"So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face"
Here we have the kernel of the everlasting Covenant. What does it mean to be the blessed of God? Zion who has to live with daughters of Babylon shall see the glory of God."For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye." (Zec.2.8) God blessed but he was to live as a sojourner and pilgrim while 'thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies." Jacob sees the dream and understands the significance of Mizpah was in the mount' which the Spirit says can be seen to this day." And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen."(22.14-19) The name serves as a double for Zion as Bethel stands for new Jerusalem.
Here Jacob makes a proposition to Laban and uses this expression 'before thy face'. The spiritual meaning of face never changes. It sets his hire before God. "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth."(Jas.5.4)At Mahanaim God presents His host to Jacob as the heir of promises. But in the house of Laban God shall instruct what faith would really mean. Everything there has a bearing on the blessing under the Covenant.
The rods that Jacob pilled or straked connect his action to the trees of righteousness "and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind." (Gen.1.14) "And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink./And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted."(vv.38-39)
"So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face"
Here we have the kernel of the everlasting Covenant. What does it mean to be the blessed of God? Zion who has to live with daughters of Babylon shall see the glory of God."For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye." (Zec.2.8) God blessed but he was to live as a sojourner and pilgrim while 'thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies." Jacob sees the dream and understands the significance of Mizpah was in the mount' which the Spirit says can be seen to this day." And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen."(22.14-19) The name serves as a double for Zion as Bethel stands for new Jerusalem.
Here Jacob makes a proposition to Laban and uses this expression 'before thy face'. The spiritual meaning of face never changes. It sets his hire before God. "Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth."(Jas.5.4)At Mahanaim God presents His host to Jacob as the heir of promises. But in the house of Laban God shall instruct what faith would really mean. Everything there has a bearing on the blessing under the Covenant.
The rods that Jacob pilled or straked connect his action to the trees of righteousness "and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind." (Gen.1.14) "And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink./And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted."(vv.38-39)
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