The book of Matthew—and thus, the New Testament—begins with the remarkable genealogy of Jesus. Genealogies make tough reading, but put yourself in the writer’s position: Matthew wants to prove to his Hebrew people that Jesus is their long-awaited Messiah. Jesus’s ancestry is the logical place to start. “The historical record of Jesus Christ, the SonContinue reading “Today’s Math Problem. Matthew 1:1, 17.”
Category Archives: Genealogies
What’s With All These Ancestors and Family Trees? Ezra 2:59-62.
Americans do many things well: Space travel, radio and television transmissions, weather forecasting, computers, automobiles, jet flight, modern medicine, antibiotics. We have stopped polio in its tracks and rid the world of smallpox. But Ancient Israel did one thing better: RECORD KEEPING. The Bible includes the most detailed records of so many things. The writersContinue reading “What’s With All These Ancestors and Family Trees? Ezra 2:59-62.”
The Time Machine.
What if you could go back to the days of Job or Abraham? There are no written scriptures. Everything you know about the One True God came to you by word of mouth passed down through generations: stories about families and wars and the flood and animal sacrifices and a God who might be listeningContinue reading “The Time Machine.”
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