This genealogy is of three sections: the section of the fathers, the section of the kings, and the section of the civilians, which includes the cap- tured ones and the recovered ones. God the Father corresponds with the section of the fathers, God the Son with the section of the kings, and God the Spirit with the section of the civilians. This too indicates the mingling of the Triune God with His human creatures. Three times fourteen is forty-two. Forty is the number for trials, temptations, and sufferings (Heb. 3:9; Matt. 4:2; 1 Kings 19:8). Forty-two signifies rest and satisfaction after trial. The children of Israel traveled through forty-two stations before they entered the good land of rest. The millennial kingdom as a rest will come after the forty-two months of the great tribulation (Rev, 13:5). After all the generations of trials, temptations, and suf- ferings, Christ came as the forty-second genera- tion to be our rest and satisfaction.