Jacob’s Blessing!
Genesis 28
In Genesis 27 we saw that Jacob traded a bowl of lintel stew to his brother Esau for Esau’s birthright when Esau was hungry. We also saw that their mother Rebekah told Jacob to disguise himself as his brother Esau and trick their blind father, Isaac, into giving him the Firstborn Blessing. Now because of Esau’s threats against Jacob, Rebekah decides to tell Isaac a half truth. She does not want Jacob to marry a Canaanite like Esau has, it disgusts her; but she does not tell of her trickery and Esau’s anger.
Chapter 28 is the story of Isaac telling Jacob to go to his Uncle’s house to find a wife; then Isaac Blesses Jacob again: “Now may El Shaddai Bless you and make you Fruitful and multiply you so that you will become an assembly of Peoples. May He give you The Blessing of Abraham, to you and your seed with you that you may take possession of the land of your sojourn, which GOD Gave to Abraham.” (Genesis 28:1-4)
Jacob obeyed and left for his uncle’s land. Esau heard his parents distain for his Canaanite wives so he took one of Ishmael’s daughters as a wife. (Genesis 28:9)
Jacob stopped to sleep at a place called Luz, where he
dreamed. “All of a sudden there was a stairway set up on the earth and its top
reaching to The Heaven – and behold, angels of GOD going up and down on it!
Surprisingly, ADONAI was standing on top of it and He said,’”
GOD Blesses Jacob: “‘I Am ADONAI, The GOD of your father Abraham and The GOD of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your seed. Your seed will be as the dust of the land, and you will burst forth to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. In you all the families of the earth will be Blessed – and in your seed. Behold, I Am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not forsake you until I have done what I Promised you.’” (Genesis 28:10-15)
Jacob sets up a memorial to GOD and calls the place Beth-El (House of GOD). (Genesis 28:16-19)
Then Jacob makes a vow to GOD: “If GOD will be with me and watch over me on this way that I am going and provide me food to eat and clothes to wear (Matthew 6:24-34) and I return in Shalom to my father’s house, then ADONAI will be my GOD. So this stone which I set up as a memorial stone will become GOD’s House, and of everything you provide me I will definitely give a tenth of it to You.” (Genesis 28:20-22) So, Isaac learned tithing from Abraham who tithed to Melchizedek the priest of El Elyon. (Genesis 14:17-20) And passed it on to his sons. (Just a guess they, must still have been tithing to Melchizedek.)
GOD tells some of his Servants to do things that He tells the
rest of His Servants not to do!
Abram (Abraham) married his half-sister, Sarai (Sarah), his
father’s daughter by a different mother (Genesis 20). Isaac married his second
cousin, Rebekah (Genesis 24). Under The Torah these were forbidden marriages
and under the common laws of many nations these are forbidden marriages (Study Leviticus
18).
Nakedness = ‛ervâh; nudity, literally (especially the pudenda)
or figuratively (disgrace, blemish):-nakedness, shame, unclean _-ness).
Strong’s Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary.
Pudenda = a person’s external genitals, especially a woman’s. Oxford Languages.
So any sexual activity would be considered exposing a person’s nakedness; only in marriage between a man and a woman does GOD Bless it (Genesis 2:24-25; Hebrews 13:4).
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