Bethel - the dwelling place of the God of Jacob by Hugo Bouter / Chapter Two 1995 / Paperback / Biblical study dealing with God's dwelling place

Paperback 1995

ISBN: 9781853071225  /  978-1853071225

ISBN-10: 1853071226

PAGES: 118

PUBLISHER: Chapter Two

LANGUAGE: English

 
God wants to dwell with man. It is God’s desire to reveal Himself to man and to have fellowship with him. He desires to dwell with man. God is the God of Bethel. He is the God of His house, for Beth-El means house of God. God has a habitation on earth where He dwells and reveals Himself to those who come to Him.

An important study dealing with the theme of where God dwells and where this dwelling might be realised today. The Patriarchs are remote from our time, the events recorded in Genesis happened more than thirty-five centuries ago. Yet Jacob is like us. We can identify ourselves with him: continuously devising our own plans. God eventually succeeds in bringing him back to Bethel, the house of God. Jacob is a monument of the Holy Spirit's work in the believer and in our lives as well. God can do what He did in Jacob's life.

Contents:
1. Introduction /7
2. Christ, the living Stone /11
3. The ladder reaching to heaven /17
4. The first revelation in Bethel /23
5. The first stone pillar /31
6. Jacob’s vow /37
7. The first call to return to Bethel /43
8. Mahanaim /47
9. Peniel /51
10. The secret of Jacob’s victory /57
11. A new beginning /61
12. The house in Succoth /65
13. The altar near Shechem /69
14. The second call to return to Bethel /73
15. Bethel, God’s dwelling place /77
16. Putting away the foreign gods /81
17. The terebinth tree by Shechem /89
18. The altar at Bethel /95
19. The terebinth of weeping /101
20. The second revelation in Bethel /107
21. The second stone pillar /113