The Ancestry of David
THE ANCESTRY OF DAVID
Tonight (Wednesday, 11/02, 7:00 pm), gather with your Calvary Chapel family in the Holy Ground Cafe' or on our website (www.calvaryinv.com), Facebook, and Youtube (Calvary Inverness) as we continue with our three-year journey through the Bible (1 Chronicles 1-13).
The book 2 Kings concludes with the third and final Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem. The city was razed to the ground, including the Temple of Solomon. All the articles that were used in the worship of Jehovah were gathered and taken to a pagan temple in Babylon. The population was either murdered or taken captive. The nation chosen by God above all others lay in smoldering ruins. The prophet Jeremiah, the author of the books First and Second Kings, wrote in the book of Lamentations about the anguish he had to endure as he watched his beloved city destroyed. The Jews were violently removed from the promised land and taken to Babylon for seventy years.
After their captivity, the Lord opened the heart of Cyrus to proclaim a decree and send the Jews back to their land. When the first exiles returned, they saw their beloved city of Jerusalem lying in ruins. Many of them had lived prosperous lives in Babylon. So, why would they leave a life of comfort, make a dangerous journey and come to a land surrounded by nations that despised the Jews? The only answer is that God had placed in the heart of every Jew a connection with the land He had given them.
As the exiles began the tedious work of rebuilding the city and the temple, a need arose to give them the necessary spiritual strength so they would not quit due to exhaustion, famine, disease, and the constant threat of invasion. So, God put it on the heart of Ezra the priest to return with the exiles and write a spiritual commentary on the books of 1& 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings. He began with the bloodline of the Jews, beginning with Adam and finishing with David the King.
Though it makes reading laborious, the genealogies are an essential part of our Bible; it gives us complete confidence that Israel belongs to the Jews due to God's covenant with David (2 Samuel 7:1-17). And one of his descendants who would ascend to his throne for eternity is Jesus Christ.
Matthew, a tax collector whose life was transformed by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, took up the mantle of Ezra when writing the Gospel of Matthew. He began his book by writing, "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity, in Babylon, until the Christ are fourteen generations" (Matt 1:1,17).
Please pray that this three-year journey through the Word of God will be received by open hearts that long to grow in the Grace and Knowledge of Jesus. And He would do deep and practical Work in and through us for a world in desperate need of a Savior.
In His Strong Love,
Pastor
Tonight (Wednesday, 11/02, 7:00 pm), gather with your Calvary Chapel family in the Holy Ground Cafe' or on our website (www.calvaryinv.com), Facebook, and Youtube (Calvary Inverness) as we continue with our three-year journey through the Bible (1 Chronicles 1-13).
The book 2 Kings concludes with the third and final Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem. The city was razed to the ground, including the Temple of Solomon. All the articles that were used in the worship of Jehovah were gathered and taken to a pagan temple in Babylon. The population was either murdered or taken captive. The nation chosen by God above all others lay in smoldering ruins. The prophet Jeremiah, the author of the books First and Second Kings, wrote in the book of Lamentations about the anguish he had to endure as he watched his beloved city destroyed. The Jews were violently removed from the promised land and taken to Babylon for seventy years.
After their captivity, the Lord opened the heart of Cyrus to proclaim a decree and send the Jews back to their land. When the first exiles returned, they saw their beloved city of Jerusalem lying in ruins. Many of them had lived prosperous lives in Babylon. So, why would they leave a life of comfort, make a dangerous journey and come to a land surrounded by nations that despised the Jews? The only answer is that God had placed in the heart of every Jew a connection with the land He had given them.
As the exiles began the tedious work of rebuilding the city and the temple, a need arose to give them the necessary spiritual strength so they would not quit due to exhaustion, famine, disease, and the constant threat of invasion. So, God put it on the heart of Ezra the priest to return with the exiles and write a spiritual commentary on the books of 1& 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings. He began with the bloodline of the Jews, beginning with Adam and finishing with David the King.
Though it makes reading laborious, the genealogies are an essential part of our Bible; it gives us complete confidence that Israel belongs to the Jews due to God's covenant with David (2 Samuel 7:1-17). And one of his descendants who would ascend to his throne for eternity is Jesus Christ.
Matthew, a tax collector whose life was transformed by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, took up the mantle of Ezra when writing the Gospel of Matthew. He began his book by writing, "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity, in Babylon, until the Christ are fourteen generations" (Matt 1:1,17).
Please pray that this three-year journey through the Word of God will be received by open hearts that long to grow in the Grace and Knowledge of Jesus. And He would do deep and practical Work in and through us for a world in desperate need of a Savior.
In His Strong Love,
Pastor
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