The Wrestle (Page 2)
Swindled by Pride
Though they were twin brothers, Esau and Jacob were vastly different from one another. And like many siblings these differences flow over to a sibling rivalry – the boys had been engaged in a wrestle against one another for their entire lives. In the passage we look at today this rivalry comes to the fore as the younger brother uses the older brother’s weakness to deceive him. But as we engage with this story we will see that the trigger…
The Sovereign Author
The story of Genesis is the origin story of the Jewish people. It is how they discovered who there were, where they were, and who their God was. As we come to investigate the story of one of the famous patriarchs of the people of God, Jacob, we need to understand why his life is recorded for us. God, as the sovereign author, has written Jacob’s story, complete with all his failures, weaknesses and deceit, into His grand saga. In…
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