God's Devine Interaction with Jacob

She did not allow this to happen, but told Jacob to take some goats to cook for her, "..." so that he can bless you before his death Please take it to your father to eat it. (Genesis 27:10) The behavior of Rebecca is obviously derived from what God told her to hold the future. She is acting as an extension of God who rules Jacob to Esau, and blessing is a very important step. Later, when Esau finally noticed that his brother stole everything from him, Esau swore to his mother that he would kill Jacob.

A special encounter is necessary for the insight "How does God look?" In Genesis 32: 22-28, Jacob, the father of the twelve ancestors of Israel, was bound after fighting God. "Jacob named this place Penniel and said" I will face God. " "God looked with his face turned, my life was spared" (Genesis 32:30). Probably closer to Jacob - the Creator 's hands were placed on him The Old Testament example of the emergence of God focused on his glory and the presence of heaven living in the things he chose In the New Testament, God through the transfigured Jesus Christ I will show myself to us.

1 God said to Jacob, go up, go to Bethel, live there, and build an altar for God. 2 Jacob said to everyone with his family, "Remove strange gods from you, cleanse your clothes and change clothes.3 Go up to Bethel, where we got up." I will be there to answer my God for the day of death, and to be with me on my way. 4 They devoted all the strange gods in their hands and all the earrings in their ears to Jacob. Jacob concealed them under Shechem's oak tree. 5 They will do it. The fear of God came to the surrounding town and did not catch up with the son of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Ruz in the land of Canaan, Bethel, and all its people.

God said to Jacob, "Get up and go to Bethel and live there, please pay the sacrifice to those who appear to you when you escape from your brother Esau." A man with him said, "Collect foreign gods among you, cleanse yourself, change your clothes, then get up and go to Bethel. One day my mother In answering God, I will be with me, 'they handed over all foreign gods and the rings they own to Jacob. Jacob concealed them in the tree near Shechem. When they traveled, fear from God fell into the cities around them, so they did not follow Jacob's son.