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Jacob Reconciles with Esau and Returns to Bethel

Jacob Now Must Face Esau. Genesis 33:1,2 Then Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. And he put the maids and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last..

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Jacob Reconciles with Esau and Returns to Bethel

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    1. Jacob Reconciles with Esau and Returns to Bethel Genesis 33:1- 35:29

    3. Reconciliation Genesis 33:3, 4 But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

    4. Jacob and Company’s Humility Genesis 33:5-7 And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” So he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” Then the maids came near with their children, and they bowed down. And Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

    5. Esau Does Not Need Jacob’s Gifts Genesis 33:8, 9 And he said, “What do you mean by all this company which I have met?” And he said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.” But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own.”

    6. Esau Agrees to the Gifts Genesis 33:10, 11 And Jacob said, “No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably. Please take my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have plenty.” Thus he urged him and he took it.

    7. Jacob Does Not Want to Go With Esau Genesis 33:12, 13 Then Esau said, “Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you.” But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.”

    8. Jacob is Deceptive Genesis 33:14, 15 “Please let my lord pass on before his servant; and I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.” And Esau said, “Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

    9. Jacob Builds Booths

    10. Jacob Buys Land in Canaan

    11. Jacob Keeps His Promise

    12. Genesis 34 Interlude Dinah is raped by a Canaanite Simeon and Levi take ruthless revenge. Jacob disapproves of their action.

    13. Jacob Is to Return to the Place Where God Met Him Genesis 35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

    14. Earlier Events at Bethel Jacob’s Dream of a Ladder (28:12) God Promised Jacob Land, Descendants, and Blessing (28:13, 14) God Promised to Be with Jacob and Bring Him Back (28:15) Jacob Made a Vow to Come Back and to Serve the Lord (28:20, 21)

    15. Preparation For Worship Genesis 35:2, 3 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments; and let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

    16. They Purge Themselves of Idols Genesis 35:4 “So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.”

    17. God Protects Them As They Journey to Bethel Genesis 35:5, 6 As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

    18. God is in Bethel Genesis 35:7, 8 And he built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him, when he fled from his brother. Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.

    19. Reiteration of His Name Change Genesis 35:9, 10 Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name.” Thus He called him Israel.

    20. Abrahamic Promises Reiterated to Jacob Genesis 35:11, 12 God also said to him, “I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you.”

    21. Reiteration of Dedication and Naming of Bethel Genesis 35:13-15 Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a libation on it; he also poured oil on it. So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.

    22. The Birth of Benjamin Genesis 35:16, 17 Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor. And it came about when she was in severe labor that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”

    23. Rachel Dies in Child Birth Genesis 35:18, 19 And it came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

    24. Migdal-Eder “Tower of the Flock” Genesis 35:20, 21 And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

    25. Reuben’s Wickedness Genesis 35:22a And it came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it.

    26. Isaac’s Death Genesis 35:28, 29 Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. And Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

    27. Applications We Should Seek Peace With God and Man Only God Can Change the Heart

    28. We Should Seek Reconciliation With God and Man 2Corinthians 5:18, 19 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

    29. We Should Seek Reconciliation With God and Man 2Corinthians 5:20, 21 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

    30. Reconciled Enemies Romans 5:10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

    31. We Should Seek Reconciliation With God and Man Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

    32. Only God Can Change the Heart 2Corinthians 3:15, 16 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

    33. The Holy Spirit Removes the Veil 2Corinthians 3:17, 18 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

    34. Only God Can Change the Heart Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

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