being aware of many prophecies wich at face value seem to allude to jesus christ as nazareth as being the foretold messiah,many jews say that the curse of jeconiah invalidates jesus christ as messiah.lets see this claim:
Jeremiah (22:28–30) cursed Jeconiah that none of his immediate descendants would ever sit on the throne of Israel:
- This is what the LORD says: ‘Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.'” — Jeremiah 22:30, NIV
this is True.however Jesus Christ was not a Descendant of Jeconiah.Joseph his adoptive father was a descendant according to some modern interpretations but even then we will see thats not the case.Jesus being without fleshly father is not under the curse of jeconiah.
The Jeconiah who was cursed in Jeremiah 22 was the grandson of Josiah, and had only 1 brother. But the Jeconiah who is in Joseph’s genealogy was the son of Josiah and had plural brothers. Most people don’t think about this though because they haven’t fully researched the topic.Chronicles 3:16 says Josiah had a grandson not son named jeconiah.or did he?you see in II kings 23:34 Eliakim’s name was changed to Jehoiakim,Zedekiah’s name was originally mattaniah(II kings 24:17)also shallum had this name changed to jehoahaz.all three of his brothers had their names changed so its very likely he had his name changed aswell.
Matthew Chapter I could not refer to the Cursed Jeconiah because matthew’s Jeconiah had many brothers,while the cursed Jeconiah had one brother only(1 Chronicles 3:16).
the fact that the jeconiah of joseph’s lineage is actually Johanan is obvious from the fact that all of his brothers were carried to babylon!Matthew 1:11-12 says: Josias begat Jechonias and his brothers, about the time they were carried away to Babylon;And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
this Jeconiah had brothers,while the cursed jeconiah had one brother.this jeconiah’s brothers were exiled to babylon,just like Johanan’s brothers!Jeconiah is Johanan!
an objection,due to Ignorance of the Text would be that both jeconiah’s had a son named shealtiel and a grandson named zerubbabel.is this the case?no!
the cursed jeconiah had a son named shealtiel who had a son named padiah who had a son named zerubbabel and this zerubbabel had children named shelomith,hananiah,meshullam while joseph’s jeconiah had a son named Abiud!
we know this is the case because Haggai 2 :23 explicetely says God Chose this zerubbabel as his signet ring and Zechariah(4:7) says this zerubbabel will bring forth the capstone!
so as we can see Jesus was not descended from the cursed jeconiah,but even if joseph were his biological father,he would still be descended from a different Jeconiah!
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