After Laban finishes searching every tent in Jacob’s party and fails to find his god idols, Jacob’s long pent-up anger explodes. “These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.  That which was torn by beasts I did not […]

 Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched all about the tent but did not find them.  And she said to her father, “Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is with me.” And he searched […]

Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him,  “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.” -Genesis 31:24 Realizing that the keys to the family kingdom, his family gods, had been stolen, Laban and his men mount up a posse and go in hot […]

Rachel and Leah answered him, “We no longer have any inheritance from our father’s possessions; and he considers us foreigners, since he has sold us; moreover, he has consumed everything he received in exchange for us.  Nevertheless, the wealth which God has taken away from our father has become ours and our children’s anyway; so whatever […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 31. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. If you’re a King James diehard, click here. Patterns and principles! When wading through the vast sea of God’s Word, understanding these two factors is very important. A “pattern” is the repeated occurrence of an event in Scripture. The Biblical worldview is […]