Becoming Israel: Learning How to Prevail with God Through Covenants
By Steve Densley
The stories we find in Genesis 28-33 are rich with covenant imagery, from Isaac’s blessing that Jacob would receive the promises of the Abrahamic covenant in the first verses of chapter 28, to Jacob’s building of an altar in the last verse of chapter 33. In between, we find the dramatic stories of Jacob’s vision of the ladder to heaven and Jacob’s wrestle with God, both episodes that remind us of the temple.
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What Are We to Make of Jacob’s Apparent Deceitfulness?
Question: Why do the Latter-day Saints believe God has a body?
Question: What is the best way to understand servitude in the Old and New Testaments?
The “Garment of Joseph” and Parallels from the Ancient World
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