The Racial Make up of Jesus, and what it means to us.

The other day o walked out of the Subway to the sounds of an Militant black man explaining that Christianity is a white Man's Religion worshiping a white man's God. as i continued to walk down the street i encountered a Woman dress head to toe in white explaining Jesus was indeed Black himself because he came from Ethiopia.

In the past I have ignored any of "special revelation" Whether it came from these or any other extremists groups. I have always simply accepted that Jesus was a Jew. But how pure was his heritage. Matthew seems to go to great lengths to point out the those none Jews in Jesus Family Tree.

Matthew 1:1-6

1A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham:
2Abraham was the father of Isaac,
Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,
Perez the father of Hezron,
Hezron the father of Ram,
4Ram the father of Amminadab,
Amminadab the father of Nahshon,
Nahshon the father of Salmon,
5Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
6and Jesse the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife,

If you are like me you probably skip over those verses every time you get to them. I had never heard of Balam or his donkey until my third year of college because i could never make it past the first chapter of Numbers for just that reason.

But Matthew put it there for a reason and he has deliberately included the names that we read while he has left many out.

OK SO what's the Point?

The point is... They weren't Jewish (at least not by birth.)

Tamar and Rahab were Canaanites, Ruth was a Moabite and Bathsheba was a Hittite.

So What’s the point?

The roots of Jesus' family tree descend into the most sinful depths of ancient middle and near eastern history.

so what's the point?

Jesus wasn't just a Jewish Messiah? the blood he shed for the world was also from the world!!!

So what's the point?

Well its not a revolutionary discovery but it is pretty cool.