Milestones in the life of Jacob

Milestones in the life of Jacob

A Milestone is a significant event in one’s life. Often a milestone marks a new beginning. For example, the day you were born, the day you were born again, the day you got married or graduated from high school are milestones in your life. Milestone refers to a roadside marker that lists the distance to a particular location.

Jacob had at least four major encounters, which mark the milestones in his life. The first of them was at Bethel. Bethel was where he encountered God. To be precise, where he met with God in a dream. When he was running away from Esau to Pada-Aram, the house Laban, his uncle, he got to a place called Luz. “Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it,” (Genesis 28:12 NKJV).

When he awoke from his sleep he said: “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”…
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