On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Genesis 31:22-24 (NIV)
If we allow Genesis to inform our theology, and we frame Jacob’s deliverance of the sheep and the goats to stand in as a parable about God delivering his people, what do you suppose this passage is telling us?
It seems important.