01.01.2016 New Testament: Matt 1.2

To read the Bible in a year, read Matthew 1 on January 1, In the year of our Lord 2016

By Don Ruhl

After declaring that Jesus is the son of David, the son of Abraham, Matthew then went on to list the genealogy of Jesus, showing that He descended from Abraham, through David, and eventually Joseph and Mary. Matthew begins,

Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers (Matthew 1.2). 

The places that those three men hold in the Bible, in God’s scheme to redeem man, is phenomenal. That the Lord would use people like us through whom He would enter the world just amazes us. Do not ignore their part in bringing us salvation, and do not ignore the salvation that came through them.