| Show students student s of prophets agreed jesus could actually be king of jews JERUSALEM students of the prophets said boday that the child born during the night in a manager in bethlehem might well be the long imig foretold king of the jews all of the prophecies concerning the tha coming of the promised one seem mohave to have been fulfilled in the manner of his birth one scholar of the word of god stated recalling He calling the promise of god to king david more than 1000 years ago that the saviour would be of his house a genealogist quickly checked the lineage of the babes parents and announced that joseph his father is a path generation defendant of king david and furthermore a generation descendant of abraham in fact the presence of joseph and mary the parents in bethlehem c came a m e as a result of caesar augus augustus tu a decree that all the world orld sh should out d be taxed for which purpose beach family has bone to its own ancestral city bethlehem is the city of the house horse of david the birth in bethlehem is further th er reason cited by the students of the prophets for be believing lievin g it to be in reality the fulfillment of I 1 gods promises micah of more afore who prophesied some years ago in the reigns of jothan asa and hezekiah Heze klah recorded but though bethlehem eph batah 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 |
