Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

committed fornication with his father’s concubine, and in the final message given to his sons, Jacob told Reuben he was unstable as water: Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father’s bed; Then you defiled it— He went up to my couch. —G ENESIS 49:3–4 Thus, in this case, the firstborn son of Jacob, Reuben, was not honored by a special blessing because he had dishonored his father. S ATAN H ATES THE S ONS There are two major examples of global leaders coming after the Hebrew sons. The first was Pharaoh in Egypt, who made a decree concerning all of the newborn sons born to the Hebrew women (Exod. 1:22). One reason for Pharaoh’s legalized abortion may have been a dream of Pharaoh that revealed Egypt was soon to be brought down.