John 14: 23-26

Excerpt… 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. Such defines the work of the Holy Spirit: We are told in John 14, “23 If a man love me, he will keep my words … 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” —John 14: 23-26. The Comforter refines Adventism for the day of Jacob’s wealth transfer, that we may know the coming of the son of man as a thief in the night. For, Matt 24 promises that he will be made ruler over all the Lord’s household. Such is the essence of Jacob’s greatest Caper. His true prize was Laban’s two daughters. All else had low estimation to God. The accumulated quality, 10 generations from Noah, was vested into Laban’s hands. And Jacob left his campus with that prize: dominion of earth. Any residual assets left behind was the endowment for gentile inheritance. The real wealth transferred from Laban to Jacob was his genetic heritage, and it was deposited in Jacob’s proverbial bank account to accumulate interest over the next 3700 years: the day when it is graced to the 144,000, the people whom Balak, or WASP thought to curse. I know it seems infeasible, so we wonder: What was there to be celebrated by Jacob, Leah, and Rachael in Laban’s stolen wealth that they should say,“all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s …” It was their walk, not by the flesh but by the Spirit, a walk that can only now be discerned and cherished, because …