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   ocr: to him with bright promises, not the reproaches he deserved. Jacob had not sought God; rather, God sought him. At that tender moment, God confirmed that all the blessings he had promised Abraham would apply to Jacob, the disgraced runaway. The next encounter occurred several decades later, the night petore Jacob was to attempt a reconcillation with Esau. In the ntervening years, he had prospered and had learned many hard essons, but as he thought about the rendezvous he trembled in fear. After pleading with God to keep his promises, he received in esponse a supernatural encounter as strange as ...