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Friday, December 21, 2012

One of the things that has always intrigued me as I read the Biblical account of the Christmas story is how God pulled off fulfilling His promise down through the centuries.  

Let me explain what I mean by that. He first promised a Messiah millennia ago in the Garden of Eden. He had to work through fallen humanity over the centuries to end up with “the seed of the woman,” a singular individual, who would at the appointed time be the one who would “crush the head” of Satan. 
 
You have two genealogies in the Bible: Matthew 1 and Luke 3, which list the diverse personalities who became a part of the promised line that would end with “the seed of the woman.” 
 
There are five women in the genealogy found in Matthew 1. In the MacArthur Bible Commentary, John MacArthur writes: “It is unusual for women to be named in genealogies. Matthew names five: Tamar was a Canaanite woman who posed as a prostitute to seduce Judah (Gen. 38:13-30). Rahab (v. 5) was a Gentile and a prostitute (Josh. 2:1). Ruth (v. 5) was a Moabite woman (Ruth 1:3) and a worshipper of idols. Bathsheba (‘Uriah’s wife,’ v. 6) committed adultery with David (2 Sam. 11). And Mary (v. 16) bore the perceived stigma of pregnancy outside of wedlock. Each of these women is an object lesson about the workings of divine grace.” 
 
The record of the lives of many of the men listed in these two genealogies reveal how flawed they were. The fact that God worked good through such a list of fallen humanity is inherently what the Christmas story is all about. Never forget it.
 

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