So from the last one I kind of got onto Jacob for being so mean to Esau but he isn't doing so hot anyway. He goes and gets 2 heathen wives and becomes a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
When Isaac is realllly old and blind he calls on Esau and says go and hunt my favorite game and prepare it the way I like so I may give you my blessing. Just one thing here...didn't he sell his birthright? Doesn't that mean Jacob gets the blessing...I mean he will anyway but that's a little later on in the story.
Then Rebekah and Jacob conspire which all this deceit can't be good can it? I have no clue how they get away with all this. But Rebekah tells Jacob to go get two goats so she can prepare Isaac's favorite food. Then she takes the goat skins and covers Jacob so that he will be hairy like Esau. At this point if I'm Esau I'm lazy I'd be getting the goats from the flock too and not going out to hunt them but I guess that's a good thing about Esau huh, we haven't found too many about Jacob anyway.
Jacob then takes the food to Isaac and Isaac is like wait how did you do that so fast and Jacob says the Lord God gave me success. Again not only is he lying he is using God to do it...what is up with this guy. And Isaac eventually is like whatever I guess its you and gives him the blessing. Why isn't God coming to Isaac in a vision and warning him?
Esau then comes in like 20 minutes later (I guess God really did give him success) and figures out what happened and starts begging for a blessing. The blessing he gives includes him throwing the yoke of Jacob from your neck and because of this Esau held a grudge against him and he said when his father Isaac died he would kill his brother.
Rebekah tries to help Jacob and sends him to her brother Laban in the land of Paddan Aram and Isaac also blesses this journey because he wants Jacob to have a good wife. (again why is Jacob still getting the good treatment here) Esau then realizes that the wives he has are displeasing to Isaac and takes a wife from the daughters of Ishmael the other son of Abraham so this is his cousin but whatever that's how it goes back then.
On his journey Jacob stops for the night and rest and laying a stone under his head he goes to sleep. He had a dream in which a ladder was on the earth and reached to the heavens and the angels were going up and down on it. God then says that he is Abraham and Isaac's God but He does not call Isaac his father, He calls Abraham his father and then says of Isaac. I just thought it was interesting. Anyway He says He will give Jacob this land. When Jacob awakes from sleeping he says surely the Lord was in this place and I was not aware of it and he calls it the house of God, the very gate of Heaven.
Before we go on I want to note something. You see how God communicates now? He isn't there on the earth, He doesn't even visit in physicality, He just comes in visions now. Again link to a great sermon on the topic http://bit.ly/69XoKU
So Jacob takes the stone and makes it an altar and worships and basically makes a deal that says God if you protect me on this journey then you will be my God and this place Bethel which means house of God will be your house and everything You give me I will give you a tenth.
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