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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. JACOB THE MAN OF GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. His name means supplanter. Literally heel catcher. Or one who overcomes by catching another mans heel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He got his name from the events of his birth. He was the second born of twins. His mother had a hard pregnancy and when she inquired of the Lord concerning the difficulty, the Lord told her that there were two nations in her womb that were diverse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Perhaps these little guys were fighting in the womb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. As they were born, the first was covered with hair so they named him hairy, when the second was born, perhaps continuing the battle, he grabbed his brothers heel, so they called him heel catcher.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. We watch him as he cleverly takes advantage of his brother.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He is a mama's boy, and his brother is a man's man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He is a gourmet cook, and his brother is a woodsman, a hunter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. When his brother had come in from a hunt, tired and hungry, he smelled the lentil soup that Jacob had prepared and asked for a bowl. Jacob took advantage of his brothers famished condition and offered to trade the bowl of lentil soup for his birthright.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Later disguised as his brother he went into his aged father and received his fathers blessing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. It was for this deed, that Esau swore to kill him as soon as his father was dead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. He fled to Haran, to stay with his uncle Laban who was a rotten crook, and deceiver.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He was in love with Laban's daughter Rachel, and as a dowry offered to serve him for seven years for his daughter's hand in marriage.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The bride was heavily veiled in the night wedding rites, and in the morning when it was light enough to see, Laban had switched daughters and he was actually married to the older daughter Leah.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. When Jacob came fuming at Laban, he told him that the custom of the land was that the older daughter must be married before her younger sister, but for another seven years he could have the younger sister also.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. After the seven years were served Laban wanted to keep Jacob on, for he had been greatly prospered through the blessing of the Lord that was on Jacob. He asked him what he wanted for wages to remain on.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. Jacob said to give to him all of the spotted and brown cattle, and the speckled goats.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. Immediately Jacob began to mess with the breeding process so that the strongest and best cattle and sheep were brown and spotted.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. Jacob began to prosper and be very wealthy and had his own servants with the many children that his wives and maids were bearing him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">h. The sons of Laban began to get very jealous of Jacob, and Laban began to change the terms of the deal, so that Jacob realized that the time to leave had come.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Jacob waited until Laban and his sons were gone to shear the sheep, and he packed up all his possessions and left, getting a good head start on Laban.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. When Laban heard that Jacob had gone, he gathered his sons and pursued after him. The night before he caught up with Jacob the angel of the Lord warned him in a dream not to harm Jacob.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. The meeting was not very cordial, a line was finally drawn over which Jacob was not to return, and they parted.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">9. Jacob sent out servants to Esau to let him know that Jacob was returning with great wealth and a large family.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. This was to let Esau know that he was not trying to return to take from Esau, but had plenty of his own.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">10. The servants returned to Jacob and informed him that his brother was coming to meet him, and he had four hundred men with him. Quite a welcoming party.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">11. Jacob began to have real misgivings about his plight, and he first of all prayed and reminded the Lord that he had told him to return to his land and family and that the Lord would deal well with him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">12. True to form, he then began his scheming to set things up to meet his brother peaceably.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He first divided the whole herds and servants into two bands in case that his brother attacked one, the other could escape.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He then sent servants ahead with presents for his brother of flocks and herds.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. He then helped his family cross the Jabbok and camp down for the night, then he returned back across the river so that he might get a good nights sleep away from the family.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">13. But a man came and began to wrestle with him all night long. Jacob fought tenaciously and would not surrender. So when day began to break and Jacob would not give in the angel touched the thigh of Jacob and caused the muscle to shrink so that Jacob became crippled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">14. It was at this point that the angel asked Jacob to let him go because the day was breaking and Jacob responded, I will not let you go until you bless me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">15. Here is where the story becomes confused and misunderstood.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. JACOB HAD POWER OVER THE ANGEL AND PREVAILED.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. How could any man have power over and prevail against an angel? Especially when he was not crippled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Here is where the commentary of Hosea helps us very much in understanding the story. Hosea tells us what is not recorded in Genesis.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Hosea tells us, "He wept, and made supplication."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. We realize that Jacob's statement, "I will not let you go until you bless me." was not a demand, but a prayer as he was weeping.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Things were looking bad for Jacob, as a last resort, if Esau is coming in anger to avenge the past, Jacob could run. That was until the angel crippled him, now there is no escape. Jacob is defeated. He cannot scheme his way out of this situation. God had finally brought this self sufficient, strong, stubborn, schemer to a place of surrender.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He truly brought him to his knees.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I see men wrestling with God today, and I often wonder what is it going to take to bring them to their knees.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I see them being stripped of all they have, but they stubbornly continue to resist.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. I see great problems develop in their family, still they try to scheme their way out.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. So Jacob is crying, he has been defeated, he now surrenders, his stubborn resistance has cost him, he is now permanently crippled, he will have a severe limp the rest of his life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. The angel asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "Heel catcher" a man who has lived by his wits and capacities to overcome others by taking advantage of their weaknesses, or through deceit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. "Your name will no longer be Heel catcher, but Israel, governed by God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He had finally surrendered to God, and now he will know true power with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. True power with God comes by surrender to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. As he limped back over the Jabbok in the morning to meet with his family, I can hear Rachel say, "Heel Catcher, what's wrong, why are you limping like that?" and I can hear Jacob, respond, "Don't call me Heel Catcher, call me Governed by God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">H. Later in the morning when Esau came riding up with his four hundred men, they embraced and kissed one another.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">I. He now prevailed not by his own wits, but by the power of God.</div>
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