iRunScriptures / Season 1, Episode 10
Wrestling God
iRunScriptures Season 1, Episode 10: "Wrestling God" --- THE RETURN Twenty years. Twenty years since Jacob fled from his brother's murderous rage. Twenty years since he left Canaan with nothing but a staff and a stolen blessing. Twenty years of serving Laban, being deceived by Laban, building a family and a fortune in foreign territory. Now it was time to go home. "Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom." The message Jacob sent was careful, conciliatory, deferential. He called Esau "my lord" and himself "your servant." He listed his possessions—not to boast, but to show he wasn't returning to claim Esau's inheritance. He sought favor, not conflict. The messengers returned with terrifying news: "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him." Four hundred men. Not a welcoming committee—an army. Esau had become powerful in his own right, a chieftain of Seir, and he was marching toward Jacob with enough men to destroy him completely. "Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed." The schemer who had always had a plan, always found an angle, always talked his way out of trouble—now he was terrified. His past was coming to meet him, and there was no way...