
Village Seventh-day Adventist Church
Strange Faces | Prof. Roy Gane
The genealogy of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel includes four unexpected women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba. Each came from outside Israel, and each entered the family line of Christ through difficult or scandalous circumstances. Yet God redeemed every one of them in a remarkable way. Tamar found justice through Judah's honest confession. Rahab's faith saved her from a doomed city and a broken past. Ruth's loyal love brought her into the line of David. Bathsheba, taken against her will, was ultimately honored as queen mother. Their presence in the genealogy of Jesus is not an accident. It is a declaration that God's grace reaches further than we expect, to people we might never have chosen.

