Thought of the day.143

Rotten Fruit

Matthew’s genealogy reveals that Jesus descended from a long line of violent ancestors. His family tree includes David, killer of tens of thousands of men, women and children; Judah, who ordered a woman to be burned to death; Solomon, who secured the throne via multiple murders; Jehoram, who put all his brothers to the sword; Abijah, who led the slaughter of half a million of God’s own chosen people; Josiah, who slaughtered priests on the altars; Ahaz, who sacrificed his children as burnt offerings and Manasseh, who also practiced human sacrifice and butchered so many innocents that the streets of Jerusalem were said to have flowed with blood.

But all these violent men pale in comparison to Jesus who designed flesh-eating worms that never die and tends fires that are never put out in order to torture people forever making him by far the most rotten apple on this most rotten tree.