Jacob, Bethel, and the Temple (week of Feb. 28, 1st to watch)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this shortcast Kerry explores temple and covenant elements of Jacob's experience. He focuses on his dream at Bethel, but touches on his other temple experiences, such as at Peniel and his return to Bethel with his family. We see how similar we are to the great patriarchs and matriarchs of old.
We are grateful to our Sponsor, Lisa Spice, and to our editor, Sabrina Muhlestein, and the composer and player of the music, Rich Nicholls.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real. |
| 0:14.3 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scripture that make it more real to us |
| 0:18.9 | and thus help us to find more power in them and |
| 0:21.0 | draw them into our lives a little bit better. I'm your host, Carrie Mielstein, and today |
| 0:25.8 | we're going to do a shortcast where we talk about some specific element that will help us |
| 0:32.6 | understand the story of Jacob a little bit better, I think. And so I want to talk today about Jacob as a, |
| 0:42.7 | let me get to the scriptures. I want to talk today about Jacob as a covenant maker and a covenant |
| 0:52.2 | keeper and how we see that theme repeated in scriptures |
| 0:56.3 | and it will help us understand as wrestle with the angel and so on and the the possibility |
| 1:01.3 | that he's having even greater ordinances happen there. |
| 1:05.3 | So to understand this, |
| 1:06.7 | we're going to go back to and look at some things in last week's reading. |
| 1:10.1 | We're going to go to Genesis chapter look at some things in last week's reading. We're going to go to |
| 1:11.0 | Genesis chapter 5 and you get this verse in verse 27 after after verse 26 of chapter 25 is the one |
| 1:21.1 | where they're born and Jacob is is holding onto Esau's Hill and so on. And then we get just this one little verse about them |
| 1:29.9 | growing up, but it's really interesting. And the boys grew on Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of |
| 1:35.0 | the field, and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents. Now, the interesting part to me is this |
| 1:41.5 | word that is translated in the King James version as plain. The word is Tom. |
| 1:46.4 | And it's the same word. We see it in Tamim or Tom. Tamim is the plural of Tom. But anyway, |
| 1:53.3 | when it describes it's translated in that case as Noah being a perfect man or Abraham being a perfect man. Remember a Justin perfect |
| 2:03.5 | man in his generation. And we talk in those cases about this meaning whole. That's what the |
| 2:10.4 | word really means is whole or complete. And I even compared it to the artwork word to mom and so on, |
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