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    King Jesus
    King Jesus
    King Jesus
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    King Jesus

    By K. P. Walker

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    The crime of Jesus was nailed to his cross, “King of the Jews.” How could being a king be enough to condemn a man to death? Was he a king? Why was being a king so offensive? You cannot choose the family you are born into; was Jesus born a king? We will have to examine the historical kingdom of the Jews and the genealogical records of Jesus to determine if he was the king and thus verify the validity of Jesus’ death sentence.
    But there's more to the story of Jesus. What gave him the right to die for you, that is, to die in your place? What was Satan doing while Jesus lived in the world? What was the real last temptation of Jesus? What is the difference between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God? There are two genealogies of Jesus, one in Matthew and another in Luke. Why are they different?
    You might say, so what if Jesus was a king. What does that mean to me? Where was his kingdom located? Does it still exist? What kind of a passport and visa do we need to go there? The answers are in this book, Book 2 of the Way to Life series. This is your chance to learn about the King, the remarkable kingdoms of heaven and God and the Ambassadors of the King. Please note that immigration is still possible.

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    PublisherK. P. Walker
    Release dateOct 10, 2015
    ISBN9781311319630
    King Jesus
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    K. P. Walker

    If you are not a Christian read the free book Divine Prerogative in order to understand the only real choice that is available in this world. If you want to know if the Bible is true read my free book The Great Question. If you want to know why humanity is on this planet read the free Universe and Beyond. If you want to learn about why the world is the way it is read the free SIN - Rebellion Within. In my free book Bride of Christ I identify the seven groups of people that populate the seven churches spoken of in the last book of the Bible called the Revelation to John. It is important that Christian readers download this book for it contains instructions (commands from Jesus) for Christians worldwide to follow. It is imperative that these instructions be shared as widely and with as many people as possible. The time for its fulfillment I think is near, and you will find out how near by reading the free Doomsday Timeline along with The END has Begun, Tribulation and ANTI Christ. If you want a scare read SATAN. If you want to know who Jesus is read CHRIST.For your greater edification I have provided for sale a four-book series on the Bible starting with the Old Testament in Plan for Life and ending with Revelation in The Living End. The other two books cover the Gospels and Letters.I hope you will find some enlightenment and encouragement in my writings.

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      King Jesus - K. P. Walker

      Chapter 1 - The Heirs of Promise

      Historical Rule

      Historically, the Hebrews were administered as family (tribal) units with nationwide unification in times of crises. The Lord appointed individuals to unify his people and lead them in armed defense. Judges, as they were called, were arbitrarily selected, that is, their family size and lineage were of no value in substantiating their right to lead (Judges 11:1). The Lord chose them according to the needs of the time and worked his will through them.

      Shortly before the monarchy was established, an abortive attempt was made to pass the judgeship on to the sons of the presiding judge, but the sons never lived up to the standards of their father (I Samuel 8:1-3). The people used the excesses of the sons of the last judge, Samuel, as an excuse to rebel against the Lord and demand a king to rule over them (I Samuel 8:4-8).

      The Lord had already anticipated the people’s rebellion against him by declaring through his servant Moses that they could have a king, but the Lord would be the one to choose him (Deuteronomy 17:14-20). This pronouncement warned that a king must not multiply riches, possessions or wives, because an over abundance of these create problems that tend to turn one’s heart away from God. The king was also supposed to keep a copy of the law near him and obey it. These were items easily agreed to, but always difficult to adhere to in reality.

      The monotheistic (one God) Israelites were demanding a king so that they could be like all the nations around them, but the Lord had never intended them to be like their unrighteous neighbors (Deuteronomy 7). Their neighbors were polytheistic (many gods), idol worshipping peoples. Their numerous gods included Baal, an agricultural fertility and fire deity that could be appeased by the sacrifice of a first born son in its fiery belly (Jeremiah 19). Ashtoreth was a female contemporary of Baal, whose worship required male and female devotees to purchase the services of cult prostitutes or to become prostitutes themselves thereby providing revenue for her priests (Exodus 34:13-16). Her worship sites were advertised by sacred phallus poles. These nations had numerous other gods made of stone, wood and precious metals that were worshipped like miraculous good luck charms. Their kings set the tone for national worship practices because they had the power and authority to decree what or who would be worshipped in public and which gods would be officially tolerated; violations could result in banishment or death (Daniel 6).

      Israel wanted a king that could lead them in war, or so they said. The real reason for their demand was to justify their rebellion against the Lord and to be independent from his laws. They wanted to indulge their desires without guilt. They had been worshipping an array of man-made gods since they came out of Egypt (Amos 5:25-27). They knew that a human king would not be as strict as God their spiritual king would. The Lord was too tough, he would not lie, nor take a bribe (Deuteronomy 10:17-18) and like most people, the Hebrews wanted a god that they could control, not one that made prohibitions against the very things they desired like freedom to mingle with the cult prostitutes and free license to do whatever they wanted (fulfilling selfish desires that stem from lust, greed, self-centeredness, etc.). They wanted a king who was more like themselves and who would govern them like the other nations. So they rejected God as their king and demanded that Samuel appoint a king (I Samuel 8) from amongst themselves, but Samuel declined.

      King Saul

      The king that the Lord chose for the people was one that they could be proud of. Saul was an imposing man standing head and shoulders taller than everyone and was considered to be the best looking man amongst all the people of Israel (I Samuel 9:2). His family was rich. He was just the image of a king that the people would follow or maybe even vote for today. He was of the tribe of Benjamin, which was lucky to still be in existence. One hundred or so years earlier, this tribe had been slaughtered, leaving only 600 male survivors. Saul’s hometown of Gibeah had been the focal point of a disgusting display of moral degeneracy. A stranger in the town had been waiting in the Town Square for someone to take him into a home, which was the custom in this place without hotels. The townspeople ignored him. A transient worker of the tribe of Ephraim finally returned from the fields and took him in, knowing that the square was not a safe place for a stranger to spend the night. Base fellows of the town surrounded the house demanding that the visitor be turned over to them so that they could satiate their sexual desires with him. Hospitality dictated that the stranger be protected, so the Ephraimite offered them his own virgin daughter and the stranger’s concubine, but this offer was rejected. The Levite stranger then pushed his concubine out to them and they ravished and abused her all night. By morning, she was dead (Judges 19).

      The other tribes of Israel called on the tribe of Benjamin to hand over the offenders. The Benjaminite elders refused and gathered their whole tribe together (26,700 warriors) to defend the people of Gibeah and by inference, to defend their right to be depraved. The result was that all the men, women and children of the tribe of Benjamin were killed except for 600 men who escaped to the wilderness (Judges 20). The Israelites determined not to exterminate the tribe and found 600 women (not from among their own ranks) for them to marry. So Gibeah was inhabited by some of this remnant (Judges 21), and Saul was one of their descendants.

      Of course, it is not fair that Saul should be held accountable for the acts of his forefathers. In fact, the Lord was going to establish Saul’s line forever (I Samuel 13:13-14). This loving act by the Lord actually creates a dilemma with his own nature. He had already said through Jacob that the scepter would not pass from the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10); yet he went ahead and had Samuel anoint Saul as king (or Messiah, which means King, Anointed One). Did the Lord’s desire to show himself as loving cause him to go back on his word? Was the Lord insincere with Saul? Since the Lord knew the future, maybe he anointed Saul for the people because he knew Saul would fail. Of course, this conjecture using maybe equates Bible interpretation with guesswork. The Lord is not a man that he should change his mind (I Samuel 15:29), nor did he in the case of Judah.

      God’s plan was to bring a king, at the right time, through Judah, but the people, with typical human impudence, decided that they knew better than God did. They still had a memory of the princely Gideon. They had wanted him to be king, but he declined their offer (Judges 8:22-23) by declaring that the Lord will rule. He was of the tribe of Manasseh. He seemed to know that his authority came from the Lord, not the people. The Lord had not called him to be king. (His son got himself anointed king of a city, but it was also not from the Lord.) So, despite this recent lack of royal success, the people were still determined to crown their own king. Therefore, it was not the Lord who changed his mind, but in response to the groans of his unbelieving, untrusting people, he granted their desire. He gave them the king they demanded, because the Lord is a loving God. The people rejected his plans for their good, so according to their will the Lord appointed a man who was impressive looking, someone they would be proud of, a man after their own stubborn heart, a king to govern them like all the other nations (I Samuel 8-10). The Lord also gave to Saul the opportunity to confirm in himself the blessings that had been promised to Judah.

      The tribe of Benjamin was installed as the new line that would be established as kings forever. Of course, there were the usual conditions (Deuteronomy 17:14-20) requiring that Saul believe and trust the Lord and do his will. King Saul was true to his nature. He was truly a man of the people. Like them, he proved to be impatient (I Samuel 13:11-12), disobedient and thought that he knew better than the Lord. As a consequence of Saul’s breach of contract, the covenant between Saul and the Lord was terminated and the Lord tore the kingdom from him (I Samuel 15). In due time, Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance and did not seek guidance from the Lord (I Chronicles 10:13-14).

      The experience with Saul should have taught the Israelites the value of trusting the Lord instead of themselves. The Lord consequently reinstated his original plan. A king would come from Judah. In choosing, it is a characteristic of the Lord to choose what is considered inferior and use it to achieve great things. This pattern was seen in the time of the judge Gideon (Judges 7) when the Lord refused to let Gideon go to war with 32,000 warriors. This force was reduced to 300. With these few, the Lord routed 120,000 of the enemy. It should be obvious to even a casual observer that the victory belonged to the power of the Lord and not to the strength of the army. In Saul, the Lord followed this same pattern. Saul was a member of the decimated remains of the tribe of Benjamin, which was not the most likely candidate to hold sway over all Israel. Now the Lord chose a young shepherd (not to be confused with Elhanan, II Samuel 21:19) who did not seem to be a likely leader either. The Lord looked on his heart (I Samuel 16) and saw someone after his [God’s] own heart (I Samuel 13:14). This did not mean that the boy was perfect, but he was someone who would do the Lord’s will and sacrifice himself for others.

      David Is Anointed

      David was the youngest of the eight sons of Jesse of the tribe of Judah. Saul was still on the throne and David was an insignificant teenager when Samuel anointed him king. David did not become king for at least 15 years after his anointing, but during that time he was tested by the Lord and proved that he believed God and wanted to do his will. For example, as a boy, David heard the challenge of Goliath the Philistine and saw the fear that the giant generated amongst the troops of Israel. Though David was only at the battlefront to bring bread to his three oldest brothers, the faith of his young heart showed through his words, Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God (I Samuel 17). The Law of Moses prescribed the rules for war and the fearful were allowed to return home to keep them from infecting their fellows with fear (Deuteronomy 20). Unfortunately, it was too late for this battle because the whole army was already poisoned with fear (through unbelief), just like their king. David’s oldest brother was angered by the words of David because they exposed his own lack of faith in the Lord, so he rebuked David for hanging around to see the battle.

      David’s boastful sounding words were called to the attention of King Saul. David convinced the king to allow him to go fight the giant. When David went to battle with the Philistine champion, David wore no awkward armor and carried only his shepherd’s staff and slingshot. David did not expect the giant to be killed by God without his own participation, nor did he presume that the Lord would provide an easy victory. He selected five smooth stones to do battle with; less would have been presumptuous, even foolish. (There is no proof that David took the four extra stones because Goliath had four brothers.) David’s confidence was that the battle outcome belonged to the Lord, despite his own skill with a sling that had killed lions and bears in defense of his sheep. When Goliath advanced, David rushed toward him and the Philistine battle line, which was probably a surprise to the giant. David’s first shot knocked the giant onto his face. David then took his adversary’s sword and severed his head from his body. The swiftness of the defeat of their champion caused the Philistine army to flee. Much later David wrote that the Lord would help his anointed and answer him with victories (Psalms 20).

      Saul was the reigning king, so even though David was anointed to succeed him, he did not attempt to take matters into his own hands or to hurry the Lord’s time schedule along by trying to wrest the throne from Saul. David was not impatient (like Saul and the people). This time spent waiting for the Lord’s will to be revealed afforded David an opportunity to mature spiritually, though it also provided the increasingly deranged Saul more chances to kill David. Saul was jealous because, as time passed, David seemed to have more of the people’s admiration than he himself had. Saul was also afraid of David because the Lord was with him and no longer with Saul (I Samuel 18). Saul was irritated that his own son was not to inherit the kingdom (I Samuel 20:31), so Saul was determined to kill David. Some of the neighboring lands even thought that David was already king (I Samuel 21:11). Saul’s intermittent rages forced David to become a fugitive (I Samuel 22 & 23).

      David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, that is, even in the dejection of his exile, he trusted in the Lord to do what the Lord had promised. David would never think that he knew better than God. This righteousness was exhibited when Saul, while seeking David’s life, entered a cave David was hiding in. David resisted the pressure of his fellows and did not kill Saul, because Saul was the Lord’s anointed. David felt that it was up to the Lord to deal with Saul in his own way (I Samuel 24).

      The details of David’s life were recorded for us, to instruct us, to show man’s state (sin) and to reveal the (necessary) extent of God’s mercy. King Saul had been given the same opportunity as David to serve the Lord, to trust him, to obey him, to believe him and to love him (I Samuel 12), but he did not. Despite David’s brief lapse into carnal foolishness, he displayed a great love and faithfulness to the Lord. This is why the promise of old was established in David’s line.

      The specific promise of a kingship began a thousand years before David was born when God said to Abraham, in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (Genesis 12) and kings shall come forth from you (Genesis 17). Seven hundred years before David, the patriarch Judah was blessed by God through his father Israel saying, The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples (Genesis 49:10). Through the prophet Nathan, the Lord indicated to David that he was not the king of promise, saying, When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body and I will establish his kingdom ... Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure before me forever (II Samuel 7:11-16).

      This promise was reiterated in different forms by the later prophets. Jeremiah said, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah ... For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel (Jeremiah 33:14-26). Isaiah speaks of the coming son who will shoulder the government upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom ... from this time forth and for evermore (9:6-9). Ezekiel (long after David’s death) said that the Lord will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David (34:23). My servant David shall be king over them ... forever (Ezekiel 37:24-25). These confirmations of the promise served as testimony to everyone what the Lord can do for those who maintain steadfast love and faithfulness to him.

      The Bible does not try to gloss over any of David’s faults in order to make him appear superior or immaculately conceived. David constantly broke the Lord’s injunctions (just like us). Once it was by need. He had escaped from Saul and was hungry. He stopped at Nob, the town of priests, and ate bread set aside by law for exclusive consumption by priests (I Samuel 21, Leviticus 22:10). Once it was by eagerness. David attempted to bring the ark of God to Jerusalem by transporting it upon a new cart. This was against the law and David was very angry at the Lord when a priest died because the priest had touched the ark. He had only tried to steady the ark after an ox had stumbled. About three months later, David finally realized that he himself was at fault for not following the Lord’s instructions. The ark was then carried into Jerusalem on poles by the priests according to the law (II Samuel 6, Numbers 4:1-15). Once it was by arrogance. He ordered a census, possibly to count his warriors, or possibly to see how large his kingdom had become. The kingdom is the Lord’s kingdom and the Lord was not pleased with David’s show of vanity. David’s action cost the lives of seventy thousand people (I Chronicles 21). David made other mistakes also, but he never forsook the Lord. He knew that the Lord’s discipline was swift and hard, but when his foot slipped, it was not time to run away from the Lord, it was time to turn to the Lord (Psalms 38), no matter how guilty he was or felt.

      An excellent contrast of faith between the kings, Saul and David, is shown by the way each repented of sin. When King Saul did wrong in the sight of the Lord, he asked Samuel to pray to God for him (I Samuel 15:25). King David’s response to his own sin was to pray to the Lord himself. He sought no intermediary to entreat for him. Psalm 51 is the finest example of remorse and repentance in the Bible. This psalm had its origin in David’s most publicized and shameful iniquity, the coveting of another man’s wife. The sin began when David stayed home from a battle. One evening, he saw a beautiful neighbor woman taking a bath. He did not hesitate to invite the married woman to his house and she did not hesitate to go. He got her pregnant while her husband was at the battle. David went to a great effort to dupe the cuckolded husband, but failed. So King David had him killed (II Samuel 11). When the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to accuse him, David acknowledged that he had sinned against the Lord (not against the woman’s husband, nor against the woman (Bathsheba), nor against the people of Israel) (II Samuel 12). The Lord forgave David’s sin, so he did not die, but God still required that David’s own judgment be carried out. David lost the lives of four of his sons during his own lifetime as a result of his perfidy; beginning with the one Bathsheba was carrying. Since David had killed with the sword, the sword would not depart from his house from that time on.

      The Puzzle

      The Lord does not work in a way that we expect, or in a manner that we can intelligently anticipate. David had at least eight wives and uncounted concubines, which was contrary to the law relating to the king (Deuteronomy 17:14-20). When King Saul died, David had inherited Saul’s wives also. It is curious that the Lord chose to establish his promise to David through Bathsheba instead of one of David’s other wives, such as the excellent Abigail. Abigail was the wife of Nabal (fool), whom David was about to kill. She was a spiritually discerning woman who stopped David from taking vengeance with his own hand. She knew of the promise concerning David and he praised her discretion. When the Lord slew her husband, David himself showed good judgment by marrying her (I Samuel 25). Bathsheba’s situation was practically the opposite. Bathsheba’s husband had been one of David’s famous inner circle of heroes, one of the thirty mighty men. Her father was also. Her grandfather was a very respected counselor to David. When Absalom, the son of David’s forth wife Maacah, attempted to wrest the crown from his father, Bathsheba’s grandfather sided with Absalom against David. David had to first defeat the advice of a man whose words were esteemed as an oracle of God, before he could deal with his own brash son (II Samuel 15-17). Bathsheba’s lineage was as strong and distinguished as Bathsheba was weak and pliant.

      David did not have to mount much of a campaign to conquer Bathsheba. He called, she came. It was obviously not the quality of her mind that first attracted the king’s attention. She also yielded to David’s scheme to deceive her righteous husband Uriah. When the deception failed, David had him killed, but not a murmur of remorse is recorded as coming from Bathsheba. When David was old, Bathsheba’s compliant nature was again exhibited. Nathan the prophet urged her to tell David that David had promised to place her son Solomon on the throne, so she did as she was told (I Kings 1). Nathan through Bathsheba neatly manipulated the old king. Again after King David’s death one of David’s other widows, Haggith, came and requested that Bathsheba petition King Solomon for her, in favor of her son. She asked that David’s last concubine be given to Solomon’s older half brother, Adonijah. It was tantamount to giving credence to Adonijah’s claim to the throne, but Bathsheba never even gave that threat a thought. Naturally, Solomon was not pleased with his mother’s (not so astonishing for her) request. Now given these facts, what inner qualities did she possess to prompt the Lord to select her as the maternal conduit for the promise to David?

      Out of all of David’s wives Bathsheba was chosen by the Lord, probably because she was the least of them all. This would be consistent with God’s character, as previously shown when he selected the insignificant teenager, David, instead of one of his more imposing older brothers. The Lord looks on the heart and generally chooses what is weak or meek to show that the preeminent power and authority is his. By choosing Bathsheba, the Lord was demonstrating that the king he had promised to Judah could never evolve from within the genes of humans, nor would he come from human effort and ability (I Corinthians 1:20-31, Zechariah 4:6, II Corinthians 12:7-10). The promised king would be sent in spite of our personal qualities, efforts or the purity of our bloodlines. Wise men have difficulty understanding the rationale for what the Lord does and who he chooses, that is why it is written that the wisdom of the wise men of this world is futile (I Corinthians 1:18-20). The Lord was planning to establish David’s line according to his own logic, not ours.

      The lineal descent from David should be easy to evaluate from this point on, but here we encounter a major dilemma. In the gospel according to Matthew (chapter 1), Jesus’ ancestor is listed as Solomon. The gospel according to Luke (chapter 3) identifies Nathan as the offspring of David who was the progenitor of Jesus. Both men are sons of Bathsheba (I Chronicles 3:5). Now the question is, which gospel is correct? If one genealogy is shown to be wrong, then that whole gospel becomes suspect. Since the gospels are considered to be the inspired word of God, we will not make any quick or rash judgments. We have just learned that the Lord does not think like we do, so we must examine Nathan, his brother Solomon and their descendants. Unfortunately, here the records fail us for though Bathsheba had four living sons by David nothing is recorded about Nathan, although Solomon’s life and descendants are covered in depth.

      King Solomon

      Solomon was David’s youngest son and he became king through a bit of deception by the prophet Nathan. This same prophet had made a mistake earlier by approving David’s plan to construct a temple. He assumed that David could do what ever he wanted because

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