Is Jesus Truly The Messiah? {Matthew 1}
9:00 AMToday's Scripture Passage: Matthew 1
Hi Girls!
We've come to our last book of our study, and the main reason we chose this particular chronological study this year, for we LOVED how we would end the year by spending the Christmas season in Matthew; reflecting on not only Jesus' birth, but His life, ministry, death AND resurrection!
Oh! I pray this will be the absolute BEST Christmas season you've ever had as we spend some time pouring over all Matthew has to tell us about the long awaited Messiah!
More than 400 years have passed since the last of the Old Testament prophecies had been written, and faithful Jews were still waiting, wondering, and watching for the Messiah that God had promised. Unfortunately, when Jesus did appear many refused to believe that He truly was their King and Messiah, perhaps because He didn't fit into their narrative, but Matthew has come to set the record straight, and portrays Jesus as their king throughout this book.
Oh, this is going to be good, girls, for just look how Matthew chooses to start his book:
- Tamar who had a sexual relationship with Judah, her father-in-law {Genesis 38}
- Rahab was a harlot, or prostitute {Joshua 2:1}
- Ruth was a foreigner {Ruth 1:4}
- Bathsheba is identified here as Uriah's wife (1:6) for she had committed adultery with David and once finding out that a baby had been conceived, David made sure Uriah would be killed in battle;
- And Mary, though she was a fine, godly woman, she had a problem with her public reputation because of her pregnancy before her marriage to Joseph.
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