by TheRestlessPilgrim | Sep 12, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 35:18 (NKJV). “And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.” What you call your children matter. As Rachel labored to give birth and her soul was departing from her, she gave her...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 35:9 (NKJV). “Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him.” God does not stop revealing Himself to the child of Covenant. As a member of His kingdom, God keeps speaking. God doesn’t keep silent. God constantly wants to...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Sep 10, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 35:4-5 (NKJV) “So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands…and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree…And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.”...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Sep 9, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 34:19 (NKJV). ‘So the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. He was more honorable than all the household of his father.’ If Shechem was more honorable than all the household of his father (& he was a rapist),...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog, Reflections From Genesis
Genesis 34:9-10 (NKJV). “And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves. So you shall dwell with us…Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions for yourselves in it.”‘ Don’t be bought cheap. Don’t let your grievance be...
