Dec 31, 2019 3 min read

January 1: Matthew 1 TPT

Our Loving King

1 This is the scroll of the lineage and birth of Jesus, the Anointed One, the son of David and descendant of Abraham.

²Abraham had a son named Isaac, who had a son named Jacob, who had a son named Judah (he and his brothers became the tribes of Israel).

³Judah and Tamar had twin sons, Perez and Zerah. Perez had a son named Hezron, who had a son named Ram, ⁴who had a son named Amminadab, who had a son named Nashon, ⁵who had a son named Salmon, who, along with Rahab, had a son named Boaz. Boaz and Ruth had a son named Obed, who was the father of Jesse, ⁶and Jesse had a son named David, who became the king.

⁷Then David and Bathsheba had a son named Solomon, who had a son named Rehoboam, who had a son named Abijah, who had a son named Asa, ⁸who had a son named Jehoshaphat, who had a son named Joram, who had a son named Uzziah, ⁹who had a son named Jotham, who had a son named Ahaz, who had a son named Hezekiah, ¹⁰who had a son named Manasseh, who had a son named Amos, who had a son named Josiah, ¹¹who was the father of Jeconiah.

It was during the days of Jeconiah and his brothers that Israel was taken captive and deported to Babylon. ¹²About the time of their captivity in Babylon, Jeconiah had a son named Shealtiel, who had a son named Zerubbabel, ¹³who had a son named Abiud, who had a son named Eliakim, ¹⁴who had a son named Azor, who had a son named Zadok, who had a son named Achim, who had a son named Eliud, ¹⁵who had a son named Eleazar, who had a son named Matthan, who had a son named Jacob, ¹⁶who was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of Jesus, who is called “the Anointed One.”

¹⁷So from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the Babylonian captivity, fourteen generation, and from the Babylonian captivity to Christ, fourteen generations.

An Angel Comes to Joseph

¹⁸This was how Jesus, God’s Anointed One, was born.

His mother, Mary, had promised Joseph to be his wife, but while she was still a virgin she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹Her fiancé,Joseph, was a righteous man full of integrity and he didn’t want to disgrace her, but when he learned of her pregnancy he secretly planned to break the engagement. ²⁰While he was still debating with himself about what to do, he fell asleep and had a supernatural dream. An angel from the Lord appeared to him in clear light and said, “Joseph, descendant of David, don’t hesitate to take Mary into your home as your wife, because the power of the Holy Spirit has conceived a child in her womb. ²¹She will give birth to a son and you are to name him ‘Savior,’for he is destined to give his life to save his people from their sins.”

²²This happened so that what the Lord spoke through his prophet would come true:

²³Listen! A virgin will be pregnant,
she will give birth to a Son,
and he will be known as “Emmanuel,”
which means in Hebrew,
“God became one of us.”

²⁴When Joseph awoke from his dream, he did all that the angel of the Lord instructed him to do. He took Mary to be his wife, ²⁵but they refrained from having sex until she gave birth to her son, whom they named “Jesus.”