Many Christians when they come in their Bible reading up to a genealogy they hit the fast forward button and pick up the reading on the other side of all those names. I understand that reading a biblical genealogy can feel a bit like reading the phone book. But it is not a phone book. And the genealogy tables are important to God’s over all purpose in communicating to us what he has done in redemptive history.
(1)For one thing the genealogy tables tell us that God’s plan is not mythology. God worked in history in the lives of real people who really lived in the space time continuum of history.
(2) For another thing the genealogy tables tell us that God’s people are not a number to God like we are to our government. I am a number to Uncle Sam and so are you. But the genealogy tables in the Bible tell us that we are names to God. Many of the names in these tables we know nothing about. But isn’t that the point. God knows these people and their names in these genealogy tables communicate something important to all of his people in history who have no name in this world. That may be true of you-but to be named by God and to have a place in the lambs book of life that is the grand thing!
We might ask but why this particular genealogy of our text and why in this place? The ESV Bible has the heading: The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron. But why are we given this genealogy here at this juncture when these men are 80 and 83 years of age respectively and not up front near the beginning of the book of Exodus? And what might we glean from this genealogy? These are the matters I wish to explore with you tonight.
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