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TAINTED TREASURES IN THE FAMILY TREE

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-17


Tainted Treasures In The Family Tree
Donald Cantrell
Matthew 1:1 - 17


I - The Beautiful Book
A) The Genealogies Were Authentic and Preserved
B) The Genealogies Were Accurate and Pristine

II - The Notable Names
A) The Three Key People
B) The Three Key Periods

III - The Tainted Treasures
A) The Tainted Acts of These Women
B) The Treasured Ancestry of These Women

Theme: ''Four tainted women appear in the linage of Jesus''

Confucius Family Tree

People have been documenting their ancestors and descendants throughout history, they enjoy learning more about where they come from.

Have you ever wondered about the oldest family tree? It belongs to Confucius - the famous Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher - who lived 551-479 BC.

Confucius was a descendant of Emperor Tang (1675-1646 BC) the family tree of Confucius contains millions of descents and today is in the 83rd generation.

In 1998, an international team began tracking and reviewing more than 450 global branches. A new edition of the Confucius genealogy book was printed in September 2009 by the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee, in honor of the 2560th anniversary of his birth. This latest edition is expected to include some 1.3 million living members around the world today.

The family tree covers 43,000 pages in 80 volumes and, for the first time, women, minorities and foreigners were included.

The family genealogy has been maintained for some 2,000 years.

The committee is headed by Kong Deyong (who also heads the International Confucius Association) and is supposed to revise the family tree every 60 years, but political events precluded the last scheduled revision. The previously published edition was in 1937, when there were only about 600,000 descendants. The association believes that this genealogy is a unique branch of Chinese traditional culture and that it has great value in research on anthropology, demographics, clan and genealogica ...

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