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for God has accepted him” (Rom. 14:3).

Before I began the work for Jesus, he showed many things about God’s Will and taught the way to accomplish them. But the Lord Jesus told me, “Do not reveal what you have seen until the time comes,” because it would have been pointless to discuss it with those who could not understand and accept it. It takes time for people to understand the providence of God and to follow his Will.

Do you know why God let his people call him as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? The three people were symbols of God, Jesus and the Overcomer. In God’s providence, the three beings are most important. The lives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were predetermined to show God’s providence. But until now, those were hidden as secret.

When Jacob lived for God, his life was very different from Abraham and Isaac, because it was the time God started his work through Jacob to make twelve tribes. Therefore, the circumstances of Jacob’s life - his being threatened by his brother Esau and having many children with four women - were parts of God’s plan.

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Jacob’s escape was very difficult. Jacob did not know that it was the Will of God and he went through difficult times. In the 20 years he lived with his uncle, he had many children. If Jacob needed to move around often and had to raise many children, it would have been tough for him. To help him avoid that situation, God let him stay in his uncle’s house and let him get close to many women in the house to have many children.

Jacob had twelve sons, which reflects the future work of the spiritual Jacob, the Overcomer. As descendants of Jacob’s twelve sons became twelve tribes of Israel, the Overcomer has to complete the numbers of the twelve tribes of the spiritual Israel, 144,000.

Because Jacob had to take care of his twelve sons, God blessed him for his livelihood. Because of God’s blessing, Jacob became rich, despite the fact that he was the son-in-law of his uncle. His uncle did not like that Jacob was becoming rich, so there were lots of conflict between Jacob and his uncle. Then, finally, he was able to return to his hometown with his sons and wives.

He was able to use camels from the field to lead his family

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