The Gospel of Matthew - Is Jesus the Messiah?

To understand the gospel of Matthew, we're going to need to know a little bit of background. You really can't understand Jesus without the Scriptures of Israel, because he's bringing them to fulfillment. And so these two figures, David and Abraham, or Solomon and Isaac, are very important for unpacking what's going on in the genealogy. We have an old mentor of mine who used to say, "Read backwards quite often"