4 1 3 Through the Bible with Les Feldick Abraham, Lot, and Melchizedek: Genesis 12-14

Matthew 1:1 "THE book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham." That's as far as it goes because that is as much as this genealogy is going to concern itself. This one is going to prove that He is the rightful heir to the throne of David by being a son of David; that is, genealogically down through the family tree. Then we looked briefly at Luke, Chapter 3, which is the genealogy of Mary, and which takes us all the way back to Adam. Luke 3:38 "Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God." Even though Joseph was not the physical father of Christ, he was the legal father. Going all the way back to Abraham, coming up to David, and then Solomon, you'll see that at Solomon there's a fork in the family tree. One line will come down and form the genealogy of Mary; the other line forms the genealogy of Joseph. The reason Scripture records this