Genesis 28: 10 to 22
OBSERVATION
- Idea: vision of a ladder by Jacob
- Text Type: narrative storytelling. Text prospective
- Location: The scene takes place at Luz limits Canaan . The place where Jacob stopped for the night was actually the Mount Moriah, the future site of the Temple of Jerusalem . The scale means, therefore the bridge between heaven and earth, as the prayers and sacrifices in the Holy Temple signify the covenant between God and the Jewish people. In addition, the scale refers to the Gift of Torah as another link between heaven and earth.
- Character: Jacob
Jacob (Hebrew = "God has sustained and protected" ) is a patriarch biblical . He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca son and grandson of Abraham . It also receives the name of Israel after his fight with God (Gen 32. 28).
As the events of history, we can separate them into four periods:
1 His birth and his youth with his father in the land of Canaan;
2 ° His journey to Padanaram, and twenty years of his stay with Laban the Syrian,
3 His return from Padan Aram, and his second stay in Canaan
4 ° His journey to Egypt to Canaan, his stay and his death in that country.
difficult words:
Tithing (from Latin decima, tenth) is a royalty in kind or cash, focusing on agricultural income collected on behalf of the Catholic Church .
Patriarchy is the line of men with whom God has sealed an alliance in order generates a great nation to become the Jewish people . Jews, Christians and Muslims regard them as the fathers of our civilization. The word comes from ancient Greek patriarkhês, which means "Father, head of the family."
- Parts:
Verse 10-15: Jacob's dream
Verse 16-22 : decision confidence Jacob
INTERPRETATION
Why Jacob went to Padan?
"28.1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him and commanded: Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
28.2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take it to a woman of the daughters of Laban thy brother mother.
28.3 May God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of nations! " Genesis
Imagine where Jacob spends the night? Why God is revealed here?
Ø It is not at the bedside of his father, where he has sinned, but at a remote location, arid, lonely, where his sin of chased, and where it is subject to the discipline of God, that He may meet with him. He can not appear to us on the stage of our iniquities, but may do so where corrects. Yet such was Jacob Luz. It was a desolate place. The stones of the place were his bedside, and the sky above his head his blanket and he had no other friend than his stick for support and comfort. But is the God of his fathers just find it. It does not change the circumstances of the moment, nor revoke the punishment. He leaves Jacob continued his lonely path, then find twenty years of hard service under the yoke of a stranger, strewn with many a years and now wrongly injustice. But God assured him that the Almighty will watch over and surround him to serve him.
What promise God made to Jacob?
Ø Genesis 28: 13 to 15
A What other characters before him this promise was made?
Ø Abraham and Isaac
The promise to Isaac has a peculiarity. Which? Why?
Ø The Lord had, as we know, of great promise to Abraham, he had repeated to Isaac, and now, at Bethel, he made to Jacob, but with a very distinctive addition to these shared promises: "And behold, I 'm with you, and I will keep you wherever you go, and I bring you back to this land it, because I will not leave until I did what I told you "(v. 15). This was a new promise, a grace more; precisely because Jacob was needed, which was not the case with Abraham and Isaac. Jacob was the only one of three that would need that the Lord was with him wherever he went, and leading him back to his country. Jacob, by his culpable, had necessitated this additional support, grants him the grace and vision across the guarantees it. The promises to Abraham and Isaac did not understand the providential care, angelic. They remained in the country: but Jacob was by his act, an outcast, needing special care and vigilance of a guard heaven and God responds to this need. They are angels as they had received direct commission from heaven, watching over him during the days of his exile and his hard work, results its own fault, sets him apart as an object of mercy. He was heir to the kingdom, as "debtor in a special mercy, because of the abundant grace that had come to his aid and kept it in the middle of the bitter results of his own fault.
What interpretation can we give this "mysterious" scale?
Ø must be based on the words of Christ in the Gospel according to John 1:51. Christ is seen as a wide connecting heaven and earth, being both the Son of God and Son of Man.
should interpret the fact that the angels of God ascending and descending like a perpetual exchange open between Heaven and earth through Christ who God is represented in the flesh.
Jesus Christ really plays the role of mediator between God and men, and angels ascending and descending over the Son of Man is a metaphor making a habit of sending couriers and messengers of the Prince's ambassadors at foreign courts and ambassadors to itself.
What this passage teaches us about God: Father, Son and Holy Ghost?
Ø Father : Referring Jacob's dream, we can say that Heaven is home to the Lord. He has angels at his service.
The father is eternal (no beginning or end). Indeed, it is the God of generations (Abraham = grandfather of Jacob and Isaac his father).
God owns the land because he can give it to whoever he wants.
It is powerful and generous as it promises to Jacob as a multitude of descendants numerous as the dust of the earth.
God is omnipresent and attentive, he will accompany Jacob throughout his life.
The father is a "man of his word" : he always accomplished what he promised.
Ø Son : Jesus Christ does not appear in this passage, but we can interpret it would be equated to that level connecting heaven and earth , being both the Son of God and Son of Man. ( mediator )
Ø The Holy Spirit : From this passage it may act throughout the world at times and unexpected places. Especially here in a dream.
This passage also tells us the Holy Spirit gives us the assurance the presence of God. Also, it increases our confidence , so our faith in God.
can also say that the action of the Holy Spirit enables us go ahead and achieve our goal complete projects even beyond our own humans (construction of the temple in Jerusalem at this point).
Qu’est-ce que ce passage nous enseigne sur l'être humain ?
La réaction de Jacob à son réveil nous montre que ce contact avec Dieu a engendré une certaine crainte mélangé à de la certitude . En effet, il trouve l’endroit redoutable mais en même temps il affirme clairement que c’est l’emplacement de la maison de Dieu (Bethel).
L’homme est attaché aux symboles . Ceci est traduit par this rock where Jacob poured oil probably for the blessing.
Man is interested . The vow made by Jacob shows us that he would accept the Lord as his God if the Lord gives him to eat, clothes and accompanies his journey for peace.
Jacob expresses the thoughts of his heart, under the impression that the power of vision was necessarily produced, but there are still a lot of her old Jacob. It is carried away by the evil inclination of his heart: here it seems calculated, enter a market, making conditions even though the Lord himself has spoken the language of this promise, as his free and sovereign goodness. The nature of "human" is active in him.
This passage teaches us that man can be grateful to God (construction of the house of God, gift of tithes).
What is the main lesson that emerges from this text?
Ø Knowing God through is what honors him, and it is our joy. According to our natural conceptions, that is to say according to the instincts of our nature as sinners, we imagine that God demands our obedience and our claims service. Faith, however, is known as the One who gives, who tells us about our privileges, freedom and blessings that are ours because of our relationship with him .
APPLICATION
What an example to follow this passage gives us?
there in the text something that offends you or you hate it difficult to accept?
What encouragement or promise can we draw from this passage?
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