🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 32 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 31) 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 12-28-24

🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 32 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 31) 🔥
Exercising Our New Identity

VERSES: Luke 24:13-31; 1st John 4:17-18; Revelation 2:17; Matthew 5:48; John 20:17

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God has set in motion His plan to raise up a Nation of people on the Earth through His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob (Exodus 2:24-25) through whom He will reveal Himself. A Nation made up of Godly Spirit-filled people, that in the Millennial Kingdom of His Son, will represent Him to all the other Nations.

Moses continues writing about Jacob’s life of faith which is at the center of God’s focus in the drama that is about to play out.

Rebekah has not sent word to Jacob that Esau’s wrath had abated. Yet Jacob is being directed by God’s word to “return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee…” This appears to be in answer to Jacob’s prayer of anxiousness, in light of Laban’s worsening countenance towards him. These Words from God do not mention Esau’s countenance towards him. With Laban’s trouble just behind him, Jacob now sends messengers (without gifts) to his estranged brother with conciliatory words diplomatically constructed, calling Esau ‘master’ and himself his ‘servant.’ It was only when Jacob’s messengers returned too quickly that it was discovered that Esau already knew he was coming and was now but a day from coming to him with 400 men. And Esau had given Jacob’s men no message for him, which raised the alarm in Jacob’s heart.

Verses 9-12 Jacob, being fearful of his brother, prays unto God… but did so humbly and repentantly… “I am unworthy of the least of all the mercies (kindnesses), and of all the truth (faithfulness) which thou has shown unto thy servant…” over the past 20 years since I passed over this Jordan River. (Jacob, having left with nothing but a staff, is now coming back with 2 wives, 2 handmaids, and lots of herds of animals and possessions.) In faith he acted, and he reminds God of His having told him to “return to thy land and to thy relation and I will do thee good” and recites God’s promises that He has given him and earnestly petitions Him to deliver him from the hand of his brother. Jacob’s sincere prayer does not preclude his appeasing gestures of generosity, and he goes quickly about gathering gifts to express his heartfelt sincerity to forego all the outward expressions of leadership and superiority that ordinarily would accompany the birthright, by giving Esau preeminence in the ‘double-portion’ inheritance, that would be realized in his gifts for reconcillitory peace. And having done all he could devise, he was “left alone” on the east side of the brook.

The following are verses from Luke 24:13-31 which speak about Jesus’ interactions with the 2 men on the Road to Emmaus after His Resurrection. These verses (shown in blue) are plied together/interwoven with spiritual conjecture (shown in red) regarding the night that Jacob experienced at Jabbok when God changed his name from Jacob to Israel…

Luke 24:13-31…
“And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, (like Jacob was alone and in heavy consternation, having done all he could reason to do, considering all the things which had happened and trying to make sense of it all) -- Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. (and while Jacob, being heavy of heart, was reasoning and searching for an answer, a ‘man’ drew near him {the Angel of the Lord - according to Hosea 12:4-5})
But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. (Though Jacob must have sensed this ‘man’ was there by the direction of God, Jacob’s eyes were holden that he should not know Him… in that the Son of God took the form of a man.)
And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? (and the ‘man’ asked Jacob, ‘Why are you so anxious?’)
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? (Jacob responded, ‘Are you unaware of the great things that have happened, things for which I am even now being confronted with?’)
And he said unto them - - Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: (The Angel of the Lord said unto Jacob), What things? And they said unto him....