The last sermon closed out with Jacob and the family stuck. They were stuck in their sin and stuck in sin’s consequences. This sermon opens with the encouraging and hope-giving words, “Arise!” The Lord has not left his people even when they have forgotten him. In fact, he has come to get his people and to bring them home. It will mean radical transformation, and that, of course, is his specialty. In Genesis 35 and 36 we come to the end of an era in the story of our origins, with the stage set for the next era.