Now, there's another curse early on in the genealogy. We won't talk about it, but the previous curse up in verse three started on Perez, the son of Judah and Tamar, and if you want to do a little research on that, that's Deuteronomy 23, two is the law that says a child of an illicit relationship is not qualified to enter the sanctuary of God until the 10th generation, so you can go ahead and do the count yourself from Perez all the way down to verse six, and it says David the king, and David is number 10 in that part of the genealogy, but then it says all of this people are in the line from Abraham all the way down to Christ are named, and it repeatedly says the father of, the father of, the father of, and we get down to verse 11, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah, there he is, or Coniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon, and after the deportation to Babylon, Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, there's our guy, Coniah was his grandfather, and so from Coniah on down, every single one of these people is under a curse, and then it goes on down from Zerubbabel, the father of Abiud and so on, the father of, the father of, then you get to verse 16, and Jacob the father of Joseph, but notice what's not there, Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ, doesn't say he's the father of Jesus, Jesus was a virgin conceived, and therefore a virgin born, and yet Joseph was his father, he was in the family, so he had legal title to the throne, but he did not inherit the sin curse through Joseph, and so there you have from the Old Testament all the way into the New Testament, all the way through to here, validation of the virgin conception of Christ, another little detail here, little grammatical thing, the word Joseph and the word husband nouns are both in the masculine gender, Mary is in a feminine gender, and that little word of whom, it's just a little indefinite pronoun, number one, it's singular, of whom, generally your parents, you would talk about them plural, my parents are, but that is singular, of whom, and the reference is Mary, not Joseph, and it's also feminine, it's only reference to her, not Joseph, just just a little detail, and then of course Matthew goes on and explains further of the virgin conception of Jesus Christ, so even though the curse was on that line, God knew exactly what he was doing, and it demanded the virgin conception of Christ, okay, in fulfillment of the promise, part of which is there at the bottom, in those days and at that time, I will cause a righteous branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness, where, in the land, that's again Jeremiah 33, in that prophecy that has all the condemnation, there's these repeated promises, that even though there will be cursing, even though there will be chastening, even though you will be in captivity in the land, I still will fulfill my promises through Abraham, and bring you back to the land, and bless you with a righteous branch, to sit on the throne of David, and that's exactly what he did, do you have any thoughts or comments, from what we've just seen from Haggai?
