Exploring Jeremy Sexton’s and Henry Smith’s Rabbinic Forgeries Hypothesis

How many of you are familiar with the claim that  Jewish Rabbinic scholars forged Biblical history to obfuscate the identity of Yeshua (Jesus) as the Bible’s Messiah?

Regular readers of this blog will appreciate that these accusations are intriguingly intertwined with Old Testament chronology, the 70 Weeks prophecy, and the Biblical Jubilee – three subjects that I’m passionate about and that we’ve explored extensively here.

This week I’d like to look at the Rabbinic Forgeries Hypothesis from a perspective, that as far as I am aware, has not been explored before. I want to look at this subject in light of Yeshua’s (Jesus’) lineage as found in Matthew 1 because I believe this enigmatic list of names offers an important perspective of this ongoing controversy. But most importantly, as I hope to show, this controversy resolves itself in an amazing display of the congruency of Yahweh’s redemptive plan for mankind through Yeshua as described in His word. I hope you’ll stick with me here because I believe you’ll be thrilled at the implications of what we’ll discover. Continue reading →