The "Really" File - (Drunken Tales Slipped Into Sermon - Freudian Slip Maybe?)

Freudian Slip?

 

"Osteen Claims Jacob Slept with Wrong Woman Because He Was Drunk-----Within the pantheon of

wretchedly preached Joel Osteen sermons, one has caught our attention, in which he claims that the reason Jacob didn’t know he was having sex with Leah instead of Rachel is on account of him being too drunk to tell the difference......taking the story of Israel and transforming into some debaucherous narrative that the scriptures never say. 

 

Then Jacob said to Laban, 

Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”  So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast. But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.  (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)  And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me? (Genesis 29:21-25 ESV).

 

Jacob worked those seven years being his best. He didn’t just pass

From the "Really" File

the time, he excelled. Because of Jacob, Laban became very wealthy. His flocks multiplied many times over.

Seven years finally came and Jacob was so excited. In those days at the wedding the bride wore a very thick veil—you couldn’t see who was in there. After the big celebration, with partying and dancing, I can imagine Jacob went to bed that night with a little too much to drink.

The next morning when he woke up, he leaned over to kiss his new bride. But it wasn’t Rachel it was her sister Leah. Jacob nearly passed out. [According to Osteen]." Protestia

REALLY?