Part 32

What a bitter life! What was Jacob’s dying testimony to Pharaoh? It would take ten thousand Jacobs to get one convert like Pharaoh. “Few and evil,” said Jacob, “have my days been.” He started with a lie in his mouth. He died in exile. He died in Egypt--not in the land which God had promised him. He would not let God choose for him. He was saved by fire--or, as Job said, by the skin of his teeth.