The Meeting of the Brothers
Genesis 33:1-20The Meeting of the Brothers If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 33. We’ll study this chapter tonight which recounts the meeting between Esau and Jacob. This much-anticipated reunion of the brothers. Jacob wasn't much anticipating a positive experience in this reunion. And so there has been some tension building in the succeeding chapters as we have seen Jacob making his way back towards Canaan to the promised land. And then hearing that he was going to turn toward Mt. Seir in the south, the country of Edom, before he went north to Bethel, and so we continue our study of the life of Jacob. All along we have said that in Genesis 30 through 32, God is preparing Jacob to trust in Him and to acknowledge Him alone. And that theme continues…