Generations Have Purpose
So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations. Matthew 1:17, ESV
As we read scripture, we learn about all the generations leading up to the coming of Jesus Christ. All throughout those generations were signs pointing people to the coming Messiah. The Israelites were looking for Him to deliver them from their oppressor, who they thought was Rome. But when Jesus came, He enlightened everyone with the truth: our true enemy was not flesh and blood, but Satan.
Scripture teaches that many of the religious leaders misinterpreted the meaning of the laws in such a way that they were blinded when Jesus came to bring light. When Jesus told Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, he must be born again to see the kingdom of God, Nicodemus did not understand what He meant. It is so important that we understand Jesus’s message today so we are not lost when He comes. We do not want to be distracted by false narratives that deceive us from the truth. John 3:16 says God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. Jesus is coming back soon and when He comes, those who have accepted Him as their personal savior will have life eternal with Him.
“God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God” (John 3:17-18). Everything happening in our season of life has one purpose - to direct our hearts to the coming Messiah in hopes that we will accept His gift of salvation before He returns.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away’. And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’ Also he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true’” (Revelation 21:1-5).
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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