Who was Jesus?

Who was Jesus?
From the treasures of my personal library.

When I was about 19 or 20 years old I read a book called “Jesus the Christ” . It has a many mystical views in it but there is one thing I rescue from my reading. I never refuse a book when it is offered to me. I never know what could be inside that book that maybe will be important to me some how. And I do not discard a book if I think it has something of value to me. This is the case of this book.When I read it, there was something in it that opened my eyes in a very big way. And I want to share that with you. If, you allow me to do so.

There is a big misunderstanding within religious groups about who Jesus really was.
For generations, it was thought that Jesus belonged to a poor family and that being a carpenter was only for the lower class.
Jesus was not poor. Being a carpenter in Jesus times was the equivalent as being a businessman today’s days. Jesus was a wealthy man.
But that is not the only mistake. People have been taught half-truths:
“Jesus had royal blood”.

“Two genealogical records purporting to give the lineage of Jesus are found in the New Testament, one in the first chapter of Matthew, the other in the third chapter of Luke. (…)
Matthew’s account is that of the royal lineage, establishing the order of sequence among the legal successors to the throne of David, while the account given by Luke is personal pedigree, demonstrating descent from David without adherence to the line of legal succession to the throne through primogeniture or nearness of kin. Luke’s record is regarded by many, as the pedigree of Mary, while Matthew’s is accepted as that of Joseph. (…) A personal genealogy of Joseph was essentially that of Mary also, for they were cousins. (…) Jesus, repeatedly addressed as Son of David, never repudiated the title but accepted it as rightly applied to Himself.
In all the persecutions (…) and accusations brought against him, no mention is found of even an insinuation he could not be the king through any ineligibility based on lineage.
Genealogy was assiduously cared for by the Jews before, during and after the time of Christ; …their national history was largely genealogical records; and any possibility of denying Jesus because of unattested descent would have been used to the fullest extent by insistent Pharisee, learned scribe, haughty rabbi, and aristocratic Sadducee.
At the time of Jesus’ birth, Israel was ruled by alien monarchs. The rights of royal Davidic family were unrecognized; and the ruler of the Jews was an appointee of Rome.
Had Judah been a free and independent nation, ruled by her rightful sovereign, Joseph the carpenter would have been her crowned king; and his lawful successor to the throne would have been Jesus of Nazareth”. (James E. Talmage)

Faby Anderson