S5 E17 Jacob Prevailing with and in God, the amazing stories that create Israel (Gen. 24-33)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this packed episode, Kerry and Robbie Taggart explore Jacob's actions as he obtains blessings and covenants with God. They examine different ways of viewing Jacob when he deceives Isaac, and of looking at his life as he is married and has children. Kerry and his roundtable colleagues also look at the issues involved with slavery in the Old Testament. Kerry also looks at the wrestle Jacob has with an angel in terms of idolatry, covenant, and the abrahamic sacrifice.
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| 0:00.0 | You are going to love this episode. |
| 0:11.7 | It's such a fun episode. |
| 0:14.3 | I've got a long section with, I'm not crazy long, but a pretty long section with |
| 0:18.0 | Robbie Tacker. |
| 0:18.7 | It was going to be just a small section. |
| 0:20.6 | He wanted to talk about Jacob and the stories of Jacob. Jacob kind of is a trickster. |
| 0:25.7 | And he brings some great, I guess, points of view to the story, but I had some different |
| 0:31.5 | points of view, and it was fun to explore them together. And so it went, it was so much fun, |
| 0:36.9 | and I was learning so much |
| 0:37.9 | that we went about three times as long as I was planning. So it's become the majority of the |
| 0:43.2 | episode this week. And I hope you enjoyed as much as I did. There's a lot to explore there as we |
| 0:47.8 | did with each other, probing each other, trying to learn what we can about who Jacob is and why he |
| 0:53.6 | does what he does, |
| 0:54.3 | especially in some of the stranger stories in Genesis. |
| 0:57.9 | We then deal with some of the elements that may be uncomfortable for us |
| 1:01.9 | because Jacob has two wives and they have two maidservants. |
| 1:08.0 | And so we have a roundtable discussion on this issue of maid servants or household |
| 1:14.5 | servants or slaves in the bible and that that's a touchy question that i hope we can help you with |
| 1:20.9 | finally we end with some of the things i'm most passionate about in the jacob story as we tie together |
| 1:26.5 | themes we've been doing since we started |
| 1:28.3 | talking about Abraham we tie them together with Jacob and set the stage for moving forward |
| 1:33.7 | from here on out and in our Patreon class we are going to go through some of the nitty gritty |
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