e-Ministries   
   by Jon Justvig   
   September 15, 2014   
          
   Issue #: 37   
      
   Let us open our Bible to Genesis chapter 32 starting in verse 1.   
      
   Gen 32:1  And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.  Gen 32:2    
   And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name   
   of that place Mahanaim.   
      
   God's angels have met Jacob and he said "This is God's host" and named the   
   place the angels were hosting for our Lord as Mahanaim.   
       
   Gen 32:3  And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the   
   land of Seir, the country of Edom.  Gen 32:4  And he commanded them, saying,   
   Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have   
   sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:    
   Gen 32:5  And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and   
   womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy   
   sight.    
      
   After telling the angels what Jacob had, he was about to find out something   
   interesting.   
      
   Gen 32:6  And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother   
   Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.    
      
   Now that Jacob's brother Esau and his four hundred men, Jacob became afraid.   
      
   Gen 32:7  Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the   
   people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two   
   bands;    
   Gen 32:8  And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the   
   other company which is left shall escape.  Gen 32:9  And Jacob said, O God of   
   my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me,   
   Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:    
   Gen 32:10  I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the   
   truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed   
   over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.  Gen 32:11  Deliver me, I   
   pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him,   
   lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.    
      
   Jacob was afraid of Esau.   
      
   Gen 32:12  And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as   
   the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.  Gen 32:13  And   
   he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a   
   present for Esau his brother;  Gen 32:14  Two hundred she goats, and twenty he   
   goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,    
   Gen 32:15  Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls,   
   twenty she asses, and ten foals.    
   Gen 32:16  And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by   
   themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space   
   betwixt drove and drove.    
   Gen 32:17  And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth   
   thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and   
   whose are these before thee?    
   Gen 32:18  Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present   
   sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.  Gen 32:19  And so   
   commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves,   
   saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.  Gen 32:20    
   And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I   
   will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will   
   see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.  Gen 32:21  So went the   
   present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.    
   Gen 32:22  And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two   
   womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.  Gen   
   32:23  And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he   
   had.    
   Gen 32:24  And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until   
   the breaking of the day.    
   Gen 32:25  And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the   
   hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he   
   wrestled with him.    
   Gen 32:26  And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will   
   not let thee go, except thou bless me.  Gen 32:27  And he said unto him, What   
   is thy name? And he said, Jacob.    
      
   What a wonderful thing that is about to happen.   
      
   Gen 32:28  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.    
   Gen 32:29  And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And   
   he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him   
   there.    
      
   Jacob will now be named Israel.  How holy and marvelous is this?!     
      
   Gen 32:30  And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God   
   face to face, and my life is preserved.    
      
   How thrilling would it be to see God face to face.  Times were great back then.   
    How people were able to live hundreds of years until conviction for sin takes   
   place.  Before Moses, there was no law except the only commandment from God to   
   Adam and Eve and to not eat of the fruit of that tree.  Since then, the tree   
   had been guarded and was never eaten from again.  The tree of knowledge that   
   opened up their eyes to reveal they were naked and when they hid from God.    
   God had found them, and asked them "Why did you hide?  How do you know you are   
   naked?"   
      
   Gen 32:31  And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted   
   upon his thigh.    
   Gen 32:32  Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank,   
   which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the   
   hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.    
      
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