THE KING WHO WILL REIGN (11 OF 14)
Scripture: Genesis 37:2, Genesis 38:30
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The King who will Reign (11 of 14)
Series: Telos Genesis & The Ultimate Aim of Creation
Patrick Edwards
Genesis 37:2-38:30
Introduction: Our passage begins this morning by simply stating, ''These are the generations (family records) of Jacob,'' (Genesis 37:2). Now I know that no one particularly loves genealogies in Scripture. As we've mentioned before in our study of Genesis, genealogies tend to be passages that we skip over when doing our daily Bible reading plan. They're boring to us, full of names we struggle to pronounce, with seemingly no use other than for those people who falsely try to use them to calculate the age of the world. I mean they don't have much use, it seems. I mean if they did then surely AWANA would have our kids memorize one of them, right?
Of course, I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek here. Please don't send me hate mail this week for poking fun at AWANA at little. I'm just pointing out how quickly we pass over statements and sections like these without giving a second thought their theological purpose. Might it surprise you then to hear this phrase, ??????? ??????????, 'êl·leh to·l?·?o·w?, (''these are the generations of...'') occurs eleven times in this book? That's not a small amount. You see, how these genealogies function in the book of Genesis is by tying the whole book, and all these various episodes within it, together. In other words, when we read, ''These are the generations of Jacob,'' we're immediately reminded that the story of Joseph and his brothers to come is a part of the bigger story of Jacob, which is a part of the bigger story of Isaac, which is a part of the bigger story of Abraham and God's promise to him, which is a part of the bigger story of God's creation of the world as a place in which He may dwell. My point is that the generations of Jacob are all about God's fulfillment of His purposes and promises. The generations of Jacob go back to Genesis 2:4 and, ''... the generations of the heavens and the eart ...
Series: Telos Genesis & The Ultimate Aim of Creation
Patrick Edwards
Genesis 37:2-38:30
Introduction: Our passage begins this morning by simply stating, ''These are the generations (family records) of Jacob,'' (Genesis 37:2). Now I know that no one particularly loves genealogies in Scripture. As we've mentioned before in our study of Genesis, genealogies tend to be passages that we skip over when doing our daily Bible reading plan. They're boring to us, full of names we struggle to pronounce, with seemingly no use other than for those people who falsely try to use them to calculate the age of the world. I mean they don't have much use, it seems. I mean if they did then surely AWANA would have our kids memorize one of them, right?
Of course, I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek here. Please don't send me hate mail this week for poking fun at AWANA at little. I'm just pointing out how quickly we pass over statements and sections like these without giving a second thought their theological purpose. Might it surprise you then to hear this phrase, ??????? ??????????, 'êl·leh to·l?·?o·w?, (''these are the generations of...'') occurs eleven times in this book? That's not a small amount. You see, how these genealogies function in the book of Genesis is by tying the whole book, and all these various episodes within it, together. In other words, when we read, ''These are the generations of Jacob,'' we're immediately reminded that the story of Joseph and his brothers to come is a part of the bigger story of Jacob, which is a part of the bigger story of Isaac, which is a part of the bigger story of Abraham and God's promise to him, which is a part of the bigger story of God's creation of the world as a place in which He may dwell. My point is that the generations of Jacob are all about God's fulfillment of His purposes and promises. The generations of Jacob go back to Genesis 2:4 and, ''... the generations of the heavens and the eart ...
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