Four Generations Gone in One Night

#37, Auschwitz Album Revisited

Oil Painting by Dr. Pat Mercer Hutchens

Biblical faith reveals generational lines all the way back to Abraham, our father in the faith. Abraham begat Isaac. Isaac began Jacob, etc. That lineage includes the Promised Messiah, still to come for most Jews, coming again for most Christians. Genealogists trace heritages with ease today. The exciting discovery of DNA eventually will make it possible to draw a straight line of one’s heritage back to Abraham. The prophet Malachi speaks of a day before “the great day of the LORD” when the “hearts of the fathers will be turned to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers.” (Mal.4:6) These women, known by name to our Heavenly Father, will be firmly planted in that line.