Learning about one’s ancestry is big business these days. For a few dollars, I can go online and discover long-lost aunts and uncles and reconstruct my genealogy. While Matthew’s genealogy does provide us with some historical insight, it is far more concerned with the narrative of redemption attached to each name. Each person Matthew includes, whether it’s Asa or Shealtiel, is tied to a story, a story that may have seemed insignificant at the time but is actually part of God’s glorious plan of redemption. God has worked through every person in the Old Testament to prepare the way for the
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