Characters-turned-storytellers tell gripping stories of Jesus Christ’s lineage spanning thirty+ generations of Old Testament History, unveiling God’s secrets and revealing mankind’s purpose.
Together, with those enshrined in the lineage of Jesus Christ, listed in the Book of Matthew, I wait. I am only one of many who believed in the Promises, and like golden links in a long chain, our lives are the fabric of history.
From our ranks have come women - who through faith - willed their dead back to life, men who lived to see fire fall from the sky to devour their adversaries, and others who beat back thousands with only a few good men. Slaves wrongfully dragged into dark prison cells emerged to become kings.
My name is Abram.
I lick dirt from my crusted lips and rest my forehead on the dry broken ground silently willing Jerar my archenemy to die. He represents everything - and anyone - who has toyed with the passion consuming my every waking moment since I can remember. Jerar presses his foot into my back as if to push me even deeper into the packed dirt, while he belittles the dead mother I can barely recall.
”Abram,” he taunts as the other boys surrounding us jeer…