Genesis Chapter 31 Part 1

Shalom and welcome to via hafte yes Ryan a Hebrew phrase which means you shall love Israel we hope you'll stay with us for the next 30 minutes as our teacher dr. Baruch shares his expose Ettore teaching from the Bible dr. Baruch is the senior lecturer at the Zahra Avraham Institute based in Israel although all courses are taught in Hebrew at the Institute dr. Baruch is pleased to share this weekly address in English to find out more about our work in Israel please visit us on the web at love Israel you are G that's one word love Israel dot o RG now here's Baruch with today's lesson the Bible says as much as depends upon you be at peace with all people in a similar way the Word of God says that he's given to each of us each believer a Ministry of reconciliation so we should strive we should work we should desire that we are reconciled with all people but there are individuals there are situations when it's better to part now that doesn't mean that you have to have ill feelings towards that person you can forgive them you can't be reconciled to them in the sense that you can be in their presence and and speak with them but it doesn't mean that it's always God's will that you be together and sometimes it's better to the part and that's exactly what we're seen in the life of Yaakov that is Jacob and this relationship with his father-in-law wicked and deceitful Livan to get your Bible and look with me to the book of Genesis and chapter 31 the book of Genesis chapter 31 now in one sense God has already put it into the heart of Jacob - Leif we know in the scripture going back to chapter 28 when when Jacob departed from the land of Canaan he did so for two reasons one is tuba serve his life his mother and then his father told him to leave and go to his mother's family in Quran in order to take a wife from there and not from the daughters of Kanade secondly we see something else when Jacob was going he had that dream at Bette l will talk about that briefly in this section and we know something he made a covenant with God God if you bring me back and there's a key he knew God had already put it on his heart that his place was not in exile in galute outside of Israel but rather for the promises for the call that birthright that he had acquired that blessing he had to come back to the land so he says God if you bring me back to the land I will testify that in tithing that is giving you a tenth part of all that I have so in the text we should have always anticipated Yaakov coming back to the Land of Israel and last week we see that God had reaffirmed that he had placed it again upon Jacob heart but LaVon always trying to change the things of God delay the will of God why well if you don't see an urgency to the things of God and you delay that creates an opportunity for the enemy to come in and to still away that opportunity so LaVon said continue to work for me and you name your wages and I'll give it to you but we know he never intended to do that he was a deceiver we saw one verse that showed that he took away the sheep that rightly should have belonged to Jacob and what else did he do well we'll see that tonight once again chapter 31 and look with me to verse one Genesis 31 and verse 31 or verse 1 it says here and he heard who's he Jacob and Jacob heard the words of the sons of LaVon st. now what did these sons say Jacob took all which is to our Father and from that which is to our Father meaning what belonged to him he made once again that's Jacob he made all of this honor now your Bible may say wealth but it's the word kavod honor and why is that word there well because lavond he likes honor and he associates wealth and honor in that same way so did his sons but that's not biblically true so they looked at this differently they saw that their money their wealth had had gone down was depleted and they took that personally like it attacked their honor here's the problem what they're not seeing is this it was humbling and that's one of the interpretations of the sages that God humbled Livan he did attack his his self honor because was based in the wrong thing it was based upon the material and not the spiritual so this should have been a call to repentance why because LaVon should have seen God's hand against him see we need to be spiritually sensitive there are times when God heart blessing us why isn't he blessing us because we're not bless of all we're not behaving we're not doing we're not thinking in the right way and therefore those signs of judgment what the Scriptures calls a claw a curse is a form of discipline it she calls us to repent and turn back to the truth so look again they say Jacob made all of this this glory of his with what rightly belongs to us look now to verse - and Jacob saw that the face of LaVon and behold he looked at that face and behold it was not with him wasn't the same thing to him as it was yesterday or three days ago or the day before so there had been a change in the relationship and look at verse 3 now period most people we just read over it we miss out on what the text is telling us it says vilmer Hashem el Jakov and the Lord said to Jacob well how does he say something usually in prayer this had not come in a vision God spoke to him it was an answer to prayer and what is the takeaway here what should we glean from that well Jacob saw that the situation was different that LaVon was different towards him his demeanor his attitude how he looked at him and what did Jacob do he prayed about the situation that's what the text is subtly telling us and therefore God said to Jacob return to the land of your father's the term father in Hebrew a vote should always be associated with two things hopefully now you already know that one is promise and the other's faith how do they go together faithfulness is when we pursue the promises of God and what is at foundational truth in this well the foundational truth is the land of Israel there's connection to faithfulness the promises of God and the land of Israel so God tells Jacob returned to the land of your forefathers and to your birthplace and what's the promise of a AAA EEMA I will be with you now that motivated Jacob the implication is this if you disobey and you do not go back to land I be with you but if you obey and return to the land meaning you pursue your call you do my will you pursue the promises that I have for you then I'm going to be with you so what motivated him being with God less I'm ask you what are the motivations of your life what gets your attention what causes you to behave differently perhaps then than what you would think that you would do how you normally would behave and I hope the answer of that is intimacy with God that's what you're pursuing that is the greatest fulfillment of the promises of God for us to be with him and him with us look now to verse 4 and Jacob sent any call to Raquel and to Leia the order is important it shows Raquel is the wife of choice it might also so show a preference because of her spiritual commitment and why do I say that well later on towards the end of our study this evening we'll we'll see the reason for my statement look again at verse 4 and Jacob sent and he called to Raquel and to Leia that were in the field to the flock and he said to them I see that the face of your father is not to me like it was yesterday and the day before but God God was with me so what he says here is this even though LaVon was different towards me for a period of time previously from now and before God was with me in this now it's significant because there's the third person pass hiya God was with me now that doesn't mean that he's not going to be with him we just saw that God is but the emphasis is on the change in the the perfect tense or we would call in simple English the past tense and what is referring to well the emphasis is on this verb showing God's faithfulness to him in a previous a very very recent obstacle that Jacob had that God was with him and caused them to be victorious look now to verse verse 6 I know that that with all my power I served your father so he speaking he says I want that you and you is plural but when you look at this text it's very interesting vait a Tayna yaad aati normally we would see the verb before the direct object but here this is not the case there's a flipping and that abnormal order should should cause to grasp our attention should cause us to see significance so what it literally says is you plural and feminine be sparing to Rafael and Leah he says I know you I want you to know that that with all my power I served your father and your father mocked me and here's the revelation we may not have picked up on it last last week in our study but God was moving God was speaking God was instructing instructing Yakov what to do so he says I want you to know that I'm innocent in this I worked and serve your father with all my power with all my essence but keep reading but your father hate lb he deceived or mocked me that's what his attempt was in changing my wages a ceremony now this is little ten times but because the word mony is plural it's tens of ten times or I believe most Bibles will say a hundred times so either ten times or a hundred times depending upon how we should interpret that as ceremony even if it's ten it's significant and he and God though did not allow him to do evil with me and this is the point God was faithful that's what he's referring to he says I'm gonna emphasize this he says God was faithful to me because he saw that I served sincerely with all my ability with all my power your father I want you to know this I am not to blame in this broken relationship in this problem that he has with me he was judged by God how so well this is what the text is going to reveal to us look again verse verse seven and your father mocked me by changing my wages ten or a hundred times and God did not allow him to do evil meanings be successful to me against me thus he says if Livan this is their father would say your wages will be the polka-dotted then gave birth all the flock polka-dotted once and if thus he said the strike striped or rained ones will be your wages then gave birth all to flock these striped or ring ones and God took away his cattle the cattle of your father and gave it to me who did God did why well here's a takeaway for us God does not bless dishonesty when someone acts deceitfully when someone acts out of integrity they will not prosper well you say people do that all the time that's true when in the short-term only in the short term but in the end they will suffer loss now the question is do you believe that I believe that with all my heart God will not make one prosperous and here and what do I mean by prosperous not necessarily talking about a bank account but we need to realize something sometimes God blesses financially sometimes God looks at obedience in a person's life good stewardship in a person's life and because they've been faithful with a little god gives them more and I've seen people I know people that they just keep giving to God and they just keep getting more but that's not a hundred percent no proof sometimes I know for others who have been extremely faithful in financial stewardship and that does not mean that they're not gonna have financial problems but when I speak about prosperity this is what is a hundred percent true all the time you are faithful you will be prosperous what do I mean prosperous in the things of God you will move on the will of God and you will arrive where God wants you to be and you will accomplish what God wants you to accomplish that's prosperity I know an individual that he was exceedingly wealthy and it was because of his faithfulness that he was chosen by God and he lost everything I'm speaking about yo for joke joke was faithful now he had to learn a theological truth but he was a faithful man and he lost everything but God brought about restoration so that's why I say a faithful person at times they may lose but God is a God of restoration God will restore what those locusts that enemy tries to take away in Jacobs case LaVon was not successful at all and it wasn't so much for Jacobs purpose it was a call to the van to repent to stop behaving this way so look at again the Texas this whatever LaVon said this is going to be your salary god caused all those that were born of the flock to be that way so in essence LaVon didn't get what he didn't get any of the the new birth that that new litter we might say it all went to Jacob and so his began to die out and all the ones belong to Jacob so that's why it says look again at verse eight if he would say the polka-dotted ones will be your wages then birth all the flock polka-dotted ones and if he should say that these strike ones will be your flock then gave birth all the flock to strike once and God took away the cattle of your father and gave it to me and it came about in the time of the mating of the flock I lifted up my eyes this is a term of Prayer and I saw in a dream behold that the he goats that were going up upon the flock what did they produce well it says strike ones and polka-dot ones and and we could say ones that were were patched or such and God said to me through an angel of God in a dream Yaakov and I said here am I now that's an important statement why that's what the patriarchs say to God behold here am i and that term he Naini is always seen as a statement of of availability to the things of God so in this scripture God is moving to get no matter what LaVon says we find that God moves that Jacob would receive them and he received that truth in a dream and he says look at the texts he says for I have seen all which LaVon has done to you God looks out and at the right time not necessarily what we thinks the right time sometimes not immediately in this case it was but not always God move to bring about restoration he says here I have seen I'm aware of what all that LaVon has done to you verse 13 God is still speaking he says I am the God the God of beth-el meaning who you met at bet L where are you anointed there this pillar this rock that he put up that he stood up as a testimony when you made a vow to me there and now rise up return from this land and return to the land of your your birthplace so God remembers what a covenant 'el agreement that jacob made when he took up that rock that special rock that was underneath his head that rock that we talked about they gave him revelation that he realized that this was a holy place as this was the house of God that's why it's called beth-el the house of God and he remember what Jacob said if you Brett I've got to leave my parents are telling me to go and take a wife and journey was dangerous I mean traveling you stayed out on the road there wasn't always a Lodge to stay in as we saw it Beth L it was dangerous and and Jacob says if you break me out and bring me back all that I have I give you a tenth part and God is saying here I'm gonna keep that covenant agreement it's time to go home it's time to move in your calling to move this process along of me building up my kingdom through the children of Israel well let's continue on look now to verse 14 and Rachel and Leia answered and said to him remember he sent word while they were in the flock to come and notice what they said they answered Rahel and ants leia answered and said to him do we still have any portion and inheritance in the house of our fathers so what it says here it's just they have totally cut ties with their father's house their father's house is a house of deceit it is a house that we're going to see in a moment of idolatry now I mentioned that one of the things that stands out about this house is this this family knew the name of God but Levon he was an idol worshipper their home the family knew better but he fell back into it and therefore that's going to become important in a moment so Raquel and Leah speak we don't have any longer any portion or any inheritance in the house of our father surely look at verse 15 surely we are as foreign women considered by him so because now they belong to yahko in a covenant and that covenant speaks about the purposes of God here's what they're saying our Father is not committed to the Covenant our Father is not interested in the purposes of God but we are and because of that we are seen as foreign to him now the word here is a unique choice because normally it means those who are of not Jewish descent those who are Gentile but it's a stronger word of separation and it's used here to show how far LaVon was from the calling the purposes of the God of Israel so certainly they say we will be considered by him as foreign women for he has sold us and he has devoured all of our finances our food everything that should be to us our dowry everything he's devoured and usually this term for devouring is in a naked negative it can be used as the judgment of God or it can be used with with wrong living so once again LaVon is being portrayed here as someone who doesn't fulfill his obligations not to his son-in-law and not even to his daughters because he has seen that they are in this same covenant Allah Mittman to the God of Israel look now to verse 16 for all of the wealth which was was taken by God from our Father to you and to our sons to us excuse me he has given it to us to you and to our sons so what they're affirming is this and this is important statement that God has moved and taken all the wealth of liván and he was indeed a wealthy man God moved and took it away from him and the scripture says and let me translate this properly la knew who who love and he knew which means to us meaning Jacob Raquel and Leia and OVA nanu and to our sons God has given it now what do we see here we see a transfer of wealth and that's what God does he can take from one and give to another he does so based upon principles principles of conduct principles of stewardship principles of faithfulness and now keep reading in verse 16 and now all which God has said to you do now these are godly women this defines what a wife who is pleasing to God thus she is an encouragement to her husband for one purpose that the husband obeys the voice of God she is not there to encourage him in his desires his pathways what he wants to do we don't see these women doing that to their father quite the contrary because he is a deceitful man they have cut this this biological relationship they have attached themselves to their husband which is the proper thing to do and I love this first look at it again they say now all which God has said unto you do verse 17 and Jacob get up and he lifted up his sons and his wife's now that word sons can also be children upon the camels so they're beginning their departure and he led all of his cattle and all of his acquisitions all of his property which he had acquired and the wealth of the cattle that he had acquired it says which he acquired in paddan-aram so he leaves with his wife's with his children and all the wealth and material things that he had acquired while he was in paddan-aram now what is the text wanting to tell us well padam Aram is a a wicked place but that family they knew God LaVon didn't live this but the rest of the family knew of God and Yaakov went into a difficult place but because God was with him he was prosperous and that prosperity in the midst of that dangerous difficult place shows God's providence and his presence in his life as a testimony and notice what it says he departed and he came to this is his desire to go to Itza his father and the land of Canaan he's going back to the inheritance of his father and that name Yitzhak is there about the promises of God he's the child of promise so says Paul in the book of Galatians he's going back to the land of promise in order to carry out that heritage that called that birthright that he had acquired now look at verse 19 and LaVon went to shear his flock and noticed something and Rachel stole the Terra fee now the Terra Fame were were objects of idolatry and therefore we need to see something what she did was good it was a message to her father and that is stop the idolatry stop relying upon these things and we're going to see in one of the problems I have is when words which are easily known their meaning are translated differently without purpose when that happens it makes someone who does not read the original text it takes away their opportunity to understand the the message of the texts now there aren't ways about it if you pay attention and you look at what that word is when it says in verse verse 19 VAT TIG no Rael and you look at that word tic nope still you're gonna see it again in the next verse in regard to Jacob but most not all but many translations translate it differently we ought not because what is being said in the first occurrence is help to be understood by the second occurrence what do I mean by that well let's look at this text again middle of verse 19 word says and Rahel stole the tariff theme which was to her father these objects of idolatry now look at verse 20 it says in regard to Rahel the tig knows with Jacob it says ignore just one letter difference and we know what that is the pig note is third-person singular in the future or will say the imperfect and here we find that the ignore is third-person singular masculine so one is feminine one is masculine because one is Rachel the other one is Yaakov but it's the same word like no to skill now someone will say you know stealing is wrong stealing is wrong always always but there are exceptions you said always there are exceptions we need to say always but nevertheless there are divine exceptions what what Raphael did was that - still in the normal sense in order to take something you have that I want and therefore I take it for myself no she was doing something she took away without permission these evil things she was trying to bless she was sending a message to her father cut it out this is why you have been defeated because of the gods who you serve these pagan forms of idolatry look at verse 20 and Jacob stole the heart of liván the rme now what did Jacob take the heart why because he took the daughters in one sense LaVon loved Rafael in but because of his idolatry this is why he lost everything including them so look at the texts Jacob stole the heart LaVon the army and it says without telling him he without telling him for he fled away and he fled with his grandchildren and his daughters and he flew he fled that and all that was with him and he rose up and notice what it says and he crossed over the river and he set his face towards har har Gilead the mountain of Gilead so Jacob left he crossed over the border and he was going towards this mountain har har Gilead the Mount of Gilead which is in modern times Jordan close to the Jordan River he crossed a different River and we find that he was what he was near entering in to the Land of Israel look now to verse 22 and it was told to LaVon on the third day for Yaakov has fled away he is left and he took that is Levant he took his brethren with him and he pursued after him that is after Jacob for seven days a journey of seven days and he clung with him meaning he caught up to him on the mountain of Gilead notice something here and God came always the faithfulness now in the flesh LaVon is stronger he and seven days made up a three-day deficit he did it not because God was blessing but because he was powerful in the flesh but God overcomes the flesh he defeats those who are mighty in the physical what does the text say look again verse 24 verse 24 and God came to Livan the army in a dream at night and he said to him guard yourself now this is a warning guard yourself less you speak with Jacob either good or bad now why is that phrase there don't speak to him either something good or bad and that's surprising you would think I would say don't speak evil but if you're willing to speak good go ahead here's the problem Livan in his spiritual condition he can't discern right from left good from bad that's the point so when someone when someone is not spiritually sound he doesn't know what is right and what is wrong and therefore God tells LaVon a warning watch out guard yourself don't speak anything to Jacob verse 25 and LaVon overcame Jacob for Jacob was pitching his tent in the Mount in the mountain and LaVon pinched his tent with his brethren in the Mount of Gilead what happens is as they have come together and what's going to be the outcome of this meeting what is going to take place how is God's purpose is going to be revealed how is the Yaakov and LaVon going to respond to this coming to the same location well that's what we're going to talk about next week when we continue into the second half of Genesis 30:1 until that time may God richly bless you Shalom from Israel well we hope you will benefit from today's message and share it with others please plan to join us each week at this time and on this channel for our broadcast of love Israel org again to find out more about us please visit our website love Israel dot bow RG there you will find articles in numerous other lectures by Baruch these teachings are in video form may download 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