Jacob & his family grow wealthy & strong; God tells him it's time to return to the Promised Land; but leaving won't be as easy as he had hoped. And is Genesis 31 a forshadowing of The Exodus event just a few hundred years down the road?

Early in the day Jacob rolls a stone away from a hole providing water for many sheep, simultaneously meeting his beautiful bride.  

Jacob lays his head on a stone, but what is this stone?  And what about the ladder?  And what about God's covenant now spoken to Jacob directly by the Lord?

The older brother/younger brother type comes into play again. Jacob & Rebekah deceive Isaac, Jacob's dad, to get the most valuable blessing for Jacob rather than Esau.  Esau is angry enough to kill Jacob after learning what has happened. The story of Jesus is sitting just under a couple of goat skins.

 The births of Esau & Jacob; another younger brother overtakes the older in family standing; the older brother who feels he is about to die gets an extension on life from the thick red liquid provided by the younger brother - sound familiar?

In this episode, we find out why so much of Isaac's life sounds just like Abraham's: (1) Both go through famine; (2) Both live in the land of Abimelech; (3) both lie about their relationship to their wife because they worry about her being taken because of her beauty; (4) both dig wells (the son even re-digs the ones the father dug before); (5) both make covenants to keep peace with kings nearby; (6) both covenants are made at the same place--Beersheba--a generation apart. All of this is actually pointing to Jesus, the Son who does only what he sees his Father doing (John 5:19).

The father sends the helper into the world to find a bride for the promised son - and she needs to come RIGHT NOW! 

The father takes the promised son to the place of sacrifice where he is miraculously saved on the third day, and it all happens in Genesis 22.

Sweeping overview of Genesis 15-24 foreshadowing a timeline stretching from the Covenant at Sinai to the sending of the Holy Spirit to seek the Bride of Christ.

What if there is a timeline leading from Abram's call in Gen 12:1-3 to the arrival of Melchizedek/Jesus in Gen 14:18? And what about those 318 fighting men?

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