Genealogy is obviously very important to the Lord. After all, he is our Father and he keeps careful track of each of us, his children. In the kingdom, each individual will know every member of his family line dating back to Adam. The archives of history will reveal some tremendous surprises to each of us regarding our heredity and nothing will be omitted or overlooked.

There is strong evidence throughout the scriptures that in the kingdom, we will each live within the house of our fathers.

The men listed in the early Biblical genealogies represent nations. The wives, although not all listed, represent the respective capital cities of these nations. The sons and daughters born represent the people that populated these nations. These nations were all destroyed in the flood.

Names in the Bible are extremely important. Names themselves give an apt description of the individual mentioned.

I Samuel 25:25

As his name is, so is he.

This stands true throughout the scriptures. Nabal, the man in this story, was mean and churlish. The name Nabal means a dolt, to scatter to and fro, to run off.

Abram means father. God changed Abram