MATT011 - Why Did Matthew Arrange His Genealogy of Jesus Around the Number 14?

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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MATTHEW 1:1-17

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0:00.0	Hey I'm Matt and this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast.
0:12.6	Super glad you're here.
0:13.6	We're taking a little bit of time every weekday
0:16.2	to process through game out books of the Bible.
0:19.7	Right now we're working on Matthew and we're in Matthew chapter one which the first 17
0:24.3	verses are just a genealogy it's a list of names it's the genealogy of
0:29.3	Jesus Christ who Matthew describes as the son of David, the son of Abraham.
0:34.6	We're trying to cut through the noise here to figure out what this is supposed to accomplish
0:39.2	instead of just glossing over and being like, I have, yeah, there's a lot of dead people people and then Jesus and Jesus is the point so let's skip all of that stuff we're not gonna wrap our brain around what Matthew's going for with this whole book if we start cutting corners like that. So let's dig in a little bit deeper.
0:55.6	I want to start by looking at some of the nuts and bolts here.
0:58.3	One of the first things that you see when you actually get into the genealogy, which is really
1:02.1	verse 2 through verse 16, is that it's
1:06.1	divided into three chunks.
1:08.8	So if you were to just open this up and start reading through it, you would get to the end of
1:11.8	the three chunks and maybe you'd be like
1:13.4	why are there three chunks why not just have an uninterrupted list and Matthew speaks to that
1:19.2	so after all of the list of names that ends with Jesus who is called the Christ in
1:23.3	verse 16 verse 17 says thus there were 14 generations in all from Abraham to
1:30.6	David 14 from David to the exile to Babylon, and 14 from the exile to the Christ.
1:37.2	That tells me that there are three chunks here, and it gives me the chronological parameters for what those
1:47.0	chunks are but why not again just give us the list and why 14 why not 13 or 25 or whatever and there are a couple of
1:55.0	theories as to exactly what Matthew is going for here. I will say this much
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