Wile reading Max Lucado’s book, “This is Love”, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me something I never had considered before. The significance of Joseph, his earthly father and Joseph of Arimithea, one of Isreal’s religious leaders or “fathers”.
One led a simple materially poor life and was only able to provide a livestock shelter for Mary upon Jesus’s birth. The other Joseph who came later in Jesus’s life , was comfortably well-off, yet out of his love and reverence for Jesus, was able to offer Him a garden tomb for a rich man with 75 lb.’s of costly ointment- the amount used for anointing royalty. Joseph of Arimithea secretly realized Jesus was more than just some ordinary prophet.. He is the king of all Kings. the Number 75 is significant too. 7 + 5 = 12.. and the number twelve is an apostolic number representing not just disciples, but apostles of Jesus. Apostles are those who are…
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