The Generations of Jesus’ Human Nature

The Word of God in the Old Testament promised that the Messiah would be born in the Davidic line. Genesis 49:10 points to this promise in general: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah.” Isaiah 11 begins, “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him.” But more specifically, God promised that the coming Messiah would be an actual, physical descendant of David. In II Samuel 7:12, the prophet...