Fencepost Turtles - Episode 1: Jacob

A pastor once said: ‘When I was a schoolboy, we would occasionally see a turtle on a fence post, and when we did, we knew someone had put him there. He didn't get there by himself.' In the Bible we come across many ‘fencepost turtles’ - one person after another who knew that his or her position of power or prominence was given to them by God. The first “fencepost turtle” we are going to look at in this series is a man called Jacob ...