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● 1John 4:2-3 . .This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit
that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but
every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is
already in the world.
Christ not only came in the flesh, but he came in the likeness of sinful flesh
(Rom 8:3) which tells me right off that Jesus wasn't a special creation,
rather, he is one of Adam's paternal descendants; and that is so very easy
to prove.
● Luke 1:32 . .The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David
No man can be considered for David's place except they first and foremost
be Judah's paternal offspring.
● Gen 49:10 . The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff
from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs.
The man considered must also be David's paternal offspring.
● Ps 132:11 . .The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; and He will not turn
from it: "Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne"
The New Testament verifies that Jesus satisfies the paternal requirement.
● Acts 2:29-30 . . Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the
patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us
unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn
with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.
● Rom 1:1-3 . . Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David
according to the flesh
There's really no need to trace David's paternal descent from Adam because
that element of Jesus' origin is seldom contested.
● Gen 3:20 . . Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the
mother of all the living.
● Acts 17:26 . . From one man he made every nation of men, that they
should inhabit the whole earth
Now the thing is; not every card-carrying Christian is agreeable with Jesus'
human origin. Whether they're all victims of the spirit of antichrist; I don't
know. I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt and suggest maybe they
just haven't been sufficiently catechized.
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