Heir to the throne of David

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How can Jesus, who was born of the tribe of Levi, be a legitamte heir to the throne of David? Even though, according to Torah, the adoption of the Levite child, by Joseph the son of Jacob from the royal line of the tribe of Judah, gave Jesus the right to claim the throne of David.

it is my belief that Joseph, after siring a son to Mary, who was named after himself, (Joseph the brother or half brother to Jesus) Joseph, of the tribe of Judah then divorced Mary and brought his son up in the town of Arimathea, thereby negating any claim that Jesus apparently had to the throne of King David. But perhaps the legitimate claim of Jesus to the throne of David may come through another source.

Tamar, was a female descendant of Solomon, and her 1st marriage was to Naria from the house of Nathan the priest of the tribe of Levi, who was a stepson to David and half brother to Solomon, as they were both the sons of Bathsheba.
Tamar bore two sons to Naria, who were adopted by her 2nd husband, “King Jechonias/Jeconiah.�

The only biological son of ‘King Jeconiah and Tamar,’ was Zedekiah, who died prematurely in his childhood. The children of Naria of the tribe of Levi, had no legal claim to the throne of King David from the tribe of Judah, but being adopted by King Jeconiah of the tribe of Judah, the sons of Naria (Who were the brethren, ‘Stepsons’ of Jeconiah) were then, according toTorah law, legitimate heirs to the throne of David.

“Jesus,� is a descendant of Nathan, and Nathan is the biological son of Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite, who became a member of the tribe of Levi by his marriage to Bathsheba the daughter of Ammiel, the son of Obed-edom a descendant of Moses, of the house of Levi, and Jesus was made high priest by the Lord, with these words, “You are my son TODAY I have become your Father� see Hebrew 5: 5.
But through Sabathiel, “the son of Naria the Levite and Tamar,� (See Luke 3: 27.) who was the brethren/stepson of King Jeconiah (See Matthew 1: 11.), Jesus the high priest also has a legitimate claim to the throne of David.

Hebrew 5: 10; “And God declared him (Jesus) to be high priest in the line of succession to Melchizedek.� Melchizedek held the titles of both King and high priest. Hebrew 5: 5; “In the same way, Christ did not take upon himself the honor of being high priest. Instead, God said to him, ‘You are my Son; TODAY I have become your Father.’�

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How can Jesus, who was born of the tribe of Levi, be a legitamte heir to the throne of David? Even though, according to Torah, the adoption of the Levite child, by Joseph the son of Jacob from the royal line of the tribe of Judah, gave Jesus the right to claim the throne of David.

Please provide support for this claim. This is not according to Jewish law. The law about blood lines is very clear and strict in Judaism. An adopted child follows the blood line of their biological father, not their adopted father. The factors for the priesthood would go for the line of David also

From http://library.adoption.com/articles/an ... ition.html

Under traditional Jewish law, the child's biological father determines a child's statues as a Kohen or Levi. If the birth father is a Yisrael, a gentile or unknown, the adopted child is considered a Yisrael, and the status of the adoptive father as a Kohen or Levi does not affect the adopted child

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How can Jesus, who was born of the tribe of Levi, be a legitamte heir to the throne of David? Even though, according to Torah, the adoption of the Levite child, by Joseph the son of Jacob from the royal line of the tribe of Judah, gave Jesus the right to claim the throne of David.

Please provide support for this claim. This is not according to Jewish law. The law about blood lines is very clear and strict in Judaism. An adopted child follows the blood line of their biological father, not their adopted father. The factors for the priesthood would go for the line of David also

From http://library.adoption.com/articles/an ... ition.html

Under traditional Jewish law, the child's biological father determines a child's statues as a Kohen or Levi. If the birth father is a Yisrael, a gentile or unknown, the adopted child is considered a Yisrael, and the status of the adoptive father as a Kohen or Levi does not affect the adopted child

Taken from the link that you have supplied:

“The Talmud states, "Whoever brings up an orphan in his home is regarded...as thought the child had been born to him." (Sanhedrin 119b).� In other words, the adopted child is to be treated as a child born to the father of that house, and any child born to the father of a house of David, through Solomon, is a legitimate heir to the throne of King David.

This of course does not apply to a member of the tribe of Levi and particularly to a Kohen, who is required to be of direct Patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron; and it matters not if a child is born of an Israeli, a gentile of if the child’s biological father is of unknown origin, the status of the adoptive father, who is a Kohen or a Levite, does not affect the adopted child.

In Matthew 1; we see the genealogy of Joseph from the kingly tribe of Judah, who is the stepfather of Jesus the Levite. This genetic line is not that of Jesus the Levite, but of Joseph his stepfather, who had no sexual relations with Mary until she had given birth to Jesus the son of the Levite,"Joseph the son of Heli."
You do realise of course, that Joseph was a very common name in those days, as indeed it still is today?

Because Joseph the son of Jacob from the tribe of Judah, is a direct descendant of Salathiel (See Matthew 1: 12.) who is the biological son of Neri from the tribe of Levi, (See Luke 3: 27.) who was adopted by King Jeconiah, and is not of the cursed seed of Jeconiah, he, Joseph the stepfather of Jesus was a legitimate heir to the throne of Solomon the Son and heir of King David, and being the adopted son of one from the house of Solomon, Jesus the Levite who was made high priest, is also a legitimate heir to the throne of David.