Shadowland: Beginnings: Week 35

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The Battle of the Brides

Genesis 29:31-30:24

Leah's sons - the Egyptian bondage and deliverance (Exodus)

• 29:32 Reuben - "Surely the Lord has looked on my affliction." Exodus 2:25,3:7 "I have surely seen the affliction of my people."
• 29:33 Simeon - "Because the Lord has heard that I was hated." Exodus 3:7 "And have heard their cry."
• 29:34 Levi - "This time my husband will be joined to me." Jeremiah 31:32 "...the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord."
• 29:35 Judah - "Now I will praise the Lord!" Psalm 106:11,12 "Then they believed His words. They sang his praise."
• 30:2 a point for Jacob - he recognizes who has closed Rachel's womb.

Bilhah - the Wilderness Wanderings (Numbers)

• 30:6 Dan - "God has judged me." Psalm 106:13-33
• 30:8 Naphtali - "With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed." Exodus 17:8-12 "When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed."

Zilpa and Leah - the Conquest of Caanan (Joshua)

• 30:11 Gad - "A Troop cometh." The hosts of the Caananites oppose their conquest.
• 30:13 Asher - "Happy am I!" The victory over their foes.
• 30:18 Issachar - "God has given me my hire." The land is divided among the twelve tribes.
• 30:20 Zebulon - "God has given me a good dowry, now my husband will dwell with me." Israel dwells in the land God had promised to Abraham, and God dwells in the Tabernacle.
• 30:21 Dinah - Judgement. (Feminine of Dan.)

Rachel - the Coming Messiah

• 30:22 God hearkens to Rachel, who has apparently left off her own devices and turned to God.
• 30:24 Joseph - "The Lord will add to me another Son." Much later, Rachel dies after giving birth to another son near Bethlehem, who she names "Son of my sorrow". But his father renames him "Son of my right hand", and Rachel is buried in a tomb at Ramah. Genesis 35:18-20

  Many centuries later, Nebuchadnezzar will gather captives at Ramah, and take them all to Babylon. The voice of Rachel weeping in the wilderness echoes through the centuries from her tomb and weeps over her children. Jeremiah 31:15

  Centuries later still, Israel will have another Son, who will be the Man of Sorrows. But His Father will say to Him, "Sit at my right hand." At his birth, Herod will "hear news from the North and from the East and slaughter many." Daniel 11:44 And Rachel will weep again for her children through the centuries.

The History of the Believer

1. Reuben - See! A Son! Behold the Lamb of God. John 1:29
2. Simeon - Hearing. Faith comes by hearing. Romans 10:17
3. Levi - Attached. We are joined unto His Son. 1 Corinthians 6:17
4. Judah - Praise. Joyous gratitude for the riches of Grace which are are ours in Christ. Epehsians 1:6
5. Dan - Judgment. I am crucified with Christ, never the less I live.
6. Naphtali - Wrestling. The Spirit wars against the flesh. Colossians 3:5
7. Gad - Troop, or Company. The fellowship of the believer. Acts 2:42
8. Asher - Happy. The result of restored fellowship with God and man. Acts 2:46
9. Issachar - Hire. The service of the believer. Romans 1:1
10. Zebulon - Dwelling. Christ dwells in us. Ephesian 3:17
11. Joseph - Adding. Rewards shall be added to Spirit filled service. 1 Peter 5:4
12. Benjamin - Son of my right hand. At Thy right hand are pleasures forever more. Psalm 16:11