16. Birth (Matthew 1)
The back side of a Persian rug is a tangled mess of knots and lumps. But flip it over and all the threads come together in a beautiful masterpiece. The Bible is the same way. Like a rug flipped over, the New Testament ties the earlier threads of the story together in and through Jesus. And one of the best examples is the very first page.
Scripture passages cited in this message include Matthew 1:1; Genesis 12:3; Jeremiah 23:5-6; and Isaiah 7:14.