Eventually I'm gonna start writing all the scripture first with my notes following but I didn't start out that way in my notebook and being kinda lazy right now I'm gonna type it out the same way.
The genealogy of Jesus. Matthew doesn't include everyone. He wanted generational sequences of 14 from Abraham to David to Babylon exile to Christ. I simply picked out a few things that stuck out at me.
Vs. 3 Tamar: Tamar's husband Er died. He was wicked so God killed him. His brother Omar took his place but he was wicked also and God killed him. He would pull out before he finished and let his semen fall on the ground. Judah, her father-in-law put her away but eventually she tricked him into sleeping with her and she got pregnant--so Judah and his daughter-in-law had Perez.
Vs. 5 Rahab: Rahab is the mother of Boaz. She is the prostitute who helped the spies Joshua sent into the promised land. Not an Israelite
Ruth: Ruth is the mother of Obed. She is a Moabitess. Another non-Israelite.
Maybe this is part of why the religious leaders had trouble accepting Jesus as the Messiah. How could the savior have impure blood? Although these foreigners were women, of the men in Jesus's line many of them were very wicked.
Vs. 21+22 It's interesting that Matthew says Jesus (the Lord Saves) fulfilled prophecy saying He would be called Emmanuel (God with us). Not that that's false, but what is so interesting is how many names Jesus has. Because, the religious leaders had studied scripture for hundreds of years to find all the clues that would lead them to the Messiah when He arrived. So God made it impossible for them to simply wait for the one person to show up who had the name Emmanuel because as we will see in the following chapters, Old Testament prophecy gave Him several different names. His birthplace or where He comes from is another interesting one as we will also see.
One of the fallacies of man is in studying the scripture under a microscope and then coming to concrete conclusions that aren't how God unfolds the story. This is one reason the religious leaders of the day missed who Jesus was. He didn't fit their plan. There is a literalness to God's word and there is a Spirit revealdness to God's word. Both are necessary for complete understanding. And by complete, I mean as much as God wants each of us to have. Would that be better if I said revealdidness? Can I copywrite those?
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