Bible Study Lessons – Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
“Behold I will do a new thing…” Isaiah 43:19. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new,” II Corinthians 5:17. “A new creature,” Galatians 6:15. “For the former things are passed away… Behold I make all things new,” Revelation 21:4 & 5.
Look up each Bible verse and write it out. Underline or highlight what speaks to you. Reflect on how each lesson affects your current life situation.
Bible Lesson Twenty Five: Genesis 28 Jacob’s Call/Bethel: The House of God Foreshadowed
Read Genesis 28. Write down what strikes you about this chapter.
In verses 1-4, what is Isaac’s charge to Jacob?
Explain the blessing of Abraham.
Describe the difference in Jacob and Esau in verses 5-10.
Significance of the stone. Verse 11, 17-22.
Isaiah 28:14-18
Daniel 2:34 & 35
Matthew 21:41-44
Luke 3:8
Ephesians 2:19-22
I Peter 2:4-10
Describe the Jacob’s dream and explain the promises given. Verse 12-15
Explain the physical and spiritual fulfillment of this passage. Nehemiah 9:21-25; Acts 3:25 & 26; Galatians 3:8, 16 and 29.
What was Jacob’s reaction to the dream? What 2 phrases did he use to describe “this place?” Verse 16 & 17
What is the significance of the oil being poured out on the stones? What does the oil represent? Read each of these verses and summarize - Ezekiel 11:19 & 20; Ezekiel 36:25-29; Exodus 25:6;30:25; Leviticus 10:7; I Samuel 10:1; Matthew 25:3-8; II Corinthians 1:20 & 21, Hebrews 1:9; I John 2:27; Revelation 3:17-19.
What is significant about Bethel and Luz? If you have a Hebrew dictionary, look them up.
Bethel means “House of God.” Luz means “growing there.”
This passage is the foreshadowing of the coming temple/house of God. Notice the physical and spiritual fulfillment:
What is the significance of the oil being poured out on the stones? What does the oil represent? Read each of these verses and summarize - Ezekiel 11:19 & 20; Ezekiel 36:25-29; Exodus 25:6;30:25; Leviticus 10:7; I Samuel 10:1; Matthew 25:3-8; II Corinthians 1:20 & 21, Hebrews 1:9; I John 2:27; Revelation 3:17-19.
This passage is the foreshadowing of the coming physical temple/house of God and the spiritual fulfillment of God’s glory filling the Body of Christ.
The promise was given to David:
“Also the Lord tells you that He will make you a house. And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up our seed after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish His kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of His kingdom forever,” II Samuel 7:11b – 13.
Solomon, David’s physical seed, completed the physical temple/house of God. But notice all the references to the Spiritual fulfillment of the house of God:
The glory of the Lord filled the temple after it was completed as described in II Chronicles 5:13 & 14; chapters 6 and 7. Solomon stands before the people when the temple is completed and says… “Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into Thy resting place, thou, and the ark of Thy strength; let Thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let Thy saints rejoice in goodness….. now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering, and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house,” II Chronicles 6:41; 7:1. (We are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to the Lord – Romans 12:1. Our bodies have to die in surrender to Him, as we identify with His death, burial and resurrection – Romans 6:2-6).
But there is a prophecy of the latter house/spiritual temple: “And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts….the glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts,” Haggai 2:7 & 9. (Jesus has made us at peace with God; He is our peace – Romans 5:1; Ephesians 2:14-17).
The spiritual fulfillment promised to David: Jesus, the true spiritual seed, will establish His everlasting kingdom. Has He not already?
“Jesus Christ our Lord, Who was made of the seed of David, according to the flesh… “(Romans 1:3)
The angel told the virgin Mary, “Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David. And He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end,” Luke 1:31-33.
And Jesus came, and spoke unto them, saying, ‘All power is given unto Me in heaven, and in earth,’” Matthew 28:18
It all started with the prophecy in Joel and the fulfillment of Pentecost?
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also upon the servants, and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit… that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be delivered; for in Mt Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant, whom the Lord shall call,” Joel 2:28, 29, 32.
“When the day of Pentecost was fully come…there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting…. Like as of fire… and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,” Acts 2:1-4. Compare this with II Chronicles 7:1.
Peter stated, “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days (saith God) I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh…’” Acts 2:17. The last day (70 AD) is when Jesus spiritually returned to destroy the physical temple and fill His spiritual temple with His glory.
The apostles (Jesus breathed on them in John 20:22) and the ones who the Holy Spirit fell upon at Pentecost and other believers alive at His coming (Cornelius and the other gentiles in Acts 10; Apollos in Acts 19) were the first fruits of the ones given the Holy Spirit
The physical Temple was destroyed in 70 AD never to be rebuilt again. Just as in all of the Old Covenant facets (the Law, the priesthood, physical circumcision) being fulfilled in Christ and have spiritual implications, now, the spiritual temple is Christ the cornerstone, the foundation of the prophets and apostles (the Word). “Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom all the building fitly framed together, grows unto a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit,” Ephesians 2:19-22) and us (those who are called) the lively stones (“You also as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ…” I Peter 2:4-6).
“For ye are the temple of the Living God, as God hath said, ‘I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,” II Corinthians 6:16.
“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is IN you…” I Corinthians 6:19.
“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of God, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life, because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by His Spirit that dwelleth in you…. For if you live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” Romans 8:9-13.
Notice in the following verses, the writer is talking directly to the people they addressed the letter to. They were anticipating this glory to be unleashed in them ... the revelation/return of Christ… in their lifetime.
To the church of Thessalonica, Paul writes, “And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with His mighty angels…when He shall come to be glorified in His Saints, and to be admired in all them that believe….in that day…. That the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you… I Thessalonians 1:7, 10, 12
“For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world; but now once in the end of the world, hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment; so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin, unto salvation.” Hebrews 9:26-28
“The trial of YOUR faith (the people that Peter is writing throughout Asia, etc.) might be found unto praise, and honor and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ… Whom having not seen, ye love,… receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls… of which salvation the prophets have inquired, and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should unto you… be sober and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ….” I Peter 1
“The end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer.” I peter 4:7
“Rejoice… that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” I Peter 4:13
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people…” Titus 2:13.
“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27
“And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together… Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them He also called, them He also called, He justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified,” Romans 8:17 & 30.
Revelation 19 has already taken place. He has come in the form of the Word of God – the sharp sword, the completed Old and New Testaments of the Bible. New Jerusalem, Mt Zion, the New covenant of Rev 21 and 22 has come. “And showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God….for the glory of God did lighten it…”. Verses 10, 11 & 23.
The fact that Christ has ALREADY returned in His glory to dwell in believers is a huge fact that is overlooked, not taught, ignored. He is here, NOW, IN US. This is the attraction that true believers have with other true believers – the agape deep connection; the fellowship of oneness with have with Christ in each other – the true body of Christ.
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What was Jacob’s vow to God? Look up these verses – I Timothy 6:8; Matthew 6:25, 32, 33
What is the significance of the bread? John 7:31-51; Matthew 4:4
What is the significance of the raiment? Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 61:3, 10 & 11; Zechariah 3:3 & 4; Revelation 3:4 & 5; Revelation 3:17-19; Revelation 19:8.
What is the significance of coming to my father’s house in peace? Romans 5:1; Ephesians 2:15-17.
Notice what all needs to be accomplished before the statement, “Then shall the Lord be my God,” be true.
How does Jacob obtain all that he is to receive? And what is he willing to give back? What are we to give today? Luke 14:33; Acts 4:32-37.
Write down your reflections of how the Word spoke to you today.
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