Now, Rebekah's in the background, and these words
of Esau, her elder son, were told to
Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob, her
younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy
brother Esau is touching thee, doth comfort himself,
purposing to kill thee.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and
arise, flee thou to Laban my brother in
Haran.
You see here again Rebekah taking things in
her own hands, and she tells Jacob, Now,
you're going to have to leave home, and
she's going to send him away from home.
Tell the truth.
She really paid for her part in this,
her sin.
She never saw this boy alive again.
She just sent him over there for a
little while, but she died before he got
back.
And you must remember that Jacob was her
favorite, and that Esau was Isaac's favorite, and
she wants to send him now over to
Laban, her brother, and Jacob will go over
there, and believe me, that's where he's going
to learn his lesson.
That's where chickens will come home to roost.
Old Uncle Laban is going to put him
in school, and he's going to teach him
a few things.
Now, Jacob thought he was clever, but Uncle
Laban was an expert at it, and poor
Jacob was just an amateur, and he's going
to cry out in desperation to God before
it's all over.
Now, notice what she says, Tarry with him
a few days, until thy brother's fury turn
away.
A few days lengthened out to twenty years,
and during that interval, why, she died.
She never saw her boy again, her favorite,
her pet, if you please.
Now, verse 45, until thy brother's anger turn
away from thee, and he forget that which
thou hast done to him, then I will
send and fetch thee from thence.
Why should I be deprived also of you
both in one day?
And after all, Esau's not going to think
too much of his mother after this little
episode, by the way.
And now we read here, And Rebekah said
to Isaac, I am weary of my life,
because of the daughters of Heth.
If Jacob take a wife of the daughters
of Heth, such as these, which are of
the daughters of the land, what good shall
my life do me?
Now, you see, Esau had married these heathen,
the godless, and already it was bringing Sarah
into the home, and even Rebekah was overwhelmed
by it.
Now, she says, if Jacob turns around and
does this same thing, and he probably will
if he stays here, you see she could
use this as an excuse to get Jacob
away from the home, because Esau is seeking
for his life.
And that moves us now into chapter 28,
and she has a little conference with Isaac,
and Rebekah and Isaac determine now that the
thing to do is to send Jacob back
to the family of Laban, back where Rebekah
had come from herself, you see.
Abraham's servant had gone and gotten her.
Now the point is to send Jacob back
there to get a wife.
If you get him away from the place
of danger, his brother would try to kill
him.
Now, very frankly, I think if he'd stayed
there, that probably that would have happened.
However, the fact of the matter is that
Rebekah died first, and Jacob did get back
for his father's funeral.