The Past Lost its Power in Christ Jesus
The Past lost its Power in Christ We would want to think that the 20th and the 21st centuries brought about the consciousness of women's rights but that would only be because of not taking notes of certain things in the stories of the Old Testament to make us the mind of God about the subject. When Zelophehad's daughters protested their exclusion from the inheritance of their tribe because their father had no male child, Moses was first taken aback. He had to consult God to know what to do. Of course, God gave them justice by permitting them to have their father's inheritance. The justice of God protected their rights. Much more than that, we can see God's graciousness in the genealogy of Christ Jesus. Ordinarily, we list genealogy by the patriarch of each generation. It becomes interesting when mothers' names are also listed. Not only were certain women named, but these women aren't those that will fit into the normal religious narratives. The first that was ...