God keeps His promises from generation to generation. They are not on our time but on His. We are drawing close to the Holy Season let’s all remember that Jesus is the reason behind the celebrations. We live because Jesus was born, was crucified and He rose again to conquer sin and death so that we don’t have to. God’s family is important to Him just like ours is important to us....our family can be broken in death but His family will last forever. The good news is that all of us can choose to be adopted into His family He comes to us with open arms and a forgiving heart waiting for us to ask Him for the salvation that only He can provide!
The genealogy is broken down into three groups of names with fourteen generations in each list. The name David in Hebrew has a numerical value of 14. Because the heading of the list is “Son of David”, Matthew may have been drawing attention to the Davidic emphasis in these names.
In the first group, the Davidic throne is established; in the second group, the throne is cast down and deported to Babylon; in the third group, the throne is confirmed in the coming of the Messiah. Further, a basic covenant is set forth in each of these three periods: the Abrahamic covenant in the first; the Davidic covenant in the second, and the New Covenant in the third.
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you—
The sure mercies of David.
2 Chronicles 21:7 Yet the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
Matthew 1:17
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations
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