Early Morning Scenes in Tne Bible

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill EARLY MORNING SCENE WITH JACOB AT BETHEL Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had had for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.?Genesis xxviii. 18. THE history of Jacob, who was the patriarch from whom the twelve tribes who bore his name,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill EARLY MORNING SCENE WITH JACOB AT BETHEL Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had had for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.?Genesis xxviii. 18. THE history of Jacob, who was the patriarch from whom the twelve tribes who bore his name, after it was changed from Jacob, the supplanter, to Israel, the prince, who was in favor with God and man, is one of the most interesting of all human biographies. He was the twin brother of Esau, who was the first born; but before whom he was given the precedence, and who became the head of the descendants of the grand old patriarch, Abraham, with whom was made the covenant through whom the whole human family was to be and is blessed to this day. There are many things in the life of Jacob which we cannot approve; but these imperfections were those of our common humanity; and while they do not show Jacob in a very good light, yet there were certain characteristics about him that commended him to God as the progenitor of His chosen people, in preference to his brother, who, according to the law of primogeniture, should have been the head of the nation. We do not know where the law of primogenitureship originated; but we see in thecase of Jacob that God willed to give the preeminence to the second born instead of the first, and that whatever were the defects in the character of Jacob, there was something in him that was more excellent than the character of Esau. Isaac intended to give Esau the preeminence, but Rebecca determined that Jacob should have it, and this was according to the divine purpose, for the Lord had said to Rebecca, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than...