Jacobs four wife's

Please note I did not write this article about Jacob and his wife's I have cut it short because I did not agreed with all the auother wrote but I have allowed this part because I think he cover some interesting point's concerning the under standing of Jacobs four wife's and why God would use Jacob's marriages to help as to understand The church and Israel types and shadow's (Judge for your self) Vctor.S edited .

About this Teaching:
a. These stories confirm the allegories found in the life of Joseph.
b. Rachel and Leah are a history of Israel and the Gentile Bride.
Using Jacob as a shadow of Christ and his relationship with the Gentiles and the Jews this love triangle becomes an easily understood allegory. First I would like to point out that Leah is an allegory of the Gentile Church and her history. Leah represents the Church both the ten tribes of Israel and the Gentiles joined together in one promise to become "the fullness of the Gentiles". Rachel on the other hand is an allegory of the children of Israel and their history until they as a nation accept Jesus as their savior.
Leah’s name means wild cow and is also interpreted as a female Gazelle. Her name is to insinuate that she has no one to care for her. A wild cow had no caretaker the same as the wild olive has no one to care for it. Paul understood this mystery of Leah and Rachel. This is why he called the Gentiles the wild olive. Israel was cared for by the Lord, therefore it was tame simply through the promises of God. By the Gentiles being grafted into the tame olive tells us that he will take care of us along with Israel. This is the very reason that Laban tricked Jacob and hid her in the tent on his wedding night instead of Rachel. He knew that Rachel would be cared for and believed that Jacob would be willing to work an extra seven years to get her. But he wanted someone to take care of his little girl, Leah. He believed that Jacob would be good to her. This is the reason God brought us into Israel’s promise so that we too would be taken care of.
Rachel’s name means ewe Lamb. She was so beautiful and Jacob loved her so much, she would have to become his wife. He asked Laban her father who agreed but told him he would have to labor for him for seven years before he could have her. Jacob did this but, on the wedding night, Laban tricked Jacob and hid Leah in the tent with him. Jacob supposed that she was Rachel and embraced her. In the morning he was very disturbed to find that she was there instead of Rachel. He then worked another 7yrs to get Rachel. All totaled he worked fourteen years to get her. Instead he ended up with two wives. Rachel’s life and her children tell us the history of Israel. Where they have been and where they are going. She was the wife of promise. Laban promised her to Jacob. Israel is the people to whom the promises came first. Jesus told the woman at the well; salvation is of the Jews. Paul himself said to the Jew first and also to the Greek. They were first choice because of the promise made to Abraham. When Christ came for her it would be deception that would prevent her from becoming his. In the meantime God gave Jesus a Gentile bride with the promise that later on he would save Israel. Rachel’s children tell us the history of Israel, If you remember Rachel wasn’t able to have children. She was barren. She also had a problem with Idols. This is one of the things that God held against her. On the other hand Leah began having children immediately which provoked Rachel to jealousy. Remember? Paul said in Romans 11:11 that God had saved the Gentiles to provoke Israel to jealousy! This is why Paul said this! He could see the story of Leah and Rachel as an allegory of the Gentile Church and Israel.
Rachel had four sons, the first two were from her hand maid Bilhah. The two that were her actual children are the children that God would use to bring about the promises to Israel that would place both the House of Israel and the House of Judah into the New Covenant promise.
Rachel desired to have children, but was unable to do so. She decided to ask Jacob to take her handmaid Bilhah to wife, which was a custom they had in those days. Bilhah’s children would belong to Rachel. This way Rachel would no longer be ashamed. In Israel in those days it was embarrassing for a woman to be barren. Bilhah was an allegory of the Law of Moses. She was a bondwoman, Paul told us in Galatians 4:21-31 concerning Abraham’s promise that Hagar the bondwoman was an allegory representing the Law of Moses. That Sarah was an allegory of the free woman of promise. According to scripture the Law came by necessity not by promise. But salvation will come to Israel to the free woman, not the bondwoman. He said to cast out the bondwoman and her son, the bondwoman’s son would not be an heir with the freewoman’s son. Rachel’s bondwoman Bilhah represents the Law of Moses, she will bear two different sons. This is an allegory of two separate time periods with Israel. Both of these time periods are under the Law of Moses. Bilhah has her children, but we must remember that they are legally Rachel’s children. Bilhah will first give birth to Dan.
1. Dan’s name means judging. When Bilhah gave birth to Dan, Rachel said God hath judged me, and hath heard my voice. It was Rachel that gave Dan his name. This was a shadow of Israel’s beginning under the Law of Moses. Moses was the first to judge Israel. After they had entered into the promise land, they were to be ruled by Judges for a period of time. This period lasted for approximately 330 years. From Moses until the time that Samuel anointed Saul to be king. Even though the time of the judges was to come to an end with an appointed king, Israel would remain under the Law of Moses until Jesus went to the cross.
2. The next son that Bilhah gave birth to would also belong to Rachel. Rachel named him Naphtali, which means wrestlings of God. Rachel said; With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and I have prevailed. This is the period of time that Israel decided that they wanted a King. Israel began to wrestle with God. They wanted a king; no more judges. God gave them a king, but their problems would only increase. They have been wrestling with God ever since. They were wrestling with God when Christ came to save them. They refused to believe and are in partial blindness to this day. Israel will wrestle with God until the Church gives her the Gospel the way God wants us to. Jacob is a shadow of Israel wrestling with God, way up into the night. The Lord cripples him but Jacob wins. Israel will wrestle with God until God changes their minds about Jesus, then they will win and their walk will be changed forever. Leah is a shadow of the Gentile church. Rachel said that she had wrestled with her sister, referring to Leah, and that she had prevailed. God has turned to the Gentiles to provoke Israel to jealousy. Rachel was terribly jealous of Leah, but in order to have children of her own, not from her handmaid, she will have to come to terms with Leah.
Rachel heard that Reuben had found some mandrake in a field. Reuben was the firstborn son of Leah. Mandrake was a herb that was suppose to cause a barren woman to have children or would increase child birth in some way or other. The mandrake in this story represents the Gospel of the lord Jesus Christ. This is what the lord uses to bring forth children. Jesus was the firstborn of many brethren. But this firstborn has a double meaning. God told Ephraim that he was his firstborn in Jeremiah 31: 9. This promise was a literal promise that the ten tribes of Israel under the leadership of Ephraim would be the first to be born-again after the Spirit. God also promised a simultaneous blessing to the Gentiles. Luke wrote this:
Luke 13: 28: There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
29: And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
30: And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last

This means that the Gentiles would become first in being born again. It was promised to the Jew first but because of their partial blindness God concluded them all in blindness and turned to the Gentile. Because God did this, the ten tribes of Israel called Ephraim or house of Israel share a promise of being the firstborn to God in the New Covenant. This means that there is a time coming that we must give the Gospel to the people that live in Israel. It will be at a time that she is in desperation.
Reuben was Jacob’s oldest son, he was the real firstborn son of Jacob but would eventually lose his birth right. But at the time he found the mandrake he was the firstborn. It was his mandrake but it is Leah who must give Rachel the mandrake. As I said before Leah is a shadow of the Gentiles and this will become our job. Jesus has given us the Gospel, which will cause childbirth, but he doesn’t preach it, we must do that. This is what Leah is representing in this story, the Church. She doesn’t want to give the mandrake to Rachel, but when promised a special night with Jacob she immediately accepts. The next scene in this story is that she meets with Jacob and tells him that she has bought him for the night with mandrake.
 God now turn's back to the Jew's during the tribulation period, causing them to have to pass  through a refiners fire, chastisement, persecution and great affliction from the anti Christ.(Zec 13:8-9) After which  they will gradually start to repent. Christ will then return on the mount of olivers (Zec 14:4, Matt 24:14-22) to fight against the armies of the anti Christ which came against Israel than all Israel will being to moan when they realised that they had sinned and that they had  crucified the Lord their Messiah. Zec 13:1-7, Ezekiel 37:13-28, Matt 24:29-31
Romans 9, Jude 14-15, Thess 2:8-9, Rev 19:11-21

Romans 11: 15:, Zec 14:8-11 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead.