Why did God wrestle with Jacob?
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- In this episode of the Mission U Mailbag we answer the question, "Why did God wrestle with Jacob?" This question comes from Genesis chapter 32.
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Yes! To struggle with Him for His purpose, for His cause together His Will be your will together not against GOD!
AMEN.
These are the answers I have been looking for!! Thank you
Thank you for this!
Thank you for this interpretation. I selected your answer out of a bunch of others, by instinct or by guidance, and it was exactly what I needed to hear. Cheers, from Australia.
Thanks Mark! And God bless!
I feel like I was sent by guidance as well thank you for this
Excellent
Such a great answer to this crazy story! Thanks for the insight!
Thanks! This helped
Thank you for this ❤️🙏🏾
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Thanks for watching!
People might not see my comment after so long, but it was an angel. MANY times in the OT angels are sent by God (And the account makes it clear that it was an angel or angels) but the person being visited addresses them, or refers to them after the fact as "God" (Judges 13:22 for example). You also have a pretty incontrovertible verse at Hosea 12:4
Can also conclude that it wasn't God because of the verses that make clear that Nobody has, or can see God. (Exodus 33:20-23; John 1:18)
It doesn't seem like jacob was weak. Some body that can wrestle for about 6 hours has extraordinary strength. If he was weak than why God had to take his strength away?
You are correct, Jacob wasn't weak, he counted on his ''physical strenght'' (material) to deal with his problems instead of counting on God.
We can see that as a symbolism when Jacob sends his flocks (material) as a gift to Easu and also devides his people (material) in two so if Esau attacks one group the other would survive.
His hip symbolizes the material, the physical that Jacob controlled and counted on instead of counting on God.
Thats why God took his strenght away.
hopefully this helps!
@@wavy0water thats where i was going with, when i said jacob was not weak. I am glad we agree. God bless
How could the manifestation of God have been Jesus if Jesus hadn't been born? Isn't it more logical to assume that this entire book is just symbolic poetry? Why take it so seriously when contradictions are inherent? And the "hevel" cop-out is one nobody should accept considering it is so obviously a means of church control over the past societies. I am watching this video because I am taking a class on the bible from a literature perspective and I frankly do not understand why the stories have to be taken as though they actually happened when it is undeniable that what they preach is good to project on the masses regardless.
Great questions! Your last question is excellent. If the goal of Scripture was to 'project good on the masses', then yes, it would not be as important that the events of Scripture did indeed happen. However, this is not the goal of Scripture. The point of the Bible is that you would encounter the real, and present, God. And, that you would come to find salvation in Christ. The Bible's primary goal is not to get you to be a better person, but to meet the real Jesus, and be saved by Him. So, it is important, then, that the events the Bible is conveying are indeed real.
To the issue of contradictions, I thought this once too. However, I began to actually research the supposed contradictions in Scripture and found, one after one, that they are either misunderstandings, or paradoxes, but not true contradictions. I would urge you to research these yourself. You may be surprised what you find.
As far as this being Jesus, theologically we believe God stands outside of time. Meaning, God does not live on the same progressive time continuum we do, and is therefore free to act without constraints such as past and present. So, the incarnated Jesus could appear to Jacob because in God's interaction with time there is no such thing as 'Jesus hadn't been born yet.'