Back to Bethel: Separation from Sin, and Fellowship With God (Classic Reprint)

You will find the verses from which I am to speak in Gen. 35: i: And God said unto Jacob, A rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make thee an altar unto God. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods from among you, and be clean. Bethel is not more than ten or fifteen hundred feet above the sea, a waste moorland, as we should say in our country, strewn with great boulders. The name means the House of God. How did it get that name? Thirty years before the words of my text were spoken, Jacob, fleeing from his fathers house to avoid the anger of Esau, came there on the first night of his absence from home. You must think of him as a pilgrim exile, with his staff in hand, no escort, nothing of household gear, coming upon that moorland, making what bed he could upon the heather, and lying down to sleep, with the stars above him and the wild wind beating across the waste.
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