Gen 31: 2-16

Excerpt:…This love story of Rebekah is proof positive because hundreds of years before the age of MŌ’-ăb-bi’an dominion God had superior qualities for marital happiness. So men seek women today, but even if one finds a wife, customizing her to the prescript of another man’s standards, will always bring frustration. It will cause fantasies of the heart for the real standards of beauty that beforehand he had chosen to ignore. Rebekah and Isaac’s love still endures for she won a place in the eternal Kingdom with wealth, health and power. After only 60 years from Rebekah’s departure, Laban’s house deteriorated. The record says, “ 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And  the Lord  said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and … I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me (not him) … 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10 And it came to pass … 11 … the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: … 13… arise, get thee out from this land … 14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said …16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do” —Gen 31: 2-16. Confusion could stem forth from this reading; suffice it to say that the Angel of God is Christ; his angel is called the angel of the Lord. Just remember, both are God’s angels. But How prophetic were the words of Jacob’s two wives? They honored and saluted Jacob’s reappropriation. The residual wealth was diverted from Abraham’s homies to Jacob’s children. And this, by the participation of Laban’s own daughters: a maneuver that shows harmonious connection between Balaam and Jacob typology. It serves a double defeat to Historic Adventists: especially the men who cancel the personage of the Holy Spirit for they now can learn the fallacy of founding father theology: Their fathers are comparable to children in need of maturation; thus, their theology is bedded in childishness until the day of doctrinal adulthood: This is so even among former Adventists heroes. If converted, then, like Balaam, they can see the work of the Spirit to learn that Christ —not past celebrities— must be our righteousness. Like Laban’s daughters , the Church Triumphant must leave Laban, our Adventist founding Father. But what about the prophets? We must honor them so as to uphold —not man but— the angel of the Lord. Failure in this is akin to a job resume that is padded with one’s feats of kindergarten valor. Skill to sing the alphabet song yields diminished praise in adulthood. Paul shows that perfection comes by leaving fundamental doctrines: exactly as Leah and Rachael so illustrate! They also excel as examples because they learn to salute Jacob’s wealth-absconding flight from yesterday’s founding fathers. In this, wealth has an ethereal meaning: According to Matt 19, it is a spiritual metaphor that comes by following Christ. He must be your reference library to source all doctrines, then you are wealthy…