Forefathers of Yeshua the Messiah

The book of the genealogy of Yeshua ha-Mashiach, Ben-David, Ben-Avraham:

and Jesse fathered David the king. David fathered Solomon by the wife of Uriah,

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the Babylonian exile are fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian exile until the Messiah are fourteen generations.

But while he considered these things, behold, an angel of Adonai appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Miriam as your wife, for the Child conceived in her is from the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

As Yeshua went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Ben-David, have mercy on us!”

But He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he became hungry, and those with him?

All the crowds were astounded and saying, “This can’t be Ben-David, can it?”

And behold, a Canaanite woman from that district came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, O Master, Ben-David! My daughter is severely tormented by a demon.”

And here two blind men sitting by the roadside, when they heard that Yeshua was passing by, cried out, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Master, Ben-David!”

The crowd warned them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Master, Ben-David!”

The crowds going before Him and those following kept shouting, saying, “Hoshia-na to Ben-David! Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hoshia-na in the highest!”

But when the ruling kohanim and Torah scholars saw the wonders He performed, and the children crying out in the Temple and saying, “Hoshia-na to Ben-David,” they became indignant.

saying, “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose Son is He?” “David’s,” they say to Him.

“Then how is it,” He says to them, “that David by the Ruach calls him ‘Lord’?

If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

And He said to them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he was in need, and he and those with him became hungry?

Ben-David Heals the Blind

Then they came to Jericho. Now as Yeshua was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.

When he heard that it was Yeshua of Natzeret, he began to cry out, “Ben-David, Yeshua! Have mercy on me!”

Many were warning him to be quiet; but he kept crying out all the more, “Ben-David, have mercy on me!”

Ben-David Enters Jerusalem

Now as they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, to the Mount of Olives, Yeshua sends two of His disciples

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hoshia-na in the highest!”

Who Is King David’s Lord?

While Yeshua was teaching in the Temple, He said, “How is it that the Torah scholars say that the Messiah is Ben-David?

David himself, through the Ruach ha-Kodesh, said, ‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’

If David himself calls Him ‘Lord,’ in what way is He his son?” And the large crowd was listening to Him with delight.

and to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Miriam.

He will be great and will be called Ben-Elyon. Adonai Elohim will give Him the throne of David, His father.

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Now Joseph also went up from the Galilee, out of the town of Natzeret to Judah, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was from the house and family of David.

A Savior is born to you today in the city of David, who is Messiah the Lord.

The Lineage of Yeshua Ben-David Ben-Elohim

Yeshua was about thirty years old when He began his ministry. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

Then answering them, Yeshua said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him?

And he cried out, saying, “Yeshua, Ben-David, have mercy on me!”

And those leading the way were scolding him, so he would be quiet. But he kept shouting all the more, “Ben-David, have mercy on me!”

Then Yeshua said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is Ben-David?

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, ‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand,

David then calls Him ‘Lord’; so how is He his son?”

Didn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, David’s town?”

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Ruach ha-Kodesh foretold by the mouth of David, concerning Judah—who became a guide to those who seized Yeshua.

For David says about Him, ‘I saw Adonai always before me, for He is at my right hand so that I might not be shaken.

“Brothers, I can confidently tell you that the patriarch David died and was buried—his tomb is with us to this day.

David saw beforehand and spoke of Messiah’s resurrection—that He was not abandoned to Sheol, and His body did not see decay.

For David did not ascend into the heavens; yet he himself says, ‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

You said by the Ruach ha-Kodesh, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, ‘Why did the nations rage and the peoples plot foolish things?

Our fathers received it in turn and brought it in with Joshua when they took possession of the land of the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it remained until the days of David,

After removing him, He raised up David to be their king. He also testified about him and said, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do My will.’

“But since He raised Him up from the dead, never to return to decay, He has spoken in this way, ‘I will give you the holy and sure mercies of David.’

For after David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he went to sleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.

‘After this I will return and rebuild the fallen tabernacle of David. I will rebuild its ruins and I will restore it,

Concerning His Son, He came into being from the seed of David according to the flesh.

just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

Remember Yeshua the Messiah, raised from the dead, from the seed of David—according to my Good News.

Again, God appoints a certain day—“Today”—saying through David after so long a time, just as it has been said before, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

And what more shall I say? For time would fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets.

Philadelphia: I Have Loved You

To the angel of Messiah’s community in Philadelphia write: “Thus says the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens:

Then one of the elders tells me, “Stop weeping! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed—He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

I, Yeshua, have sent My angel to testify these things to you for My communities. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”