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Hosea 12:3-4
The prophet Hosea gives us a cameo that insightfully contrasts the combative, self-reliant, competitive supplanter, Jacob, with the overcomer he became, Israel. Hosea completes the picture Moses sketches in Genesis: Jacob wept, humbly begging God's favor. Jacob's experience in Bethel, where God changed his name, as well as his earlier experience in Peniel, where God wrestled with him, were milestones on his road to conversion. God understood that Jacob was bent on prevailing, that he was an overcomer. His new name, meaning "He prevails with God," was apt indeed!
Charles Whitaker
The Israel of GodRelated Topics: Bethel | Bethel as a Place of Transformation | Israel | Israel of God | Jacob | Jacob as Combative | Jacob as Overcomer | Jacob as Prevailer | Jacob as Self-reliant | Jacob as Supplanter | Jacob's Changing Mindset | Jacob's Encounter with God | Peniel | Prevailer | Prevails with God
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