And there wrestled a man with him — This was doubtless the Lord Jesus Christ, who, among the patriarchs, assumed that human form, which in the fulness of time he really took of a woman, and in which he dwelt thirty-three years among men. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures.Guzik Bible Commentary © 2013 David Guzik - No distribution beyond personal use without permission - For more information and resources visit EnduringWord.comVerse Genesis 32:24. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. David Guzik commentary on Genesis 13, where Abram and Lot separate and Abram returns to the land promised to him, where God reminds him of His promise.
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Genesis 32 Commentary David Guzik Series Of Explanations
Then they must render themselves invisible by a cloud, and this must be of a very dense nature in order to hide a human body. But this is not allowed to be the case, and yet they are reported to vanish instantaneously. They are written by some of the most knowledgeable theologians in church history.If angels, in appearing to men, borrow human bodies, as is thought, how can it be supposed that with such gross substances they can disappear in a moment? Certainly they do not take these bodies into the invisible world with them, and the established laws of matter and motion require a gradual disappearing, however swiftly it may be effected. A biblical commentary is a written systematic series of explanations and interpretations of Scripture. Im happy to present my Bible teaching resources online at enduringword.com, but here you Choose from 117 Bible Commentaries freely available online at StudyLight.org for sermon, Bible study, and Sunday school preparation. How then could he wrestle with Jacob? It need not be supposed that this angel must have assumed a human body, or something analagous to it, in order to render himself tangible by Jacob for as the soul operates on the body by the order of God, so could an angel operate on the body of Jacob during a whole night, and produce in his imagination, by the effect of his power, every requisite idea of corporeity, and in his nerves every sensation of substance, and yet no substantiality be in the case.Welcome to the YouTube Channel for David Guzik and Enduring Word.
From Hosea 12:4, we may learn that the wrestling of Jacob, mentioned in this place, was not merely a corporeal exercise, but also a spiritual one He wept and made supplication unto him. I'm happy to present my Bible teaching resources online at enduringword.com, but here you find assorted video from both myself and. But if they assume a quantity of air or vapour so condensed as to become visible, and modified into the appearance of a human body, they can in a moment dilate and rarefy it, and so disappear for when the vehicle is rarefied beyond the power of natural vision, as their own substance is invisible they can instantly vanish.Welcome to the YouTube Channel for David Guzik and Enduring Word. This does not remove the difficulty.
At the same time he thought it wise to send Esau a series of gifts, with the aim of winning his favour (13-21). He thanked God for his remarkable blessings in the past, and prayed that God’s promises for the future would guarantee protection for him against his brother (9-12). Jacob had by now learnt a humility before God that was lacking the previous time he met Esau. With much fear and anxiety he sent news to Esau that he was coming to meet him (32:1-8). Jacob knew that if he was to live in peace in Canaan, he would first have to put things right with Esau.
Yet in another sense Jacob did win, for he demanded, and received, a special blessing of God’s power that would ensure victory in the future. His proud self-confidence was at last defeated. As in previous conflicts, Jacob was determined to win, but now he had to learn that against God he could never win. As they wrestled, Jacob realized that this ‘man’ had superhuman strength and the power to bless. That night he met God, who appeared to him in the form of a man wrestling with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. 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 strained, as he wrestled with him. By giving him a permanent limp, God never allowed Jacob to forget that the only way he triumphed was through defeat (30-32)."And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him till the breaking of day. The old determination was still there, but Jacob the cheat now became Israel, God’s champion (24b-29).
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel for thou hast striven with God and prevailed. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said Jacob.
One of the river gods (pagan)," trying to prevent anyone's crossing the river. Peake alleged that Jacob wrestled with "a local deity. "If Esau had been victorious here, all of God's plans and promises would have been defeated, and the world would never have had a Savior." It was this crisis nature of the situation that required and justified God's personal intervention to establish and confirm Jacob's faith.The big question here concerns the understanding of what really happened. Jacob, the head of the Messianic line through whom the CHRIST would come was facing the most serious threat of his whole life. Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip."Here we have the record of one of the most important events in the history of human redemption.
Although the plain meaning of the text is very hard for modern man to comprehend or rationalize, there is no justification for forcing it to say something it does not say." Yes. Genesis 32:28,30, show that Jacob was actually wrestling with God Himself, but apparently God had assumed a human form, for Jacob's assailant is called "a man" in Genesis 32:24,25. Against such arrogant and unbelieving denials it is a genuine pleasure to present the words of one of the great young scholars of today who wrote:"The Biblical author is not relating a vision, dream, or fantasy nor is he using well-known external phenomena to symbolize an inner struggle (like prayer) rather, he is relating a real, hand to hand combat.
That is precisely the way that the saints of all ages have triumphed. It is written that "he prevailed" but how did he do so? He won by surrender, by confessing his unworthiness in the admission of his name (Heel-catcher), and by pleading for the blessing which could come only from the grace of God. He was defeated and powerless to continue, but he clung to God and would not let go until he received the blessing. It is certain that the Hellenists of the first century, in Egypt, and elsewhere, interpreted Israel to be a man seeing God." This tremendous episode also carried with it a deep spiritual awakening on the part of Jacob.
As his departure was marked by a great moment in his spiritual life, so he is now approaching to a crisis in his life of no less significanceJacob has a vision of the heavenly host. פניאל p e nı̂y'ēl = פנוּאל penû'ēl, Peniel, Penuel, “face of God.”After twenty years spent in Aram, Jacob now returns to Kenann. ישׂראל yı̂śrā'ēl, Jisrael, “prince of God.”31. יבק yaboq, Jabboq related: בקק bāqaq “gush or gurgle out” or אבק 'ābaq in niphal, “wrestle.” Now Wady Zurka.29. מחנים machănāyı̂m, Machanaim, “two camps.”22.
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