I think you may be right about your "face of God" analogy. Here's what I thought of; After Jacob realized his life had been spared in both cases he must have experienced a sense of great peace. He had experienced the Prince of Peace.
I think I need a spreadsheet to figure out all these descendants. I don't understand why they need to repeat these list so many times. It just confuses me and I keep wondering if it is worth repeating what is it that I am missing. At least this time I paid close enough attention to realize that some of the leaders were women!
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I think a very simple reason for it is that it is important to know where we came from and who we came from. But on Wendy Pope's blog she does a good job of explaining why all the geneology is important. She says it shows prophecy being fulfilled. Which I never would have caught if she hadn't explained it cause it is way over my head.
ReplyDeleteOne detail of the geneology that I learned from The Patriarch bible study that I love is that Jesus came from the lineage of Judah. Leah was Judah's mother. Jacob always loved Rebecca the most and she gave him his 2 beloved sons, Joseph & Benjamin. But Leah bore the son that was the descendant of God's son. I think that God saw her pain & gave her a double portion.