@kjw47,
Kjw47 wrote…… She was a virgin.
The Anointed responds…… She certainly was a virgin before the act by which she conceived the biological son of Joseph the son of Heli, AKA as Alexander Helios III, which child she named Jesus, who was born in the years of great political turmoil in Israel, the Zealots were planning ways to free their nation from the yoke of Roman rule.
When Mary was about seven years old, her father, who was a Davidic and Hasmonean prince, called Alexander Helios III, was executed, in the world where many Davidian aspirants, as the “young lions of Judah”, were eliminated by the cruel and tyrannical King Herod the Great. It is believed that she was then taken North to a town called Nazareth, ln the land of Galilee, where she was raised under the protection of the Jewish Zealots, whose aim it was, to throw off the yoke of Roman rule and establish a descendant of King David, back on the throne of Israel, while her elderly mother ‘Hanna/Anna’ the elderly daughter of Yehoshua/Jesus III, who was the high priest in Jerusalem from 36 to 23 BC and whose mother was ‘Phanuel’ from the tribe of Asher, remained in Jerusalem, where she never left the Temple, day and night worshiping God.
Yehoshua/Jesus III, the great grandfather of Jesus, is believed to have been murdered at the orders of Herod the Great three years before the birth of his grand-daughter Mary in 20 B.C..
The sonless Yehoshua, had three daughters, Joanna, Elizabeth and Anna/Hanna, whose mother was from the tribe of Asher. The second daughter of Yehoshua III, was Elizabeth. This was the Elizabeth, who, at a very advanced age was to become the mother of John the Baptist in 7 BC, a year before the birth of Jesus and some 16 years after the death of her father ‘Yehoshua/Jesus III,’ in 23 BC. We are not told how old Elizabeth was when she fell pregnant with John the Baptist, but it was seen as some sort of a miracle by the family and friends of Elizabeth who gathered at her home to rejoice with her, in the fact that God had opened her womb in her old age.
It is
MHO that Joseph the son of Heli a step-son to Hanna the sister of Elizabeth and biological father of Jesus, was among the family and friends that had gathered at the home of Elizabeth.
The young 13 years old Mary, was a Parthenos
(An unmarried female) when she was visited by a messenger of God in Nazareth of Galilee, who told her that her aged aunty was six months pregnant and that she herself would, in the future become pregnant and bear a Son who would be the heir to the throne of his ancestor King David, and Mary said; ‘How can that be, as I have never had sex with any man. In saying that, Mary denoted that she was still a virgin at that particular point in time.
After that visitation, the young 13 years old Mary with her Zealot Chaperone, then travelled from Nazareth in the north to the small obscure village in the hilly region of Judaea south of Jerusalem to the home of her aunty Elizabeth, some 150 kilometres away, which was a four to five day walk. And as Mary walked through the door of her auntie's home, Elizabeth cried out in a loud voice; ‘’Blessed are you among women and blessed is the child you will bear! (
This was before Mary was even pregnant) Why should this great thing happen to me, that my Lord’s (
King’s) mother comes to visit me------- How happy you are to believe that the Lord’s message will come true (
that you will become pregnant and bear as son, who God will make KING like his genetic ancestor David was).
The only way that Elizabeth could have known what the message was that MARY received some 150 kilometres away while she was still in Nazareth, was if she was a part of the Zealot’s conspiracy and that Joseph, the SON of Alexander Helios an heir to the throne of David, was waiting there among the friends and relatives of Elizabeth and three months later, after the birth of John the Baptist when Mary returned to Nazareth she was found to be pregnant with the child Jesus, who according to Luke, was the biological son of Joseph the Son Heli AKA Alexander Helios III.
If Herod the Great, were to discover that Jesus was an heir to the throne of King David, he would have had him eliminated as he did with his grandfather ‘Heli’. And it was for this reason I believe, that the Zealots married the pregnant Mary off to Joseph the son of Jacob from the cursed genetic line of Jehoiachin of who it is said in
Jeremiah 22: 30; “This man is condemned to lose his children, to be a man who will never succeed. He will have no descendants who will rule in Judah as David's successors. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
The priests of Herod the Great would never see a son of Joseph ben Jacob as a threat to Herod’s rulership.
Forty one days after the birth of Jesus, when Mary brought her firstborn son from Bethlehem to the Temple in Jerusalem to perform the ceremony of purification according to the law of Moses, Hanna/Anna, the grandmother of Jesus, whose mother was Phanuel of the tribe of ASHER was there at the Temple, she was an old woman of 84 years who had been married to Alexander Helios the father of Mary for seven years before he was murdered at the command of Herod the Great.
Like her sister Elizabeth she too was an old woman of 70 years when she married Heli who was murdered seven years later in 13 B.C. when she was seventy seven and in six B.C. two years before the death of Herod the Great in four B,C, when she was 84, her grandson Jesus was born and holding her grandson she spoke of him to all who were seeking the
REDEMPTION of Israel.
REDEMPTION…… the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt:
When Jesus was about thirty years of age, he came to John, his mother’s cousin to be baptised, but at first John refused, deeming himself unworthy to baptise his cousin’s SON,,,,’
WHY?’ John didn’t know at that point in time that Jesus was the man chosen by the Lord God our saviour from among the Israelites, who He was going to fill with his spirit, in fact John didn’t know that, until after he had baptised Jesus and had seen the spirit descend up him in the form of a dove and heard the heavenly voice say, ‘
You are my Son THIS DAY I have begotten thee.’
But John did believe that from a baby, his cousin’s Son ‘Jesus’ was being groomed to become the promised Messianic King of Israel and while John was in prison, just before he was beheaded by Herod Antipas, he sent two of his disciples to Jesus, who asked him, ‘Are you really the one that John said was to come, or should we expect another.’ This was the reason why John first believed that he was not worthy enough to baptise his future
KING.
That promise still holds, for He is soon to return with those of the first resurrection who, like Jesus, were given authority over the nations, to rule them with an iron rod and to break them to pieces like clay pots, See Revelations 2, 26-28, and establish his thousand years rule from Jerusalem.
It is he of who Isaiah spoke in 63, 1-6; “Who is this coming from the city of Bozrah in Edom? Who is this so splendidly dressed in red, marching in power and strength?” “It is the LORD, powerful to save, coming to announce his victory.”
“Why is his clothing so red, like that of someone who tramples grapes to make wine?”
The LORD answers, “I have trampled the nations like grapes, and no one came to help me. I trampled them in my anger, and their blood has stained all my clothing. I decided that the time to save my people had come; it was time to punish their enemies. I was amazed when I looked and saw that there was no one to help me. But my anger made me strong, and I won the victory myself. In my anger I trampled whole nations and shattered them. I poured out their lifeblood on the ground.”