uncle Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the younger was Rachel. Rachel was beautiful. Jacob was in love with Rachel and said to his uncle that he wanted to marry her. So they had a wedding ceremony.

But when the evening came, his uncle took his first daughter, Leah, and gave her to Jacob. Jacob lay with her without knowing who she was. When the next morning came, Leah was there. So Jacob said to his uncle, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?” (Gen. 29:25). Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. Finish this daughter’s bridal week and then we will give you the younger one, in return for another seven years of work” (Gen. 29:26-27). So with the promise of seven years of work, he married the younger daughter as well.

If Jacob was in love with the older daughter, he would have had children only with her. But Jacob loved the younger daughter, so he had four sons first from the older. Furthermore, due to the jealousies of the two, Jacob had two more

women. First, Rachel gave him her maidservant, Bilhah, because she wanted children. From Bilhah, Jacob had two sons and because of that Leah also gave him her maidservant, Zilpah, and obtained two sons more also. After Leah had two more sons, Rachel also had two sons. Leah’s sons were six, therefore Jacob had twelve sons in all. It was the Will of God for Jacob to have twelve children. From them twelve tribes of Israel came out and they are the symbol of twelve tribes of spiritual Israel, 144,000.

It may seem that Jacob had free will, but God predetermined his life. So his life was different from what he expected. It may not be apparent to people who have only read the Bible, but Jacob’s life was controlled by God. I knew this because God taught me in my visions.

As I told you before, Abraham was the shadow of God, and Isaac was the shadow of Jesus, who was crucified on the cross. Jacob was the shadow of the spiritual Jacob, the Overcomer, who will put a seal of God on the foreheads of the spiritual twelve tribes of Israel (Rev. 7:3-4).

The people of God, Israelites in this world, were made through Jacob, but the eternal world in the kingdom of God will