They were not unified. Charles Spurgeon points out that Rebekah and Isaac lacked confidence in God, in doing the right thing, or in their respective spouses. Yet, the father and husband , should have been the spiritual leader of the family. Isaac avoided conflict by avoiding honest conversation, so Rebekah had made a habit of eavesdropping. Only God can truly bestow the blessing. The fracture in this family did not happen in a vacuum — it had been coming for some time. Here are some mistakes Rebekah made:.
She should have trusted God. When a parent believes God needs help establishing His plans and carrying out His will, her children learn that God is not Almighty. His choice of Canaanite wives, which brought pain to Isaac and Rebekah Genesis , also mocked the Lord. She should have confronted Isaac in response to what she had overheard long before tricking him with furs and borrowed clothing.
Abraham and Isaac told their wives to pose as their sisters Genesis ; Genesis Laban later tricked Jacob in marriage and Jacob and his family would leave Laban secretly. Laban even accused his son-in-law of conniving and kidnapping Genesis Rebekah should have fostered unity and brotherly affection.
Jacob shows no attachment to Esau or vice versa. Jacob does not respect Isaac, the Lord, or even his mother. Esau and Jacob would reunite one day, but the mistrust and lack of foundational affection was evident. She prayed fervently to the Lord and eventually was blessed with a son, whom they named Joseph.
After fourteen years of service to Laban, Jacob wanted to leave Laban and take his wives and his children to his homeland. Laban did not want him to go. The Lord had blessed Laban in many ways since Jacob had been with him. Jacob patiently served Laban six more years before he took his family and animals and returned to Canaan. Jacob had been gone from Canaan, the land of his birth, for twenty years.
When the Lord told him to return, he worried about how his brother, Esau, would accept him. Jacob had left his home because Esau wanted to kill him; and Jacob wondered if Esau still felt the same. The messengers returned, bringing word that Esau was coming to meet Jacob with four hundred men. Jacob was frightened. He divided the people, the flocks, and the herds into two groups. If Esau attacked one group, the other might be able to escape.
Then Jacob turned to the Lord in prayer. The next morning Jacob saw Esau and his four hundred men approaching. He went out before his family and bowed down to the ground seven times. Esau ran to meet Jacob. He embraced and kissed Jacob, and they both wept. Jacob had not expected this kind of reunion. Esau had forgiven Jacob and was happy that his twin brother had returned. Jacob was greatly relieved that his brother had forgiven him. He was happy to be in his own country once more. Jacob and Rachel were later blessed with another son, Benjamin, but Rachel died when the baby was born.
Although Jacob suffered great sorrow at the loss of his beloved Rachel, he found comfort in her two sons, Joseph and Benjamin. Altogether, Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel, had twelve sons.
The family of each son was called a tribe, and they were known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The promises made by the Lord to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were passed down through those sons.
Their descendants would bring the blessings of the gospel to many people throughout the world. The Lord had blessed Jacob and had preserved him to become the father of a great nation, as had been revealed to his mother, Rebekah. March Joseph, Example of Excellence Arthur R. Her presence on the island predated any other individual known. Approximately years prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight , she found Claudia , heavily pregnant and shipwrecked on the Island.
When Claudia asked her how she had arrived on the island, Mother replied: "the same way you did; by accident. After Claudia had given birth to Jacob and his twin brother , Mother killed Claudia. Eventually, she would tell Jacob that she had done this because Claudia and the other people who were shipwrecked with her were bad people , and she did not want the infants to be raised by them and therefore become "bad". Jacob and the Man in Black grew up believing this woman was their mother.
She told them nowhere other than the Island existed, and that her mother had died. She also said that she had "made it" so that Jacob and the Man in Black would not be able to hurt or, kill each other. When Jacob and the Man in Black were thirteen, she took them to a cave filled with water and light. She told them it was the " heart of the island ", and that she was its protector.
She also said that someday one of them would have to take her place as the protector of the light. Mother shares some truths with Jacob. After the Man in Black learned from Claudia's ghost the woman had lied to him, he decided to leave her and live among Claudia's people.
Jacob decided to stay with the woman but continued to visit his brother. After several decades, the Man in Black and Claudia's people learned about the magnetic energy pockets on the island and dug wells to learn more about them.
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