Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. Jeremiah 30:7. When Christ shall cease His work as mediator in man’s
A Life and Death Matter
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Genesis 32:26. Jacob, in the great crisis of his life, turned aside to pray. He was filled
Seven Short Years
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Genesis 29:20. How different his [Jacob’s] arrival from that of Abraham’s messenger nearly a hundred years before!
Return to God His Own
And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. Genesis 28:22. In accordance with the custom of commemorating important
Hope for a Fugitive
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. Genesis 28:12. Threatened with death by the wrath of
A Bitter Price
He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Hebrews 12:17. No sooner had Jacob left his father’s tent than Esau entered. Though he had sold his birthright, and confirmed the transfer by a solemn oath,
Bartered Birthright
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:5. Isaac loved Esau better than Jacob. And when he thought that he was about to die he requested Esau to prepare