Crossroad Bible Study

Now that I’ve got your attention…I realise im probably ahead of everyone else in this reading. But this was to exciting to wait. I read earlier in Genesis 38 the story of Judah and Tamar. Tamar was Judahs daughter in law whose husband died before she conceived. To carry on the brothers lineage, Judah instructed his other son Onan to sleep with Tamar so that his brother would have a child to carry his name. Onan did but knowing that any child born from the relationship would not count as his own, he let his semen spill everytime he was with her. This sin was very great in the eyes of the Lord, and Onan was put to death. To cut a long story short, after more deceit, sex, and lies, Tamar conceives twins after disguising herself as a prostitute and tricking her father in law Judah, to sleep with her. The firstborn was called Perez. It was a fairly dysfunctional household this boy was born into. Judah was his father and grandfather. Tamar was his mother and sister in law. The Lord hates marriages like this. In Deuteronomy 23 it says that no one who was born from an abhorent marriage could enter the assembly of God, EVEN DOWN TO THE TENTH GENERATION. Who was the tenth generational descendant from Perez? Who would have the favour of the Lord restored to himself and his lineage. The family tree in Ruth 4 tells us that his name was David….