When a Jewish man made arrangement for a wife, and she accepted, he
went to prepares a place for her. While watching for his return she
prepared herself by a ‘mikveh’ (immersion in WATER). Christ desires his bride [Ephesians 5] wash in the ‘WATER of the Word‘.pix copyright Shutterstock
While the disciples went in search of food, Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman [John 4] , ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you LIVING WATER . Samaria means ‘watch mountain’. The Lamb of God [John 1] is coming for his wife, one of like kind – a ‘EWE lamb’, one that is ‘watching’ and has prepared herself by ‘immersion in WATER’.
Genesis 29
1 So Jacob [supplanter] went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east [ancient time]. 2 And he looked, and saw a well in the field; and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they WATERED the flocks. A large stone was on the well’s mouth. 3 Now all the flocks would be gathered there; and they would roll the stone from the well’s mouth, WATER the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the well’s mouth.
4 And Jacob said to them, “My brethren, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran [mountaineers] 5 Then he said to them, “Do you know Laban [white / to purify]? And they said, “We know him.” 6 So he said to them, “Is he well?” And they said, “He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel [EWE lamb] is coming with the sheep.”
7 Then he said, “Look, it is still high day; (gadol: time to GROW and increase), it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. WATER THE SHEEP and go and feed them.” 8 But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; THEN WE WATER the sheep.”
9 Now while he was still speaking with them, Rachel [EWE lamb] came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob [the supplanter] saw Rachel [the ewe lamb] the daughter of Laban [white / to purify] his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and WATERED the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
11 Then Jacob [the supplanter] kissed Rachel [the EWE lamb], and lifted up his voice and wept. 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative and that he was Rebekah’s [the ensnarer’s ] son. So she ran and told her father.
1. Jacob’s name means ‘supplanter’, as a ‘heel-catcher’, as one who trips his opponent in order to take the lead. As such his name is also as ‘placing under the sole of the foot’.
Esau, a cunning hunter known for his ‘rough feel’, in a moment of fleshly craving, sold his birthright to Jacob. In addition, Jacob was told by his mother Rebekah [the ensnare, to catch in a trap], ‘obey my voice’, knowing she was told by the LORD, before the twins were born, that, ‘the older shall serve the younger’. Even so, Jacob [Genesis 27] was concerned about ‘appearing’ as a deceiver when receiving the blessing of the firstborn from his father.
Isaac was 40 years old [MEM, the value of WATER] when he took Rebekah as his wife, 60 years [SAMEK] old when she conceived twins. The letter SAMEK reveals itself in the ‘horse when running’.
[Genesis 25] Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. And the LORD said to her, ‘two nations are in your womb … the older shall serve the younger … and the first came out red … they called his name Esau … afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob.
Jesus came to ‘supplant’ Satan, making his enemies his ‘footstool’, placing Satan under the sole of his foot’. Scripture relates the account of Satan entering Judas, [John 13:18 -27] in his effort to ‘supplant’ Jesus: ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’ Yet Jesus ‘supplanting’ Satan, rose from the dead to ‘supplant and take the lead’.
To the chief priests and Pharisees, Jesus appeared as a ‘deceiver’:
Matthew 27 the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate, saying, “Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that DECEIVER said, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how.” So they went and made the tomb secure, SEALING THE STONE and SETTING A WATCH.
4. Jacob’s relatives were from Haran: mountaineers. Haran is from a root word meaning to be parched, to be burned. Mountaineers are those who climb ‘high places’. The ‘high places’ in God are the ‘low ones’. Israel, upon becoming a divided kingdom, sacrificed in the ‘high places’ noted as ‘funeral mounds’, the place of offering sacrifice (worship) to ‘idols’.
5. Then Jacob said, ‘Do you know (my mother’s [Rebekah’s] brother) Laban [white / purity]?
Abraham’s brother Nahor [snorting (of horses) married Milcah [the queen (mother)] who bore Bethuel [‘man of (dweller in) God’; whom also ‘God destroys’] who bore ‘Rebekah’: ‘ensnarer’ from a root ‘to clog by tying up the fetlock’ as a means to keep a horse from ‘running’. Abraham married Sarah [princess / noblewoman] who bore Isaac [one who ‘laughs’, mocks, makes sport of (death)] who marries Rebekah. Laban [white/ to purify / to make bricks (pavement)] is Rebekah’s brother.
The pavement / ‘bricks’ of the world are acknowledged and celebrated by wearing a ‘brick layers mortarboard’ on the ‘head’, acclaiming the ‘road to the future’ – the ‘world’s wisdom. The pavement / ‘bricks’ of heaven are ‘GOLD tried in the fire’. [John 19] Pilate brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha [elevation (to be lifted up) John 3, 8 & 12]. Christ was crucified on Calvary [Greek: cranium], in the Hebrew ‘Golgotha’, the ‘place of the skull.’ [Luke 23; John 19]. Jesus is the ‘road to the future’ [John 14], the way, the truth and the life..
Jeremiah 12 – if the footmen (feet shod with the peace of the gospel) weary you, how will you run with the horses in the flooding of the Jordan [descent (into death)]
10. The sheep could not be WATERED until the stone was rolled from the mouth of the well. When Jacob [the supplanter] saw Rachel [the EWE lamb] he rolled the stone away that the ‘sheep could be WATERED’. When Jesus, the Lamb of God [John 1] saw his bride, the ‘ewe lamb’ [Reveation 21], the STONE was rolled from the well, that the sheep can be WATERED.
When Jesus was taken from the cross and laid in the tomb – Matthew 27 – Joseph [one who brings the increase] or Arimathaea [the HEIGHTS] rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed. Matthew 28 And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.
John 3 – Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Shepherd / EYE photo copyright istockphoto.com
Selah – Shalom
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