We are tempted to skip over Scripture’s genealogies; after all, reading through them can be long and laborious. They are not only packed full of names impossible to pronounce, but many of the people to whom these unpronounceable names belong we know nothing about. Still, we should never skip over anything in Scripture, because everything in the Bible is significant and important. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be in the Bible; God would not have put it in His Word. Therefore, we can ill afford to skip over anything the sacred Scripture has to say.

The story is told of a Sunday School teacher who once asked a class of small children what was their favorite part of the Bible. A little girl quickly answered, “The ...