Tag: genealogy of Jesus

Luke 2:6-7 ” While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her first born, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”

For Mary, this was her first baby…and for the world, it was likewise a new beginning.  For Mary,  it was her  first labor and delivery in rather dismal conditions.. for us, it was the gift of a new start.  It tells us in Colossians 1:15 that, “He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born over all creation.”   When that tiny baby was born,  the manifestation of God the Father came to earth to dwell among us.  And when Mary laid baby Jesus  in that manger, surrounded by livestock and hay, the preeminence over all creation arrived to light the way for sinners.

Isaiah 11:1 ” A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.”

Researching genealogy and our ancestry has become a popular pastime…and it’s fun to find out where we came from.  Likewise, we can start to trace Jesus Christ’s lineage from this verse.  Here Isaiah spoke of the coming Messiah as the branch or shoot spouting up from the stump or roots of Jesse, King David’s father.  Matthew 1:1-14 then gives us the complete genealogy of Jesus…all 42 generations.  This family tree is spoke about again in Revelation 5:5,  “See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed.”  But Jesus also  transcends all genealogy, all ancestry as we know it…for He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end…all man, but all God.