Following after Jesus #22

Yesterday, we read in Luke 3, from the geneology of Jesus through Mary, from the time of the exile back to David. We pick up in verse 32

...the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon, 33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, 

Here we pause for our next major stop on the tour: Jesus was of the line of David, which goes back yet beyond that to Abraham, the father of the faith, the patriarch called out by God to start out the seed that ran through Jacob, becoming the people of Israel. Abraham represents the fact that God is the One Who fulfills all His promises, including the one He made in Genesis that in Abraham's Seed, all the world would be blessed.  The life of Abraham was indeed one of blessing that showed God's faithfulness, but the Promise of God far outlived Abraham and his immediate descendants, to that One Seed who would bless the whole world, Jesus Christ.