God’s plan for your life began generations before your birth. Discover how Acts 17 and Psalm 139 reveal you were meant to be here on purpose. I was born in South Carolina, and we Southerners have a soft spot for family history. Some folks even joke that we lean toward “ancestor worship.” Whatever you call it, genealogy fascinates us. So here is something to consider. Go back just 20 generations. You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and so on, all the way up to 1,048,576 people in that twentieth generation alone. Add every generation together (2 + 4 + 8 + … + 1,048,576), and you arrive at 2,097,150 ancestral positions.