Are you related to royalty from the distant past?
Dr. Chang, a mathematician from Yale University, would say the odds are overwhelmingly in your favor that, yes, you are related to some kings and queens of old.
Here is how he figures it. Let’s use Charlemagne, a king who ruled over the large part of Europe 1200 years ago, as an example. If a generation is 30 years long, then Charlemagne lived approximately 40 generations ago.
Every time you go back a generation, the number of direct ancestors doubles. For instance, you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents and so forth. If you carried this pattern out to the fortieth generation, you would get an almost unbelievably large number of over one trillion! This number would be far larger than all the people alive in Europe at the time. So Dr. Chang concludes that it’s highly likely that every person living today is related to some ancient royalty.
Do you feel like the child of a king after reading this? Probably not. At least you wouldn’t be able to go into some museum and ask for your share of the family jewels.
But there’s another possible relationship that can make you incredibly rich. You may establish the genuineness of this beyond any shadow of doubt, and its authenticity will be upheld in the highest court. Once established, you may start enjoying the benefits immediately. Those in this relationship are assured of an inheritance of enduring wealth, which will make them incredibly happy.
It has to do with the greatest Being of the universe. He’s a Being so tremendously high and mighty that all others will bow down to Him, including the most powerful kings of the earth. He created the heavens and the earth. But the human race turned away from God their Creator and fell into sin and darkness. Turning away from God, the human race turned to dishonesty, cruelty, theft, tyranny and a whole host of other sins. Now if you searched your family tree, you would find an assortment of not only kings but thieves, pickpockets and liars.
However, even though the human race has turned away from Him, God has taken steps to call them back and make them His own. Many have come back to Him. To call men and women back to Himself, God came to this earth in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was born in a stable, grew up in obscurity, preached to tens of thousands, did miracles of healing and then was taken and nailed to the cross. Three days later, He arose from the dead. Because of His sacrifice on the cross, sinners who deserve death for the sins they have committed can instead find life in Him. And what life they find in Him! They find the forgiveness of sins, the love of God and eternal life.
To have this relationship, you must come as a sinner, by faith, to the Lord Jesus Christ and trust Him to be your Saviour. “As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name” (John 1:1212But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (John 1:12)). Believing on His name, you become His child forever. “Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:2727For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (Galatians 3:27)).
How wonderful to enter into a relationship with God the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. You can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are a child of a King!
Not only does God have wonderful things in store for those who simply believe Him, but He has also sent you His personal invitation to come and believe. Find out what I mean in A Mysterious Postcard.