VAYISHLACH – AND HE SENT

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Parasha: Vayishlach ,”And he sent.” Beresheeth (Genesis) 32:3 – 36:43

Esau meets Jacob after 22 years. 

A distinction between Jacob’s trouble and the Great Tribulation. 

What happens when overwhelming terror seizes the world? Is that the sign we’re in – Jacob’s trouble?

Jeremiah 30:7 For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s Trouble;

This parsha is about a house divided. A house is divided into two companies. Who will be saved out of it?

News flash: we live in a world where overwhelming fear has seized the world. Where humanity is divided into two companies. Those who have gotten the jab and those who haven’t. Those who have complied with Esua’s mandates and those who haven’t.

Gen 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people.

Fear drives you into the hand of the enemy. Fear led to Jacob being a slave for 21 years. 

Fear causes division. Division of self.

Fear is the lowest realm of ourselves. Fear resides in our carnal regions, the loins, the gut – intestines – the very bowles of man. 

Fear can cause you to fall into immorality – self hatred is fear. 

Fear can cause you to loose your appetite or increase your appetite.

Fear steals peace, fear robs you of sleep…Gen 32:32 And he (Jacob) rose up that night.

Jacob wrested with his fears, he wrestled with his self. It’s Jacob’s fear that enslaved him to Laban in the first place…Gen 27:42 fear of dying materializes in Jacob’s world(Rebekah overhears). The words of Esau spread fear within a family. If you don’t do this Jacob…then this fearful thing could happen to you…this fearful thing is as touching thee, it’s purposing to kill thee…Gen 27:43 Now therefore…fear subdues one into obedience…my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

It won’t be for too long… just a few days to flatten the curve of Esau’s wrath. Gen 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away.

It is fear that enslaves us. The only reason Jacob ended up in Laban’s company was because he gave into the fear the invaded his world. He capitulated to the fear of Esua.

יהוה is going to save us from the fear that this world is pedaling as יהוה brings to an end the nations where He’s scattered us. 

Esau thrives on the perception of fright.

The nations are circling the drain, economically, politically, socially and militarily. 

Jer 30:10 therefore fear not, O My servant Jacob says YHWH; neither be discouraged, O Yisrael: for, see, I will save  you from far,  and your seed from the land of their exile;  and Jacob shall shuv/return, and shall be in rest, and be in  shalom, and no one shall make him afraid. 11 For I am with you, says YHWH, to save you: though I  make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct  you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.

יהוה is about to give you an immense immune system boost as you seek Him and His ways. 

Jer 30:17 For I will restore health to you (it’s the end of fear which is exile from faith and exile from the Ruach. Exile is associated with sickness and a departure from Torah: Ez:34:4,), and I will heal you of your wounds, says YHWH; because they called you an outcast, saying, this is Tzion, whom no man seeks after. 18 This says YHWH; See, I will turn back the exile of Jacob’s tents, and have rachamim on his dwelling places; and the city shall be rebuilt upon its own heap, and the palace shall remain in its right place.

V.24 in the latter-days you shall consider it. 

Jer 31:6 for there shall be a day, that the called out Netsarim- Notsrim the ones who watch on the Mount Efrayim shall Cry (terurah – sound of the shofar), Arise, and let us go up to Tzion to YHWH ourElohim.

Genesis 32:3: And Jacob sent messengers (Malachim/Angels, from the ladder) before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the country of Edom. (4 And he commanded them, saying, so shall you speak to my master Esau; Your servant Jacob says this, I have sojourned with Lavan, and stayed there until now:  

Jacob’s first trouble:

The world is in fear, that fear has compounded the worlds trouble but that’s not all that is at work here. The populations of the world who have bought into this fear and trouble have also been taking payouts in the form of benefits. What they don’t realize is like Jacob they’ve been robbed – they’re no longer beneficiaries of their own labor. 

Jacob was in fear which brought trouble when he sojourned with Laban. When Jacob arrived in Haran he was a pauper because en route he was robbed of the dowry that his father Yitzhak had given to him for a bride – robbed by a son of Esau called Eliphaz in exchange for his life.

Jasher 29:30: And Isaac finished commanding Jacob and blessing him, and he gave him many gifts, together with silver and gold, and he sent him away; and Jacob hearkened to his father and mother; he kissed them and arose and went to Padan-aram; and Jacob was seventy seven years old when he went out from the land of Canaan from Beersheba. 31. And when Jacob went away to go to Haran Esau called unto his son Eliphaz, and secretly spoke unto him, saying, Now hasten, take thy sword in thy hand and pursue Jacob and pass before him in the road, and lurk for him, and slay him with thy sword in one of the mountains, and take all belonging to him and come back. 32. And Eliphaz the son of Esau was an active man and expert with the bow as his father had taught him, and he was a noted hunter in the fieldand a valiant man. 33. And Eliphaz did as his father had commanded him, and Eliphaz was at that time thirteen years old, and Eliphaz rose up and went and took ten of his mother’s brothers with him and pursued Jacob. 34. And he closely contact traced Jacob, and he lurked for him in the border of the land of Canaan opposite to the city of Shechem. 35. And Jacob became aware of Eliphaz and his men pursuing him, and Jacob stood on his square in the place in which he was going, in order to know what this was, for he did not know the thing; and Eliphaz drew his sword and he went on advancing, he and his men, toward Jacob (they will keep on coming); and Jacob said unto them, What is to do with you that you have come hither, and what meaneth it that you pursue with your swords. 36. And Eliphaz came near to Jacob and he answered and said unto him, Thus did my father command me, and now therefore I will not deviate from the mandates which my father gave me; and when Jacob saw that Esau had spoken to Eliphaz to employ force, Jacob then approached and supplicated Eliphaz and his men, saying to him, 37. Behold all that I have and which my father and mother gave unto me, that take unto thee and go from me, and do not slay me, and may this thing be accounted unto thee a righteousness. 38. And the Lord caused Jacob to find favor in the sight of Eliphaz the son of Esau, and his men, and they hearkened to the voice of Jacob, and they did not put him to death, and Eliphaz and his men took all belonging to Jacob together with the silver and gold that he had brought with him from Beersheba; they left him nothing. (2030 you will own nothing and be happy) 39. And Eliphaz and his men went away from him and they returned to Esau to Beersheba, and they told him all that had occurred to them with Jacob, and they gave him all that they had taken from Jacob.

How long was Jacob’s first trouble? 21 years! 7+7 + released after he has served 6 years and in the 7th year he went free. 

Jacob was an indentured servant – if we stay in the system we will fall into dishonor, like Jacob did, then a set period of bondage will follow.   

It’s in Yahweh’s Torah and you can’t get around it. It was a time of servitude as a bondservant for three rest year cycles. This time of bondage is directly connected with the time of bondservants – those who fall into dishonor because they stay in Babylon – the international world of admiralty, maritime commerce. 

On his return to Canaan, he wrestled with the angel at Penuel Gen 32:24 and was given the name “Israel.” From Penuel, Jacob went to Succoth where he stayed for a year and a half (Jasher 33:4).