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    Five Woman and a Baby - The Genealogy of Jesus: Search For Truth Bible Series
    Five Woman and a Baby - The Genealogy of Jesus: Search For Truth Bible Series
    Five Woman and a Baby - The Genealogy of Jesus: Search For Truth Bible Series
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    Five Woman and a Baby - The Genealogy of Jesus: Search For Truth Bible Series

    By Brian Johnston

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    In this short book, Brian Johnston takes an easy-to-read look at five women who appear in the genealogy of Jesus in the New Testament - Ruth, Tamar, Bathsheba, Rahab and Mary - women who through God's grace were used by Him despite some very challenging circumstances.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateNov 17, 2018
    ISBN9781386279525
    Five Woman and a Baby - The Genealogy of Jesus: Search For Truth Bible Series
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    Brian Johnston

    Born and educated in Scotland, Brian worked as a government scientist until God called him into full-time Christian ministry on behalf of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info). His voice has been heard on Search For Truth radio broadcasts for over 30 years (visit www.searchfortruth.podbean.com) during which time he has been an itinerant Bible teacher throughout the UK and Canada. His evangelical and missionary work outside the UK is primarily in Belgium and The Philippines. He is married to Rosemary, with a son and daughter.

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      Five Woman and a Baby - The Genealogy of Jesus - Brian Johnston

      FIVE WOMEN AND A BABY

      BY BRIAN JOHNSTON

      Copyright Hayes Press 2015

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, without the written permission of Hayes Press.

      Published by:

      HAYES PRESS Publisher, Resources & Media,

      The Barn, Flaxlands

      Royal Wootton Bassett

      Swindon, SN4 8DY

      United Kingdom

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE, the New King James Version® (NKJV®). Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc.  Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scriptures marked NIV are from New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scriptures marked NASB are from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission (www.Lockman.org)

      Table of Contents

      Copyright Page

      CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER TWO: TAMAR

      CHAPTER THREE: RUTH

      CHAPTER FOUR: RAHAB

      CHAPTER FIVE: BATHSHEBA

      CHAPTER SIX: THE CHILD AND MOTHER

      Further Reading: After God's Own Heart : The Life of David

      Also By Brian Johnston

      About the Author

      About the Publisher

      CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

      To trace your personal family tree has become a popular past-time, in part because modern technology helps with the searches that need to be made. There’s no doubt, at least from the point of view of biblical Christianity, that the most important family tree ever traced back in time is the one with which the New Testament opens.

      Please don’t be deceived into thinking this daunting-looking list of names is an introduction which can be skimmed over, or even worse skipped entirely, just so that we can begin with the compelling story surrounding the birth of Jesus, the Christmas story as many would call it. This family tree belonging to Joseph, as well as Mary’s family tree given by Luke in his Gospel, is in fact essential reading.

      Let me give you a reason for saying that – one which points up the difference between the two lists of names: the one in Matthew and the other in Luke. We’ve said Matthew gives Joseph’s family tree and Luke gives Mary’s. The next thing to notice is that although Israel’s famous king, David, is common to both lists, Joseph’s family tree is traced down through David’s son, Solomon; while Mary’s family tree is actually traced through a different son of David, a son whose name is Nathan.

      If we read the two family trees casually we might never spot the difference – but the office of Jesus as Messiah hangs on it! That’s because there was a time when the nation of Israel’s disobedience to God was so great that he used the Babylonian Empire to teach them, his own people, a lesson. Around that time, through Jeremiah, the prophet, he declared that one of Solomon’s descendants (Jeconiah) would never have a son on the throne of Israel (Jeremiah 22:30).

      ‘Even though [Je]coniah ... were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off ... I will hurl you ... into another country ... there you will die. But as for that land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it ... write this man down childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no man of his descendants will prosper sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah’ (Jeremiah 22:24-30).

      This curse had been spoken before God swept his disobedient people away into captivity under the Babylonians

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