The FAMILY TREE that matters!
Have you ever sat down with someone who knows everyone. They know their family tree, where they lived, and how they are connected ot communities. I am amazed at that amount of knowledge and I am useless when it comes to those things. Who is related to who, where they lived, and how they connect to my family are not really on the top of my "NEED TO KNOW LIST." But, I do love how scripture is one big story. I was reading one of those chapters filled with genealogies (Genesis 36) and was thinking about Esau being also known as Edom. It was the Edomites who had conflict at times with Israel. That makes sense since because young Esau had conflict with his twin brother Jacob. Also, one of the grandsons of Esau (Edom) was Amalek. Amalek led to the clan known as the Amalekites who also had conflicts with Israel. I am like most people when you read the Bible and you come upon a list of names, descendants of someone. I have to admit, I kind of gloss over. Thousands of years lat...
