Who Are These People?

Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, today we come to one of our favorite parts of the Bible: a genealogy. Now, why are these included in the text of Scripture? There are many reasons, but the most important is that God's promises and dealings run in families. If your parents and children are important to you, then you should love genealogies. They may not be your parents and children listed here, exactly, but they are parents and children to whom God's promises came. The point of this genealogy is given in v. 27: These are that Moses and Aaron. Do you want to know who the main characters of Exodus are? Then pay attention. Do you want to see God's promises of a numerous seed fulfilled? Then pay attention. What we'll see is that Moses, Aaron, and the Levites are ordinary human clay in whom God's promise and provision ran rampant.