Jacob’s Dream – Genesis Chapter 28

Jacob’s Dream – Genesis Chapter 28

After Jacob deceives his father into blessing him with the birthright, his brother Esau plans to kill him after his father dies. Their mother Rebekah learns of this and makes another plan that will send Jacob away to take a wife from her brother’s house. Isaac openly and rightly blesses Jacob with the Abrahamic blessing and sends him to his uncle Laban’s house to get a wife. On his long journey there, no doubt Jacob is full of fear and apprehension. So, on the way, God appears to him in a dream to establish the Abrahamic covenant and reassure him of His continued presence. Although Jacob is clearly not the man God wants him to be, what awaits him is a long period of discipline and transformation.

God’s Covenant With Noah | Genesis 9:1-17

God’s Covenant With Noah | Genesis 9:1-17

Now that God has directed Noah to depart from the ark and Noah re-dedicates creation, God makes a covenant with Noah and all of creation to never destroy the whole world again by water. We also notice that man’s dietary restriction has been changed from vegetarian to omnivore. And now all animals are fearful of us for fear they may be eaten.