Genesis 36:9–14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
In our modern, sentimental age, we are tempted to skim over passages like this one. We see a list of names, many of them difficult to pronounce, and our eyes glaze over. But in doing this, we reveal a profound theological error. We are treating the Bible like a collection of inspirational quotes instead of what it is: the very Word of God, profitable from beginning to end. It is the history of God's dealings with mankind. It is the story of two seeds, two lines, two covenants, stretching from the Garden to the final judgment. History is theology lived out on the horizontal plane. And genealogies are the skeletal structure of that history. They show us how God's sovereign purposes unfold through the generations. They are the record of God's faithfulness to His promises and His warnings.