[imardmd1]

Well, Chaplain, I know a little bit about Jacob and what he represents. The point is, when you really entrust your whole being unto the disposition of He Who sits in the Chair of Judgment, and the Holy Spirit issues a summons from that Judge, is not confession of that fault--a true repentance--an abandoning of that act and mindset--needed for the judge to vacate His order? Is that true whether it is an individual or a congregation identifying with Him? N'est ce pas?

[xzins]

I think that an abandoning of sin is, as you say, the objective of repentance.

That said, notice Jacob had not submitted. He said, “If You’ll do this that and the other for me, then You’ll be my God.”

That wasn’t a textbook confession by any means in Genesis 28. Yet, God started Jacob on Jacob’s journey toward God, and Jacob did not resist.