It’s finally beginning! The first class in Context for Kids Gospel Studies – I am so excited! This is the first of five classes on Yeshua’s (Jesus’s) family tree or genealogy. Not only are we going to learn about Joseph’s and Mary’s families, but we are also going to learn about ancient adoption, record-keeping, some problems that popped up in Babylon, and how extra-biblical Jewish writings support the claims in both Matthew and Luke. We will also discuss the “missing links” – the three missing kings from the line of David – and how we see the same gaps in Old Testament genealogies. We’re going to learn why it was a very Jewish thing to do. I am also going to put a strong focus on preparing our kids to spot antimissionary tricks and lies so they won’t be fooled by ex-believers who want them to deny Yeshua as Messiah.
The next addition to our studies is actual practical discipleship, giving the kids ideas of things that they can personally do, or you can do as a family, to make God look good and to become conformed to the image of Messiah.
So, first we have this week’s episode:
And that episode talked about this past episode on David and Solomon:
and if you have not viewed the video explaining the rating system, here it is:
When did you see my powerpoint that I prepared for Sukkoth 2012, “The answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe and EVERYTHING”?
In it I linked the 42 camps to the Patriarchs of Mashiach in Matt.1. Some of the links are a stretch, but not many.
Sorry, I never saw it – my friend Dr Dinah Dye told me about that – she called it the “stations in the wilderness,” however.
Haven’t seen the next in the series, yet, but I THINK tamar is in Yeshua’s genealogy because SHE was the tzaddik in that generation, and Yehudah acknowledged that fact.
That was the sea-change moment in Yehudah’s life. Once he saw that his goyish daughter-in-law was more righteous than he was we see no more wickedness in him. And it was that change in Yehudah’s life that I think, more than everything else, made Yoseph weep uncontrollably when he revealed himself to his brethren in Egypt.