33 Years of the Life of Jacob in Parallel with 33 Years of the Life of

33 Years of the Life of Jacob in Parallel with 33 Years of the Life of Christ 1, 2
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Jacob – 33 Years
Christ – 33 Years
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1908 BC
Jacob’s Blessing (Gen 27:19-29)
1907 BC Jacob’s Yrs. in Haran of Padan-Aram Begin
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1905
1904
7 Yrs. (Gen 29:1-30)
20 Yrs.
1903
(Gen 31:41)
1902
1901
1900 BC
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel;
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Reuben Born
1899 BC
Simeon Born
1898 BC
Levi Born
1897 BC
Judah, Dan, Naphtali, & Gad Born
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1896 BC
1895 BC
1894 BC
1893 BC
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1887 BC
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26 12 Yrs.
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1876 BC
20 Yrs.
4 BC The Birth of Christ (Luke 1:26-55)
8 AD Jesus, of the Tribe of Judah
(Luke 3:23-33), in the temple
at Age 12 (Luke 2:41-49)
Asher Born
Issachar and Zebulun Born
Dinah Born
Joseph Born
6 Yrs.
(compare Gen 30:25-36 and
31:17-23;36-41)
Jacob Leaves Paddan-aram with
Family and Possessions
(Gen 31:17-18)
17 Yrs.
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The Abrahamic Covenant Ratified
(Gen 35:9-15); Benjamin Born (Gen 35:
16-18); Joseph Sold (Gen 37:26-36)
29 AD
Jesus Sold (Mt 26:14-16);
New Covenant Ratified (Heb 9:
15-17); Pentecost (compare
Acts 2:1-4 and Eph 1:13-14)
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The page one key applies.
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A prior reading of footnote 2 of page one as well as Appendix B is recommended.
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The earliest possible date for the selling of Joseph is the year of the ratification of the Abrahamic covenant (Gen
35:1-27; 37:1-36), placing the earliest possible date of Joseph’s birth seventeen years earlier since he was seven5
teen years old at the time he was sold (Gen 37:2). Under these assumptions, design features result and
realistic ages are permitted for Dinah, Simeon, and Levi when the proposed marriage to Dinah and the slaughter
by Simeon and Levi took place at Shechem of Canaan in the year of the ratification of the covenant (Gen 33:1735:12).
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See the account of the births of the first eleven sons and the daughter of Jacob in Gen 29:31-30:24.
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Christ, heir of the promise to Abraham (Gal 3:16), is the fulfillment of Isaac’s blessing of Jacob (compare Gen
27:19-29 and Luke 1:26-55), who is himself a type of Christ (compare Luke 1:42 and Gen 27:26-29). Following
Jacob’s blessing, Jacob fled from Esau, who was planning to kill him, to the grave of Haran of Paddan-aram
where he stayed for twenty years (Gen 27:41-43; 31:41)and following Jesus’ birth, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus fled
from Herod, who would attempt to kill Jesus, to the grave of Egypt (Mt 2:13-14). In Paddan-aram, Jacob became
the father of eleven sons and one daughter, signifying the building of the church in Christ’s grave. After 20 years
in Paddan-aram, Jacob left with his family and, in the twelfth year after their departure, after a stay in Succoth,
they came to the land of Canaan (Gen 33:17-18), a representation of the resurrection of the church into the
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inheritance. In a 33 year they came to the land, a year in which the Abrahamic covenant was ratified and a year
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in parallel with Christ’s 33 year, when the ratification of the new covenant took place (compare Gen 35:9-15
and Heb 9:15-17).
In a similar allegory, Jacob is seen in the grave of Paddan-aram, after Esau planned to kill him, shepherding flocks
for seven years in return for Rachel in marriage (Gen 29:1-20; 30:25-31), allegorical of the “tribulation”, when the
church will undergo a great building process of about seven years, or 2520 days, after which a marriage between
Christ and the church will take place (Rev 19:6-8). Furthermore, the seven days separating Jacob’s marriages to
Leah and Rachel (Gen 29:20-30) foreshadow a seven day wedding celebration separating the “rapture” of the
church (Leah) from the salvation of a remnant of Israel (Rachel) as recorded in Zec 14. The births subsequent to
Jacob’s marriages, of eleven sons and one daughter, are the building of the church in a period of more than 1000
years, including the millennial kingdom, after which, as represented by the twelve years from the year of the
departure from the grave of Paddan- aram to the year of the return to Canaan, it is allegorically resurrected into
the new heaven and new earth in the year of the ratification of the Abrahamic covenant in parallel with the
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ratification of the new covenant in Christ’s 33 year.