Category: The Life of Messiah
Head of the Household
By D. Thomas Lancaster
As a Son of David, His family lineage shaped His destiny and validated His claim to be the Messiah King of Israel. By raising a following of students, He stepped into the role of head of household over His school of disciples.
Yeshua never took a wife. He had no children. To view Him as a family man would seem to be a mischaracterization. He was too preoccupied with being the Savior of the world to take time for raising a family. The prophet Isaiah observes, "And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living" (Isaiah 53:8 NIV).
On closer examination, though, it becomes obvious that family relationship was at the center of Yeshua's identity while He walked among us, and His family roles continue to define our relationship to Him. His family in Nazareth occupied His primary concern during all but the last few years of His life. As a Son of David, His family lineage shaped His destiny and validated His claim to be the Messiah King of Israel. By raising a following of students, He stepped into the role of head of household over His school of disciples. By referring to Himself as the Son of God, He expressed His self-awareness chiefly in terms of a devoted son to His heavenly Father. Finally, through His exaltation, He has been revealed as the firstborn over the household of God, the head over Israel and the husband of the assembly of the redeemed. By better understanding Yeshua of Nazareth's familiar roles, we will better understand Him, His mission and His followers. And we will better comprehend our own place in the family of Yeshua.
The Son of Miriam and Yosef
Yeshua was born to a Jewish woman named Miriam (Mary), the wife of a Jewish man named Yosef. This pedigree has the obvious consequence of rendering Yeshua Jewish. He is a direct descendent of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The Gospels afford us only a few glimpses of the Master's fa...
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