Genesis 33:18–20
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a quiet moment in the life of Jacob, a moment that is easily overlooked, sandwiched as it is between the high drama of his reunion with Esau and the coming tragedy involving his daughter Dinah. And what he does here, in these three short verses, is not mere travelogue. It is a profound statement of faith, a lesson in covenantal geography, and a picture of how God's people are to take dominion in this world. It is a quiet display of postmillennial optimism before the term was ever invented. We think of faith as a purely internal, ethereal thing, a matter for the heart or the head, disconnected from dirt, real estate, and public worship. We have privatized our religion, content to have Jesus in our hearts so long as He doesn't show up in our city councils or on our property deeds.