Three areas of Jacob’s spiritual life needed to be thoroughly renewed. First he needed his spiritual vitality renewed, to have new life put into some of his basic beliefs. Beliefs, like hinges, can get rusty if not kept oiled and used. Jacob’s beliefs needed to be revitalized. The process began with the mention of a place (35:1a). “And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto
Genesis 35:1–4