The Puritans landed at Plymouth Rock November 1620. Present-day descendants—amounting to at least hundreds in America—remember their ancestors as the original European settlers of New England. In 1992, a Connecticut family still farmed land their ancestors owned and on which they had grown food for General Washington's army. They still remember their origins.
The ancestry of Jesus deserves far more attention than it gets. This blog contains 3 of at least 9 spiritual lessons we can learn from Matthew's account, 1:1-17. One, each Gospel writer had a distinct purpose:
Two, as Hebrews 9:15 teaches:
Jesus literally sundered history into B.C. and A.D. which liberals today try to ignore by referring to A.D. as B.C.E.—before the common era. Their problem is, B.C. and A.D. don't constitute a simple equation. For without Christ's birth, ministry, death and resurrection ALL HISTORY would to this day be characterized by:
IF JESUS had not been BORN! Third, the genealogies prove Adam:
...the last regaining it by perfect obedience to God. Jesus as the LAST Adam to eliminate sin means no human WORKS can be the basis of entering Heaven. That obliterates the usual, "I'm a good person" explanation why people will get to Heaven. End Part I
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