This teaching will be PG-13 for obvious reasons! How many of us would brag about one of our great great great…. grandmas being a pagan prostitute? Probably not many and even fewer people would want it on their genetic resume broadcast to the world but that’s exactly what we see in the Matthew 1 genealogy of Yeshua (Jesus)! In ancient times, a man’s genealogy was a sign of his honor and status – and so you would think that the Bible writers would never have told us about King David’s questionable lineage, but then they boldly proclaim it in Matthew too!
What are we missing? Well, maybe what we see as scandalous was looked at in an entirely different way by the Jews. So this week I will share why Rahab, like Tamar before her, was honorable and not shameful. This week we are going to explore the power of repentance and the absolute forgiveness of God – and what that means for us when we come into the Covenant through the blood of Yeshua.
Between 3:05 and 3:10 you asked why did they share Rahav in Yeshua’s genealogy if it was shameful.
That’s the MAIN reason I believe the Bible over all other of the world’s scriptures; even the HEROES of the Bible are flawed, some of them are VILE to our puritanical way of thinking; but they were STILL tzaddikim.
It gives me real HOPE that I can also be a tzaddik.