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This Torah Portion:
Gen 28:10-32:3
Hosea 12:13-14:9
John 1:41-51
Introduction
In the previous Torah portions we talked about God calling Abraham out of his country and family
We also heard how God also uses his daughters - a couple of weeks ago: Sarah - Abraham’s wife
Last week we also examined the role of Rebekak, another daughter of the Lord, and her impact on the Generations of God’s People
We also considered the whole book of the Bible is about the generations that belong to the Lord
We talked about the Generations coming from Esau and how the colour red seems to be a tendency for those who come from him- an attraction to blood
Esau has grown bitter and desires to kill Jacob.
Jacob has received Isaac’s blessing, and is advised to leave, and to to Laban’s house
This week we’ll continue to speak about Isaac’s descendant: Jacob, and how God revealed Himself to him, and changed his name
We will see how the covenant made with Abraham and Isaac is extended to Jacob
In this Torah Portion we will talk about four aspects, ranging from “opening the heavens to Israel” to blessing all his descendants as part of the covenant
Let us consider the covenants with the fathers of the faith
ABRAHAM
ISAAC
In both cases God had to give these two fathers of the faith tests to follow.
He does the same with Jacob
Presentation
Let us begin by presenting the context as to where Jacob is.
Beersheba means well of 7 or well of oaths- This is important to understand not only because of the significance of 7 - but because when a “righteous person departs from a place, this leaves a void.”
When that person is around, everyone gets to enjoy and benefit from The glory that God has placed in that person
When that person leaves that glory departs with them
Jacob has left his parents to begin a personal exile that, unknown to him at the time, this exile will include 20 years in the home of Laban
Laban, characterized as a dishonest man by the Jewish rabbis, because as the Passover Haggadah says, he attempted to uproot the Jewish people
Jacob spent 14 years at the academy of Shem and Eber, before going to Haran
He did not need more years of study to become a scholar, but went there for a different reason;
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenestky explains, that “the first sixty-three years of his life he studies Torah with his father, in an atmosphere insulated from corruption from Canaan.
Now he would be living in Haran among the people who were Laban’s comrades in dishonesty.”
Jacob needed to study the Torah with Shem and Eber to survive the environment, and learned from those who had experience with corrupted environments.
Shem had live in the generation of the Flood and Eber with those who built the Tower of Babel.
Went Toward
(halak) = הָלַךְ = go up
2143 הָלַךְ (hā·lǎḵ): v.; ≡ Str 1980,
James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
The name Haran means and it is also mount Moriah
Haran #1 (ha’-ran) = Mountaineer; very high; enlightened; strong.
(Generally refers to a man).
Haran #2 (ha’-ran) = Very dry, (place parched with the sun); (root = to be dry; to kindle; to burn).
Grievous.
(Generally refers to a place).
Stelman Smith and Judson Cornwall, The Exhaustive Dictionary of Bible Names (North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos, 1998), 96.
The impossibility of travel after sunset is the only reason for Jacob’s stopping at the nameless “place.”
The use of this designation is suggestive because Hebrew makom frequently has the connotation of “a sacred site,
Nahum M. Sarna, Genesis, The JPS Torah Commentary (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989), 197.
A certain place refers to a place that would be close to the temple
THE LADDER
Jacob’s Ladder
Video Spiral
The bread of Life
The Hebrew perspective of the symbolism in this section is:
The dreams mentioned in Scripture are vehicles of prophecy, otherwise the Torah would not cite these dreams
The dream is symbolizes the future of Israel and man’s ability to connect himself to God’s master plan
The Ladder alludes to Mount Sinai because of the numerical value of the letters in the word
Angels represent Moses and Aaron and God atop
The Ladder is where God stood to give the Torah
The Torah being the Bread of Life - Yeshua
Ladder
Ladder = Sullam = סֻלָּם
סֻלָּם: ascending series of stones, staircase (more prob.
than ladder)
William Lee Holladay and Ludwig Köhler, A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 257.
Staircase
Consider the Temple Salomon Built
Staircase with door
Lul = Stairs = לוּל
4294 לוּל (lûl): n.[masc.];
≡ Str 3883; TWOT 1094—LN 7.26–7.53
stairway, i.e., a series of steps to ascend or descend from one level of a building to another (1Ki 6:8+), note: some ancient versions refer to them as winding stairs
James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
Doorway = Pethah = פֶּתַח
7339 פֶּתַח (pě·ṯǎḥ): n.masc.; ≡ Str 6607; TWOT 1854a—LN 7.26–7.53
doorway, opening, door, i.e., the portal or entrance way in and out of a space, often a construction, but including other larger areas
James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
So far we have talked about the dream, the ladder, the staircase and the door, The Lord, the descendants around the world
Let us now consider the following:
Jacob rested his head on the Rock
He anointed the Rock
cornerstone”
Notice the New Testament symbolism of these Old Testament events.
Jesus is the “chief cornerstone”
The Rock that followed the Israelites in the wilderness
Jesus used this dream of Jacobs and applied it to Him
John 1:51 (NKJV)
John 1:51 (NKJV)
And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man (who is the Rock).”
And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man (who is the Rock).”
Jacob anointed the rock and called it “God’s House.”
Jesus is the Messiah; and Messiah means “anointed one.”
Jesus body is called “God’s House.”
Added to this, John wrote in his Gospel:
The “Word” which is Yeshua “dwelt” among us.
The word “dwelt” should read
“Tabernacled.”
Strong’s 4637 states, “Grk.
skēnoō to tent or encamp, that is, (figuratively) to occupy (as a mansion) or (specifically) to reside (as God did in the Tabernacle of old...” (#4637).
God’s house was the Tabernacle in the wilderness.
It was his house that he dwelt
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