How Revival Comes: The Desperation of the Saints — Ronald Glass

Biblical Revival and the Desperation of the Saints

So again, as God revives his church, that is our subject of study in these weeks. We are looking at biblical revival. Today, I bring you to the 32nd chapter of Genesis, Genesis chapter 32. One of the things that has really been impressed upon me as I do this study, and this is not the first time I've studied this subject, first time I've preached on it here at this church, but as I've studied this subject, is just to see how many places in the Bible, and particularly in the Old Testament, revival is mentioned in one way or another.

It is a pervasive subject in the scriptures, and we see it today all the way back into the book of Genesis. We will be looking at some verses, familiar verses in the book of Revelation. From beginning to end, it is a book that has this thread all the way through it, and that is that God revives his people.

And so today, we come to the 32nd chapter of Genesis. You know, it's not very often that we encounter desperate people. I mean really desperate people. We don't live in a culture where we have desperately hungry people or desperately poor people.

We generally are not exposed to the violence of desperate people. Perhaps you have met people who are desperate over an illness, perhaps their own, or someone else's, a terminal illness for example, and they are desperate over that.

But unless you've had something like, for example, an accident, I can think of an accident, for example, a family driving down the freeway, and the car goes out of control and hits a guardrail and breaks into flames.

The parents get out, but the children can't, and the parents stand screaming in desperation as they watch their children burn to death in that vehicle. That's real desperation. Now, I can honestly say to you that I have never seen anyone who was desperately grieving over their sins.

I know there have been people like that, but I have never really seen that. And I have never truly seen a church that was desperate over their spiritual poverty. I've been privileged, and I may share this more in the future, but I've been privileged to be present when revival came to a couple of churches, but I have never really seen a church that's desperate in their grief over sin.

Never, anywhere, at any time. And yet, as I read scripture, I see that spiritual awakening often came in response to sheer desperation. King Josiah is a good example. If you know the story of Josiah, it's recorded in the latter chapters of 2 Chronicles.

You remember that here was a young king who, at the age of 16, decided that he would clean up the temple, which had fallen into disrepair through disuse. And so he did so. And as his people were cleaning the temple and rebuilding it, repairing it, they found a scroll.

Josiah didn't even know that this existed. It was, of course, the scroll of the law of God. And as they read it, he was so overwhelmed at the disobedience of his people, out of the sheer spiritual ignorance of a nation that had rejected the law of God for so long that he tore his clothes.

He went into a state of mourning and initiated a whole series of reforms, a great revival there in the latter days of the southern kingdom. Last week, we looked at Nineveh, an amazing story of a pagan city, of one of the greatest cities in the world at that time, a city to which a reluctant, disobedient Jewish prophet went and preached.

And the entire city turned to God, clearly an act of God's sovereign grace. The thing that struck me about that, once again, was how the people acted and spoke in desperation. They believed 40 days and Nineveh is destroyed.

And as a result of that, knowing they had no time to sit around and think about it, they believed the prophet. They believed God. They mourned over their sin, from the king to the cattle in the stalls, all of them dressed in sackcloth, sitting in ashes, and pleading with God for repentance.

Now, we don't see that very often. But that is my point to you today. See, at this point in our series, we're asking the question, how does revival come? We asked that question last time. And in our last study, we discovered that revival is, above all, a product of the sovereignty of God.

I called it the lesson of the fish, if you remember. Repeatedly throughout the book of Jonah, we see that concept, that salvation is of the Lord. That was the confession of Jonah in the belly of the fish.

That was the confession of Jonah that finally resulted in him being vomited out of the fish's belly onto dry land. And then he experienced it personally as he preached God's message to Nineveh. Salvation is of the Lord.

So the first answer to the question, how does revival come, is, and it is the most important answer, it is a work of the sovereignty of God. Spiritual awakening is the work of the Almighty God. And specifically, of the Lord Jesus Christ, the sovereign Lord and master builder of the church, who declared, all power, or all authority, is given to me in heaven and earth.

He is building his church. He has all of the authority. And revival is firmly in his hands. But this is not all that needs to be said about the origins of revival. There is another answer to the question, how does revival come?

Jacob and the Desperation of the Saints

And that other element appears conspicuously in the pages of scripture. And for a lack of a better way of saying it, it is the desperation of the saints. You see, sometimes the Lord has to bring us to the end of ourselves before we are ready to experience revival.

And today we are going to see just such a case. I am speaking, of course, of Jacob. You remember Jacob. He was the grandson of Abraham, the man with whom God made the great covenant that resulted in the Jewish nation.

He was the son of Isaac. He was the twin brother of Esau. Jacob, as you remember, who in a fit of his typical scheming, managed to secure from his brother the birthright and the right, therefore, to be the covenant patriarch in the ongoing line of Abraham, all for a bowl of lentil soup when Esau came in from hunting.

That caused a deep rift between the two brothers. It also eventuated in a decision on the part, particularly of his mother and also of his father, to send him away to Laban, his uncle, in the area of Aramea in Syria in order that he might escape the wrath of Esau.

Jacob, as you read his story, has an unusual ability to manipulate and cheat other people. And his shrewdness led to a confident self-reliance. That is the distinguishing mark of Jacob. By the way, Jacob's name actually means that.

It means schemer or cheat. And that's what he was, remarkably self-reliant. I want to say to you today that self-reliance and the sin that breeds it are sufficient to choke our spiritual lives. Biblical Christianity, spiritual life is all about trusting God.

It is all about denying of self. And when we are sufficient in and of ourselves, if we are ever going to experience the blessing of revival, we must be purged of the poison of self-absorption, of self-confidence, and of self-sufficiency.

In revival, we meet God in a fresh, new way. Jacob did, and so will we. But first, we have to need him. Let me say it even more. We need to need him. And that's the secret here. Revival comes when God's people get desperate.

Desperation. Now, this dynamic, and we see a desperate man here, involves four progressive steps. They underlie this story, and I want to share them with you because I believe these things were written not just as a nice story about a man who lived long ago, but rather these things were written, as scripture tells us, for our learning, for our spiritual edification, I believe, for our good as a church in the 21st century.

So let's look at these four steps to awakening here in this passage. Let's begin in verses 1 and 2, where we note that revival comes when we are forced to acknowledge our neglected priorities. Did you notice, as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him?

God said when he saw them, or Jacob said when he saw them, this is God's camp. So he named the place Machania. Machania means two camps, the camp of the angels and the camp of the people. I want to say to you right at the outset, by definition, revival entails a return, a going back to something which we had left.

It means reclaiming a life which we once had, but we have let slip away from us. We have abandoned. We have neglected. Revival presupposes the neglect and then the resurrection of our spiritual priorities.

That's why we, as a people, need to be awakened. That's why we need revival in these days, is because for so many of us, our spiritual priorities have been set aside in the interest of other priorities that have crowded them out.

Returning to the Place of God's Presence

I want you to notice the dynamic here as Jacob has to acknowledge his neglected priorities. And we with him. First of all, we must return to the place of God's presence. You see, as a result of sin, Jacob had left the place of God's presence.

Turn back with me for a moment to the 28th chapter, and we see what happened. This is when Jacob now is fleeing. He's leaving home. 20 years earlier, verse 10 of chapter 28, Jacob departed from Beersheba, and he went toward Haran up north in Syria.

And he came to a certain place, and he spent the night there because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and he put it under his head, and he laid down in that place. And he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven.

And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham, the God of Isaac, the land on which you lie.

I will give it to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south, and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Behold, I am with you. I will keep you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, now notice this, verse 16, surely the Lord is in this place.

And I did not know it. He was afraid, and he said, how awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God. And this is the gate of heaven, the stairs up and down, the gate of heaven, angels coming and going into the heavens.

So Jacob rose early in the morning. And what did he do? Build a tabernacle there? Decide, Lord, you're here. I'm going to build my house here and live here. No, he took the stone that he had put under his head.

He set it up on a pillar. He poured oil on its top. He called the name of the place Bethel, which means house of God. However, previously, the name of the city had been Luz. Then Jacob made a vow saying, if God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take and will give me food to eat and garments to wear, and I return to my father's house in safety, then the Lord will be my God.

Look at that. There's Jacob, the schemer, the conniver. Jacob is making a deal with God. This stone, which I've set up as a pillar, will be God's house. Notice that's in the future tense. And of all that you give me, I will surely give a tenth to you.

I'll be real generous with God if he'll do what I say. You see what Jacob did? Here, God manifested himself as Jacob is running away from his home, and he's going up to Uncle Laban up in Syria. What he does is, on the borders of Canaan, the land that God had promised to his fathers, to Abraham, on the border, as he leaves, God reveals himself.

God says, here I am. Here is the place where I manifest my presence. Here's the ladder, the stairway to heaven, up and down. Angels. God is in this place. What does he do? Pours oil on the rock, says, surely this is Bethel.

This is the house of God. But bye-bye, God. I'm going to leave for a while. But if you'll bring me back, if you'll let me return to my father in safety, then this place that I've set up, this will be your house.

And I'll give you a tenth of everything. That's so characteristically Jacob. Strike a deal with God. But you see, what he did is he left the place of God's presence. God was very gracious. He said, I'm going to go with you.

I'm going to stick with you wherever you go, Jacob. And I'm going to bring you back here. But Jacob could have trusted God. Jacob could have stayed right there in the land where God manifested his presence.

Now, life had been difficult until at last Jacob listened to the Lord 20 years in the service of Laban. Laban was the one guy who was a match for Jacob. He was a schemer, too. He was a cheat, too. And the two of them, wow, they really enjoyed life together, as you can imagine.

No, it got to a point where they couldn't stand it. Jacob couldn't stand living there any longer. And Jacob, now with two wives, they said, there's no reason for us to stay. But here's what happened. Look in the 31st chapter now.

Genesis chapter 31, verse 13. God appears and he says, hey, remember me? I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now, arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.

It's time for you to get back where you belong. So Jacob returns to the place of God's blessing. And the Lord, as we read the account in that 31st chapter, the Lord is there to meet him. In fact, right here in the opening verse of chapter 32, when Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him.

He should have never left in the first place. As he comes back, just as he had left, the angels of God are there. We need to return to the place of God's presence in our lives and in our church. We need to quit wandering away from God.

We need to realize that God is with us. He has promised never to leave us or forsake us, so why do we choose the world? We must return to the place of God's presence. And secondly, we must return to the place of God's preeminence.

Repentance and the Recovery of First Love

Everything that has preempted the Lord in our lives has to be forfeited. I don't think Jacob really understood how bad things had gotten in Paddan Aram, up in Syria. Here's how bad things had gotten. Look back in chapter 31 again, and verse 19.

When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel, that's one of Jacob's wives, stole the household idols that were her father's. See, she hid them in her saddlebags. And when Laban showed up and said, where are my idols?

That's interesting, because Jacob was living with Laban, who was worshiping idols. Verse 32, Jacob said to Laban, the one with whom you shall find your God shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen, point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself.

Notice the last statement. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. Jacob didn't even know that his own favorite wife was a secret idol worshiper. That's not what you would expect for a man that God said he would bless.

He had to get back to a place of God's preeminence. He had to purge the idols out of his house. Jacob would later tell his family, get rid of your idols. Get rid of them. Jacob returns to the place where he can enjoy the full blessing of God.

You see, revival always begins by coming back to the place of God's presence and preeminence. It means humbly seeking God's face in repentance. It means sacrificing every undesirable influence in our lives and finding restored fellowship with God.

Revival is not something that we find much in the New Testament. But as I pointed out to you, and I don't apologize for coming back to these passages, the letters to the seven churches in the book of Revelation, four of those letters in particular, are urgently commanding churches to repent.

Let me remind you again of the church in Ephesus. Revelation chapter 2, verses 4 and 5. But I have this against you, says God, says the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of the church. You who are such a faithful church in terms of your doctrinal stability, the fact that you will not tolerate evil, that you are, your teaching is correct.

You've got all of your T's crossed, your I's dotted properly. But I have this against you that you have left your first love. Therefore, remember from where you have fallen and repent and do the deed you did at first, or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent.

This was one of the great churches of the day by then. It became the leading church, eventually, the church at Ephesus. You would look at that church and you would say, here's a church that's busy, active, probably a church that is growing.

Here is a church that is orthodox to the T. And God says, you've left your first love. Remember from where you have fallen and repent and do the deeds you did at first. That's the decision Jacob had to face.

And it's the decision the church of Jesus Christ is facing today. Chapter 3. And the message to the church at Sardis, to the angel of the church at Sardis, verse 1, he who has the seven spirits of God, the seven stars, says this, that's the Lord Jesus, I know your deeds, that you have a name, that you are alive, but you are dead.

Wake up and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die, for I've not found your deeds completed in the sight of my God. They needed an awakening. Wake up. My friends, today the evangelical church in America is an idolatrous church.

We have so many things that have crept into our lives as individuals, families, and church families that have nothing to do with the presence or the preeminence of God. We have become idolaters, putting other things ahead of God in our lives and our families.

It is time that we root out the worldliness, the idols, that we don't even know are there as they are exposed to get rid of these things in our lives and get rid of these things in our church. Because revival comes when we are forced to acknowledge our neglected priorities.

We have left the place of God's presence, and we have left the place of God's preeminence. Secondly, revival comes when we are forced to admit our personal frailties. Now we're back in Genesis 32, verses 3 to 12.

Admitting Personal Frailty and the Collapse of Self-Reliance

Jacob, who has never lacked self-assurance, Jacob, who has always been self-reliant, Jacob is reduced to helpless terror. And that's right where God wants him. Now here's the thing that I want to stress to you at this point.

There is no revival as long as we're relying on ourselves. That's the problem that we face today. So when we are forced to admit our personal frailties, what happens? Well, first of all, our self-defense crumbles.

That's what we see here in verses 3 to 8. What happens? They come into this land. God is there. He actually sees these angels. He feels at home now. God has met him. The angels form one camp, and he has another camp, and he feels very protected.

So Jacob sends messengers to approach Esau. Figures, by this time, Esau's not mad at him any longer. But as a matter of courtesy, I better go and tell Esau that I'm coming through. Jacob has always been able to connive his way out of his troubles, but not now.

His fraudulent generosity has no effect on Esau. Did you notice that? He says, when you go see Esau, I want you to say to him, look, I've got oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants I've sent to tell my Lord, look, I'm a rich man.

I've got all this stuff, and I'm coming through, thinking that hopefully, by this time, Esau will welcome him with open arms. Sure, Jacob. Let's let bygones be bygones, and let's hug and make up, and let's live together.

So his men go, and they do that, and then they come back, and they said, we came to your brother Esau all right. And furthermore, he's coming to meet you. Good, says Jacob. We're going to have a great reunion.

And he's got 400 men with him. Uh-oh. Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. Jacob's hope is gone, and what happens? Fear and panic take over. That's what he means, afraid and distressed. He's afraid, he's full of fear, and he panics.

What does he do? Good old Jacob, he hatches another plot. What does he do? He divides the people who are with him, and the flocks and the herds, and the camels into two companies. And he said, if Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape.

He's plotting his salvation once again. He's going to save himself by his own efforts. That sounds like religion, doesn't it? That sounds like most human religions, self-salvation. But you see, when the church is revived, the first thing that happens is our self-defense crumbles.

Second thing that happens, our confidence crumbles. We see this in verses 9 through 12. For the first time in his life, Jacob seems to have run out of ideas. No more scheming, no more cheating. Jacob is forced to his knees, and that is exactly where God wants him.

What does Jacob do here? He turns to prayer. By the way, that's usually the last thing on our agenda when it comes to the church. How do I know? Show up some Wednesday evening here and see how full these pews are.

You can usually put us all in about one or two pews. That's how much we care about praying. And that is better than some churches who've canceled prayer meeting altogether. They don't even have it anymore.

Why? Lack of interest, lack of commitment. Nobody comes. It's the last thing on our agenda until we get desperate. Then we decide we're going to pray. You see, revival is not going to come until we feel the utter poverty of our own sinful souls.

And as a church, as an evangelical church in America today, until we feel the poverty of our training and our knowledge and our ideas and our initiatives, our strategies, our financial, technical, and facility resources, until we feel the poverty of our leadership skills and our ministry teams or whatever else we offer, until we feel the worthlessness of all of that, we will never be revived.

And we will never be driven to prayer. We have so organized and trained and prepared and built and financed our programs in our churches today that we don't need God. I just say something here. Sometimes I think it's very easy for churches to overlook the value of church splits.

I hear stories all the time. I heard more this week. Met a pastor I never met before. Had him in our home for dinner from down south. Never met the man before. Called me up this week. We had dinner together Thursday night.

Talking about his little church down in the country regions of South Carolina, how many splits they've had down there. Happens all the time. Churches split, go off, start a new church. Why does God allow that?

Why would the Lord of the church who said I will build my church, why does he allow church splits? I think we miss the value. We complain. We wring our hands. In many cases, we go off down the road and start another church because people are mad at each other and can't get along with each other.

Why does Jesus do it? I think he does it in order to bring us to our knees. Why or how? By showing us the poverty of our own resources. Now you don't have so much money. Now you don't have so many people, so many workers.

Now you don't have what you had before. Now you can't go on and do all this in the power of your strength. If you're going to accomplish anything for God, you have to come to God and cry out to him and say, Lord Jesus, we can't do it anymore.

If it's going to happen, you've got to make it happen. That's revival, when we come back to God and say, Lord, after all, this is your church. And this is where modern evangelicalism is failing and failing miserably.

What are we saying when we speak about our methods and our strategies, constantly holding conferences and seminars and writing books and producing DVDs and all kinds of programs that are geared to build the church?

What are we saying when we speak about these methods and strategies? What are we doing when we look to our secular business models to run our churches and evangelize our communities, which is what is going on today?

What are we saying when we obsess over leadership? I tell you what it says. We are placing our confidence in the talents and schemes of men, and often, I'm afraid to say, godless men at that. Revival comes when we are forced to admit our personal frailties.

We can't do it. Jacob, you can't beat Esau. He's got 400 armed men. How are you going to stand up against that? Jacob finally understands. Well, he remembers. God said way back there at Bethel, 20 years before, I'll be with you.

I'm going to bring you back here. I'm going to be with you every place you go. All right, God, I guess I'll go back and cash in those favors. He's lived 20 years without God in that way, 20 years making his own way, 20 years with his own good ideas.

Now he's forced to come back to God. Let me come to the third step. Revival comes when we're forced to accept our past deficiencies. This is verses 13 through 23. Notice, so he spent the night there. After praying, and praying in a very passionate way, I am unworthy of all the loving kindness and of all the faithfulness which you've shown to your servant.

For with my staff only I cross this Jordan. Now I've become two companies. Verse 10, you see, now deliver me, Lord. I'm unworthy. Yes, you are. And that's where you have to come to that point and realize that.

Reconciliation and Restitution for Past Wrongs

But in response to this prayer of desperation, the Lord opens Jacob's eyes to some unfinished business. Jacob spent the night there. And as he was sitting there in his tent waiting to pass over that little brook, the Brook Jabbok, which he renames Peniel, waiting to pass over and encounter Esau, Jacob is thinking, I don't think he slept well that night.

He's tossing around ideas in his mind. And God is working in his mind. And what he remembers is, I've got unfinished business to do with Esau. You see, Jacob thought he was just going to walk in to Esau's territory and sort of, well, Esau, here I am.

Aren't you lucky? Now Jacob realizes, I can't go back there without finishing some unfinished business. Now let me give you the principles here, two of them. The Lord will not give revival where reconciliation is lacking.

Jacob has unmended fences to which he must attend before he can enter into the fullness of God's blessing, 20-plus years before he had wronged his brother. Well, wait a minute. You said Esau gave up his birthright.

Yes, he did. But don't you remember this? Don't you remember the incident where Jacob, with the help of his mother, put animal skins on his arms and the clothing of Esau so that he smelled like Esau, so that his, for all practical purposes, blind father could not tell which son it was, deceived his father?

That's what made Esau so mad. He got the blessing, and Esau had no blessing. Now he has wronged his brother. He takes decisive action to make reconciliation with Esau. He selected from what he had with him for a present for his brother.

And in the following verses, we find that he begins the process of making reconciliation. Even in the previous verses, I don't know if you noticed this, but notice how he told his servants to speak to Esau.

When you go back there to verse 4, thus you shall say to my lord Esau, my master Esau. Thus says your servant Jacob. I have oxen and donkeys, flocks and male and female servants, and I have sent to tell my lord that I may find favor in your sight.

He's humble now, more humble than he used to be. The Lord will not give revival where reconciliation is lacking. The other thing I would note here is that the Lord will not give revival where restitution is lacking.

Jacob chooses about 550 animals from his herd in order that he might make amends with Esau and gain safe passage into Canaan. If you look at verse 20, you will see that it says in our translation, I will appease him.

Literally, the Hebrew term here is, I will cover his face so that he doesn't see the sin of the past anymore. I want to cover his face. And the meaning of that word really is to make amends or reconcile.

What he's doing is he's making restitution. What Jacob does here in giving these animals to Esau is demonstrate his repentance for offenses committed 20 years earlier. Now, this is a token repayment for what he had stolen, namely the birthright.

But once again, and I've said this before, I'll have occasion to say it again. I want you to get this very firmly ingrained in your minds. One of the marks of genuine revival when it has taken place throughout the history of the Christian church is reconciliation and restitution, where believers who have been at odds with each other reconcile.

And where, when there has been wrong committed and others have suffered, where believers have been deprived of something, where restitution is needed, restitution is made over and over again. I was listening to that interview that I recommended last week for you, and I still recommend for you to listen to, the interview with Pastor Bill McCloud, who was at the center of the Canadian revival in 1971.

And he says in that interview, one of the most distinctive marks of that revival was the amount of restitution that went on. People making things right from a long time ago, paying old debts, making things right.

Are there unsettled accounts in your life? We were singing earlier in our service, have thine own way, Lord. Well, his own way is reconciliation and restitution as much as lies within you. Unpaid debts, people whom you have injured and from whom you are still alienated, are there fences that need to be mended?

Then you must face your past deficiencies, and through reconciliation and through restitution, wipe the slate clean, or you will never experience the fullness of revival blessing. Do you see the order?

Jacob prays to God, I'm unworthy, Lord, deliver me. As we're going to see in a moment, Jacob has a personal encounter with God, but the first thing that has to happen before that is he has to get right with Esau.

Revival comes when we are forced to accept our past deficiencies. Now, let me come to the fourth step. Revival comes when we are forced to abandon our cherished strategies. Verses 24 to 32. Before Jacob can meet Esau, one other thing has to happen.

Wrestling with God and Abandoning Human Strategies

Jacob has to meet God. What follows is a life and death struggle for control over Jacob's life. There is one fundamental question that is being answered in these verses, and that is, who is going to be the master of Jacob's life?

Who's going to call the shots? And what we have in this encounter is more than just praying. It is a crisis struggle of a lifetime of a man who has lived a self-sufficient life, an arrogant life, a life of abusing other people.

He has done all of that, and God now brings him to the end of himself and changes Jacob forever. Now, it's an amazing story. God gets into a wrestling match with a stubborn man, and the man wrestles God to a standoff.

I can guarantee you that's not because God didn't have the power. That's because God let himself be wrestled to a standoff. Let me show you three things here. First of all, and this shows us how we have to deal with our own lives, our strategies must be dismantled.

Verse 24, Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. Do you understand what goes on here? Jacob has developed a plan. He is going to send across, and he already has. He sent across the brook.

He's got groups, and each one is prepared to encounter Esau. Esau comes to the first one. Jacob's behind you. OK, comes to the second one. Jacob's back there. OK, comes to the third one. Jacob, and he gives Esau a lot of time to get used to the idea that Jacob is back there.

He's going to do this. This is his plan. So he sent everybody across the brook, and he's the last one left who hasn't crossed over. And now, since everybody's gone, everything's packed up, the camp's all dismantled, they're ready to go.

Jacob now is ready to cross the brook. And as he attempts to do it, as he walks to the bank of that little brook to cross over, all of a sudden, out of the shadows, a mysterious man appears who blocks his path.

You can just hear it. Let me go. Let me move over. Move over. I'm going to cross. The man just stands in his way until Jacob gets so frustrated that he gets into a shoving match with this guy. Get out of here.