The Advent season is a great time to revisit the opening chapters of the gospels, which often brings people to consider afresh the genealogies of Jesus presented in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. And you don’t have to go very far into those genealogies to recognize a few major issues.
The first and clearest issue is that the two genealogies are completely different in the generations from David to Jesus! And a second issue that arises from deeper digging is that Matthew presents Jesus as the descendant of a man (Jeconiah) whom God has promised would never have descendants sit on the throne of Israel (Jer 22:30).
What do we make of these issues? Robby Lashua is here to help. In this brief piece he considers these issues and explains a solution.
If Jesus is truly the prophesied Messiah, as much of the world will celebrate this Christmas, he must be a descendant of David. Thankfully, the genealogies of Jesus show that David was, in fact, his ancestor. But there’s a problem in the genealogies—actually, there are two problems.
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