As a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Genesis 32:28. Had not Jacob previously repented of his sin in obtaining the birthright by fraud, God could not have heard his prayer and mercifully preserved
The Time of Jacob’s Trouble
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,