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🤼 Jacob Didn't Just "Wrestle" With God — He Fought a Divine Being All Night and REFUSED to Let Go Until He Got What He Wanted

Genesis 32 describes one of the strangest encounters in Scripture: Jacob wrestling with God. We've spiritualized it into a metaphor for prayer or persistence. But the text describes a literal, physical, all-night fight between a man and a divine being—and Jacob won!

Jacob is returning home after twenty years, about to face his brother Esau, whom he cheated out of the birthright and blessing. He's terrified. He sends his family and possessions ahead and spends the night alone by the Jabbok River. Then Genesis 32:24 says, "So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak."

This wasn’t a friendly sparring match. The Hebrew word “abaq” means to grapple, to fight hand to hand. They struggled through the night in a real, physical encounter.

And here’s where people get it wrong: the text says the man “did not prevail,” but that does not mean He lacked the power to win. The Hebrew idea points to a struggle that was being allowed to continue, not a lack of ability.

Genesis 32:25 says, “When the man saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched.” In a single moment, with a touch, He ends Jacob’s strength.

This being was never overpowered. He had full control the entire time and chose when the struggle ended.

God—or the Angel of the Lord, a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ— couldn't defeat Jacob without a supernatural touch that dislocated his hip — God limiting His power to engage Jacob on human terms.

Even with a dislocated hip, Jacob refuses to let go. The divine being says, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." Jacob replies, "I will not let you go unless you bless me" (Genesis 32:26) — audacious, borderline blasphemous. Jacob is holding God hostage, demanding a blessing.

And God gives it. He renames Jacob "Israel" — "he struggles with God." Genesis 32:28: "Your na

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

PSALM 60 : 20
AMEN.

NOW,, LET'S REMIND OURSELVES ABOUT THE WORD;
John 1:14

[14]And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

DON'T LET ANYBODY DECEIVE YOU BRETHREN, BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY KNOWS THE WORD, AND NOT EVERYBODY THAT KNOWS THE WORD HAVE THE WORD IN THEM;

I'VE MET MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND RESEARCH ABOUT WHAT THEY CARRIED,

NOW LET ME TELL YOU THIS, FROM MY RESEARCH, I'VE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND THE WAY THEY WORSHIPS/SERVES THEIR GODS.

MORESO, I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A CLOSET DISCUSSION WITH PEOPLE SO CALLED "BABALAWO" AND ASK POLITELY ABOUT WHOM THEY USE TO PRAY TO, I'VE MET ANOTHER SET OF PEOPLES SO CALLED ONIFA, AND FIND OUT HOW THEY PRAY WHENEVER THEY WANT TO PRAY, AND SO FORTH, I NOW DISCOVERED THAT MAJORITY OF THEM KNOWS THE WORD, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE LIVING WORD ISN'T IN THEM.
IF YOU HAVE MOVE AROUND ANY ILE-IFA DURING THEIR SERVICE ON SATURDAY, YOU CAN BE CONFUSED IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE LIVING WORD FOR THE WAY THEY ALSO CONDUCT THEIR SERVICE.

SOME ARE USING ANOTHER NAME TO REPLACE JESUS CHRIST AS WHOM THEY BELIEVE IN HIM,
BUT BRETHREN, THEY KNOWS THE WORD BUT "THEY DON'T HAVE THE LIVING WORD",
THEY WORSHIP THEIR GODS THROUGH ÈLÀ (WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST, SOME EVEN USE ORUNMILA INSTEAD OF JESUS CHRIST, THEY KNOWS THE WORD, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE LIVING WORD.

NOW LET'S SEE ANOTHER ONE, MUSLIMS HAVE DIFFERENCE DENOMINATIONS AS CHRISTIANS ALSO HAS IT, AND THE MAJORITY OF THEM ALSO BELIEVES IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST, THEY ALSO KNOWS THE WORD, BUT "THEY DON'T HAVE THE LIVING WORD" IN THEM.

DON'T BE FOOLED OR DECEIVED BY ANY OF THEM, BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE LIVING WORD IN YOU, AND THE WORD LEADS TO:-

* GOD
* THE KINGDOM OF GOD
* ETERNITY

WHENEVER YOU COME ACROSS THEM, TELL THEM THAT " YOU HAVE THE LIVING WORD.
AMEN....

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