Jacob’s Dream

Genesis 28

 We all have dreams. I know I dream I just can’t remember them. Sometimes I know that they are crazy because I wake up going, “I am so glad that was just a dream.” Jacob had a dream on his way to find a wife and this dream was a GREAT dream for Jacob to have. Isaac wanted Jacob to get married to a woman from the land Rebekah and Sarah came from. On his journey he came to certain place where he could get some sleep before he carried on in his journey. When he slept he had a dream that had a ladder that reached to heaven. On this ladder angels were descending and ascending. That is pretty cool, but there was more. There was God. He spoke to Jacob and said, I am the God of Abraham and Isaac and this land that you are sleeping on is going to be for you and your descendants. God said, “I will be with you and I will not leave you until I am done with what I promise.” Of all the human emotions Jacob must have been feeling he just mentions how awesome is this place and God is here. He was in awe that God was talking to him. God has many great promises that he made not only to Abraham or Isaac or Jacob but even to us. He did not break his promise to them and he does not break his promise to us. Hebrews 13:5 tells us, “He will never leave us nor forsake us.” 2nd Timothy 2:13 tells us, “If we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown his own.” Jacob definitely did not deserve what God was showing him. We definitely do not deserve what God continues to show us. We do not deserve his love, his mercy, and his grace. He remains our God even when we don’t treat him like it. He remains faithful to what the Bible says even when we forget it. God does have promises and he does not break them.  

Esau- Rebellion happened earlier

In verses 6 through 9 we see that Esau is not forgotten even though Jacob is the one highlighted in this chapter. What we see though is that he marries an Ishmaelite which was a woman from Abraham’s other son Ishmael. Esau already had wives among the Canaanite people so he tried to make his rebellion better by marrying another woman, this time from Ishmael’s family. Esau was already spiritually blind and made too many mistakes. It is like someone trying to fix a broken pipe with another broken pipe. He just wasn’t getting it. He tried to make something better but in seriousness of it he made it worse by sinning because he had multiple wives. We do this all too much. We lie and we try to make it better by making another lie. We cheat on one thing but then we have to cheat again just to make it better than the last. Esau should have just listened in the beginning but instead he was rebellious. If you are rebellious now, it will only escalate when you are older. The Bible warns us about rebellion in 1st Samuel 12:15~ But if you do not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord is against you. This verse was a warning to King Saul, which he did not listen to. Watch out, if you disobey God now what do you think would change when you are older, all you are going to be is an older person rebelling against God.