Davar Kingdom Of God - The Blessings Of Sonship

A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, … Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, … Jesse the father of King David (Mat 1:1-5). Genealogies in the Bible are not given simply to show who the ancestors of the Jews were, but to show how the inheritance originated from God had been given to certain individuals, and then, handed down to a certain group of their descendants, and so on. In other words, the significance of genealogies lies in the passing of God's inheritance in the history of humankind. The reason that the above genealogy in Matthew begins with Abraham is that the original inheritance given to Adam at the creation was lost as a result of sin, but came to be renewed at the time of Abraham with the covenant God made with him promising that a nation of God's heirs would be built, and eventually the other peoples on earth woul