Jacob’s Delivered Posterity
Let us muse today from Matthew 1:1-3 and 'Jacob's Delivered Posterity'. After all of Jacob's foolishness and deception, underneath we find a heart for God. We find him included in the geneology of Jesus Christ in verse 2. How can this be? In…
Jacob’s Deceitful Posterity
Let us muse today from Genesis 38 and 'Jacob's Deceitful Posterity'. In verses 11-14 Tamar, Jacob's daughter-in-law, deceives Jacob in to an affair with a harlot. Tamar did this because she was not given the husband of the next son after the…
Jacob’s Dysfunctional Posterity
Let us muse this day from Genesis 38:1-3 and 'Jacob's Dysfunctional Posterity'. Jacob's boy Judah had an appetite for strange women who led him to marry a Canaanite woman. This marriage produced a son by the name of Er. The Bible says in…
Jacob’s Posterity
Let us muse for the next few days from Genesis 38 and Jacob's Posterity. How we all want the generations of our family to turn out right but seldom do what the Bible tells us to do. The word for training our children is given in Deuteronomy…
Jacob’s Inferno
Let us muse today from Genesis 34:1-2,24-26,&35:22 and 'Pride's Inferno' because Jacob has failed to head for home. In 34:1-2 we find his daughter, Dinah, is raped by a Hivite whom they were dwelling among. In verses 24-26 her brother kills…
Jacob’s Image
Let us muse today from Genesis 35:1-2, 21 and Pride's image. In verse one he is going up to Bethel, still not heading home yet. He there makes an altar to the Lord. It is at this time in verse two he deals with the strange gods his wives brought…
Jacob’s Pride
Let us muse today on the Preservation of Jacob's Pride. In Genesis 31:3 God tells Jacob to go home. We find in Genesis, 'Pride's Ignorance' in the life of Jacob. After a face to face encounter with God in 32:30 he goes to Succouth in 33:17 which…
Jacob’s Security and Shrinkage
Let us muse today from Genesis 32:24-26 & 32 and 'Jacob's Struggle For Preservation'. In verse 26 during his wrestling match with the Angel of the Lord, Jacob finds security in clinging to this angel. There is no personal security except…
Jacob’s Personal Preservation
Let us muse today from Genesis 32 and 'Jacob's Personal Preservation'. I see in verses 6-8 when he finds Esau is coming to meet him, he aligns his family with his favorites last. He is with the last group as well. Once again it is all about…
Jacob’s Struggle With Preservation
Let us muse for the next several days from Genesis chapters 32,34,38, and the subject of Jacob's struggle with preservation. The greatest area of struggle for him as well as us is self-preservation. We concern ourselves with taking care…