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After cheating his near relative Laban, Jacob fled with his flocks to return to his homeland — where the elder brother he’d cheated years before, who had sworn to kill him, awaited.
In Genesis 31, a cowardly Jacob flees from Laban’s land, and Rachel is exposed as a liar and a thief. The kids are shocked at this “godly” behavior!
Many primitive societies, doubtless ruled by demons, engage in human sacrifice. They throw people into volcanoes, or light them on fire, or cut their throats. Isn’t that sick?
Did you know that God demanded human sacrifice?
Leah and Rachel compete to bear the most children for Jacob, even tossing their slave girls into the battle. Rachel whores Jacob out to Leah for drugs. And Laban gets payback for foisting Leah off on Jacob.
Jacob flees to Haran and marries a near relative or two. Is incest best? Isaac thinks so!
What did Jacob do to earn God’s favor? It may surprise you!
Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. One became a great patriarch, and earned God’s favor. What Godly things did he do which pleased God so much?
Did you know that Abraham, Godly man that he is, threw out his first son when he had a second? Yes, and God even told him to!
In the fourth chapter of Genesis, Adam and Eve use their newfound knowledge to reproduce. GLORY!
Last time, we talked about The Seven Days of Creation. Your Sunday School teacher may have told you that Adam and Eve were the first humans, and that God made them and the Garden of Eden in those first seven days. But that’s not what the Bible says!
