Originally Posted by Mother Of Seven
Of course not! Joseph was not related to Jesus. He was sort of his adopted father, but not blood related.
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So was it Mary who was of the line and lineage of David?
Psalm 91:1-4b He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:
KJV .. look up , whole psalm
Then I read:
Luke 1:28a And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee:
31-35…behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
KJV .. look up , whole passage
..which made me start thinking about another Psalm concerning shadows because yesterday I was walking past the railway station, that is to say I was about to start walking when an eagle plonked itself down in a tree there was an awful lot of flapping and stuff I think it must've got stuck or something but the point is that it was blocking out the sun, so I was in the shadow of its wings. That reminded me of Leda and the swan and I started to feel sick: it was quite sunny; I'd been standing there for about an hour.
Now W. B. Yeats is a complete reprobate as we know, promoting—like so many poets—the depravity inherent in every non-Christian heart. And since he does promote depravity, we know that he is not a Christian.
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Like just how ridiculous do these crazies think we are?
And this is supposed to explain Castor and Pollux & the pope's eggshell hat?
Give us a break, there wasn't any Leda and she never obsessed over any swan, as we know because
Mount Olympus is empty and bleak with nary a Zeus to be seen.
So, I returned to the inerrant Word Of God. To Psalms, a lovely book, many of them written by that very David.
Hallelujah!
Psalm 63:6-7 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
KJV .. look up , whole psalm
Jesus, then, has no taint of Moab? That is reassuring. I'm glad I wasn't indoctrinated into garbled & nonsensical pagan cultic traditions with all the orgiastic customs exemplified in Gomorrah from which both just Lot
II Peter 2:7 and obedient Abraham
Hebrews 11:8 were delivered. Just think of the consequences if God had not warned them what He was about to do! No King David, no Solomon, no exemplar for Jesus. But God is merciful and in His Lovingkindness He
did spare Lot even as those wretches and their wretched children and their despicable babies were blasted into the lower parts of the earth.