“Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.” – Matthew 1:17
In his book “52 Weeks with Jesus” author James Merritt wrote: “The actress Brooke Shields has quite an impressive family mosaic. Hanging from her family tree are the likes of Charlemagne, El Cid, William the Conqueror, the royal houses of virtually every European country, and five popes—prior to the twelfth-century imposition of celibacy!
She’s not unique, though.
Experts say that even without a documented connection to some notable ancestor, the odds are virtually 100 percent that every person on earth is descended from one royal person or another. It works the other way as well. Anyone who had children more than a few hundred years ago is likely to have millions of descendants today, quite a few of them famous.
You may be a royal blueblood right now and not even know it. You may have the blood of some king or queen flowing through your veins. In the genealogy of Jesus, God demonstrates that anyone can become a part of the greatest royal family of all—the family of not just a king, but the King of kings.”
Though some people have an interesting family tree, only Jesus is the son of Abraham and the son of David. Jesus Christ is the Promised Son. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He became a man, just as our Heavenly Father promised.
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.” – C.S. Lewis
God’s Word: “Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli … the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.” – Luke 3:23, 38
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