CHAPTER 33
Genesis 32 9 Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies… 11 Deliver me, I pray… and the mother with the children. 12 For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
COME, ROGER. WE WILL ANSWER JACOB’S PRAYER.
REFEREE RIGHTLY BETWEEN ME AND JACOB.
Once more, at God’s Command (again, in answer to prayer), we descended from THE THRONE to an isolated place on the earth.
It was night. As Jacob slept, THE LORD fell on him and having the advantage of surprise, prevailed, as Jacob grabbed at HIM and kept HIM near, then gained an upper hand.
When THE LORD was at disadvantage to Jacob, THE LORD did not let Jacob loose, either, and continued the struggle.
Genesis 32: 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”
27 So He said to him, “What is your name?”
He said, “Jacob.”
THE LORD and Jacob looked to me: I judged a draw.
THE LORD and Jacob loosed each other and THE LORD blessed Jacob.
28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
To be continued…
A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,
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