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In the New Testament Jubilee the Birthright is Shifted from Israel to the Church

October 2, 2014 by aGodMan 2 Comments

In the Old Testament, the birthright belonged to the firstborn son of a family. According to Exo. 4:22, Israel is God’s firstborn son, and for many centuries the people of Israel enjoyed the birthright. But when the Lord Jesus came, Israel lost the birthright due to their unbelief, and the birthright was shifted from Israel […]

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Not Despising or Losing but Enjoying the Birthright we Receive in God’s Sovereignty

September 30, 2014 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Jacob treasured and pursued to gain the birthright, Esau despised the birthright, and Reuben lost the birthright. Even though Jacob was born second, he wanted the birthright and even tricked his older brother Esau to sell him the birthright for a bowl of lentil stew (see Gen. 25:22-26). Later, with the cooperation of his mother, […]

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Our Birthright as Men and Believers is to Enjoy God, Express God, and Represent God

September 29, 2014 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

God created man in His image and according to His likeness so that man would express God with His image and represent Him with His authority (Gen. 1:26). By birth every human being has a birthright to express God and represent God. We are made for this; we are born of our human parents on […]

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Entering into Full Fellowship with the Lord and with the Fellow Members of the Body

September 26, 2014 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Jacob was selected and chosen by God even before he was born. However, throughout his life he schemed and struggled to obtain the birthright and the blessing, and he wanted to have his way with everyone – even though the blessing was his by God’s choice. He cheated on his brother Esau, tricked his father to give him […]

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Building an Altar at Bethel and Realizing God’s All-Sufficiency in the Church Life

September 24, 2014 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

At his second coming to Bethel, Jacob built an altar there and called it El-Bethel, and God appeared to him and said to him, “I am the All-sufficient God” (Gen. 35:11). Previously, Jacob built an altar at Shechem, where he also pitched his tent and was settled for a while, having a life of ease. […]

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Advancing from the Individual Experience of God to the Corporate Experience of God

September 23, 2014 by aGodMan 1 Comment

In Genesis 35 Jacob had a radical turn from the individual experience of God to the corporate experience of God. As a result of being dealt with, broken, and transformed, Jacob experienced God as the God of Bethel, El-Bethel, the God of the house of God (Gen. 35:7; Eph. 3:17-21; 4:4-6). Outwardly you may think […]

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Coming to Bethel (the Church) a Second Time and Having our Name Changed into Israel

September 22, 2014 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Jacob’s dream in Genesis 28 was a dream of God’s goal, the dream of Bethel, the house of God, which is the church today and which will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the eternal dwelling place of God and His redeemed elect. After he saw this wonderful dream, Jacob went through a lot of […]