(Text: Genesis 28:14)!
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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All of this speaks of Christ, who alone is the Blessing; His Gospel, through the Cross, would go and, in fact, has gone, to the entire of the world.
Genesis 28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
The Lord said, to Jacob,: 1. I am with you; 2. I will keep you; 3. Will bring you, again into this land; and, 4. I won’t leave you, until I have done all that of which I have spoken to you; these same Promises are to us as well.
In addition, Genesis 28:16-19 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
For the first time, the Lord reveals Himself to Jacob; this is the night that Jacob was “born from above”; all this tells us that all hopes of the flesh must die before the Spirit can properly be revealed to us. Could be translated, “How all-inspiring is this place!”; the “Gate of Heaven” is Jesus Christ. The “stone” is a type of Christ, with the “oil” serving as a symbol of the Holy Spirit; no doubt, he was inspired by the Lord to do this. “Bethel” means, “House of God”; “Luz” means “separation”; the Lord can “Luz” into the “House of God”, only as believer is separated from the world.
Finally, Genesis 28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
This obviously means, that Jacob gave a tenth of his vast herds of sheep and cattle to the Lord as sacrifice. If that, in fact, was the case, we now find Jacob offering up sacrifice to a degree as no one else. If the tithe which we propose to give to the Lord doesn’t advance the grand message of “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified” 1Corinthians 1:23 2 :, then we actually aren’t really paying tithe. The first occasion of tithing mentioned in the Bible was when Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, he was a type of Christ as our Great High Priest. JESUS would become this by dying on the Cross as a sacrifice Genesis 14:18-20. So both occasion of paying tithes speak to the Cross.
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