Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 1:6b-15
by: Linda Lawton.
These verses, and the five and a half verses preceding them, carefully lay out the genealogy of Jesus Christ and the fact that He was in the lineage of King David. Jews in David’s line were very careful to preserve these genealogies, because they knew from Old Testament prophecies that one of their descendants would be the Messiah. Matthew intended to leave no doubt that Jesus was the Messiah. God laid this out from the beginning, and the entirety of Scripture, in one way or another, is the story of Jesus Christ. Praise Him!