God’s Promises to Jacob: Genesis 28:15 & 31:3
(vv.1-2) Mahanaim: Two Camps (EBD) Two Armies (NBD)
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? – Hebrews 1:14 (NASB95)
See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of my Father who is in heaven – Matthew 18:10 (NASB95)
That very night the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian troops, and dead bodies were seen all across the landscape in the morning. – 2 Kings 19:35 (TLB)
Although Jacob has God’s promise and has seen God’s protection he responds with (vv.7-8)
Jacob will try to solve it with
Observations from Jacob’s Prayer: (vv.9-12)
Approaches God with (v.10)
Before Jacob tells God his , he tells God his (v.10)
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. – Psalms 67:5-6 (KJV)
He prays the (vv.9 &12)
For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, – 2 Peter 1:4 (NASB77)
Notice God says because faith is based upon what God has said not on what God is (v.13a)
Lack of trust leads to (vv.13-20)
Crossing the river is a of faith (vv.21-23)
Crossing the river means:
Notice: God when Jacob gets
Jabbok: yabbok – a pouring out, or a wrestling (EBD), emptying (SMD)
(v.24) The wrestling begins in a time of and
Wrestling at the threshold of the
Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled (abaq) with him until daybreak. (v.24)
Wrestled: ‘abaq – grapple (KJV) – wrestle (Strong’s)
(v.25) This wrestling will (yabbok) Jacob:
Of his ability to
Of his
Of his (personal and national)
(v.28)
From: Jacob: Ya’aqob – that supplants, undermines; the heel (Strong’s)
To: Israel: Yisra’el – sarah-El
sarah – to contend with, to persist, to persevere (BD&B),
have power (as a prince) (Strong’s)
“Israel” means:
by God
with God
…you have striven (sarah) with God (v.28) (NASU)
with God (NKJV)
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
– Genesis 32:28 (KJV)
with God (SBD) (Hitchcock’s Bible Dictionary)
God (BD&B)
(Bible Knowledge Commentary)
(v.29) Paraphrase: Are you ignorant of Who I Am?
Jacob understands and declares (v.30) Peniel: Face of God