God of Covenant: Genesis 12-50 Session 5

 

Welcome again to God of Covenant Genesis 12-50 by Jen Wilkin.  These are my notes from Session 5.  

Genesis 25-28

Barrenness again in the chosen generation.  Why?  Because God wants us to see His plans go forward in the miraculous.  

Isaac prays for his wife.  Something Abraham did not do.  "The older shall serve the younger."  We see the cultural norm being bucked.

"Grasps the heel" - Jacob (cheater).  Favoritism  revealed - Rebekkah loved Jacob.  Isaac loved Esau.

Jacob self-reliant attitude. 

Chapter 26

God stops Isaac from going to Egypt.

Verses 3-5. Reassuring Isaac of the promise.  He was Abraham's God and He will be Isaac's God.

Verses 6-7. Repeats the same problem again "she is my sister."  Sounds familiar doesn't it?  God blesses Isaac in his disobedience.  Just as He did Abraham.

Esau married a Canaanite woman.  Isaac is determined to pass the blessing onto his favorite child.

Chapter 27

Verses 6-10. Rebekkah is arranging by trickery what has already come his way.

Sensual nature of Isaac "food such as his father loved" - three times.

• Touch
• Taste 
• Smell

Jacob means "deceiver."  Isaac had planed to give all to Esau despite God's decree.  And through the evil plan of Jacob, God still works out His righteous plan.  Herod the Great is a descendent of the line of Esau so "you shall break his yoke from your neck" happens.

Jacob flees to Laban Rebekkah's brother.  

Chapter 28

He has a dream (John 1:51).  The ladder - stairway (Christ Himself the go between).

Verses 19-22. Jacob speaks in conditional terms.

Christ waits to bear your words to God and God's words to you.

This concludes Session 5.