Tag: protection
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Royally Kept in the Wilderness – Genesis 49:20
Genesis 49:20 “Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.” In Asher, the scene changes once again. After poison and persecution, now there is provision. After the serpent and the troop, now there is bread. Not lean bread. Not barely enough. Fat bread. Royal dainties. This is the language…
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Kept on the Way – Genesis 35:5
Genesis 35:5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. I love the simplicity of that first phrase: And they journeyed. They buried the idols. They handed over the junk. They stopped lingering in Shechem. And then they…
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Two Camps, One Journey – Genesis 32:1-2
Genesis 32:1-2And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. Jacob is heading home, but home is not simple. Not after twenty years away. Not with Esau still somewhere ahead. Not…
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Held Back by the Hand of God – Genesis 31:28-29
Genesis 31:28-29And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good…
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God Knows the Way Men Work – Genesis 31:20-24
Genesis 31:20-24And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob…
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Protected in a Foolish Season – Genesis 12:17-20
Genesis 12:17-20 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have…
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Swallowed by the God of Israel – Revelation 12:16-17
Revelation 12:16, 17 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have…
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Trumpets and Locusts – Revelation 9:3-4
Revelation 9:3, 4 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which…