Jacob’s Delivered Posterity

Let us muse today from Matthew 1:1-3 and ‘Jacob’s Delivered Posterity’. After all of Jacob’s foolishness and deception, underneath we find a heart for God. We find him included in the geneology of Jesus Christ in verse 2. How can this be? In verse 3 we find his son, Judah, whose name means ‘praise’ is the only son mentioned in this geneology. How can this be? We also find mentioned his daughter-in-law, Tamar, the most deceptive. How can this be that they are included in the line of Christ? I tell you how. ‘There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins and sinners plunged beneath that flood loose all their guilty stains.’ None get in that line, except by the blood.