Fran Riedemann

Joseph of Nazareth Fran Riedemann

Somewhere, in the vastness of eternity, the plan of man's redemption was scripted. Before the earth's foundation was laid, the Son submitted to what would be his Father's greatest act of mercy. He would become the sacrificial substitute for all sin. He would offer himself in the stead of the fallen, identifying with them by becoming one with them.
The earthly mother who would bring him forth would provide Him with the human DNA that would connect him to the human species. The Spirit would fertilize the ovum. His blood would be divine. He would be part man and part God-immortality wrapped in human flesh.
Vital to the plan would be a human father who could be for him the model of a righteous Jewish man. A man who was raised to know and love the Scriptures, who loved and kept the law. He must be a man who lived to serve God and who believed in him implicitly-a man of prayer. He would grasp the prophetic significance of all that was before-the mystery of redemption hidden within the scrolls of Scripture, the law, the Torah, the prophets, and the covenants made with the Jewish people. He would look forward to the promise of a Messiah and grasp the reason he must come. That man would become the papa of the one coming to fulfill those prophecies. He would be one simple man, disciplined in godly obedience, who was willing to put aside everything and be the one to prepare God's Son for His divine destiny.