Jacob and his 12 sons are Israel and the Tribes of Israel. God has seen something in Jacob to name him Israel and use his story as the Biblical Israel. So, when Jacob left his family to work for his father-in-law, Laban, Jacob is paid in all the white sheep. Right?
Incorrect. Jacob asked this of Laban:
Genesis 30:32
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.
Why would God provide such a regular animal to be the flag ship of Jacob/Israel?
1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
“Knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
Relationship. God expects us to display ourselves as we are. As He sees us fully.
2 Corinthians 2:17b
People of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ
Jesus would pray our love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that we may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
We have One Perfect Lamb of God. Jesus Christ, God's Only Son. Jesus.
Romans 4:25
He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
We require Jesus.
Romans 3:22-24
22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Paul said we may not be even aware of our sins, they exist. To seek God and allow His Love, is our aim.
Romans 1:28
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God.
For example, Laban not knowing a spotted sheep was dominant in the gene pool.
Matthew 15:32
Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way."
God tells us He does not respect people. If we take a vote to prove to God He is wrong on something - God is not going to agree. God will, as David knew, have compassion on us when we are humble and draw near to God.
Abba,
Bless us - Your Spotted Lambs, please.
We always need Your Grace, Mercy and Love.
Bless us and Keep us
Make Your Face shine upon us,
be gracious to us.
May You, Father God, Lift up Your Face
and smile upon us.
Giving us Peace. Covering us in the Name of Jesus. Bless us.
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Thank Jesus. Making You our Righteousness, God calls us Children of God.
We are the Sheep of Your Pasture. It is You that has made us and not we ourselves.
Amen, Amen, Amen
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