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Jacob at Bethel. 1. The place called “Bethel”. a. Bethel was approximately 40 miles from Jacob’s parental home at Beersheba (Ch. 26:23-25). b. What do we know of Bethel? See Gen. 12:8, 13:3. c. That Jacob meets the Lord at Bethel surely indicates that he is in the covenant way of God’s promise to Ab
Wherever you find these you find the house of the Lord, irrespective of time or place. For Jacob it was that place by the side of the road, where the Lord appeared to him in a dream. He called the name of that place Bethel – house of God. Why? He himself tells us, “Surely the Lord is in this place,
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him . . . And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. A
In this separation, Jehovah is his mighty strength and shield. However, Jacob does show his weakness here again. In Genesis 28, Jacob had vowed to return to Bethel, and in these verses he does not. Instead, he settles first at Succoth for a while, and then in Shechem. He remains here for at least 15
We think of Jacob as he traveled toward the promised land after a long absence, only to meet with his brother Esau, from whom he had bartered away the birthright. After sending his entire family and all his possessions across the Jabbok River, Jacob hit a major bump in his stranger’s sojourn. Genesi
This admonition Jacob is now prepared to take home to his heart. So he said unto his household, and to all that were with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean and change your garments: Let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered
"I am the God of Bethel …" Bethel was the place where Jacob had seen the angels of God descending and ascending upon a ladder, set upon the earth and reaching to heaven. At Bethel then he had been made to see that for him Heaven and earth was bridged by Him who is the way, the truth, and the life;
Bethel rejected the Word of God that God had to be worshipped in the temple. Bethel fundamentally rejected the Word of God that the whole worship of God is determined by God Himself. Bethel was the rejection of that in the interest of the commandments and the doctrines invented by men. That was
And we read in verse seven, then Jacob was greatly distressed and afraid. In his fear, Jacob prays. This is the first time, at least in the record of scripture of Jacob's life, that we read Jacob's praying. His prayer is marvelously beautiful. It is humble. It is godly. It is a prayer of depende
But when God makes us weak, and we see this is exactly what we're doing when we're depending on ourselves, fighting against God. And finally, what God teaches Jacob in this first round, and what he teaches us that when we fight against God, and when we resist God, all we're doing is bringing in