Jesus and the Fruit of King David's Loins:
The phrase “fruit of his loins” refers to descendants or offspring.
By being described as the “fruit of King David’s loins,” Jesus is established as a direct descendant of David and an heir to his throne.
I. Introduction
Lineage is an important aspect of a person’s family history. In the Bible, the lineage of King David is particularly significant because Jesus is said to be a descendant of David.
Genealogy of Jesus
- The genealogy of Jesus is recorded in two accounts in the Bible: Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38. Both accounts trace Jesus’ ancestry back to King David, but there are differences between the two genealogies.
- In Matthew’s genealogy, Jesus is described as the son of Joseph and the grandson of King David. Luke’s genealogy, on the other hand, traces Jesus’ ancestry through his mother, Mary, and her father, Heli, who was also a descendant of King David.
Jesus and the Fruit of King David's Loins
The phrase “fruit of his loins” refers to descendants or offspring. By being described as the “fruit of King David’s loins,” Jesus is established as a direct descendant of David and an heir to his throne.
This designation is significant because it fulfills Old Testament prophecies about a Messiah who would come from the lineage of King David and rule over Israel.
My study of the word of God identify that Jesus Christ possess two identity – one as the eternal Word (coequal with the Father, unbegotten) and the later, the Son of Man (first-begotten of the Father). Please note, I assert that Jesus Christ as the “first-begotten” and not the “only begotten”. He was the only Son begotten of the Father until the Father begat many other sons with the word of truth (joint-heirs with Christ) – Heb 1:6/Rev 1:5/John 3:16/1John 4:9/James 1:18/1John 5:1,18/1Pet 1:3/Heb 1:5,6/5:5. Eternal Word existed in God (the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one - 1 John 5:7); He is neither created nor begotten, He exists. The Word was God – John 1:1. Please keep in mind that what we are dealing with here is still a mystery and even if we try to decipher the Godhead for millenniums, we would not be able to comprehend the Mystery of godliness in Christ in its entirety. As I am trying to unwrap this mystery like anyone else did, know that I am doing this with the mind of a pupil or a child. Until and unless the restitution of all things takes places, and sin is done away with, and that our vile body be fashioned like unto His glorious body---none of the temporal minds would be able to fully understand the Godhead. And in his search for truth, some would end up being called heretical. The Pharisees of the first Century called Jesus a heretic/blasphemous and his followers a sect, didn’t they? Matt 26:65/Acts 24:14 - KJV
Certainly there are destructive heresies (2 Peter 2:1/1Cor 11:19) that, we must reprimand. There is also a bright side to heresies. Apostle Paul said, When I was a child (spiritual infant – 1Pet 2;2/1Cor 3:1-3), I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man (mature in spirit – Heb 5:13:14), I put away childish things (1Cor 13:11). I thank God that He did not let me publish many of my articles, which I had written during my weaning stage. I hope you understand what I am trying to convey! So don’t be hasty to conclude a man or woman as evil; we don’t know whether they are in the weaning stage and are still accepted in the beloved.
WARNING: But there are false apostles, deceitful workers out there, who have transformed themselves into the apostles of Christ—they are ministers of Satan, which masquerades as ministers of righteousness – 2Cor 11:13-15 – to beguile and draw away disciples from following sound doctrine.
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth – H.G. Wells
The Son of Man, the human person that the word of God incarnated into (the hypostatic union) is of the earth – the body that he took upon is from an earthly lineage. He has a lineage according to the flesh. He is the fruit of David’s loins – Hard to digest? Believe the word of God.
The Son of God is introduced to the creature right after the incarnation – if we carefully study, we could see that the begotten phase began by incarnation. Note also that Jesus is not a name, per se, but a title whose meaning is “Yahweh saves”. Until then the second person of the Godhead remained as the Word of God. The begotten factor can only be appropriated to a creature. The Son of Man is identified with the creature. But the Word of God, who was with God is the Creator Himself. Before incarnation, the Godhead was: The Father, The Word, The Holy Ghost – these three are One. But after the word of God took upon the sinful flesh for the purpose of redeeming mankind from the shackles of sin and from the power of Satan, the immutable Godhead had a slight change of positioning within the Godhead. That is now the word had taken upon a mortal body – the Word of God (Rev 19:13) took upon him the form of a servant (Philippians 2:7).
The Scriptures agree that the Son of Man has a beginning. The man of Galilee is born after the Adamic proportion. In all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren (Hebrews 2:17). Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same (Hebrews 2:14) – that he might taste death for us – Heb 2:9. In incarnation, the son of Mary had to be taught obedience, and battle sin, sickness, overcome the world and Satan and be made perfect like anyone of us would – Heb 2:10/ 5:8,9/4:15/2:18. He was not an exception in the natural until the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him (Luke 2:40) – until he came to the realization that he is an exception. This knowing that: “I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world” (John 16:28), is a bold, unabashed statement was not a knowledge that the he possessed from childhood but that which is imparted by the Spirit of His Father – Listen to this: Jesus KNOWING (eido – perceived, discovered) that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God (John 13:3). Therefore, doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father (John 10:17,18). The Father who dwelt in the Son through His Spirit gave him the knowledge of who he is and his real identity.
This incarnation process was like an operation done by God, like He did to Adam, that God put Adam into a deep sleep to create Eve. The last Adam too, the word of God had to go through a phase like Adam in incarnation, which only God understand to build Himself a tabernacle of men. Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord (1 Cor 11:11) – This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church (Eph 5:32).
Though it has been said that God gave His Son, it was a mutual consented plan of redemption. You see how submissive Isaac was when Abraham took him to sacrifice! And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? (Genesis 22:7). Abraham bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood (Genesis 22:9) – we don’t read that Isaac had protested at all—which typifies that in God’s decision to redeem mankind, He had to sacrifice His own Son—when He was oppressed, when he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth (Isaiah 53:7). He submitted to the will of His Father. I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me (John 5:30). Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:7,9). On the other hand, as the habitation of man was what the WISDOM of God delighted in the most – Proverbs 8:30,31/1Cor 1:24 – and there is no disunity in the Godhead, it was also the will of the word of God to come and save us. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (Phil 2:6,7). I lay down my life (John 10:17) – No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself (John 10:18).
Begotten not made: Made refers only to inanimate objects, as being made. ‘Begotten’ carries with it the sense of being the product of sexual reproduction.
While the incarnate Jesus was the Son of God—and Mary as His human mother, he was NOT the product of sexual intercourse. Additionally, since we also believe that God the Son has an eternal existence preceding His earthly incarnation, and ‘proceeding’ from God the Father, what can ‘begotten’ mean in that sense?
Or, perhaps the line simply refers to the fact that Christ was never ‘made’, in the sense that He always existed, bur rather assumed earthy form by being ‘begotten’ of God the Father and the Virgin Mary?
A human begets a human.
A human makes a chair.
Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son (Genesis 5:3)
Jesus was not the outcome of God and Mary’s sexual union as many propound, which is blasphemy, but the Bible is clear that the omniscient, omnipotent Spirit of God formed the physical body of Jesus—from the lineage of the holy line of human descend. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda (Heb 7:14). How, might you ask? God, who quickens the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were (Rom 4:17). The body of Christ is the fruit of the loins of David, period. It ought to be! David, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne (Acts 2:30) – The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne (Psalm 132:11) – Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh (Romans 1:3) – many Jewish people knew this: Thou Son of David, have mercy on me (Luke 18:39). That is why it is been said that God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom 8:3). It was incumbent that he be made (Being made – Heb 1:4) like unto us that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted (Heb 2:17,18) – and that he might taste death for us – Heb 2:9. Without taking upon himself a sinful flesh, from the lineage of his sinful fathers, Jesus could not have had tasted death. If his body were perfect, the whole Scripture would contradict, and we could not rely on him as a person who could understand us in everything. But the truth is that He did leave his God state and took upon him a lowly state to experience death for all men. And God made him, who knew no sin to be SIN for us – 2 Cor 5:21. It is a mystery to us since there are two natures in one person (Jesus Christ) – one person yet two natures (divine and human). Only the Holy Spirit could have created such a being as Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man. The Supreme Being!
The right belief is the Hypostatic Union, which states that Jesus is entirely God and totally man (Col. 2:9), and that he did not relinquish any divine traits while on earth. Though some translations of the Bible says that He emptied Himself – Phil 2:6,7 – it is not proper to think that He desist from being divine. He is without change, confusion, division, or separation – wholly God and totally man; the enigma that has been buried for centuries. One natural human.
Didn’t Jesus say, no one can take it away from me? – John 10:18/John 1/5:26/8:58/14:9/Acts 7:37-39/Hebrews 1:3/1John 5:20/Titus 2:13/2Cor 3:17.
The term “firstborn” (prototokos) has a biological connotation: “And she gave birth to her firstborn son, wrapping him in swaddling cloths” (Luke 2:7). However, it can also signify dignity and primacy in a nonbiological sense!
Psalm 89:27 God says of the one who will sit on David’s throne, He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also, I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth – Psalm 89:26-27. See, this term “Son of God” did not exist until the incarnation. When he brings in the first-begotten into the world (Heb 1:6) – when the fulness of the time was come, the son was made of a woman, made under the law (Gal 4:4) – the word of the oath, which was since the law (The Covenant is backed by God’s promise that it will last forever. God will never withdraw or change his mind about these promises because of the pledge – Hebrews 6:16-18/7:18-22 – and that), makes the Son (Hebrews 7:28). This day have I begotten thee. I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son (Hebrews 1:5). And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore, also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God (Luke 1:35). Doesn’t this mean that he was not a son before? Undoubtedly! This is so clear that the Word of God was God, and the Son and Father relationship began with incarnation. Does this mean that the Son of Man pre-exist? The Son of man is begotten and is the first-born of every creature, as he was predetermined before the foundation of the world (the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world – Revelation 13:8) – but the Word of God coexists with the Father. Though the “Sonship” was intended in God (Plurality of God – The Father, The Word, The Spirit) before time began, it was made manifest only 2000 years ago. But now is made manifest (Romans 16:26/Col 1:26/ 2Tim 1:10/1John 1:2). By incarnation, the Creator Himself had become a mysterious Divine Creature, so to speak (an unfamiliar kind – the hypostatic union of God and Man – the combination of divine and human natures in the single person of Christ – or the union of Christ’s humanity and divinity in one hypostasis, or individual existence)—and it was proposed before the beginning of time or before any creation; hence we could conjecture that he (the Son of man taken from man, the seed of Abraham – Gal 3:16 – in Isaac shall thy seed be called – Hebrews 11:18 – Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure – Hebrews 11:19 – see the holy line of descend – The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham – Matthew 1:1) thus become the first-born of every creature. The Son of God is the Wisdom and Power of God – 1Cor 1:24/Pro 8:12-31, whose name is the Word of God – Rev 19:13. The Son of man (the man Jesus Christ) is the seed of Abraham, the fruit of David’s loins, from the tribe of Judah. Hence, Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. Believe it!
According to Leviticus 25:48-49 – he should be a kinsman redeemer – Our redeemer kinsman – only a kinsman can redeem us – so he has to come from the same lineage of Adam – the Bible says of “the lineage of Jesus” – and this proves that His body is taken from man – of the tribe of Judah.
For both he that sanctifies, and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren – Hebrews 2:11-12
Before incarnation, it was the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. After the resurrection, it is, in the name of the Father, the Son (the divine human) and the Holy Ghost. Difference is that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us – John 1:14. Before the fulness of the Godhead was in the Father, but it pleased the Father that in Jesus Christ should all fullness dwells – Col 1:19/2:9.
Express image:
This everlasting God has always had a perfect picture of himself (Col 1:15), a perfect brightness of his essence (Heb 1:3), a perfect stamp or imprint of his nature (Heb 1:3), and a perfect form or expression of his splendor (Heb 1:3), according to the Bible (Phil 2:6).
I would postulate that God the Word is coeternal with God the Father and equal in essence and glory but the Son of God, who was taken from man is the begotten of God (the firstborn among many brethren – Romans 8:29). The Spirit of Christ (the Anointed, the Messiah, the Son of Man) is the divine “Word of God” – Rev 19:13 – Now the Lord is that eternal Spirit – 2 Cor 3:17 – the second man is the Lord from heaven (1 Cor 15:47). To me, it was a natural man that died to redeem man. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me (Heb 10:5). It was expedient that one MAN should die for the people (John 11:50/18:14) – by the obedience of one MAN (the MAN Jesus Christ – Rom 5:15/1Tim 2:5) shall many be made righteous (Romans 5:19).
Those who would not attest to this truth is in the position of claiming that Jesus Christ did not come in the flesh. And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God (1 John 4:3). Otherwise, we would make him a liar. The truth is, he hath conformed unto his brethren
Though the Word of God coexists with the Father and with the Holy Ghost, and for the purpose of redemption, the Word had to renounce His first estate and become a servant – along with the relinquishment also came the positioning himself as a Son. He had to go through the process of being begotten of God. Now the word of God is not only a Spirit but a Man as well. Mankind now has a Divine Human King whose kingdom shall never be destroyed – Daniel 2:44 – whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom – Daniel 7:27. That eternal Spirit is the Lord from heaven or the Word of God – 2Cor 3:17/1Cor 15:47, but the Man Jesus Christ (human-being) is the Son of David. Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be (future continuous – the speaker has the intention) to him a Father, and he shall be (the expression of propositions about the future (future tense) – describes an obligation or requirement) to me a Son? (Heb 1:5) Apart from that, the Word is uniquely/solely God. The idea of Sonship and the plan of redemption was in God before the world began, even before the fall and according to God, the Lamb was slayed from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8). Before the fall of man, the heavens got polluted by the rebellious angels, hence, heavens are not clean in his sight (Job 15:15/Heb 9:23). Ergo, God knew beforehand (the foreknowledge of God – 1 Peter 1:2) what would take place and pre-determined things. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (Rom 8:29,30/Eph 1:5,11). Christ, a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you (1 Peter 1:19,20) Because God is present in the past, present and future at the same time. The future is in Him. When He took upon the form of man, YHWH had to give the Son a name according to man, and that name should have the meaning of “YHWH Saves” – so he would be called Jesus or Emmanuel (God with us – Matt 1:21,23). The name Jesus is taken from man; it wasn’t the name of God. The genealogies reveal that the name “Jesus” was a derivation of Joshua. Jesus in Hebrew is “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua (a shortened version of the name Yehoshua or Joshua and is the literal Hebrew word for Salvation).
The foreknowledge of God: And God doesn’t just know things as they happen. He has always known them. Already before the world began, God knew every last detail about the world as it would be right now. It is all factored into his eternal plan and purpose. God’s knowledge of past and present is complete and exact, and so is his knowledge of the future. God sees it all before it happens. Nothing can ever catch God by surprise. He already knows it all, has included it in his plan, and directs every detail in a way that serves his own good goal for his world – David Feddes
When it is said that all things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made (John 1:3) – this is about the Word, who was God. The preexisting Christ, the Word of God. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist – Col 1:16-17. The Word of God is the great I AM.
One could also argue that the Son had a kingdom – the kingdom of his dear Son (Col 1:13) – Understand that the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of God are two distinct things. Jesus Christ himself said, the kingdom of God is nigh at hand (Luke 21:31). If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you (Matthew 12:28). So, the kingdom of God is spiritual in nature – Rom 14:17. But the kingdom of Christ must be inherited through birth (born of God) – Eph 5:5/2Pet 1:11/Rev 11:15 – the Father hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son (Col 1:13). So, you see only the elect of God (by the regeneration of the Holy Ghost – born of the Spirit – born of water and of the Spirit – John 3:5) get to experience—could inherit this kingdom. And ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem – To the general assembly and church of the firstborn (Heb 12:21,22) – the royal priesthood and a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9). Christ hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father (Revelation 1:6/5:10) – No ye know why he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS (Revelation 19:16).
On the other hand, the Heavenly kingdom (the Divine government), whose King is God Almighty, has a physical government that is distinct from that of the spiritual world. It is exhaustive, ubiquitous in nature — even the most trivial things are under His control, not to mention that which appears to be unattainable – Prov 16:33. “The plan of him who works out everything in line with the purpose of his will,” the Bible says (Eph 1:11). A little bird, according to Jesus, can’t plummet to the ground unless it’s God’s will (Matthew 10:29) – the very hairs of your head are all numbered (Matthew 10:30). God is depicted as the King of the Universe in both the Old and New Testaments.
The Heidelberg Catechism, describes thus: “Providence is the Almighty and ever-present power of God by which he upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful years and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty––all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but from his fatherly hand.”
A servant cannot inherit but a son can – And the servant abides not in the house for ever: but the Son abides ever (John 8:35). Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ (Gal 4:7). Because ye are sons (by birth), God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father (Gal 4:6). And only those that get inducted into the kingdom of God’s Son get to experience the spiritual life (all spiritual blessings – Eph 1:3) of the kingdom of God, which are, righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Both kingdoms work in tandem. When, did this kingdom come, one might ask? After the accuser of the brethren was cast down – Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God, day and night (Revelation 12:10). Jesus Christ having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it (Colossians 2:15) – bound the strong man and spoiled his goods – Matt 12:28,29/Mark 3:27. Through death he destroyed (incapacitated) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil (Heb 2:14). Now Jesus Christ possesses the keys of hell and of death (Revelation 1:18).
The Word who was with God, who was God (the wisdom and the power of God – 1Cor 1:24) descended, abased, humbled, declassed, relegated himself and had become a creature – to be classified as the firstborn of every creature (Col 1:15). And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Phil 2:8) – “Death of the cross was reserved for only the worst of criminals. And despite your crimes, this method of execution was too abhorrent. Why it’s so humiliating? While the crucifixion is being carried out, you are completely naked (shame – Heb 12:2). Before being nailed to the cross, you would be flogged, whipped with pieces of leather that had small pieces of metal and stones attached (Matthew 27:26/Mark 15:15/John 19:1); not to mention, the nails would break your ligaments, bones and nerves. Usually, the bodies of Jewish crucifixion victims were thrown out with the rubbish, not buried, but left in a gully outside Jerusalem called Gehenna to be burnt with the rest of the rubbish.
Both kingdoms are in its spiritual form, so to speak. But the day is coming when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 11:15). I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him (a future event) dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. (Daniel 7:13,14). Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom (Daniel 7:22) – the “Stone kingdom of Christ”- the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth (Daniel 2:35).
I am the root and the offspring of David (Revelation 22:16). And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (Luke 1:69). He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David (according to the flesh)(Luke 1:32)
David in spirit call him Lord (Matthew 22:43)
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1)
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. (Zechariah 13:1)
Jesus was born (Matthew 2:1) – Where is he that is born King of the Jews? (Matthew 2:2) – I have exalted one chosen out of the people (Psalm 89:19) – I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth (Psalm 89:27) – He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation (Psalm 89:26) – For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; TODAY I have become your Father? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”? And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
I have sworn unto David my servant, (Psalm 89:3) – Thy seed (fruit of his loins according to the flesh) will I establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations (Psalm 89:4)
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him (Proverbs 8:22-30)
In fact, seven centuries before Jesus’ birth, God sent out a birth announcement through the prophet Micah, stating that the ruler of God’s people, someone of eternal origin, would be born in Bethlehem – But thou, Beth–lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (Micah 5:2)
If you claim that Jesus’ body was not taken from man and that his body is heavenly and sinless; then Adam who was created by God had to be better than Jesus of Nazareth as he didn’t even come out of a womb and had no earthly father. The Bible, in another place, even calls Adam “the son of God” (Luke 3:38). But Jesus had a lineage; prove me wrong! It was, indeed, a deplorable lineage (according to the Scriptures, incest, prostitution, adultery, and murder were all part of Jesus’ extended familial tree). Even Adam was not created perfect as he was taken from the earth, he had a proclivity to fall, rebel, transgress, be tempted. Adam did not have a glorious body as many presume but he could eat of the tree of life and live forever. It was an earthly body that he possessed. But the children of God shall receive a glorified body which doesn’t need to be sustained by eating of the tree of life as Adam had to. The glorified body is incorruptible, eternal, and heavenly.