Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

When Abraham was old in years, he sent his servant into Syria to find a bride for his son Isaac. Abraham predicted that God would send His angel before his servant to help find a wife for Isaac. Years later when Jacob was fleeing in fear from his enraged brother, Esau, he encountered a vision of angels going up and down the ladder, as we have mentioned in this book. After twenty years in Syria, the angel visited him and instructed him to return to the Promised Land with his two wives and his children (Gen. 31:11–13). After this angelic message, Jacob prepared a secret escape from Syria. Within seventy-two hours, Laban, his father-in-law, realized he had lost two daughters, huge flocks, and all of his grandchildren, and he pursued Jacob. Laban intended to harm Jacob, but the Lord appeared to Laban warning him not to speak evil or good of Jacob (v. 24). It was this angel that continually redeemed Jacob from evil throughout his lifetime! Not only did the redeeming angel preserve Jacob from life-threatening incidents, but also this was an angel of blessing. Jacob was exiled from home with basically nothing but the clothes he wore. Over the next twenty years he was blessed with livestock and twelve sons. When he met Esau, he confessed when he met Esau, “I have enough” (Gen. 33:11). It appears that Jacob’s angel may have also been the same angel assigned to Abraham that set up the marriage of Jacob’s father, Isaac, with Rebekah. This angel became a personal guardian from God assigned to the family of the patriarchs, as Jacob asked this angel to continue being