May 6, 2018 - Day 28 - Genesis 28

I am writing from my desk in Seattle, WA.



EVERYBODY!  ALMOST A MONTH!


Genesis 28:

So Isaac blesses Jacob and reminds him not to marry a Canaanite woman.  Damn!  What did them Canaanite women do??  Isaac tells him to go and take a wife from his mom's brother's kids (his cousins).  Gotta keep that line going ya know?

I know this seems gross, but incest was TOTALLY in.  This is no disrespect to the Bible, this is what is happening.  Read these pages.  Incest is running wild.

Blah blah and some more blessings.

Esau learned about this condemnation against Canaanite women, so he married some other chick.  We are told this was in addition to the wives he already had.  REMEMBER.  I am not disrespecting the Bible by saying these people were incest and had multiple wives.  IT IS WRITTEN.  READ IT.

Jacobs goes to sleep and uses a stone as a pillow.  That sucks.  He has a dream about a stairway to heaven.  #ledzeppelin  He sees the Lord in this vision and is told that he's got all these blessings, and basically he's got the hook up.  He didn't do anything to receive these blessings, he was just born.

YA KNOW.  We didn't do anything to receive this gift of life; and what a gift it is.

Jacob wakes up all blown away by how God is in this world.

The next morning he takes that pillow stone and puts some oil on it and called it Bethel.  See:  Stefanny Gretzinger.  Love her.

Jacob closes this chapter by saying that if God provides all of this, he (Jacob) will give a tenth back.  This is another example of where the word "tithe" comes from.

Someone once told me that when you give 10%, the 90% goes far beyond than what you could've ever imagined.

Has anyone experienced that?  I'd love to hear your stories.

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