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| JOSEPH-1 ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES | ||||||||
| {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted.} | ||||||||
| 1.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:1,2,6,16 - The family tree of Jesus Christ, David's son, Abraham's son:� Abraham had Isaac, Isaac had Jacob, Jacob had Judah and his brothers....Jesse had David, and David became king.� David had Solomon....Jacob had Joseph, Mary's husband, the Mary who gave birth to Jesus, the Jesus who was called Christ. | ||||||||
| 2.� THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:1-3, 14a [NIV] - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.� He was with God in the beginning.� Through him all things were made [spoken into existence]....The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. | ||||||||
| 3.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:18a -� The birth of Jesus took place like this.� His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. | ||||||||
| 4.� There is no evidence Joseph was a much older man as some traditions say, and that he died when Jesus was a young child.� When Jesus was 32 years old and now living in Capernaum, some distance north of Nazareth where he grew up, the people said this:� THE BIBLE, JOHN 6:42 - "Isn't this the son of Joseph?� Don't we KNOW [present tense] his father?� Don't we know his mother?" | ||||||||
| 5.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:18b - Before they came to the marriage bed, Joseph discovered she was pregnant.� (It was by the Holy Spirit, but he didn't know that.) | ||||||||
| 6.� SCIENCE NEWS, FEBRUARY 6, 1993, PP. 84-85 - Not only does physical work during stress help heal a broken spirit, but wood itself has physical healing properties.� At the University of Wisconsin, both wood and plastic were injected with food poisoning agents.� Overnight, the plastic still contained the bacteria.� But 99% of the bacteria had died on the wood.� Wood has anti-bacterial properties not found in any man-made material.� Whether the wood is old or new does not seem to matter.� THE BIBLE, Leviticus 15:12 (Part of the Law of Moses) - Any earthen pot touched by the defiled man must be broken, but every wooden utensil must be rinsed in water. | ||||||||
| 7.� Abortion was not actually considered by Joseph.� This is inserted to help the reader identify with what Joseph went through, especially as it applies to men today, as well as the consequences to mankind of such action. | ||||||||
| 8.� TIME, NOVEMBER 7, 1994, PAGE 61 - The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington followed 1800 women over a seven-year-period.� The study revealed that having an abortion raises the risk of contracting breast cancer by 50%.� If the woman was under 18, the risk of getting breast cancer increased by 800%. | ||||||||
| 9.� THE BIBLE, DEUTERONOMY 22:13-14, 20-21; 24:1 - If a man marries a girl, then after sleeping with her accuses her of having had premarital intercourse with another man, saying, "She was not a virgin when I married her....the judges shall take the girl...the men of the city shall stone her to death....If a man doesn't like something about his wife, he may write a letter stating that he has divorced her, giving her the letter, and send her away.� [NOTE:� In ancient times and in most civilizations, the engagement was legally binding, with the wedding only being the consummation of the marriage and a celebration.] | ||||||||
| 10.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:19 - Joseph, chagrined but noble, determined to take care of things quietly so Mary would not be disgraced. | ||||||||
| 11.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 20:20 -� While he was trying to figure a way out, he had a dream.� God's angel spoke in the dream:� "Joseph, son of David, don't hesitate to get married.� Mary's pregnancy is Spirit-conceived.� God's Holy Spirit has made her pregnant." | ||||||||
| 12.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:21a - She will bring a son to birth... | ||||||||
| 13.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:21b -� "...and when she does, you, Joseph, will name him Jesus--'God saves'--because he will save his people from their sins." | ||||||||
| 14.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:22-23 - This would bring the prophet's embryonic sermon to full term:� "Watch for this--a virgin will get pregnant and bear a son; they will name him Emmanuel" [Hebrew for "God is with us"]. | ||||||||
| 15.� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 7:14 (Predicted about 700 years before Jesus) - All right then, the Lord himself will choose the sign--a child shall be born to a virgin!� And she shall call him Immanuel (meaning, "God is with us"). | ||||||||
| 16.� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 1:24 - Then Joseph woke up.� He did exactly what God's angel commanded in the dream: �He married Mary. | ||||||||