Genesis 29: Jacob Labors 7 Years for Rachel Twice Under Contract with Laban
There's a dramatic story involved when the patriarch Jacob (later known as Israel) meets his beloved wife, Rachel. He loves her and to secure her as a wife he enters into a labor contract with her father.
The pattern of the first shemitah being eaten up by the one that follows is suggested in verse 20 as "they seemed to him but a few days." They were minimized, in time! A more literal translation of the Hebrew word אֲחָדִ֔ echad, which means, one, reveals how the first set of seven years seemed to him as one single day.
Think about Jacob's serving Laban for his beloved bride like this. He did it once, fulfilling his 7 year term with a disappointing result. Then he had to do it all over again - serving another 7 years - but with this service he secured his promised beloved. Are you seeing the prophecy in this?
As this recent season of increasing insight began, Aaron sent an email to me on the 19th of March. He expressed this so well that I'll just reproduce it here.
This present shemitah numbering 860 may be seen as a Leah week. Verse 17 is interpreted in most versions with Leah having tender or weak eyes and her description is contrasted with one of Rachel's attractive appearance. To Jacob, she was unloved, and we have not been fond of the look of this present season. This is far from the experience of satisfaction that we have so earnestly longed for! According to J. B. Jackson, the name, Leah, means, weary, and we have a sense of that as the extended age seems to have long overstayed its welcome.
The name, Rachel, means, ewe, a female sheep. This observation illustrates how our attention is flagged in the circumstance of her coming to meet Jacob because, as this 29th chapter begins, we find "the ewe" acting as the shepherdess (verse 9) of her father's flock of sheep.
It is in "the ewe's" shepherding of that flock that the Keystone pattern is concealed and revealed! When Rachel shepherds that flock to the well there are already three flocks lying there beside it, according to verse 2. This is the pattern of 3 things of a kind being followed by a 4th that is similar but which is specially appointed! We note how this pattern is given special emphasis in verses 7 and 8. We note also that the matter of the stone having to be rolled from the mouth of the well is also repeated for emphasis, and with the water-as-time metaphor having become so familiar - especially in connection with stones (the 5 smooth stones David selected from the brook, the 12 stones that Joshua had removed from the Jordan River and the 12 he subsequently placed back into the river bed at the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant) - we can hardly dismiss it here! The flocks come to the well to be watered in turn - signifying divisions of time.
We didn't include this passage among the 15 examples presented in the writing, The Keystone Pattern - Three Things Then the Fourth, but here it is in connection with the pattern of the shemitah, devoured and devouring!
There are some other outstanding features in this account that add to those and together make this account incredibly compelling!
Scenarios where a bride type is met at a well where water is drawn are very familiar to us. I'll recount some of them (leaving the many relevant points in common to your own personal study) and make a point about the symbolism of the water. Jacob's own mother Rebekah (who was Laban's sister) had come to a well where she was met by Abraham's servant. The servant had been sent to fetch a bride for Isaac. He met Rebekah at a well, and her drawing of water from it to water his animals was a sign to him. Later, Moses (who was descended from Jacob and Leah through their 3rd son, Levi) met his bride and Bride-type, Zipporah, at the well in Midian when she had come to water her father's flocks. You might consider this as kind of a family tradition. (See The Bridegroom and the Bride) The Bridegroom and a Bride-type met at a well in an account given in the 4th chapter of John. Jesus of Nazareth (in his humanity, descended from Jacob and Leah and their 4th son, Judah) spoke with this Samaritan woman about her marital status, the greatness of the patriarch Jacob, whose well it had belonged to and who was a foreshadowing type of the one she was actually speaking with, and water.
There is a living water that has to do with eternal life, which has to do with persisting without end - beyond time, you see. Water-as-time, endless water springing up.
Having made these observations about the centrality of the Bride in this prophetic doubling of the shemitah of Jacob's contract terms with Laban in the 29th chapter of Genesis, let's reflect on the account of the 41st chapter of Genesis. After Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dreams of the bountiful 7 years being swallowed up by the famine 7, he was immediately promoted to second-in-command and given a bride, so that is another example with a Bridegroom-type marrying a Bride-type in the context.
Several days ago, I was watching a video and the scientist made the following observation. "You can't prove scientific things in a laboratory the same way you prove mathematic theorems. You prove things in a laboratory by piling up so much evidence that its simply unreasonable to deny it." The panel seen on screen had it expressed this way. "Proof is evidence that is so strong that it would be statistically unreasonable to deny it." This speaks to both Aaron and myself in comparison to how it is with the evidence we present. The evidence piles up to make certain points that are increasingly compelling. There comes a tipping point, where we become convinced, where we believe the testimony of the collection of independent witnesses. We are becoming convinced, as the Lord continues to bring forth more witnesses of the kind that have spoken so loudly to us over many years. The redundancy of the patterns, the consistency of the symbolism, the nature and timing of the signs attending the expanding insight - these are hard to deny.
Having a precise knowledge of the time as this age comes to the most significant points of transition has been the key to our knowing that this timeline has been skewed off the prophetic schedule. The matter of knowing it again after the reset of time will be essential when the sign for the Bride manifests in the context of the great hoax. Likewise, our having confidence in knowing the schedule of the reset appears to have value, so we intend to continue passing what we receive on to you, as the Lord provides.
Help us if you can, participating with us in this work with prayer and funds and whatever else the Lord may inspire. This shemitah will be swallowed up but what remains of our labors in faith, hope, and love will have enduring value. We pray that you find strength and encouragement in this. Pray for each other. You and your precious brothers and sisters in the Lord have need beyond even what we see on the surface.
Interesting!!! nice find!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5611645/Future-devices-let-companies-scan-body-detect-mood-health.html
ReplyDeleteThe Belluminati – Triple Melt Burrito (latest commercial) - https://youtu.be/FzQZ9_f1H68