Racheal greatest achievement is her son Joseph ❤️. He is the only one man after Jesus who was able to resist temptation . Joseph had deep faith in God and followed everything that his Father and mother taught him . Racheal is not a bad woman and her children Joseph and Benjamin is the example
I’ve recently learned some pivotal details pertaining to Leah and Rachel’s story. 1: I’ve found in study that Leah wasn’t ugly nor “cocked-eyed”. She was “tender-eyed,” meaning she had eyes of extreme compassion. She was probably highly empathetic and lacked self-confidence; the latter is not usually an entity of attraction for most people. 2: Jacob probably despised Leah because he may have felt she was in on the trade. It’s hard to be warm towards someone who you may feel has tricked and deceived you. 3: Leah’s years of loneliness and rejection could have been her repercussions IF she was in on the trade. We are never meant to deceive anyone into a marriage or force our love on anyone. Those kind of relationships are always frustrating and hostile because one person doesn’t really want it and feels they are/were coerced into it. *Of course we don’t know for sure if Leah was forced to obey Laban (her father) or agreeable with the trade deceit, but it’s possible because she was so desperate to win his heart. There are other reasons why I think this way, but I’ll stop there. *These are my own thoughts, and I have yet to see my ideologies in The Word, so please don’t take it as such. We know that TMH allows everything to happen for our sakes. Shalawam 👍🏾
I Thank God for Leah. I am currently doing a study on her. Rachel's outer beauty is pale in comparison to Leah's godly and inner beauty. Thank you so much for this beautiful message. God bless you, your family and ministry.
Amen Rachel may also represent the love we have for the world and it's beautiful things but God want us to be Leah,to have nothing beautiful to present but be favoured by God
The way I see it, originally, Jacob was supposed to marry Rachel; and, Esau his brother was supposed to marry Leah; but Esau turned away from the Lord. ... This is why Jacob ended up with four wives {based on a video I had seen, years ago}, since at that time, the firstborn was supposed to marry first {and this, by the way, is fundamentally wrong, obviously; a man-made thing; but, it may have been more practical for the culture and circumstances of that time}. ... Things are deep, lots of details that we don't know. ... God will honour our culture sometimes, even though it is not originally from Him. ... God was grieved most that Jacob mistreated Leah, and did not honour and love her in his selfishness in insisting on his own desire, not seeing a bigger picture {although, it is hard oftentimes to see it God's Way right away, since there is so much we don't know or understand, but learn over time}. ... Therefore, he betrayed his own heart in being mean to her; and hurt Leah, as well. ... Rachel was by no means evil or worldly; she may have been more unstable personality-wise, and some characteristics she had in common with Jacob {lying, deceiving, getting stuck by wanting her own way: insisting on having two sons and competing with her sister}. ... If everyone in this scenario would have more earnestly sought God, He would have revealed more to them, and they would have ended up being a lot more compassionate, toward one another. This would have resulted in a win-win-win, all around. ... God loves everyone; but, He demands Fairness, in spite of feelings or personal preferences. He honoured Leah because Jacob dishonoured her. ... God always desires Compassion and Fainess. ... He Never Changes. ... I believe God Genuinely Loved All Three and Simply Wanted Each To Seek Him and have His Peace. ... This is my personal opinion. ... God Bless.
Amen 🙏 Leah represents so much more than face value, thank you for this insightful message. Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of GOD are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart oh GOD you will not despise.
Am I the only one, who thinks that it is all Jacob’s fault? He had sinned against his father and brother and he didn’t speak to God and ask for his help and forgiveness. Then he wanted to get married to a woman that his flesh desires, but without asking God first. Then he got controlled by 4 different women, again without seeking God in that situation. This is what is happening when you are the head of the family, but don’t know how to pray to God. You walk in sin and it is a big mess who loves who. Thanks to the Lord, who always finds the way to fix every brokenness. And at the end they all got blessed 🙏🏼🙌 The reason I put the sisters less responsible is because they obeyed their father’s order, as they were supposed to do. For me is the other way around, they are the victims, not Jacob.
I don't care what anybody says. You want what you want. Jacob was cheated but it worked out for him. There was nothing wrong with him wanting Rachel. God turned his misfortune into a blessing. That's pretty much it
Yes nothing wrong with that. There's actually women God made in this world who are not only beautiful physically but also have a beautiful character and heart and I ask God why can't all women be all equally beautiful in the same extent and they too can turn to Jesus. There's people in this world also who are unattractive and also ugly on the inside. Honestly I agree with you a 100 like it's not Rachels fault she's born beautiful and has that personality Jacob loves. I guess Leah's story gets told more because in real life many find themselves in a situation where they ask God why he didn't make them beautiful, they get or find themselves in a situation where they are unloved and rejected, and they question their very existence. I always asked God why does a Leah have to exist why can't we all be Rachels what's so wrong with a beautiful women with a lovely personality being loved , being loved by a parent, but the reality is that's not how life works and so people find themselves clinging to God so I can see why Rachel is overshadowed in sermons and teachings because reality is it really does suck to be a Leah but I'm sure Rachel had her own struggles too and emptiness as we all do because we are all flawed. It's a human thing where we question God why are we here in this world when we didn't ask for it, why we become a race we didn't want, an appearance and body we have no control over, and situations like poverty and disability we have no control over. I think at some point maybe Leah blamed God and asked why he made her that way or why nobody loved her. As for men yeah I sure would like my self a young beautiful kind loving sweet girl if I was a man so I sympathize.
@@myka8712 I'm pretty sure Leah was not an ugly woman and was endowed enough if she was able to trick Jacob in the dark. He just want what he wanted and that was the prettier Rachel. I suspect Rachel was a 9 and Leah may have been a 7 (which is highly attractive and not "average" like people want it to be). Pastors and people be full of it which is why they tell this story the way they do. People despise highly attractive people because God favors them on many levels. Just like women despise attractive men because the beauty is real while she has fake beauty from make up and other stuff.
@@realamericannegro977 Yes I agree, Jacob got tricked so he would form some resentment to Leah. I also agree that people in general men or women despise and envy attractive people they for sure have a cross they have to bear as well. I guess for the most part people despised on them because it's not really them they have a problem with it's themselves. As a young kid I always told God that he forced me to be in this earth, he forced me to be Filipino, to be Asian when I would rather be European, Hispanic, or white, I told him I got forced being me, occupying a body I didn't want, an appearance I didn't want, being my race being Asian when I'd gladly could have been something else, why I get thrown here and have genes I didn't ask for, be an individual I didn't want to be. And I think that's why Leah's story people find more relatable because not many people are attractive, many people go through heartbreaks and loss, some people are disabled and have no chance at marriage whatsoever or have parents that love them on top of that realization. I blamed God alot asking him why can't all women and men be equally beautiful a perfect 10 not some more not some less, why do people have to go through feeling unloved what if everyone gets assigned their partners like Adam and eve where they had no trial and error they knew they wanted each other right away they reciprocated the same feelings and God made their circumstances happen for them to be together and inseparable, why this why that, it's alot and it sounds crazy I know. But the thing is I just have to come to the realization that God isn't a genie and he didn't make me or all of us for ourselves we can't tell the creator how to design our pot we have no right, he can do however he wishes. It's a hard pill to swallow. I think many men and women want to be Rachels in this world because the truth is beauty does attract and people do place value on someone's appearance and status and ignore those not fitting to that ideal for the most part. But I'm sure Rachel was hurt to being that that's the man who wanted her and having that relationship had to be shared with another. I can't be mad at Leah though, what she did was wrong but at the end of the day people do crazy things for love and they get hurt getting themselves in such a situation and experience that rejection because they can still love someone but realize that what they did to get there only hurts in the end it's not worth it but it's something they have to live with now. I'm older now and find it interesting for example Prince Charles loved someone else not Princess Diana. Some men and women fall in love with someone less attractive over someone who is a 10 and likes them so it's the other side of the coin in which case people just fall for who they fall and knowing now being beautiful doesn't stop that from happening some men fall for less attractive women then their ex, and vice versa. Beautiful women also get cheated on. I get where your coming from I don't think it's so much on appearance now like preachers and sermons make it out to be it's ultimately about free will. Jacob had a free will who he wants to love as we all do. We all do something and burn in the end after when we know better. I was watching Oprah Winfrey titled the other woman. It was a mistress expressing her side of the story and I easily judged but towards the end I realized the grace and mercy God sees towards that woman who broke a family. Such a woman allowed herself to be second best because she didn't think she was deserving of love and growing up rejected she fell perfectly for that trap. We are all sinful, Rachel, Leah, and Jacob both have their shortcomings. If I was a man though I'd probably think and feel the same way as Jacob. But also I think this sermon would fit more perfectly for those for example a wife with children abandoned by her husband for a younger women then I can see that in such a situation there wasn't any schemes and I'd really feel bad and understand how this sermon goes to some extent.
Racheal wasn’t the chosen linage to Christ. Jacob let his heart lead him instead of the lord. He loved Racheal more because she was more beautiful. Racheal was not pure in heart. She was a thief an stole idols to worship then lied to her father and tried to use herbs to get pregnant instead of God. Leah was mistreated and unloved but cast her burdens on the lord. Jacob was cheated because he cheated his father. You reap what you sew.
Leah was favored by God because he saw her affliction in the situation. Leah was not Gods choice for Jacob. If she were his anger would have been turned towards Jacob as it was against many others who “kicked against the goad” and didn’t follow the will of His. Instead we see Jacob continually blessed throughout this time even though he was treating Leah and her kids like garbage. Leah got lots of children ( who were largely reprobates) but suffered intimacy without love, rejection and humiliation. Racheal died prematurely, was reproductively inferior to her sister, but her son Joseph was to be the salvation of the family and patriarch in the future time of distress. Laban got 14 years of free labor but lost everything.
@@jocelyncompesino8277 nope, I'm pretty sure.. according to christians jesus is tied to Davidic lineage through Mary, his mother. That's false, as MEN HOLD LEGACY.
Instead you should have written WHY IS RACHEAL PORTRAID AS BAD? To me Racheal was dying in intense pain, and on her death-bed,it natural and understandable to be with her in what she was going through. Up until now in most African cultures and beyond, children are named depending on circumstances at the time of birth of pregnancy. . It was not sin that Rachal chose Ben -oni (child of sorrow name) to her child. Thank God her husband changed it but should we use it to muidslide her as a bad example of a woman of selfishness.? I dont think so... I think Pastor here too it too far in his use of Racheal as a bad example... Circustances dictated what she was going throguh ..death and pain. and she did not choose what was happening to her. It was the curse that God put on women during child-birth right after Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden as we read in Genesis. I dont think it was a punishment from God as this happens to all women across the world. Even b4 finishing this post ,some women have died in labor during child birth somewhere in the world . Amen?
@@benonbaine She actually died because Jacob has accidentally cursed her. Rachel stole some wooden statue from her father and her father was looking for it. Jacob then said "whoever has stolen it, must die" and it was Rachel who stole it. Later she died during pregnancy.
@@benonbaine thank you. People who portray Rachel as a bad woman are just misinformed. If anything Leah was the bad one. First of all, why didn't she accompany Rachel to the well on the day that Jacob arrived at the well? Perhaps Jacob might have fallen for her. Secondly, Jacob told Laban that he was going to work 7 years to marry Rachel. Why was it that after 7 years no man even proposed to marry Leah? Third of all, why did Leah connive with her father to steal Jacob from Rachel on the wedding day? Leah simply WAS NOT a woman Jacob loved AND even after bearing 3 sons Jacob still had no affection for her (she named son after son based on the fact that she was hated). Rachel was just a victim of unfortunate circumstances.
@@zazaland There's actually women God made in this world who are not only beautiful physically but also have a beautiful character and heart and I ask God why can't all women be all equally beautiful in the same extent and they too can turn to Jesus. There's people in this world also who are unattractive and also ugly on the inside. Honestly I agree with you a 100 like it's not Rachels fault she's born beautiful and has that personality besides her looks Jacob loves. I guess Leah's story gets told more because in real life many find themselves in a situation where they ask God why he didn't make them beautiful, they get or find themselves in a situation where they are unloved and rejected, and they question their very existence. I always asked God why does a Leah have to exist why can't we all be Rachels what's so wrong with a beautiful women with a lovely personality being loved , being loved by a parent, but the reality is that's not how life works and so people find themselves clinging to God so I can see why Rachel is overshadowed in sermons and teachings because reality is it really does suck to be a Leah but I'm sure Rachel had her own struggles too and emptiness as we all do because we are all flawed. It's a human thing where we question God why are we here in this world when we didn't ask for it, why we become a race we didn't want, an appearance and body we have no control over, and situations like poverty and disability we have no control over. I think at some point maybe Leah blamed God and asked why he made her that way or why nobody loved her. As for men yeah I sure would like my self a young beautiful kind loving sweet girl if I was a man so I sympathize. I think at the end of the day this story as preachers should speak on shows three flawed individuals. Each with their own issues and how ultimately they believed it's a love triangle, it's a love story but maybe God wanted something all three of them didn't want. Maybe God wanted a love story of him through them. Maybe what laban did really had to happen and maybe God wanted the story to unfold that way because he really needed Judah through Leah if Jacob and Rachel got married and Leah was out the picture married to some other man who dearly loved her the twelve tribes of Israel would never exist. Same thing with queen Esther she was beautiful and became the kings wife but did the king really loved her if he has other concubines. The story of queen Esther isn't a love story either God had bigger plans. I was watching this Oprah Winfrey show on the other woman. She was the mistress. Quite frankly at first I'm like yeah no she's definitely the one who ruined the family (sorry off topic not about Rachel or Leah here) but like seeing her testimony, maybe she just spoke about her pain but I have deep sympathy for her and see her as someone God loves because being a mistress her being used by a man it must take her alot of insecurity to let herself get treated and received what was second best. It's painful to watch here's the link : ruclips.net/video/rm5eeOsl1gI/видео.html I would be angry at God and tell him why didn't you make me the most beautiful woman in the world why can't the man I love love me back make that happen God or let me never experience heart breaks do what you did with Adam and eve where they for sure knew they wanted each other no trials and error before finding the one, why can't I have a beautiful body give me that God, why not children. And the thing that got me is this God is the creator and if he so wanted to make Leah unattractive and Rachel the most beautiful woman alive (not saying she is) he can so do that and vice versa, if God choose to never give Rachel a baby or never had chosen Leah to be the line for the Messiah he so can do that. That's a hard pill to swallow realizing that we aren't created here for ourselves. Many times I wanted to be a Rachel, not to make light of her or portray her the villain but in my life I've always been the Leah even with the relationship situation similar. I think for women it's very hard we have to be feminine and to bear children, to be beautiful, to have a man return that love and a happy family it's what everyone dreams. Not how life works at all life is cruel. And as much as I'd also say here Leah definitely had her fault in allowing this scheme to go on and trick Jacob I can't beat the girl up about it much because she was craving love Rachel must have been hurt by that, Jacob for sure was hurt, and Leah. I've got a feeling that God permitted this to happen and maybe even was the one to orchestrate this story to happen because in the earlier readings we find that Jacob tricked his father and his brother Esau so he needed that to see his mistake in which later he apologized to his brother upon meeting him when he realized how bad it was to be tricked. God also choosed Jacob over Esau even though Abraham wanted Esau to have the birth right it wasn't supposed to be Esau and it got messed up and turned to be Jacob, it was really Jacob all along. With this I think God wanted Leah for this assignment and he knew she would be unloved all this things even Rachel fulfill a purpose that only God knows. God is more concerned on the man and women we will become more than us prizing and putting people and love on a pedestal. I still hate this story to this day I'll never come to like it.
Beautiful message, I am truly blessed, thank for this message .❤
Racheal greatest achievement is her son Joseph ❤️. He is the only one man after Jesus who was able to resist temptation . Joseph had deep faith in God and followed everything that his Father and mother taught him . Racheal is not a bad woman and her children Joseph and Benjamin is the example
Praise the Lord Almighty. I just love this sermon, it is so so powerful. I just love to be Leah.
I’ve recently learned some pivotal details pertaining to Leah and Rachel’s story.
1: I’ve found in study that Leah wasn’t ugly nor “cocked-eyed”. She was “tender-eyed,” meaning she had eyes of extreme compassion. She was probably highly empathetic and lacked self-confidence; the latter is not usually an entity of attraction for most people.
2: Jacob probably despised Leah because he may have felt she was in on the trade. It’s hard to be warm towards someone who you may feel has tricked and deceived you.
3: Leah’s years of loneliness and rejection could have been her repercussions IF she was in on the trade. We are never meant to deceive anyone into a marriage or force our love on anyone. Those kind of relationships are always frustrating and hostile because one person doesn’t really want it and feels they are/were coerced into it.
*Of course we don’t know for sure if Leah was forced to obey Laban (her father) or agreeable with the trade deceit, but it’s possible because she was so desperate to win his heart. There are other reasons why I think this way, but I’ll stop there.
*These are my own thoughts, and I have yet to see my ideologies in The Word, so please don’t take it as such. We know that TMH allows everything to happen for our sakes.
Shalawam 👍🏾
Thanks for your insight 🙏
I Thank God for Leah. I am currently doing a study on her. Rachel's outer beauty is pale in comparison to Leah's godly and inner beauty. Thank you so much for this beautiful message. God bless you, your family and ministry.
Amen!!!!!! 🙇♀️ 🙌
Wow wow wow what a beautiful sermon thank you
Thank you Jesus for your word 🤲🏻
Amen Rachel may also represent the love we have for the world and it's beautiful things but God want us to be Leah,to have nothing beautiful to present but be favoured by God
The way I see it, originally, Jacob was supposed to marry Rachel; and, Esau his brother was supposed to marry Leah; but Esau turned away from the Lord. ... This is why Jacob ended up with four wives {based on a video I had seen, years ago}, since at that time, the firstborn was supposed to marry first {and this, by the way, is fundamentally wrong, obviously; a man-made thing; but, it may have been more practical for the culture and circumstances of that time}. ... Things are deep, lots of details that we don't know. ... God will honour our culture sometimes, even though it is not originally from Him. ... God was grieved most that Jacob mistreated Leah, and did not honour and love her in his selfishness in insisting on his own desire, not seeing a bigger picture {although, it is hard oftentimes to see it God's Way right away, since there is so much we don't know or understand, but learn over time}. ... Therefore, he betrayed his own heart in being mean to her; and hurt Leah, as well. ... Rachel was by no means evil or worldly; she may have been more unstable personality-wise, and some characteristics she had in common with Jacob {lying, deceiving, getting stuck by wanting her own way: insisting on having two sons and competing with her sister}. ... If everyone in this scenario would have more earnestly sought God, He would have revealed more to them, and they would have ended up being a lot more compassionate, toward one another. This would have resulted in a win-win-win, all around. ... God loves everyone; but, He demands Fairness, in spite of feelings or personal preferences. He honoured Leah because Jacob dishonoured her. ... God always desires Compassion and Fainess. ... He Never Changes. ... I believe God Genuinely Loved All Three and Simply Wanted Each To Seek Him and have His Peace. ... This is my personal opinion. ... God Bless.
Amen 🙏 Leah represents so much more than face value, thank you for this insightful message.
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of GOD are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart oh GOD you will not despise.
Amen .Thank you bother...
Am I the only one, who thinks that it is all Jacob’s fault?
He had sinned against his father and brother and he didn’t speak to God and ask for his help and forgiveness. Then he wanted to get married to a woman that his flesh desires, but without asking God first. Then he got controlled by 4 different women, again without seeking God in that situation. This is what is happening when you are the head of the family, but don’t know how to pray to God. You walk in sin and it is a big mess who loves who. Thanks to the Lord, who always finds the way to fix every brokenness. And at the end they all got blessed 🙏🏼🙌
The reason I put the sisters less responsible is because they obeyed their father’s order, as they were supposed to do. For me is the other way around, they are the victims, not Jacob.
I don't care what anybody says. You want what you want. Jacob was cheated but it worked out for him. There was nothing wrong with him wanting Rachel. God turned his misfortune into a blessing. That's pretty much it
Yes nothing wrong with that. There's actually women God made in this world who are not only beautiful physically but also have a beautiful character and heart and I ask God why can't all women be all equally beautiful in the same extent and they too can turn to Jesus. There's people in this world also who are unattractive and also ugly on the inside. Honestly I agree with you a 100 like it's not Rachels fault she's born beautiful and has that personality Jacob loves.
I guess Leah's story gets told more because in real life many find themselves in a situation where they ask God why he didn't make them beautiful, they get or find themselves in a situation where they are unloved and rejected, and they question their very existence. I always asked God why does a Leah have to exist why can't we all be Rachels what's so wrong with a beautiful women with a lovely personality being loved , being loved by a parent, but the reality is that's not how life works and so people find themselves clinging to God so I can see why Rachel is overshadowed in sermons and teachings because reality is it really does suck to be a Leah but I'm sure Rachel had her own struggles too and emptiness as we all do because we are all flawed. It's a human thing where we question God why are we here in this world when we didn't ask for it, why we become a race we didn't want, an appearance and body we have no control over, and situations like poverty and disability we have no control over. I think at some point maybe Leah blamed God and asked why he made her that way or why nobody loved her. As for men yeah I sure would like my self a young beautiful kind loving sweet girl if I was a man so I sympathize.
@@myka8712 I'm pretty sure Leah was not an ugly woman and was endowed enough if she was able to trick Jacob in the dark. He just want what he wanted and that was the prettier Rachel. I suspect Rachel was a 9 and Leah may have been a 7 (which is highly attractive and not "average" like people want it to be). Pastors and people be full of it which is why they tell this story the way they do. People despise highly attractive people because God favors them on many levels. Just like women despise attractive men because the beauty is real while she has fake beauty from make up and other stuff.
@@realamericannegro977 Yes I agree, Jacob got tricked so he would form some resentment to Leah. I also agree that people in general men or women despise and envy attractive people they for sure have a cross they have to bear as well.
I guess for the most part people despised on them because it's not really them they have a problem with it's themselves. As a young kid I always told God that he forced me to be in this earth, he forced me to be Filipino, to be Asian when I would rather be European, Hispanic, or white, I told him I got forced being me, occupying a body I didn't want, an appearance I didn't want, being my race being Asian when I'd gladly could have been something else, why I get thrown here and have genes I didn't ask for, be an individual I didn't want to be. And I think that's why Leah's story people find more relatable because not many people are attractive, many people go through heartbreaks and loss, some people are disabled and have no chance at marriage whatsoever or have parents that love them on top of that realization. I blamed God alot asking him why can't all women and men be equally beautiful a perfect 10 not some more not some less, why do people have to go through feeling unloved what if everyone gets assigned their partners like Adam and eve where they had no trial and error they knew they wanted each other right away they reciprocated the same feelings and God made their circumstances happen for them to be together and inseparable, why this why that, it's alot and it sounds crazy I know. But the thing is I just have to come to the realization that God isn't a genie and he didn't make me or all of us for ourselves we can't tell the creator how to design our pot we have no right, he can do however he wishes. It's a hard pill to swallow. I think many men and women want to be Rachels in this world because the truth is beauty does attract and people do place value on someone's appearance and status and ignore those not fitting to that ideal for the most part. But I'm sure Rachel was hurt to being that that's the man who wanted her and having that relationship had to be shared with another. I can't be mad at Leah though, what she did was wrong but at the end of the day people do crazy things for love and they get hurt getting themselves in such a situation and experience that rejection because they can still love someone but realize that what they did to get there only hurts in the end it's not worth it but it's something they have to live with now. I'm older now and find it interesting for example Prince Charles loved someone else not Princess Diana. Some men and women fall in love with someone less attractive over someone who is a 10 and likes them so it's the other side of the coin in which case people just fall for who they fall and knowing now being beautiful doesn't stop that from happening some men fall for less attractive women then their ex, and vice versa. Beautiful women also get cheated on. I get where your coming from I don't think it's so much on appearance now like preachers and sermons make it out to be it's ultimately about free will. Jacob had a free will who he wants to love as we all do. We all do something and burn in the end after when we know better. I was watching Oprah Winfrey titled the other woman. It was a mistress expressing her side of the story and I easily judged but towards the end I realized the grace and mercy God sees towards that woman who broke a family. Such a woman allowed herself to be second best because she didn't think she was deserving of love and growing up rejected she fell perfectly for that trap. We are all sinful, Rachel, Leah, and Jacob both have their shortcomings. If I was a man though I'd probably think and feel the same way as Jacob. But also I think this sermon would fit more perfectly for those for example a wife with children abandoned by her husband for a younger women then I can see that in such a situation there wasn't any schemes and I'd really feel bad and understand how this sermon goes to some extent.
@@myka8712 You make some valid points. Usually when people type that long its insanity but you are actually intellectual. Im glad you didnt troll.
Racheal wasn’t the chosen linage to Christ. Jacob let his heart lead him instead of the lord. He loved Racheal more because she was more beautiful. Racheal was not pure in heart. She was a thief an stole idols to worship then lied to her father and tried to use herbs to get pregnant instead of God. Leah was mistreated and unloved but cast her burdens on the lord. Jacob was cheated because he cheated his father. You reap what you sew.
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Awesome message.
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I have to read this story again cause I highly doubt most people on RUclips teaches this correctly
Yeah lots of people reading more into this with their bias.
@@jasonwilliams8321 they hate that Rachel is beautiful while Leah is likely just average
Rachel gave birth to Joseph so she wasnt just a pretty face. They both had their purposes.
People stay taking the opportunity to down play the beautiful people
It's feminist theology.
Don't forget Leah was favored by God. Rachael stole a false God and lied. My thoughts Rachael represents worldlines
Leah was favored by God because he saw her affliction in the situation. Leah was not Gods choice for Jacob. If she were his anger would have been turned towards Jacob as it was against many others who “kicked against the goad” and didn’t follow the will of His. Instead we see Jacob continually blessed throughout this time even though he was treating Leah and her kids like garbage. Leah got lots of children ( who were largely reprobates) but suffered intimacy without love, rejection and humiliation. Racheal died prematurely, was reproductively inferior to her sister, but her son Joseph was to be the salvation of the family and patriarch in the future time of distress. Laban got 14 years of free labor but lost everything.
She gave birth to Joseph its deeper than just her beauty
I think Rachel produced Jesus.
It was Leah
@@jocelyncompesino8277 nope, I'm pretty sure.. according to christians jesus is tied to Davidic lineage through Mary, his mother. That's false, as MEN HOLD LEGACY.
Why is Leah bad
Instead you should have written WHY IS RACHEAL PORTRAID AS BAD? To me Racheal was dying in intense pain, and on her death-bed,it natural and understandable to be with her in what she was going through. Up until now in most African cultures and beyond, children are named depending on circumstances at the time of birth of pregnancy. . It was not sin that Rachal chose Ben -oni (child of sorrow name) to her child. Thank God her husband changed it but should we use it to muidslide her as a bad example of a woman of selfishness.? I dont think so... I think Pastor here too it too far in his use of Racheal as a bad example... Circustances dictated what she was going throguh ..death and pain. and she did not choose what was happening to her. It was the curse that God put on women during child-birth right after Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden as we read in Genesis. I dont think it was a punishment from God as this happens to all women across the world. Even b4 finishing this post ,some women have died in labor during child birth somewhere in the world . Amen?
@@benonbaine She actually died because Jacob has accidentally cursed her. Rachel stole some wooden statue from her father and her father was looking for it. Jacob then said "whoever has stolen it, must die" and it was Rachel who stole it. Later she died during pregnancy.
@@benonbaine thank you. People who portray Rachel as a bad woman are just misinformed. If anything Leah was the bad one. First of all, why didn't she accompany Rachel to the well on the day that Jacob arrived at the well? Perhaps Jacob might have fallen for her. Secondly, Jacob told Laban that he was going to work 7 years to marry Rachel. Why was it that after 7 years no man even proposed to marry Leah? Third of all, why did Leah connive with her father to steal Jacob from Rachel on the wedding day? Leah simply WAS NOT a woman Jacob loved AND even after bearing 3 sons Jacob still had no affection for her (she named son after son based on the fact that she was hated). Rachel was just a victim of unfortunate circumstances.
@@zazaland There's actually women God made in this world who are not only beautiful physically but also have a beautiful character and heart and I ask God why can't all women be all equally beautiful in the same extent and they too can turn to Jesus. There's people in this world also who are unattractive and also ugly on the inside. Honestly I agree with you a 100 like it's not Rachels fault she's born beautiful and has that personality besides her looks Jacob loves.
I guess Leah's story gets told more because in real life many find themselves in a situation where they ask God why he didn't make them beautiful, they get or find themselves in a situation where they are unloved and rejected, and they question their very existence. I always asked God why does a Leah have to exist why can't we all be Rachels what's so wrong with a beautiful women with a lovely personality being loved , being loved by a parent, but the reality is that's not how life works and so people find themselves clinging to God so I can see why Rachel is overshadowed in sermons and teachings because reality is it really does suck to be a Leah but I'm sure Rachel had her own struggles too and emptiness as we all do because we are all flawed. It's a human thing where we question God why are we here in this world when we didn't ask for it, why we become a race we didn't want, an appearance and body we have no control over, and situations like poverty and disability we have no control over. I think at some point maybe Leah blamed God and asked why he made her that way or why nobody loved her. As for men yeah I sure would like my self a young beautiful kind loving sweet girl if I was a man so I sympathize. I think at the end of the day this story as preachers should speak on shows three flawed individuals. Each with their own issues and how ultimately they believed it's a love triangle, it's a love story but maybe God wanted something all three of them didn't want. Maybe God wanted a love story of him through them. Maybe what laban did really had to happen and maybe God wanted the story to unfold that way because he really needed Judah through Leah if Jacob and Rachel got married and Leah was out the picture married to some other man who dearly loved her the twelve tribes of Israel would never exist. Same thing with queen Esther she was beautiful and became the kings wife but did the king really loved her if he has other concubines. The story of queen Esther isn't a love story either God had bigger plans.
I was watching this Oprah Winfrey show on the other woman. She was the mistress. Quite frankly at first I'm like yeah no she's definitely the one who ruined the family (sorry off topic not about Rachel or Leah here) but like seeing her testimony, maybe she just spoke about her pain but I have deep sympathy for her and see her as someone God loves because being a mistress her being used by a man it must take her alot of insecurity to let herself get treated and received what was second best. It's painful to watch here's the link : ruclips.net/video/rm5eeOsl1gI/видео.html
I would be angry at God and tell him why didn't you make me the most beautiful woman in the world why can't the man I love love me back make that happen God or let me never experience heart breaks do what you did with Adam and eve where they for sure knew they wanted each other no trials and error before finding the one, why can't I have a beautiful body give me that God, why not children. And the thing that got me is this God is the creator and if he so wanted to make Leah unattractive and Rachel the most beautiful woman alive (not saying she is) he can so do that and vice versa, if God choose to never give Rachel a baby or never had chosen Leah to be the line for the Messiah he so can do that. That's a hard pill to swallow realizing that we aren't created here for ourselves. Many times I wanted to be a Rachel, not to make light of her or portray her the villain but in my life I've always been the Leah even with the relationship situation similar. I think for women it's very hard we have to be feminine and to bear children, to be beautiful, to have a man return that love and a happy family it's what everyone dreams. Not how life works at all life is cruel. And as much as I'd also say here Leah definitely had her fault in allowing this scheme to go on and trick Jacob I can't beat the girl up about it much because she was craving love Rachel must have been hurt by that, Jacob for sure was hurt, and Leah. I've got a feeling that God permitted this to happen and maybe even was the one to orchestrate this story to happen because in the earlier readings we find that Jacob tricked his father and his brother Esau so he needed that to see his mistake in which later he apologized to his brother upon meeting him when he realized how bad it was to be tricked. God also choosed Jacob over Esau even though Abraham wanted Esau to have the birth right it wasn't supposed to be Esau and it got messed up and turned to be Jacob, it was really Jacob all along. With this I think God wanted Leah for this assignment and he knew she would be unloved all this things even Rachel fulfill a purpose that only God knows. God is more concerned on the man and women we will become more than us prizing and putting people and love on a pedestal. I still hate this story to this day I'll never come to like it.
@@zazaland Its feminist revisionist theology.