Footnote 8: These family elders, as I have already described, were in their line of succession from the Patriarchs of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. By becoming Christians, they were brought into covenant unity with the House of David as represented by Jesus Christ and mediated by His brethren, James in particular. This eldership became one with the Desposynic eldership, through intermarriage, and was called "the Vine of David" (Didache) and the "Root" of the grafted branches (Romans 11:16) (see Biblical Midwifery). The "elders" mentioned at the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15 and elsewhere, were probably the heads of Desposynic families, as they were the families which embraced their Messiah first. In other words, the Desposyni were the elders of the remnant of Israel who became the elders of the Church in Palestine.

See also Biblical Terranomics #24 "Christian Reconstruction: Which Paradigm?"