Dr Dean Alley: All right, Chaplain Dean Alley. I had a moment. I hope you're doing well. It's Friday. You made it. Look, I gotta show you my shirt Yeshua. John 4 14 14 6 says basically I'm the way, the truth, the light. Anyways, I hope that's your testimony that you are in Christ and As we've been working through Genesis, here we are. We're gonna get into chapter thirty three. we are doing this as a journey to Line by line, precept by precept. I was asked to to do it and I Absolutely can do it and I look forward to it. So a couple things. it is Friday. Yay! Weather's shifting a little bit. We had that nor'easter that came through. current temp. I got 70 on the dial, fifty-seven percent humidity. That is a rare case around here to have the humidity down, which I'll take it any way I can get it. And it's Starting to look like one of the four seasons. Nor'easters are usually not my favorite. Because it comes right off the ocean and it blows the leaves in the tree in the the trees, the leaves from the trees into the pool. And the leaves are little teeny sliver things, and they are not fun. Twenty years chasing those things down. So anytime there's an o'easter, I'm just like, hmm, more work for me. But that's okay. I think pool season's coming to an end. I don't know, maybe an Indian summer maybe pop up here and there, but the water will definitely change its That's for sure. So, anyways, I hope you're having a great day and a blessed day. I hope that you are in Christ and that you are continuing in the word, continuing in the faith, continually praying, always, and sharing the gospel, sharing your testimony. When you say, Well, I don't know what to say, share your testimony. You know, sometimes that breaks some of the ice for you. You know, a lot of times, I know that when when when when I was door knocking when it before prior to my situation, health wise, You always you know, you always take another person with you when you do another two two by two, you know, the the Bible story. And to me, it was an opportunity to meet people and share Christ's love, maybe say a prayer for Hey, I don't know what to say, but is there anything I could pray for you about? I've done it in car washes, I've done it on the porch. I any anywhere to share a prayer. I I had a couple This week people reached out for specific prayers and I I will pray because I believe in prayer. I believe that God hears the prayers of a righteous person, not calling myself righteous, but I try to live a holy life. Why? Because be ye holy, for I am holy. It is an example. Christ set that example for us. am I perfect? Nope. Am I gonna not sin? Nope, I'll sin. but the key is if I stay in the faith, if I stay in his word, if I stay in prayer, if I stay with him, keep him close, and he indwells this body, this temple, as the Holy Spirit which You name me on any other religion that has the Lord and Savior indwelling through the Holy Spirit. I don't think you'll find one. But anyways, the power of the Holy Spirit's the power of the word. And the reason I think it's important because people in this time frame or this time error, you can find the cynical people, you can find the people I find them because they hide behind a keyboard. synagogue or Satan, you're an evil person, or ha ha ha ha. You know, that's easy to do that on the little and that's okay, but if you want to engage in a good Bible conversation, a theological standpoint, I will share what the scriptures say. Not I, but him. I will share what he divinely put in the Bible. So I'm not here to be what we call care frontation. I'm not here to confront and I'm going to care frontation you and share what God says and let the Holy Spirit work and then dwell in you. So anyway, just wanted to throw that out there and hopefully and and I throw out the invitation as well, for Bible study, things on that line, devotions, counseling, whatever. Free of charge. What's that? That's my bad ear. What'd you say? Free of charge. So lots of people take advantage of that. My days are busy and that's okay, because I'm busy for who? Doing the Lord's work. I hope, humbly serving him by using what he gave me and to give it back. And you've heard me say it a thousand times. It's not a cliche. Anybody that knows me knows that that's not a cliche. But anyways, let's just talk about we we we finished up 30 one and thirty-two, kind of combined the two. I'm gonna talk about where Jacob, Abraham, his grandson, the chosen to preserve the line of God's people and the great promises that God gave. and we'll see that. But when we break out the very first I mean we break out the very first part of chapter thirty three, we find that Jacob seeks to reconcile. Well who's he trying to reconcile? He's trying to reconcile with Esau. Why? 'Cause Esau said he was gonna kill him after he lost his blessing and Can't think right now, but he lost two things. Anyways. So Yeah. So he he essentially is Jacob's looking to reconcile. He doesn't want to be angry. It's a short chapter. Shouldn't take us long. I got twenty verses is what I have. And if you would, you have your Bible, you can follow along with me. If you don't, that's okay too. You can listen. And we can walk through it and we can have some great conversation. I don't know about you, but I cannot wait to get back into my Bible this evening and do some studies. Because I get excited. The word of God should excite you. Think of this. The more that you study in the Word of God, the more you're gonna want that desire to seek Him. We're gonna search the scripture. I don't care who you are, I don't care how many PhDs. I got one. That it does not matter. Every single time you approach that Bible or your Bible, it should be humbly and it should be in a reverence standpoint because it's the word of God divinely inspired. And we are to approach it as childlike sometimes and ask God to show us the things that He wants us to sho to show us. Show me those things that you want me to see in the scripture. You say, Well, Chaplin Dean is boring. Well, if You read the Bible to just read it. Yes. You get confused, you get bored, you get bored, and you don't learn anything. You close the book and that's the end of that. It can be difficult, but a workmith, working a workman, Mr. Timothy, a workman in this great you gotta work at it. You gotta have some sweat. You gotta put some good spiritual sweat in and I can just tell you from my testimony that I probably I don't know. You could see me sitting in my chair with five Bibles around me studying. With a sixth in my hand or seventh. You say, but only one Bible is what you need. You're correct. However, what I'm doing is I'm comparing the scripture and comparing in a sense to understand. Does that make sense? And I'm trying to learn and edify. Now, I I'm gonna say it this way: there's some verses that are difficult to understand. I don't know everything in the Bible, but I'm willing to put the sweat in. I'm willing to put the work in to try to find that and try to find out what it is that God's trying to show. We gotta look at the context, but we'll start out there. Context is king. You hear that in Bible study everywhere. So you gotta understand the historical context. What what who's he speaking to? What is they speaking? What's going on? What century? What is what are well in that mindset you have to approach that scripture. So we're we're in this mindset where we're going back to when I mean we're we're way back. We're 1400 BC probably. So I I don't have it in front of me, but we're way back. But the point being there is you have to look at it from that lens. You have to look at it from the lens of that time, that era, the historical, what was going on, who's he speaking to, where were they? what was the outcome? What was the the the the the message? And you look at it from the doctrinal standpoint. Now you hear the word doctrinal. That will be man-made and church-made. And the doctrines are nothing more than points being pulled out of the Bible, especially in church history. and church fathers. I will read anything on all those church fathers and everything, but I really truly put my faith, hope, and trust in the into the word. It's really not what the early church fathers say. I may look it up or something like that, but Because it's it's important to let the Holy Spirit lead. It's important to let the divineness of what's in this Bible. Now I will say this. When you go from Genesis to we'll say the Gospels, okay? And even when you break into the gospel, you're talking first century antiquity, right? First century. That means all the way up until the gospels and into Paul, what did they have for a Bible? We say, Well, I you know, listen it's important because when you read Paul, who's a Pharisee and Jewishness of Jewishness, and he is to bring the gospel. The good news through the Gentiles that are grafted in, not the Jew grafted into the Gentile. And the entire Bible is a very much Jewishness in it. So you've got a a guy like Paul, MIT type guy, a Harvard type guy, Yale type guy, a Pharisee, which those are credentials. So and studied under Gamele. So when he's giving us those epistles, He's still bringing the Jewishness of that those verses to us. So there's a lot of mixed camps and people struggle, I think, sometimes when they say about the law. If they think about the law, they say, Well, the law that God, you know, Jesus came in commit and and he fulfilled the law. yes, there's some there's some truth to that. And and but we're not under the law. I see okay, so it's clear, let's get a divine law. Some people think of it as the sixteen six hundred and thirteen of the mikpas that are in the old testament that are you could pull out of the Torah, which is from Moses. Some say, well, that's the Mosaic law, is the Ten Commandments. Some say that the Noah laws, right? So there's different covenants, different laws, and stuff like that. So Which ones are we to follow? Well, y you have a moral law that's on your heart. You know whether or not you do any good or not. But there are some examples of things that I think Gentiles still should consider. Now, when I say consider, I say respectfully c consider the Jewish version of the old testament. And what was used to teach in that time. So your entire Bible pretty much goes right up to second century, right? And but everything was used in the Old Testament. It was it was it started in the Old Testament. It points to the New Testament. you know, the old testament. Why? Because you can track it right back to the Old Testament and find what he's he's saying. Well why would he say that in the context? Well, he's a Jew. And he's bringing he remember remember when they were struggling over the law and and James and everybody, they were like the dietaries and all that stuff. And they and they basically said, you know, the Jews Jews I mean the Gentiles, you gotta bring them in gently or you gotta bring them in slowly. not into Judaism, but into Christianity. And when I say Christianity, there was Jews that were Christians. There were Gentiles that were Christians, and there's just a gamut of people. but it's important that we, I think, still respect the Jewishness of what that what another it's simply this way. So so say you have a denomination that you disagree with. You would still be respectful to those people, right? You may even know their laws and how they live Like right now, Sukkot right now is going on right now for the Or Orthodox. What is that? They left, they were leaving Israel, they were trying to find they got in the they they they made this booth. They lived in it and they and you know, it was all about the ten days and And the sin and all that stuff that came into play. But do I follow that? No. Do I understand it? Yes. Do I respect the people that believe that way? I would, just like I would respect a a Catholic or any other religion. So my point is I'm trying to say that when you bring Christianity to the unbeliever or you bring Christianity in light of how we are supposed to live, it's important to respect what's going on. And this Bible was written and divine and divinely inspired by God through the Jewishness of the Hebrew nation of Israel. So do I go disrespect them? No. Do I do I do I say, well you're doing that wrong? No, no, no. That's not my job. That's the Holy Spirit's job, right? As Gentiles, we don't follow all of those six hundred and thirteen laws. There's a few few that I think that we should. Sabbath. I think you should follow Sabbath. I think you should go church. is it on a Saturday or Sunday? That's between you and God. But the point I'm making is there's certain laws that were put out there. That you should follow. Another one let me throw out here is from a dietary standpoint, eating and drinking blood. Makes sense. I shouldn't drink blood. What well why why do they not drink it in because blood is the lifeline of a person and it is what goes through our body. Now you say, Well, I don't follow the laws. Well, do you drink blood? No. Do you eat any type of meat that has blood dripping out of it? We say, No. Okay, you're not following it, but you're not doing it. That that's my point. My point is Let's not get twisted. you know, that's that's that's a couple that I just throw out there, I think, you know. Same way with you know, murder or disrespecting your parents. I mean that's a mosaic, that's the Ten Commandments, and God fulfilled the laws, he didn't he didn't destroy the law totally for everyone because you say, Well, he he left it at the cross. Yes, he did. And we preach as Gentiles Christ crucified. That is a shift of from right up to the gospels and with Paul coming in. So I the reason I say that is it's it's it's k it gets complicated and people die on hills. You have to be clear and understand what you believe and you have to you have to do your own research and your study on that. and even when I read something or I have somebody read it, I'll say, Well, what does it mean to you? And then I I'm getting a a sense of where they're at with their their thinking. Some are drinking milk, some are mature. Anyway. Let's jump into chapter thirty-three. I I don't know if that made any sense. you know, simply put, but I would say verse one. And Jacob lifted up his eyes and he looked, and behold, Esau came and with him what four hundred. And he divided the children unto Leah and Rachel and unto the two handsmaids. And he put the handsmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after. And Rachel and Joseph hinderpoint. So Rachel's all the way in the back. Leah and the servants and handmaids are up front. And he passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he he came to hear, came near to his brother, and Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed it, kissed him, and they wept. So Jacob approaches, approached the injured party, his brother, because he's when I say injured, I'm saying Esau was the one that was struggling with everything. being you know, as he says, tr you know, you know, taking advantage of the situation. So his brother, and we know that he saw wisely and humbly he comes to him. That's that that that's a it's an old testament verse, but how should you approach somebody that is wounded? Maybe they have church hurt, maybe there's a sin in their life, maybe there's something that they're gonna they're holding on to. Most of the time you will find that there is a root cause of why people I mean, I get I see people get defensive all the time and And when you try to explore that a little bit, try to help unhinge that, it's not I'm trying to convince you. Let's use some verses in the Bible or let's use the Bible as our authority to be able to look at that and then see if see how that helps in that situation. Whatever it may be. So he's so he's widely he he's wisely planning and staging. So he knows he's got these two groups. He's got, you know, who's he loved most, Rachel, where is she at? In the back. Leah? She's up front. Point beam. So When he ran to him to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. They wept. So they're both crying, okay? and he lifted up his eyes and he saw the women and the children and said, Who are these or those with thee? Who are these children and women? And Basically in the and then he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy service. Folks, if you have children or grandchildren, God has given them to you. And there's a responsibility. You only want to have them for a short amount of time. What's the number one thing? You should be teaching them to love God with all their heart, mind, soul, and their neighbor and studying and and staying in the faith, having them in a good faith church. You should be doing this with these children and grandchildren, and you should be shaping their character. You know, we all can talk about grades and you got an A in this class, that's great. That's great. But were you kind to somebody or were you you know, not ugly or mean or anything like that. What kind character has been shaped from your parents? If if your parents are always yelling at each other and they're lashing out, that's gonna come through the kids. That's gonna come through the children. I implore you that if you have a disagreement with your partner, that you take that off the view or away from the children. Don't don't do it in front of them. Anyways, so God has graciously given you your children is what I'm trying to to make you make you see so and then his handmaids came near and their children and they bowed themselves and Leah also with her children came near and bowed themselves, and after came Joseph, near and ra Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. And so what do we got going on here? J Jacob, he's sharing with his brother. He's sharing about his life and his sense in his troubles. He's gonna share this. And Esau asked about his family. He asked about Jacob asked about his family. So they're they're they're chewing the fat, if you will. They're they're getting to know each other, long lost family members, right? God could do anything. Remember, Esau wanted to kill him. But God can soften hearts. He can do it, he does it every day. And, you know, his handmaids, his wives, their children, back you know, just having a conversation about this is who's who and and that's the other thing I'd share to you. So if you're introducing your grandkids or your children, make a big deal out of it when you were introducing them to somebody else. this is my granddaughter, such and such. she is just a a wonderful whatever and really and they hear it you build up their self-esteem just a point Jacob asks for the sealing of the reconciliation so he says and he says what meanest thou or you by all this grove which I met and he said drove now he's talking about what he sent him right drove after drove after drove of gifts And he said, These to find grace in thy sight of my Lord. That's how he's responding. because Esau's asking, say, What what what is this with all these gifts, Jacob? And Esau said, I have enough, brother. I don't need anything. Do you have enough today? Has God provided enough for you today? Think about it. I have enough, my brother. Keep it, keep that thou hast unto thyself. Are you generous? Are you helping people, your your neighbor, your fellow man? Are you helping somebody in a tough spot? Are you helping orphans? Are you helping ministries or people dealing with issues or him. money. Am I telling you to do that? No. You do it out of what? The love of your heart, I'm cautious about who we help, and I'm I pray for guidance and direction on that. And Jacob said, Nay, pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy side, receive my then present. wast pleased with me. So the reconciliation, just kind of sealing that. You've got Esau talking about the goods. What what is this? Jacob wanted to reconciliation to be sealed. He wanted to use that. To seal that now you gotta you gotta remember now. They're in the desert. Anybody live in the desert? yeah. their moral codes and things on that a lot of them they just took advantage of people they would filferage and kill and steal you've got Esau saying, Look, I don't need anything, don't I'm good. And you've got Jacob wanting to seal a reconciliation with him. He wants to get in the good graces of Esau. And it's a goodwill gift to him. Then he goes on to say, Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is bought to thee, because God hath dealt graciously, graciously with me. And because I ha I have enough. And he urged him and urged him and took it. And he said, let us take our journey and let us go and I will go before thee. So Jacob wanted God to be honored. That's why he brought it up. How about you? In your conversations with people, do you tell everybody what God's done for you? How he's blessed you? how he's dealing with you? You saw one of my posts, I talked about, you know, being in a struggle, being in a situation in my life that God had to show me and walk me through that trial. And I learned and God showed me. So I honor him by telling him in that video yesterday was to share that we all have struggles, we all have scars, we all have issues in our lives that shape and mold us, right? And it's important to be transparent and to know that hey, you know, that was I was being vulnerable. I was letting you know a situation I w I was dealing with. It was severe because I didn't think I needed God. Like everybody in my neighborhood, they don't think they need God. And I I use that tongue in cheek. I don't know everybody's heart. I'm just saying. A lot of people that knock on doors don't need God. everybody needs God. Let's go. And I will go before thee. And he said unto him, My Lord knoweth that that the children are tender, young, they're soft, they're not hard-charging grown men here. And the flocks and herds with the young are with me. And if Men should overdrive them. One day all my flock will die. So if we work too hard to push to follow you, because he didn't have flocks. He was leading the charge of going where they were going. If they stayed that if they w pushed hard, that that would definitely affect his flocks and they would probably die from exhaustion. And I can imagine it's hot. Have you ever been to the desert? Yeah. So let my Lord, I pray, pass over the before his servant, and I will lead on softly, the soft people, the weaker, according as to as the cattle that goeth before me, and the children be able to endure until I come unto my Lord, unto Sierra, which is Mount Seer, and that's where Esau basically stayed. So Jacob sees the proof of reconciliation with his brother. Esau offered to travel with him and ja and and basically Jacob shared that he needed to move slowly because of his his young people and his youngings or children. But Jacob expressed the hope in sharing and visiting occasionally. So he was going to spend more time with his brother. But basically, we're gonna move at a slower pace, and I know you want to get home. Go ahead, get on home and we'll visit in the future. So Esau made an offer to help, and that's what we saw. Esau said, Let me now leave and with thee some of the folk that are with me. So he was going to leave some of the help to help get those that weaker group of people back. And then he he says in verse fifteen, he says, the folk that are with me. And he said What needeth it? Let me find grace in thy sight or in the sight of my Lord. And and that's kinda how they use those the the names back then, given respect. Like it'd be something like if you said yes sir or yes ma'am, that is being polite and courteous in today's world. Back then they would use My Lord, I'm a servant, all those things. And Jacob journeyed to Sokoth, a Sukoth, and built him a house. Well, what do you know? Sukoth. Hmm, where have I heard that? wait a minute. That's going on right now. That's at ten days, and he built him a house, and he made the booths for his shot his cattle. Therefore, the name of the place is called Sokoth. And Jacob experienced the results of reconciliation. He was able to experience peace, a settlement, and a growth for a season, and he was able to journey onward to fulfill God's purpose. What was God's purpose at the time? You could go back to the land of your fathers, right? And he was able to prove his faith and his promise to God. So Jacob came to She it's Sh Shelem, which is Salem. a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan. And when and and I'm gonna show you that here in a minute. And he came to Panoram and pitched his tent before the city. So he's now at a place where he has brought his he says for him nineteen and he bro bought a parcel of a a field where he had spread his tent at his hands of the children of Hamor. and Shechem or Shekum father for a hundred pieces of money. So for a hundred pieces probably silver or whatever the the money was in that time frame. It wasn't a dollar bill, that's for sure. In verse 20 says he erected there an altar and he called it Ella Ella Ella Elohisrael. So he was able to worship. So he erected that altar. That altar is where he was able to worship. And that's what they did in those days. Later on, as we get into the Old Testament and we go through that, they go to temples. They go to synagogues and they worship in those synagogues and they worship in the temples. And there's certain things in Levitical laws that they follow because it's part of the Mosaic Law. It's kind of like you say, Well, we don't have to do that. Okay, you're right. But you could think about what where they were and what God had done for them. And I again I'm speaking into verses and time into the future, but you know, the Exodus Le Leviticus, all that stuff, numbers. I'm speaking the future, but remember that's the culture, that's what they were living in. Put yourself back in that time frame. And especially when they get the law of Moses and he gives it to coming off Mount Mount Sinai. And God writes it with his own fingers or his own finger, the finger of God, and they would believe, right? And it's kinda like you got laws, you got regulations, you've got speed limits, you've got things you just can't do, because there's laws in the governing world and we're to obey the laws as especially as Christians you should supporting your authorities, you know, the police, the the judges or whatever. But the point I'm making here is, you know, when you start thinking about, you know, think about all the laws and things that people get upset about. Like, I gotta pay this tax, or I gotta do that back. Or or I've gotta I I I've gotta fall I gotta go fifty five miles an hour. I've gotta do this. I gotta go pay personal property. All those things are experienced at a lesser level in simplicity that we don't see that's shown in you know that's not shown in the Bible doesn't mean it didn't happen. So they would experience the same type of life that we would fast forward in a faster in a probably you know a lot more educational and technical technical type of settings that we're in compared to their all I'm trying to do is take you back to that simplicity in understanding why they did what they did. And that was the important thing. So let's walk through a few of a of the slides I have. So Jacob and places his family in a specific order. The concubines and their children, they were all up front. basically they were not as they were not the the the Leah and Rachel's they were behind a little bit. Leah and her children were next. Rachel and Joseph they were in the rear. It kinda shows where his partiality was. And what he believed with The importance of it. And Rachel and Joseph, they're in the rear. Jacob bows seven times or low seven times. and then there's a complete compitulation. Let's look at that. So you can see here's Jacob and Esau, they're hugging, and then here's the family that gets described. Esau forgives Jacob. And they reconcile and Esau refuses the gift, the Jacob's gifts, but he then accepts. which is typical of a mint mid-eastern c custom. You don't refuse a gift that's given to you. it's it's a disrespectful thing. So even though he told him I don't need it, but out of respect of their culture, he took the gifts. Esau assumed Jacob would follow him into Edom. And Esau leaves Jacob and implies he will follow. So basically you find again you can see the family there. So let's talk about Jacob is not gonna go with Esau. So Jacob is not gonna go, right? He makes Esau believe he'll follow. But he has no intention of doing so. Instead, he goes back up north to the place that he names the Sukul, Sukkoth. one and a half to two years later, he moves to Shechem. So there's there's the time frame. So Shechem is changed. So what is what does he know? Some place Abraham first stopped in Canaan. at the time of Abraham Shechem was not a city or a village. Shechem did not exist at the time of Abraham, and places and names changed over a thousand years. the Old Testament you know which was written and Jacob arrived, it had become a walled city. So when you see a walled city, that was for protection from the bad guys. And that's typically the motif of a city. They would build walls to keep the bad guys out. or animals or whatever. And Jacob, he purchased the land outside the city walls of Shechem. And King Hamor was a Hippite. A shepherd would not live outside would not live inside of a city. Because he had to stay with his flock. The shepherd and then the amount that he pays is recorded. So that n everybody knows that he paid a good and proper amount for it. So there's no favoritism. I paid for this land. Or and that's what he did. He does. And the other important biblical event that happened at this ex exact place is where we see in John Shechem. When we look at John four, one through four. Now John four Shechem is currently called Sikar, and Jesus enters a Sumerian woman. Encounters this Samar Sumerian woman at the Jacob's well that the well of Israel used when camping outside the walls of Shechem. First is the first non-Jew to be offered salvation. so John is a gospel. And it was written and we see that a gentile like you and me was offered salvation. And today Shechem is called Sikar, is now nebulous in the West Bank. So this would be part of the West Bank in current everyday life. I'm sorry, atheist people, you struggle, my friends that are atheists, they struggle with proof and context. I Constantly put things on here that I think are important, that support why the Bible is is is real. and Jacob erects that altar. El which is which means God and God of Israel. El Elohim Israel and we learn I I think that's Elohim in the future. So then chapter thirty-four. I'm not gonna jump into that right now. We're gonna hold off on that and we'll come back to that at another in a later time. So let's just let's just highlight a few thirty three. Let's highlight some things this in In verse 33. So the reconciliation, part one is the reconciliation of who? Jacob and Esau. the theme that we learn, or if you understood what we're talking about, I mentioned in the humility, memory bowed seven times. Capitulation. Jacob approaches Esau with sevenfolds of bows, sevenfold bows. Seven bows. Seven is a number, meaning complete. There's always a meaning, and words matter as well as numbers and symbols. Placing his family in order preference, concubines first, Rachel and Joseph were last. That's his prize possession. He positions himself entirely at Esau's mercy, reversing the expected outcome of Israel's blessing, original blessing. he the forgiveness and the cultural customers. So Esau initially refused a refusal and then eventually accepts the gift because it's that ancient history norm. That's what they did. So the anger has subsided over time. leading to more of a we see a genuine reconciliation. the prudence and first or prudence versus the deception. I think that you see Jacob declines Esau Esau's offer to travel together to Edom and accept an armed escort. So he he he refuses the escort because he's gonna send his people, his men with him, and they were gonna come to Edom. He he he doesn't accept that. While he will join Esau and Edom and visit him, Jacob instead redirects more of a northwest to Sukkoth and boots is what that is and later purchases land near Shechem. That is gonna be Shechem, Shikar, which is Samaria and the Sumerian women. That's how we'll see it down the road. So as we reflect on a couple of things, Jacob's arrangement of his family reflects his internal priorities. Really, what does he think about all the people? Well he puts his Rachel and Joseph in the back. In what ways does Jacob's settlement outside of Shechem balance the practic practical needs of pasture and trade? The spiritual risks of proximity to the pagan nations. They were shepherds. They were they had flocks. They had to stay out and guard those. So the balance there for pasture and trade, so they he pays for that. And then we ask what kind what how does Jesus encounter encounter at Jesus Jesus' encounter at Jacob's well, how's that fulfill John four? And expand on the historical significance of the location. So again, that's where you see fulfillments when we talk about fulfillments in the Bible and we talk about what Jesus simply did in fulfilling things that was one of the things that he fulfilled. so anyways that's chapter thirty-three Several little lessons or little nuggets that we talked about as we went through that. And I hope that was a blessing for you. if you need anything, please let me know. And I appreciate it. And thank you. God bless. Chaplain Dean Allen.