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Biblical Lives: Rebekah
Evangel
High School Class
Series: Biblical Lives to Live By
Genesis-II Samuel
Noah
Abraham & Sarah
Rebekah
Jacob
Joseph
Moses
Joshua
Deborah & Jael
Gideon
Samson
Hannah
Samuel
Naomi & Ruth
David
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Series written and published to the Web by
Dale Sullivan
Rebekah
This lesson is based on the following passages: (If you are online, you
can look them up at
Bible Gateway.)
|Genesis 24|Genesis 25:20-26|Genesis 26:7-11|Genesis 27:1-17|
|Genesis 27:41-28:5|
Discuss the following questions:
Based on chapter 24, what kind of character would you say
Rebekah had as a young woman?
How do you think she felt about leaving her family and
traveling with a stranger to a strange land?
If you were Rebekah, how would you have felt about
having twins, especially considering that she had not been
able to have children before?
What do you think Rebekah thought about having
to pretend to be someone other than who she really was in chapter 26?
Why do you think Rebekah wanted Jacob to receive the
blessing rather than Esau?
What does chapter 27 seem to imply about Rebekah's relationship
to her husband, Isaac, and her two sons?
Do you think it was easy or hard for Rebekah to send Jacob
away?
What do you think were Rebekah's strengths and weaknesses?
What does the story of Rebekah's life teach us about
the way women are limited in patriarchal societies and about how
they are able to have an influence?
Does the Bible tell us in these passages what God thought
about Rebekah? What do you think her relationship with God was
like? What do you think He thought of her?
Life Summary: Rebekah
As we read our passages in Genesis about Rebekah, we see that
they are passages that people could say are really about
other people like Isaac or Jacob. For that reason, we seldom
stop to read this section of the Bible focusing on the life
of Rebekah. When we do, however, we find that her life was
made up of a series of separations.
When we first meet her (Genesis 24), she is being asked to
leave her family
and travel with a servant to marry Isaac, a person she had
never met. Abraham's servant had been sent to her region to
find a wife for Isaac, and the servant had asked the Lord to
lead him to the right woman. Whoever draws water for me when
I ask for it and volunteers to draw water for my camels--make
that woman the one, he had prayed. Rebekah, when asked for water,
was eager to help, and she was willing to serve a stranger by
drawing water for his camels as well. Then within a couple
days, she found herself riding a camel with a few of her
possessions and a maidservant, traveling to a foriegn land
to marry a stranger. This is the first separation in Rebekah's
life as recorded in the Bible.
In the last part of chapter 25, we read about Rebekah giving
birth to twins, Esau and Jacob. Now giving birth is a kind
of separation--obviously. The child is separated from the
mother, and this separation sometimes causes the mother to be
depressed. We even have a name for it--post partem depression.
Although we all have to go through separations--for vacations,
when we move out, when someone moves away--there is one separation
we all fear the most--the separation of our spirits from our
bodies, death. Not only do we fear the separation from our
bodies, we also fear the separation from our loved ones. Giving
birth in some ways is a picture of death. I know that sounds
strange, but as Christians, we believe that death is not oblivion;
rahter, it is an entrance into a new world.
We have already
been born again by believing in Jesus, and we have fellowship
with Him and taste the glories of the new world. But when we
die, it will be like being born into heaven out of this world.
Later, in chapter 26, Rebekah goes through another separation.
This time she is asked to separate herself from her true identity.
Because Isaac was afraid that men in the region where he was staying
would look on Rebekah's beauty and desire her for themselves and
kill Isaac to have her, he asks her to lie about her identity and
to pretend to be his sister. In the same way, we worry about
what people think of us and often feel pressured to be someone
other than we really are--to pretend to be like the world. In
Romans 12, Paul tells us not to be conformed (pressed into a mold)
to the world, but to be transformed by the power of God's Spirit.
Sometimes we have to stand out in the crowd, and that isn't
comfortable, but we can pray that God's beauty will rest upon
us when we do.
In chapter 27, Rebekah takes up the cause of her younger son,
Jacob, her favorite. She conspires with him to get the blessing
that Isaac intended to give to Esau. Look at the separations
that occur in this story. Rebekah is separated from her husband
because she is conspiring with Jacob to decieve Isaac. Jacob
is separated from his true identity because he pretends to be
Esau. Isaac is separated from his intention because he ends up
giving the blessing to Jacob instead of Esau, and Esau is separated
from his blessing, because Jacob stole it from him.
But finally
(chapters 27 and 28),
there is an even greater separation in this story. Because
Esau threatens to kill Jacob (the brothers are separated from
each other), Rebekah arranges for Jacob to flee. She sends him
back to her family and never sees him again.
In Rebekah's life, we see a series of separations, all of
which are kinds of death. In fact, the word "death" literally
means separation. It is important to remember that we will
all experience separations that will cause us to grieve, but
in Hebrews 2:14, we are told that Jesus came to deliver us from
the bondage of the fear of death because He now holds the keys
of life.
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