Ever had someone ramble on through a long story only to be left wondering “what was the point?” By the time we reach the of Matthew’s genealogy, we have much the same feeling. It’s interesting to a degree… but what’s the point of this long list? The breaks in the pattern points us to some interesting foreshadows. Yet the list is so much bigger than just those breaks. Today, we look at the 4th break and see that, perhaps, the whole list itself is trying to tell us something profoundly important!