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As you look back over the previous weeks, every character we have studied so far in Hebrews 11, other than Abel and Enoch, had something negative in their lives. They were not perfect, yet God called them men and women of faith. Thank you for reminding me that my mistakes do not have to render me unusable.
Encourage my heart as I see how you worked in and through his life. Why was Jacob sent away? Was Jacob bargaining with God here? What do you think the intent of his heart was in verses ? God does not give up on us even though we make mistakes in life. We are told in How did Jacob and Rachel handle this according to Genesis What were their different perspectives on her barrenness?
Where did each place blame? Jacob waited many years for the wife he loved. Is there something you are waiting for, and if so, how are you handling the waiting? How should you respond? All three wives of the men God promised many descendants to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were barren. How did each man respond to this situation and what were the results according to Genesis Waiting on God is not easy, but the end result is worth it. Trust that He is in control and His timing is perfect. Now go back through each birth and list why Rachel and Leah named each child the way they did.
Yes, I usually get to that point, but only after going through a process of emotions. You get the idea. I must give my emotions to the Lord and let Him take them. I speak my mind. But then He brings me to the place where I ask Him to take my emotions and replace them with His peace that He is in control.
When God asks us to wait on Him, we must choose how we will respond. Will you be impatient and take things into your own hands? Will you become angry with God and others? Or will you quietly trust in His perfect timing and His perfect will? The story of Jacob spans many chapters in the book of Genesis.
Because of time limitation, we will not be able to study every chapter. But his proficiency in evil doing is to be despised. In the life of this sharp trader who mended his ways, for there were two remarkable spiritual experiences in his life—at Bethel and Peniel—the preacher might find the following points suggestive: The father of Joseph , the husband of Mary Matt. Starting your free trial of Bible Gateway Plus is easy.
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Jacob was the fraternal twin of The Man in Black and the first-born of Claudia , who survived a shipwreck off the Island. His adoptive mother delivered the brothers and then killed Claudia. Jacob and his brother led a carefree life on the island, roaming the beaches, hunting, and playing games. They eventually discovered other survivors of Claudia's wreck, and their mother warned against them, calling them evil. She soon after revealed their alleged objective on the island and her own purpose there - the Heart of the Island , a light in a cave which she'd sworn to protect.
Claudia's ghost visited Jacob's brother and told him the truth about their birth. The news angered Jacob, and he attacked his brother. His brother joined the wreck's survivors, but Jacob stayed with his mother despite his pleas. He lived with her for the next thirty years, though he often met his brother to play their childhood games and talk.
His brother eventually revealed that he despised his people but worked with them, a "means to an end" he said, to harness the island's power and escape the island. When Jacob told his mother, she took him to the Heart , where she inducted him as protector of the island. Jacob later discovered his mother murdered at his brother's hands. She'd mystically prevented either from killing the other, so he cast him into the Heart , a fate Mother had called worse than death. His brother now left his body behind and exited the cave as the smoke monster. Jacob laid his body and Mother's in their cave.
The Man in Black could still assume his human form, and they continued to meet. Though his brother had adopted their mother's view of humanity, Jacob did not and began drawing people to the Island to prove him wrong. By , all of them had died. Richard , the last survivor of a ship he drew, tried to kill Jacob at the Man in Black's instruction.
Jacob stopped him, talked to him about the Island, and hired him as an intermediary between himself and the people he brought to the Island. He then approached his brother about the attempt on his life and warned him that to escape the Island, he would have to kill not just Jacob, but his successors as well. Jacob began searching for these candidates , people who could replace him as protector of the island.
He searched for people who were in some ways flawed like him, who "needed the island" as much as it needed them, and touched them at times when they felt vulnerable. In , he visited a young James Ford at his parents' funeral, giving him a pen to finish his letter.
Sometime in the late s, he visited an Iowa convenience store and offered to pay for the lunchbox that young Kate had tried to shoplift. He visited Jack at his hospital, freeing a candy bar from a vending machine for him. He blessed Jin and Sun at their wedding and touched John Locke right after his accident.
Years later, he visited Sayid during Nadia 's accident. In , he visited Hurley upon his release from prison, giving him an ankh in a guitar case containing the candidates' names. Jacob's lighthouse showed candidates, suggesting that he had visited many others as well. He didn't just visit candidates; In the early s, he offered to save Dogen 's son, who was near death after a car accident , if Dogen would come to the island and run the Temple.
Rebekah raced to Jacob's tent with a plan and Jacob's greed caused him to conspire with his mother to steal Esau's blessing so that the birthright transfer could be consummated. It seemed as though a great battle was taking place within her abdomen and the tumult became so vigorous that she asked the Lord about it! In verses , how does Jacob view God at this point in his life? Hurley asked why and the boy replied, "because they're mine. A conservative interpretation is that, at Isaac's burial, Jacob obtained the records of Esau, who had been married 80 years prior, and incorporated them into his own family records, and that Moses augmented and published them. There is a good deal of attaching our name to the Lord's work—" my church," "my prayer meeting," "my Sunday-school," and my this and my that, instead of keeping ourselves out of sight and giving God all the glory. Sin always extracts a greater price than the benefit anticipated.
He later entrusted him with information about the candidates, which even Richard did not know. He became a surrogate father to Ilana , eventually visiting her after an accident and asking her to come and protect his candidates. In , after the crash of Ajira Airways Flight , the seemingly resurrected Locke revealed his plans to kill Jacob. The false Locke told Ben this task would not be easy, but after Jacob's death "things will change.
Jacob recognized Locke immediately as his supernatural brother, noting that this man had "found his loophole. Well, you found your loophole. And you have no idea what I've gone through to be here. In a brief but tense conversation, Jacob told Ben that he had a choice before him: An emotional Ben confronted Jacob - asking why he had been ignored by Jacob for so many years on the Island.
Jacob gravely looked back at Ben, and said quietly: According to Miles , up until the moment Ben had stabbed him, Jacob was hoping that he was "wrong" about Ben. Linus " Dropping to his knees and coughing up blood, Jacob warned his brother: An hour after his murder, Jacob appeared to Hurley in the jungle.
Although Hurley recognized Jacob from their previous encounter off the Island, he was unaware of Jacob's identity. Jacob informed Hurley of his death, attributing it to an "old friend who had grown tired of my company. Jacob further noted, the survivors would be safe there. Although Hurley did not know where the Temple was, Jacob assured him that Jin did.
He also told Hurley to mention the science expedition , which was Rousseau 's group that had crashed on the island in He then reminded Hurley to bring the guitar case. Upon Jin's arrival, Hurley could no longer see Jacob. Later, Hurley informed Dogen and Lennon of Jacob's death, who leaped into action and began fortifying and securing the Temple. Several Others were observed creating ash circles around the periphery, indicating knowledge of the Man in Black and understanding they were under threat.
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A signal flare was set off alerting the remaining Others at the statue of Taweret. Jacob, in the form of his younger self and with his arms and hands covered in blood, appeared before Richard and the Man in Black in the form of Locke.