And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
Jacob obeyed his father and his mother by going to Padan-aram. His journey continued to the land of the people of the East, where he met Laban and served him for his two daughters, and his later departure from Haran brought him back to Canaan. The going to Padan-aram was a flight for his life from his brother Esau, about one hundred and twenty-five years after Abraham.
The departure followed the lack of faith of Rebekah and Jacob in thinking God could not fulfill His promises without their scheming. The journey was the consequence of his own deceptions and very faulty past life. It was part of his checkered and unsatisfactory experiences in which his selfish plotting brought suffering and he who overreached others was himself overreached.
The scheming brought lifelong separation of mother and son and great hardship to Jacob. The going begins Jacob's trials and victories that end in complete change of heart, placing Jacob the supplanter among the Israel of God. The going belongs to the channels through which the Promised Seed should come.
The verse stands in Jacob's experience connected with his dream of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven with the angels of God ascending and descending on it, where Jacob recognized that the Lord was in that place though he had not known it, and he was afraid and called the place dreadful and the house of God and the gate of heaven. This fear and confession is reverence for sacred things, giving God and holy things their just and rightful place. It molds all worship toward humble veneration of God, His house, His Spirit, His word and all holy things and away from displaying self and speaking of God and sacred things in a careless and irreverent manner.
Jacob obeyed his father and his mother by going to Padan-aram. His journey continued to the land of the people of the East, where he met Laban and served him for his two daughters, and his later departure from Haran brought him back to Canaan. The going to Padan-aram was a flight for his life from his brother Esau, about one hundred and twenty-five years after Abraham.
The departure followed the lack of faith of Rebekah and Jacob in thinking God could not fulfill His promises without their scheming. The journey was the consequence of his own deceptions and very faulty past life. It was part of his checkered and unsatisfactory experiences in which his selfish plotting brought suffering and he who overreached others was himself overreached.
The scheming brought lifelong separation of mother and son and great hardship to Jacob. The going begins Jacob's trials and victories that end in complete change of heart, placing Jacob the supplanter among the Israel of God. The going belongs to the channels through which the Promised Seed should come.
The verse stands in Jacob's experience connected with his dream of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven with the angels of God ascending and descending on it, where Jacob recognized that the Lord was in that place though he had not known it, and he was afraid and called the place dreadful and the house of God and the gate of heaven. This fear and confession is reverence for sacred things, giving God and holy things their just and rightful place. It molds all worship toward humble veneration of God, His house, His Spirit, His word and all holy things and away from displaying self and speaking of God and sacred things in a careless and irreverent manner.