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약속을 믿고 순종하면 임마누엘 하나님 형통한 복을 받습니다.
Surely Blessed by Immanuel God along the Obeying Faith
본문: 창세기 29~30장
Scripture Reading: Genesis 29~30
아버지 이삭과 어머니 리브가의 말에 순종하여 하란으로 가던 야곱이 하나님을 만났고, “네 자손이 땅의 티끌 같이 되어 네가 서쪽과 동쪽과 북쪽과 남쪽으로 퍼져나갈지며 땅의 모든 족속이 너와 네 자손으로 말미암아 복을 받으리라. 내가 너와 함께 있어 네가 어디로 가든지 너를 지키며 너를 이끌어 이 땅으로 돌아오게 할지라 내가 네게 허락한 것을 다 이루기까지 너를 떠나지 아니하리라(28:14-15)” 약속을 받았으며, 하란의 우물 옆에서 양떼와 목자들을 만나고, “형제여 어디서 왔느냐 묻고, 하란에서 왔노라. 하므로 나흘의 손자 라반을 아느냐 그가 평안하냐 했더니, 평안하니라 그의 딸 라헬이 지금 양을 몰고 오느니라. 하므로 야곱이 해가 아직 높고 가축 모일 때가 아니니 양에게 물을 먹이고 가서 플을 뜯게 하라. 하였으나 떼가 다 모이고 목자들이 우물 아귀에서 돌을 옮겨야 우리가 양에게 물을 먹이느니라. 말하는 동안에 라헬이 양떼와 함께 왔듯(29:4-9)” 부모의 말을 존중하며 순종하면 하나님을 만나고, 약속대로 이루는 임마누엘 형통한 복을 받습니다.
For Jacob one who forefather was met the Lord directly and promised of blessing by God be Immanuel with him at Bethel, when he on the way to Haran, he obeying to his parent Isaac and Rebekah, as “Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. (28:14-15)” That’s why he was arrived to Haran and met the shepherds there beside of the well, and asked to them, as “My brothers, where are you from? We’re from Haran, they replied. He said, Do you know Laban Nahor’s grandson? Is he well? Yes, he is, they said, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep. Look, the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to e gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture. We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep. (29:4-8)” And, he met the daughter of Laban for his uncle, as “While he was still talking with them, Rachel cam with her father’s sheep, (29:9)” It means, if who will be obeying to his parents he will surely be blessed by God the Almighty, as that Jacob was.
그래서, “야곱이 외삼촌 라반의 딸 라헬과 외삼촌의 양을 보고 우물에서 돌을 옮기고 양떼에게 물을 먹이고, 라헬에게 입맞추고 소리 내어 울며, 자기가 그의 아버지의 생질이요 리브가의 아들이라 하였더니 라헬이 달려가서 아버지에게 알리매, 라반이 생질의 소식을 듣고 달려와 영접하고 입맞추며 집으로 인도하니 야곱이 모든 일을 말하매, 라반이 너는 참으로 내 혈육이로다 하였더라 야곱이 한 달을 거주하더니, 라반이 야곱에게 네가 생질이나 어찌 그저 내 일을 하겠느냐 품삯을 말하라(29:10-15)” 하므로, “내가 외삼촌의 작은 딸을 위하여 칠년을 섬기리이다. 라반이 그를 네게 주는 것이 타인에게 주는 것보다 나으니 나와 함께 있으라, 야곱이 칠 년 동안 라반을 섬겼으나 라헬을 사랑하는 까닭에 칠 년을 며칠 같이 여겼듯(29:18-20)” 매사가 순조롭게 풀렸지만, “야곱이 기한이 찼으니 내 아내를 주소서. 라반이 그곳 사람을 다 모아 잔치하고, 저녁에 딸 레아를 데려가매 야곱에 그에게로 들어갔는데(29:21-23)” 아침에 레아로 바뀐 것을 알게 된 야곱이, “내가 라헬을 위하여 외삼촌을 섬기지 않았나이까 나를 속이심은 어찌됩이니이까(29:25)” 하였지만, “언니보다 아우를 먼저 주는 것은 우리 지방에서 하지 아니하는 바이라. 칠일을 채우라 그도 주리니 나를 칠년 동안 섬길지니라(29:26-27)” 하므로, 어쩔 수 없이 7년을 더 섬기기로 하고 라헬을 얻었는데, 행한대로 갚으시며 속임과 배신의 아픔을 직접 겪으며 깨닫고 뉘우치게 하셨습니다.
That’s why, they were gladly met each-other and serve each-other with loves, as “When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father. As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. Then Laban said to him, You are my own flesh and blood. After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, Laban said to him, Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me nothing? Tell me what your wages should be. (29:10-15)” So that Jacob was joyfully served his uncle with loves as “Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel. Laban said, It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me. So Jacob served even years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. (29:18-20)” However, Jacob was deceived by his uncle Laban as “Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to lie with her. So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and Jacob lay with her. (29:21-23)” And the Jacob was obligated to served his uncle Laban seven years more because he loved his fiancé Rachel. as “Jacob said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me? 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; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work. (29:25-27)” That’s why, he was recognized and understood for how big distressed and damaged to his brother Esau and father Isaac by his deceived through the providence of God, because God doesn’t like the lies but good and righteousness with loves without discrimination and partiality.
또한, “여호와께서 레아가 사랑 받지 못함을 보시고 태를 여셨으나 라헬은 자녀가 없었듯(29:31)” 편애의 부당함을 깨닫고 공평한 사랑을 하도록 섭리하시지만, “라헬이 아들을 낳지 못함으로 언니를 시기하여 야곱에게 내게 자식을 낳게 하라 내가 죽겠노라. 야곱이 그대를 임신하지 못하게 하시는 이는 하나님이시니 내가 하나님을 대신하겠느냐. 라헬이 내 여종 빌하에게로 들어가라 그가 아들을 낳아 내 무릎에 두리니 그로 말미암아 자식을 얻겠노라 하고, 시녀 빌하를 남편에게 아내로 주매 야곱이 그에게 들어갔더니, 빌하가 임신하여 아들을 낳은지라. 라헬이 하나님이 내 억울함을 푸시려고 아들을 주셨다 하고 단이라 하였으며, 빌하가 다시 임신하여 둘째 아들을 낳으매, 라헬이 내가 언니와 경쟁하여 이겼다 하고 납달리라 하였듯(30:1-8)” 편애는 시기와 질투와 편당을 낳았습니다.
That’s why, God was opened Leah’s womb but shut the Rachel’s womb because of partiality love of Jacob, as “When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. (29:31)” Because, partiality and discrimination loves will be brick the relationship and stir up to envious and jealous, as “Rachel was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, Give me children, or I’ll die. Jacob became angry and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children? Then she said, Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family. So she gave her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, and she became pregnant and bore him a son. Then Rachel said, God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son. Because of this she named him Dan. Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. Then Rachel said, I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won. So she named him Naphtali. (30:1-8)”
그래서, “레아가 시녀 실바를 야곱에게 주어 아내로 삼게 하였더니, 실바가 아들을 낳으매, 레아가 복되도다 하고 갓이라 하였으며, 실바가 둘째 아들을 낳으매, 레아가 나를 기쁜 자라 하리로다 하고 아셀이라 하였듯(30:9-13)” 갈수록 시기와 질투만 깊어지는데, 라헬이 남편 야곱을 하룻밤 레아에게 양보하고 르우벤의 합환채를 얻어서라도 자식을 갖기 원했지만, “하나님이 레아의 소원을 들으셨으므로 임신하여 다섯째 아들을 야곱에게 낳은지라. 내가 시녀를 남편에게 주었으므로 하나님이 값을 주셨다 하고 잇사갈이라 하였으며, 레아가 다시 여섯째 아들을 낳은지라. 하나님이 후한 선물을 주시도다 여섯 아들을 낳았으니 이제는 나와 함께 살리라 하고 스불론이라 하였듯(30:17-21)” 사랑받지 못하는 자를 사랑 받게 복 주시는 하나님이며, “하나님이 라헬의 소원을 들으시고 태를 여셨으므로, 임신하여 아들을 낳고 하나님이 내 부끄러움을 씻으셨다 하고, 요셉이라 하니 여호와는 다시 다른 아들을 내게 더하시기를 원하노라(30:22-24)” 함이었듯, 하나님의 뜻에 합당한 믿음으로 양육하고 응답하십니다.
That’s why, Leah also make a faction with her maidservant Zilpah and got two more sons by her husband Jacob as “When Leah took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah said, What good fortune. So she named him Gad. Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. Then Leah said, How happy I am. The women will call me happy. So she named him Asher. (30:9-13)” That’s why Rachel wishes to bearing children by the medicinal effect of the mandrakes from Reuben the first borne son of Leah, but “God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. Then Leah said, God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband. So she named him Issachar. Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. Then Leah said, God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons. So she named him Zebulun. Some-time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. (30:17:21)” Because of providence of God’s equality loves, so that long time trained Rachel by distressed and “God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and opened her womb” through God’s unfailing loves. That’s why Rachel also had a son, as “She became pregnant and gave birth to a sob and said, God has taken away my disgrace. She named him Joseph, and said, May the Lord add to me another son. (30:22-24)”
그런데, 야곱이 아내를 얻으려고 14년간 봉사한 후 54세에 “라반이 여호와께서 너로 말미암아 내게 복 주신 줄을 내가 깨달았노니, 품삯을 정하라 내가 주리라(30:27-28)” 했을 때, “내 발이 이르는 곳마다 여호와께서 외삼촌에게 복을 주셨나이다 나는 언제나 내 집을 세우리이까-내가 외삼촌의 양떼에 두루 다니며 양과 염소 중에 점 있는 것과 아롱진 것을 가려내리니 이 같은 것이 내 품삯이 되리이다(30:30, 32)” 했고, “라반이 네 말대로 하리라 하고, 숫염소와, 암 염소와 양 중의 검은 것을 가려 아들들에게 맡기고, 사이를 사흘 길이 뜨게 하였고 야곱은 라반의 남은 양떼를 쳤는데, 나무 가지의 껍질을 벗겨 흰 무늬를 내고, 양떼가 먹는 개천과 물 구유에 세워 얼룩얼룩한 것과 점이 있고 아롱진 것을 낳게 하고. 튼튼한 양이 새끼를 밸 때에는 개천에다가 양떼의 눈 앞에 그 가지를 두어 양이 새끼를 배게 하고, 약한 양이면 그 가지를 두지 아니하니 약한 것은 라반의 것이 되고 튼튼한 것은 야곱의 것이 된지라. 매우 번창하여 양떼와 노비와 낙타와 나귀가 많았다(30:34-43)” 하지만, 6년 동안에 거부가 되기 어렵고, 야곱이 노년에 얻어 편애하다 17세에 종으로 팔려간 요셉이 30세에 총리가 되고 7년 풍년과 2년 흉년 후에 애굽으로 간 야곱이 130세였으므로, 야곱이 91세 때에 “라헬이 요셉을 낳았고(30:25)” 야곱이 라반에게, “내가 외삼촌에게서 일하고 얻은 처자를 내게 주시어 가게 하소서(30:26)” 했지만 허락하지 않으므로 몰래 도망쳤고, 37년간 양떼를 치며 품삯을 받아 부자가 되었다는 뜻이며, 많은 오류가 기록된 성경에서 하나님의 진리를 찾아 믿어야 구원을 얻는다는 뜻이므로, 말씀의 외면적 의미에 속지 말고, 성령의 가르침을 받으며 순종하여 야곱이 욕심과 집착을 버리고 맡기고 순종하여 이스라엘이 된 것처럼, 올바른 믿음으로 대속과 구원 얻기를 예수 이름으로 축복하며 기도합니다. 아멘.
However, the bible said “Laban said, If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because pf you. Name your wages, and I will pay them. Jacob said to him, You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household? What shall I give you? He asked. Don’t give me anything, Jacob replied. But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled, spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted, speckled goat. They will be my wages. (30:27-32)” And, “Agreed, Laban said, Let it be as you have said. That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked, spotted, and the speckled, spotted female goats and all the colored lambs and placed them in the care of his sons. Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks. Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked, speckled, spotted. Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separated flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals. Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the trough in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches, but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels and donkeys. (30:34-43)” But, it is not true, because, when Jacob was in Haran for forty years, and served his uncle for his two wives for fourteen years, then he was hired worked for six years only, then how to quickly to richest his wealth and furthermore, when Jacob went to Egypt for a 130 years old, and the Joseph was 39years old, then who’s ages was wrong counted? For inflate of Jacob’s age, or understate of Joseph’s age? Because “After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland. Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. (30:25-26)” Maybe, Jacob was hired worked with Laban his uncle for 37years, and he returned to Canaan not 60years but 91years old. That’s why, you do not be deceived or hold up by the external means of the words in the bible, but seek, asks and knocks for the real truth of God, and learned by the holy Spirit and always be humbly obeying his teachings and leads then the Holy Spirit will become your Immanuel God and works with you everything as well to be accomplished his eternal purposes in Christ Jesus. Then You will surely be saved and enter the eternal life in the kingdom of heaven forever. I hope, you will be as good and worthy faith in Christ Jesus all. Amen.