Hey, this is Shelby and Scott. Thanks for joining us wherever you are listening. Don't forget to

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right into God's Word today. We're in First Chronicles 6 through 9. Scott, we are finishing up the genealogies

in Chronicles. And I'm sure for some people, their eyes are glazed over just a little bit. I know

that can surely happen to me when I'm reading through genealogies. But we talked about this

yesterday. Even though we can't always make sense of them right away or they might not be fun to read, they are really important.

So can you break down the genealogies that we see in today's reading?

Sure, yeah.

You know, like I mentioned yesterday, the author's writing to an audience that's pretty disillusioned and discouraged.

And people, you know, the Jews who had returned from exile to Jerusalem,

and you're trying to rebuild what had been lost. And they were probably feeling like Israel's

glory days were behind them, you know, the days of David and Solomon, and probably wondering,

like we talked about yesterday, if they still had a role to play and got the plans for the

world. And the genealogies got the plans for the world.

And the genealogies are a way for the author to establish continuity between them and the past,

and to show them that God's plans are still moving forward, still moving forward.

And that despite how insignificant they might seem, God is still intends to use them to bless the nations like he had promised to do through Abraham.

And I should mention here, like two really, really big themes in Chronicles, which, first of which is just David and the kings who come from him.

So just the monarchy, if you will.

And specifically that promise of a future king to come from David's line

who would rule forever. And so the second theme is the temple. So there's going to be a huge,

huge focus throughout these books on the temple and specifically of worship. And I think you see

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