Jacob age
The Age of Jacob
Jacob, who formed the twelve tribes
The first half of his life begins when Jacob, born from the time of birth, holds the heel of his twin brother Esau, deceives his elder brother and father, seizes the birthright, and flees to Haran. He was a selfish and cunning character, but by keeping the faithful God as he covenanted, he eventually settled in the Promised Land and later got 12 sons to form the 12 tribes of Israel. The name Israel derives from the new name God gave to Jacob, who was standing in the ranks of the covenant.
Jacob's Life (Gn.Ch.27-36) Aged 147
1, God of Jacob (ch.25-27)-Leave (40 years old)
2, God of covenant (ch.28)-meet (40 years old)
3, God of Mahanaim (ch.29-31)-Do not be mistaken (60 years old)
4, God of Peniel (ch.32-33)-Be Changed (60 years old)
5, God of El Elohe (ch.34)-Do not go down (60 years old)
6, God of El Bethel (ch.35)-Ola settles (60 years old)
7, God of grace (ch.45)-Know good grace (60-130 years old)
8, God of fulfillment (ch.47)-Immigration Go buried in Hebron (147 years old)
1,God of Jacob(ch.25-27)-Leave, Aged 40
1) the blessing of one's birthright
The text is divided into two parts. The first half shows Isaac's favoritism towards Easu and Isaac giving Esau his blessing, even though it was revealed before the birth of Jacob and Esau that through God's will, Jacob will recieve the birthright (verses 1-4). The second half was in response to the first half. This half vividly shows Rebekah, who favored Jacob, trying to return the blessing of the eldest son to Jacob, and in response, Jacob, who had longed for inheritance of the birthright, went along with his mother and decieved his father, Isaac, finally recieving the blessing (verses 5-29).
The fact that Jacob was blessed with the eldest son has a significance that, as a result, God's prophecy revealed during Rebekah's pregnancy (Gen. 25: 22,23) was fulfilled. But the process of accomplishment was never glorified to God. Because, as it has been revealed, the blessing of the eldest son, who will ultimately return to Jacob, has not been made pure according to the divine will of God, but has been mixed with all kinds of human faults such as favoritism, complicity, and deception.
Although Jacob inherited the birthright as God's will, he had to live as an enemy between his brothers for over 20 years, and historically, he continued to maintain hostility between Jacob's descendant Israelites and Esau's descendants of Edom. Indeed, God's holy will must be done through God's methods to produce good results.
Through the text, God's mysterious providence and dispensation that ultimately fulfills your will on the earth by reconciling it all to your holy history of redeption, not to discard the human affairs that are as torn as Jacob and full of sinful men (Job11:7-9; Jeon3:11).
Through the text, God's mysterious providence and dispensation that ultimately fulfills your will on the earth by reconciling it all to your holy history of redeption, not to discard the human affairs that are as torn as Jacob and full of sinful men (Job11:7-9; Jeon3:11).
2) the escape of Jacob
Gn.27:42 When this word from Esau the firstborn was heard by Rebekah, he sent a man to Jacob, the younger son, and said to him, `` Your brother Esau will kill you and try to free him. The word "unwind" here means "get comfort" in its original language. So this means that Esau tried to get himself satisfied by killing Jacob. It was found that the tears from the loss of one's birthright were not tears of regret or repentance, but tears of bitterness caused by cynicism.
Gn.27:43 My son, follow my word, and go up to Haran, and flee to my brother Laban. Here, according to Rebekah's "follow me," this human plan and instrumentality was then forced to swallow the bitter taste of life for both herself and her son. In other words, after that, Jacob left his home and suffered the troubles of his life for 20 years in Haran, and Rebekah had to end her life after waiting for the end of her life with Jacob.
Gn.27:44 Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.
Gn.27:45 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
Gn.27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."
2,God of Covenant(ch.28)-Meet (Aged 40)
1) The Object of One's Journey to Aram
Gn.28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him and commanded him: "Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
28:2 Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, the land God gave to Abraham."
28:5 Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Verses 1-5 refer to 27: 42-46 that Jacob escaped to Paddan Aram, where his uncle lives, by avoiding the fiery anger of Esau, whose eldest son was deprived of birthright blessings, but the text is the purpose of Jacob's going to Paddan Aram. The focus is on choosing the spouse God want. This fact is that God made the negative event of human deception and family conflict a marriage opportunity to maintain the pure lineage of the covenant family, which eventually became a decisive factor in the development of redemption history.
2) Signing the Bethel Covenant(Ch.28)
It was recorded that God appeared to Jacob wandering away from home and made a covenant himself. In the human eye, Jacob was a poor runner who even abandoned his family in order to save his life. However, spiritually, Jacob was the spiritual heir of the covenant family, who was called to be the protagonist of the Redeemer. God promises to appear to Jacob, the successor of this covenant, and promise to protect him. In short, he promises to fulfill the covenant of the land and descendants from the time of his grandfather Abraham, and the promise of salvation promised from the beginning. In other words, he had an amazing vision by renewing the covenant, even though he is now a fugitive, but he does not care about God, but he acknowledges it as the heir of the covenant. This is the famous covenant called the so-called ladder covenant or Bethel covenant.
3) Jacob's vow
Verses 16-22 record that Jacob's vows to God in response to the amazing experience of faith (verse 16) given through the Bethel Covenant. This is called Bethel Seowon (21,22).
Genesis 28:16 Jacob awoke and said, "The LORD is here, and I did not know.
* It means that Jacob realized the God who had heard and learned only in words through his grandfather Abraham and his father Isaac. Here, we realize that true faith is not knowledge that is understood by the head, but knowledge that acquires life through experience.
Gn.28:21 so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God
Gn.28:22 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."
3, God of Mahanaim (ch.29-31) Aged 60
1) Jacob's Marriage
The first part of the text, "Chang29: 15-20," is the fact that Jacob signed a contract with his uncle Laban on the condition that Rachel, his uncle Laban's younger daughter, be his wife and served Laban for seven years.
In the second half of verses 21-30, Jacob, who had served Laban as a covenant, tried to get Rachel to be his wife, but because of Laban's deception, he married his eldest daughter Leah first, and afterward, Jacob served Laban for seven years more to take Rachel as his wife.
While Jacob mentions that he will flee to Paddan Aram (27:42-46), the focus is on the fact that the purpose of Jacob's trip to Paddan Aram is to select the spouse God wants. This fact is that God used the negative event that led to human deception and family conflict as an opportunity for marriage to maintain the pure lineage of the covenant family, which eventually led to the world of Judas and David and Jesus Christ from Leah's lineage.
When his uncle Laban gave Leah to Jacob before Rachel (29:25), Jacob thought he had been deceived, but God achieved the world of Leah- Judas-David-Jesus Christ by giving him Leah. Although Jacob might have forgotten the will of God because of Rachel's beauty, God gave Leah to Jacob as a crucial opportunity to continue the history of redemption, and Jacob got twelve sons and a daughter from four wives, along with Zilba the servant of Leah and Bilhah the servant of Rachel.
Here we can think of two passages from the Bible.
Is.55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
Rm.8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
2) Jacob's Way home
About 20 years after he left Beersheba, the home of his parents' home, to avoid retaliation from Esau (Gn.28: 1-5), Jacob finally reports on his decision to return to his hometown and consult with his two wives.
Verses 1-16 Jacob's decision to return home is a conflict between him and his uncle, Laban. In other words, Jacob's prosperity stimulated the coveted feelings of his uncle Laban, making their relationship uncomfortable (verses 1 and 2). But the ultimate factor that led to Jacob's decision to return home was because God appeared to him and instructed him to return to his hometown (v. 3). This God was the same God that appeared in Bethel when Jacob was running way from his brother, Esau.
When God's appointed time came, God commanded Jacob to return to his hometown, and Jacob delivered his intention to return to his two wives and gained their consent (verses 4-16).
The fact that Jacob had to leave the land of Haran and return to the land of Canaan coincides with his grandfather, Abraham's exodus of Haran (Genesis 12: 1), which is a framework of the later exodus. So, ultimately, Jacob's return to Canaan does not cling to worldly pleasures and satisfaction. God's people must leave for the eternal promised land, the heavenly Canaan, to live a holy life separated from sin and the secularized world.
In verses 17-42, Jacob leads his wife and all his possessions and goes on a sneak back home to Laban; in verses 20-35, Laban chase Jacob and search for Jacob's family to find a Drabim,
in the 36-42 section, in the scene of Jacob's reproach for Laban, who couldn't find Drabim, there are a few things to note.
First, in the process of fulfilling God's return command (v. 3), Jacob was unable to choose a bold and stiff way to rely entirely on the guidance of "God of Bethel" (v. 13), and he was vulnerable to sneaking out like a fugitive. As the heir to the covenant and the ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel, Jacob's character suggests that much sanctification will be required in the future. But even such a weak and fragile Jacob, he had faith in the God of Bethel, the God of Abraham and Isaac.
First, in the process of fulfilling God's return command (v. 3), Jacob was unable to choose a bold and stiff way to rely entirely on the guidance of "God of Bethel" (v. 13), and he was vulnerable to sneaking out like a fugitive. As the heir to the covenant and the ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel, Jacob's character suggests that much sanctification will be required in the future. But even such a weak and fragile Jacob, he had faith in the God of Bethel, the God of Abraham and Isaac.
This is reflected in his testimony of confession of faith toward Laban (v. 42). Eventually, as Jacob's faith later showed in the Jabbok River, the new name given to him, the name "Israel" (32:28), instead of the names Jacob "the deceiver" or "weak fugitive," Now, "the ancestors of the covenant" sublimated to the position.
4, God of Peniel (ch.32-33)
1) God of Mahanaim (32:1,2)
Genesis 32: 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is the army of God, and the name of the land is Mahanaim."
The text is a scene of Jacob's encounter with the angel of God, the army of God, on his way back to Canaan after Misbah's covenant with Laban in the mountains of Gilead (Gn.31: 43-55).
Angels, who are essentially spiritual beings, are God's "weaking spirits," whose mission is to escort God's glory and protect God's people (Psalm 34: 7; Hebrews 1:14). Not only did they appear during the Jacob's escape (Gn. 28:12), but what was once again on Jacob's return to Canaan welcomed Jacob, the covenant heir, back into Canaan, and It can be said to be for showing that God was with Jacob from the beginning to the present.
However, above all, the important reason the angels appeared here to Jacob is that there is a greater danger ahead of Jacob than the difficulties he has suffered. In other words, Laban had been chasing Jacob simply for property reasons, but his brother had been pursuing Jacob's life for 20 years with a knife of revenge for his birthright. In this situation, God wanted to send angels to comfort and courage Jacob in fear.
In this way, God provides various trials to train his people, but he is also the one who provides special comfort after the trial (2 Corinthians 1: 3,4).
2Co.1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
2Co.1:4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
2) Jacob's Fear of Esau
The text says that despite Jacob's commandment to meet God's messengers at Mahanaim on his way home to Canaan (verses 1 and 2), he was unable to overcome his fears due to his past transgression to Esau. It vividly describes Jacob's fearful psychological state.
In other words, Jacob hears the shocking report of the messengers sent for the purpose of reconciliation , that is, Esau is coming with 400 people (vv. 3-6). Not only was he restless and urgent to prepare a plan to overcome the crisis (vs. 7 and 8), he was also eager to plead his situation to God with a fearful and frustrating feeling (vv. 9-12).
But the ultimate cause of Jacob's fear of Esau is not because of lack of God's love and protection, but because of his lack of faith in God's protection and companionship. In other words, despite the fact that God promised through the Bethel Covenant (28: 13-15) earlier and now sent his army to comfort Jacob and show him that he was with Jacob, Jacob had yet to have a lack of faith in God fully trusted and depended on him (Ho6:1:3; Ma17:14-20).
Even so, the master of Jacob's life was himself, and God was just a god of ancestors. Indeed, in order to overcome the adversity of life and live a life of vitality that will cope with the crisis, it is necessary to accept God alone as his master at any time, and share intimate fellowship with Him while relying solely on God (Hebrews 11: 1). .
3) Jacob's prayer(32:22-32)
The text is the event that led to the great transformation of Jacob's life along with the Bethel event (28: 10-22), and the self-centered "Jacob" was transformed into a God-centered "Israel" through a desperate wrestling with God in the Jabbok River.
So far, Jacob has remained fearful despite his own careful planning (32: 13-21) to sustain life from his brother Esau. After this, Jacob spends the night with prayer after sending his family and possessions to the Jabbok River first (verses 22, 23). Eventually, by thoroughly destroying the source of Jacob's self-centered thinking and human power here (v. 25),
He made Jacob no longer dependent on his thoughts and abilities, but only on God. And by giving the new name "Israel", which symbolizes a new personality and character (v. 28), Jacob has now been fully devoted to God and has become a heir to God's covenant. As a result, Jacob is now bound to live a God-centered life, not self-centered (Galatians 2:20).
4) Settled at Jacob Shechem(Ch.33)
Esau's hatred for Jacob was not easily solved, but the two brothers cried and rejoiced only because they met again (vv. 4-10). This was entirely the result of God's mysterious providence. In other words, God not only completely changed Jacob's personality through the Jabbok River wrestling, but also sublimated Esau's hatred to forgiveness, love, and brotherhood.
On the other hand, Jacob seems to have stayed in Succoth for a long time after refusing to accompany him and breaking up with him. This is the fact that when he came out of Paddan Aram, his daughter Dinah, a child of about 6-7 years old, was a virgin when he left Succoth and reached Shechem (34: 1-4).
Redemption History Overview
On the other hand, in time for Jacob's return to Canaan, he reconciled with his uncle Laban in chapter 31, reconciled with his brother Esau in chapters 32 and 33, and in chapters 34 and 35, the restoration of the relationship with God-centered on Bethel vows Is being recorded. In this way, Jacob had to settle all the conflicts and wrongs caused by the many sinful attributes he had as a deceived person and a weak person of faith in order to fulfill the role of the Redeemer. This demonstrates what the heart of today's Redeemer should be in the life of this world while purifying and solving all the problems of man's past sins before entering the kingdom of God spiritually as Canaan symbolizes.
5, God of El Elohe (ch.34)
1) Shame of daughter Dina (vv.1-4)
It is clear that Jacob, who was guaranteed a covenant of blessing from God and made reconciliation with his brother Esau, lived in Shechem with great ambition, looking out on a bright day (33:18). One day, however, an incident of shame occurred when her daughter Dinah was raped by Shechem, the chief of the land (verses 1 and 2).
Behind this incident was the deep will of God, who scourged and disciplined the one he loved (Proverbs 3:11; Hebrews 12: 6). In other words, although Jacob grew up as a mature believer to confess that God was "El Elohe Israel" (33:20) during the days of Paddan Aram and the Jabbok River wrestling, Jacob's faith was not satisfactory to God. Because Jacob settled safely in the land of Shechem while he forgotten or withheld the vow (28: 20-22) made to God in Bethel during the escape of Haran, despite the safe return and settlement of the land of Canaan by God's grace and guidance. It was because they were living for physical convenience .
2) Revenge of Jacob's sons (vv.25-31)
This is a scene in which Jacob's sons thoroughly revenge against the Shechems in exchange for the Dina shame incident. The text reports that the sons of Jacob, especially Levi and Simeon, were the main protagonists rescued their younger sister, Dina. After circumcision, after the massacre of the people of Shechem who were uncomfortable walking.
It was an unfaithful, unethical, and non-human act that was against God's will despite the plausible cause of repaying his brother's shame and restoring the honor of the covenant family. Thus, Simeon and Levi's actions left only the most shameful blemish in Hebrew history, and such brutality could never be justified. Thus, the two brothers were later cursed by Jacob (49: 5-7).
6, God of El Bethel (ch.35)
1) The Fulfillment of Jacob's Vow
Jacob, through God's grace, settled his 20-year long life in Paddan Aram, overcame the dangers that could be imposed by his uncle Laban and his brother Esau, and arrived safely in Canaan, but he didn't fullfill Bethel vow (Gn.28:20-22) which promised to God when he left Canaan in the past. While he was still in Shechem the daughter Dinah was molested, and in revenge a tragic situation in which Jacob's sons slaughtered the Shechemites.
However, on the other side of this tragedy was God's mysterious providence to steadfastly qualify Jacob as a successor to the covenant by keeping Jacob's promised Bethel vow with God.
By recording the birth of Benjamin's last son, Benjamin, in chapters 16-26, the birth of the 12 sons, who have ended the history of separation that has been repeated for the choice of the covenant family so far, finally it comes together in the ranks of the covenant people together without further separation, shows completion. Finally, verses 27-29 record another generation of redemption history by recording the death of Isaac, the second ancestor of the chosen Israeli people and the father of Jacob.
From chapter 35 onwards, in the Bible, the significance of Jacob's personal action is halted, but only the relationship between Joseph and the other sons is mentioned. In other words, the position of the leading role of the Redeemer is a natural transfer from Jacob to Joseph and other sons, and more precisely, it is implied that it will be newly developed through the 12 sons centered on Joseph.
7, God of grace (ch.45)-
1) Jacob's grief and recovery
(1) My dear wife Rachel dies during the dissolution (Genesis 35: 16-20)
(2) The sons' deception that their dear son Joseph was killed by the beasts (Gen. 37: 31-35)
The sorrow of being deceived by his sons, just as Jacob deceived his father ("Romans 8:28 We know, but all work together to do good for those who love God, those who are called according to his will") The only thing that changed and became joy was that Joseph, who knew that he had died, became the prime minister in Egypt and invited all the family into Goshen. " I will make you a great nation there. ”All of this is the total grace of God to lead as promised to Abraham. Through the life of Jacob, we can learn from the life of Redeemer the lesson that sadness changes and becomes joy.
2) Jacob's decision to move to Egypt
In verses 1-15, after the examination of chapters 42 and 44, the brothers were transformed, and Joseph finally reveals his identity and reports on the brothers' invitation to Egypt. Thus, in this paragraph, a true reunion is held between the Prime Minister and the brothers and sisters of the covenant family, not as traders. This shows that a true fellowship of spiritually fallen human beings with God is possible only after the problem of sin is resolved (Isaiah 59: 1,2). In addition, Joseph's figure that realizes the providence of redemption through himself and goes beyond his personal feelings and spreads it to his brothers is also the epitome of true faith.
The migration account of the covenant family through Joseph is the content of the chapter, the primary fulfillment of the prophecy of Genesis 15: 13-16, which was already foretold through Abraham, and of the glorious exodus from which the Israelites escaped Egypt after 400 years. When we consider the article comprehensively, it is confirmed that history is not just flowing alone, but is proceeding without a single point of deviation according to the providence of God's redemptive history to save the chosen people.