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†. Gen 38:27-28 . .When the time came for her to give birth, there
were twins in her womb! While she was in labor, one of them put out
his hand, and the midwife tied a crimson thread on that hand, to
signify: This one came out first.
According to modern medicine, a baby isn't really born until it's head is
outside the womb; so that it's legal (in some states) to kill babies with a so
called "dilation and extraction" abortion; which is a term coined by Ohio
abortionist Dr. Martin Haskell for an abortion method in which he removes a
baby's brain while it's head is still partially within the womb, and then
completes the delivery by extracting the corpse. But in Tamar's day, even
the exit of so much as a hand was counted birth: thus Zerah became
Tamar's legal firstborn son.
†. Gen 38:29 . . But just then he drew back his hand, and out came
his brother; and she said: What a breach you have made for yourself!
So he was named Perez (which means: break (as in break through a
barrier or force a way through; viz: buck the line and/or go out of
turn). Afterward his brother came out, on whose hand was the
crimson thread; he was named Zerah (which means: a rising of light;
viz: morning).
Well . . regardless of Zerah's primo-genitive prerogatives, God bypassed him
in Judah's line to Messiah; which, by Divine appointment went to Perez, the
second-born. (Matt 1:1-3)
NOTE: You'd think holy propriety would demand that the sacred line to
Messiah be pure. I mean, after all, a child of adultery and incest hardly
seems like a proper ancestor for the King of Kings. But no, an ancestry of
adultery and/or incest makes no difference to Christ. In point of fact, in time
a famous harlot from Jericho named Rahab produced yet another male in the
line to the lamb of God (Matt 1:5). And let's not forget Ruth who descended
from Lot sleeping with one of his own daughters in a cave. (cf. Gen 19:36
37, Ruth 4:10, and Matt 1:5)
According to Rom 8:3 Christ didn't come in the likeness of innocent flesh;
no, he came in the likeness of sinful flesh, and his ancestry certainly proves
it.
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†. Gen 38:27-28 . .When the time came for her to give birth, there
were twins in her womb! While she was in labor, one of them put out
his hand, and the midwife tied a crimson thread on that hand, to
signify: This one came out first.
According to modern medicine, a baby isn't really born until it's head is
outside the womb; so that it's legal (in some states) to kill babies with a so
called "dilation and extraction" abortion; which is a term coined by Ohio
abortionist Dr. Martin Haskell for an abortion method in which he removes a
baby's brain while it's head is still partially within the womb, and then
completes the delivery by extracting the corpse. But in Tamar's day, even
the exit of so much as a hand was counted birth: thus Zerah became
Tamar's legal firstborn son.
†. Gen 38:29 . . But just then he drew back his hand, and out came
his brother; and she said: What a breach you have made for yourself!
So he was named Perez (which means: break (as in break through a
barrier or force a way through; viz: buck the line and/or go out of
turn). Afterward his brother came out, on whose hand was the
crimson thread; he was named Zerah (which means: a rising of light;
viz: morning).
Well . . regardless of Zerah's primo-genitive prerogatives, God bypassed him
in Judah's line to Messiah; which, by Divine appointment went to Perez, the
second-born. (Matt 1:1-3)
NOTE: You'd think holy propriety would demand that the sacred line to
Messiah be pure. I mean, after all, a child of adultery and incest hardly
seems like a proper ancestor for the King of Kings. But no, an ancestry of
adultery and/or incest makes no difference to Christ. In point of fact, in time
a famous harlot from Jericho named Rahab produced yet another male in the
line to the lamb of God (Matt 1:5). And let's not forget Ruth who descended
from Lot sleeping with one of his own daughters in a cave. (cf. Gen 19:36
37, Ruth 4:10, and Matt 1:5)
According to Rom 8:3 Christ didn't come in the likeness of innocent flesh;
no, he came in the likeness of sinful flesh, and his ancestry certainly proves
it.
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