🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 34-35 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 33) 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 01-11-25

🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 34-35 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 33) 🔥
Giants/Nephilim in the Land

VERSES: Genesis 6:4; Jude 1:6; Deuteronomy 7:1-3, 20:16-17; 1st Corinthians 2:7-8

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Jacob’s faith life is being brought to a higher level (depicted in God giving him a new name; “Israel”). Jacob, having persisted in the faith of his fathers, is becoming more and more capacitated in his forefathers’ Calling by God. What does this mean but to know God more clearly? (Knowing Him in wisdom and understanding in order to walk in loving obedience to Him should be the goal for all of God’s redeemed. - 1st John 4:9) Jacob, in Chapter 35 back at Bethel, is here remembering, in gratefulness, God’s promises and His vows when he was escaping his brother’s wrath. And he was bearing testimony of God’s great Name by commemorating Yahweh’s/Elohim’s/El Shaddai’s great faithfulness… The Altar he builds there is in answer to God fulfilling His promises and his own vows of 30 years earlier. He dedicates the Altar to ‘the God of Israel’; ‘a mighty God’. In that He has fulfilled His word, in bringing him back to the Promised Land safe and sound, and that in spite of many tests and trials, just as He said He would… back to the Land He had promised to give to his grandfather Abraham, to Isaac his father, and to him.

And Jacob departed Bethel to go to Hebron and to his father Isaac. On the way, Rachel gives birth to Benjamin, and dies after giving him birth.

“And the length of Isaac’s life was one hundred and eighty years…” Jacob was about 108 years old when he returned home. Isaac was 60 when Jacob was born, so Isaac was 168 years old and lived another 12 years after his younger son returned. Joseph was about 15, and his younger brother Benjamin a baby. In Genesis 37:2, (shortly after the events of Chapters 34-36), Joseph was 17 years old.

When Jacob and his family were in Shechem at the time of the events of Chapters 34-35, Dinah would have been 14 or 15 years old.

THE VIOLATING/DEFILING OF DINAH
The sons of Jacob are here shown to have more spirituality than the tribes around them. Moses’ statement that this thing that happened to Dinah… “So ought not to be done” is more of a reference to how ‘Israelites’ or sons of Jacob and ‘sons’ of God would have viewed the tragedy (of her rape) rather than how the Canaanites and Perizzites viewed it.

The sons of Jacob knew their tribe was appointed by God to be a great people from whom the Promised Seed of Genesis 3:15 would come. They knew they were to be a separate people and not intermingle in marriages with the Canaanites. Their righteous indignation was well placed… but the ‘justice’ they perceived and carried out on the perpetrators was cruel and fearful in the eyes of Jacob (as later seen when Israel/Jacob goes to bless the sons in their character they had once exhibited and speaks of each son’s seed’s future before his death - Genesis 49:5-7). Nevertheless, it appears that God was silent on the point. God saw the big picture that the cup of iniquity (of the inhabitors of Canaan) was steadily ‘filling’ for the Nations of the entire Promised land, and in a few generations He would direct and anoint the Israelites to then “utterly destroy them.” Which is more fully explained in this lesson shortly.

THE SPIRITUAL CONFLICT unseen by God’s people.
Abraham, in Genesis 15, was told by God how his seed would multiply and be enslaved in a land that is not theirs (this being Egypt; where satan would have Abraham’s seed already in bondage and was set upon stopping their proliferation by assimilating the seed that had the Promise into the World’s corruption, even destroying all the male seed if he could). But God would rescue them and bring them out and bring them back again to the Promised Land. And that being at the time when ‘the iniquity of the Amorites was full,’ so that the swords of the sons of Jacob should destroy them completely and possess the land from the river of Egypt unto the Euphrates. The names of the Tribes or Nations that God would have Jacob’s future seed utterly destroy included the Canaanites and the Perizzites… (See Genesis 15:20-21 with Deuteronomy 7:1-3… “When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no....