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  • A Temporary Throne – 33

    A Temporary Throne – 33

     CHAPTER 33

    Genesis 32 9 Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies… 11 Deliver me, I pray… and the mother with the children. 12 For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”

     

    COME, ROGER. WE WILL ANSWER JACOB’S PRAYER.
    REFEREE RIGHTLY BETWEEN ME AND JACOB.

    Once more, at God’s Command (again, in answer to prayer), we descended from THE THRONE to an isolated place on the earth.

    It was night. As Jacob slept, THE LORD fell on him and having the advantage of surprise, prevailed, as Jacob grabbed at HIM and kept HIM near, then gained an upper hand.

    When THE LORD was at disadvantage to Jacob, THE LORD did not let Jacob loose, either, and continued the struggle.

    Genesis 32: 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
    But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”
    27 So He said to him, “What is your name?”
    He said, “Jacob.”

    THE LORD and Jacob looked to me: I judged a draw.

    THE LORD and Jacob loosed each other and THE LORD blessed Jacob.

    28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 32

    A Temporary Throne – 32

    Covenant – divine ordinance with signs or pledges

    CHAPTER 32

     Genesis 31:3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”

    24 But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

    43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

    44 Now therefore, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”

    “I see the holiness of this covenant with You, LORD; and the solemn promise between a father, who gave away two daughters and his son-in-law who served and waited seven years for each (if I may say before the Law that Jacob is Son-in-Law to Laban).”

    48 And Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed, 49 also Mizpah, because he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from another. 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us—see, God is witness between you and me!”

     

    A BOND OF FAMILY IS FORMED BY THE MAN AND THE WOMAN JOINED AS ONE.

    BY MY VOW I WILL NOT BREAK THIS BOND OF MARRIAGE AND WITNESS TO ME. I AM THE LORD.

     

    Mark 10: 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’;  so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 31

    A Temporary Throne – 31

    CHAPTER 31

    Gen. 29:18 Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”  19 And Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man.

    IT WAS NOT MY WILL THAT LABAN SHOULD GIVE EITHER DAUGHTER TO ANOTHER MAN.

    JACOB LOVED RACHEL.  JACOB BECAME ONE IN THE FLESH WITH LEAH.

     

    24 And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maid. 25 So it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah.

    “Couldn’t Jacob have just been faithful to his one wife, Leah, and returned with her only?”

    AFTER SEVEN YEARS JACOB MARRIED LEAH IN THE FLESH,

    YET JACOB WAS ALREADY MARRIED TO RACHEL IN SPIRIT.

     

    28 Then Jacob did so and fulfilled her week.

    I HAD WILLED THESE FOUR WIVES TO JACOB FOR MY COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM.

    THESE FOUR MARRIAGES HAD MY BLESSING.

    YET OF JACOB’S WIVES AND CHILDREN, I GAVE MY HIGHEST BLESSING TO THE WIFE JACOB LOVED.

    THEIR CHILDREN WERE TO RECEIVE THE FRUIT OF THEIR LOVE THROUGH MY BLESSING.

    So he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also. 29 And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as a maid. 30 Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.

    “Therefore, Israel and his four wives were fruitful and multiplied, as you had commanded man since Noah.”

    SINCE THE BEGINNING, ROGER, MY COMMAND OF BLESSING TO ADAM AND EVE – TO A MAN AND A WOMAN OF BLESSING.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.