Thursday, May 14, 2015

Prove our repentance by our deeds

Genesis 35:1-29
They set out, go up to Barthel, and the terror of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
God said to Jacob, "Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel." So he named him Israel.
Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.
Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba, where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.
As Jacob returns to the place of God's promise, the story comes full circle. This chapter is a rounding off, before Joseph's story begins. Foreign gods are put aside.
God reaffirms his covenant. Rachel dies near Bethleham. giving birth to Benjamin, the last of Jacob's 12 sons.
The curtains close on the two brothers, Esau and Jacob, laying their aged father Isaac to rest in the family burial-place.
Why?
Jacob afraid that his sons revenged the tribe at Shechem, then people around there will attack them. But God blessed him.
God reaffirmed his covenant with Israel, so he order everyone has to put aside foreign gods.
All of these place are related to the place of Jesus.
How?
All things are recorded in history, so God remember everything we had done, let prove our repentance by our deeds.





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