The Bible. Are you intimidated at the thought of reading such a complicated book? Do you find it

daunting or delightful or both? Welcome to the club. The Bible book club where we read every word

of this great book and then study it together last episode

moses and aaron approached pharaoh for the first time and pharaoh was not happy he was an

arrogant old man he told them you get back to work and And then he, you know, he was cruel, that Pharaoh. So he increased the labor. It was a political move against the Israelites against Moses. And it worked. Moses was crushed. He did not run to the desert this time, though, he ran to God. And God gave him a promise and a plan. And he'll do the same

thing for you if you run to him first. Exactly. Well, today, we are going to read about the first plague.

But before we get to that, we have a genealogy. Just stuck right there. We don't know why, but I'm going to get

to that. We do know why.

So there are dozens of genealogies in the Bible, and most people just kind of gloss over them,

but you know, we like to read them because after you know what they do, they're so fascinating.

And we covered a lot of these in Genesis 1, our first season for the Bible Book Club.

Well, let me just tell you that the Hebrew term

for genealogy is really the book of generations. And that's what it is. It's like a little

tiny book of the generations of God's people. And genealogies were important for several

reasons. The first was they confirm the historical reliability of the Bible.

They are carefully copied and passed down. So they do give us a historical record that matches up

with time frames. The second reason they're important is they show the importance of the family

and God's plan because, of course, the genealogies are about the importance of the family and God's plan because of course the genealogies

are about the sons of sons of sons of sons. It's all about family. They also validate the

fulfillment of prophecy. Let me say that again. They validate the fulfillment of prophecy. For example,

there's a prophecy that the seed, Jesus, would come from the tribe of Judah.

And we documented that in our Christmas genealogy from season one.

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