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Rachel had children also afterwards on the earth. Rachel, as representing the Jews, is the mother of Joseph, and later of Benjamin, that is, of a suffering Christ glorified among the Gentiles, while rejected of Israel; and of a reigning Christ, the son of his mother's sorrow, but of his father's right hand.<p>Jacob's personal history is the sad tale of deceit and wrong done to him; but God, as He had promised, preserving him throughout. What a difference from Eliezer and Abraham, where the power and character of the Holy Ghost is seen! Here providence preserves, but it is Jacob's history. He is bitterly deceived as he had deceived, but preserved according to promise. At the return of Jacob the hosts of God came to meet him. He receives a new and wondrous proof of God's mighty and gracious care, which should have recalled Bethel to him. But this does not remove his terror. He must anew use the means of unbelief, and sends children and wives and all on before, and presents after presents to appease Esau; but his strength was not there. God would not leave him in the hands of Esau, but He deals with him Himself. He wrestles with him, sustaining at the same time his faith in the wrestling; and, after making him feel his weakness, and that for all his life, gives him, in weakness, the place and part of victor. He is a prince with God, and prevails with God and with men victory in conflict with a God who is dealing with him, but no revelation of, or communion with Him.<p>This is a wonderful scene: the dealings of God with a soul that does not walk with Him. It is not, however, the calm communion of Abraham with Jehovah: Abraham intercedes for others, instead of wrestling for himself. So also, though God gives Jacob a name and so far recognises his relationship with Himself, He does not reveal to Jacob His name, as He had done to Abraham. Jacob, too, still employs his deceitful ways; for he had no thought of going to Seir, as he said. But he is delivered from Esau, as from Laban, and at last establishes himself at Shechem, buying lands where he ought to have remained a stranger. God removes him out of it, but by strange and humbling circumstances; still God's fear on the nations preserves him. He is not yet back to the point where God had given him the promises and assured the blessing; that was at Bethel. Here, however, he was able to build an altar, using, at the same time, the name which exalted his own position, and which took the ground of the blessing which had been granted to him; an act of faith, it is true, but which confined itself to the blessing, instead of rising up to the Blesser. This, indeed, he was not properly able to do yet. God was dealing with him, and he was, in a measure, thinking on God; but proper communion was not there: so is it in like case with us. However, God led him onward, and now tells him to go up to the place whence he had set out, and there build an altar, where he had entered into covenant with God, the faithful God, who had been with him all the way in which he went. But what a discovery is made here! He must now meet God Himself, and not simply be dealt with for his good God's name still unknown, no full revelation of Him. And this is a great difference. Now he must meet Him. He remembers he knew it well, although he paid no attention to it until he had to meet God there were false gods in his family. Meeting God Himself not in secret and mysterious struggle, but face to face, so to speak brings all to light. He purifies himself, and the false gods are removed, and he goes up to Bethel. There God reveals Himself openly to him, in grace making known His name, unasked, to him as to Abraham, and confers upon him anew the name of Israel, as if he had not received it before. Rachel gives birth to him who, child of his mother's sorrow, is the son of his father's right hand (remarkable type of Christ the Lord); for this is, figuratively, the establishment of the promise in power in his person, though the former standing of Israel, represented by Rachel, must disappear; but her remembrance is kept up in the land. <p></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-2.htm">Genesis 32:2</a></div><div class="verse">And when Jacob saw them, he said, This <i>is</i> God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-3.htm">Genesis 32:3</a></div><div class="verse">And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-4.htm">Genesis 32:4</a></div><div class="verse">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:</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-5.htm">Genesis 32:5</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-6.htm">Genesis 32:6</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-7.htm">Genesis 32:7</a></div><div class="verse">Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that <i>was</i> with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-8.htm">Genesis 32:8</a></div><div class="verse">And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-9.htm">Genesis 32:9</a></div><div class="verse">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:</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-10.htm">Genesis 32:10</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-11.htm">Genesis 32:11</a></div><div class="verse">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, <i>and</i> the mother with the children.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-12.htm">Genesis 32:12</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-13.htm">Genesis 32:13</a></div><div class="verse">And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-14.htm">Genesis 32:14</a></div><div class="verse">Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-15.htm">Genesis 32:15</a></div><div class="verse">Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-16.htm">Genesis 32:16</a></div><div class="verse">And he delivered <i>them</i> 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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-17.htm">Genesis 32:17</a></div><div class="verse">And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose <i>art</i> thou? and whither goest thou? and whose <i>are</i> these before thee?</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-18.htm">Genesis 32:18</a></div><div class="verse">Then thou shalt say, <i>They be</i> thy servant Jacob's; it <i>is</i> a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he <i>is</i> behind us.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-19.htm">Genesis 32:19</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-20.htm">Genesis 32:20</a></div><div class="verse">And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob <i>is</i> 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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-21.htm">Genesis 32:21</a></div><div class="verse">So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-22.htm">Genesis 32:22</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-23.htm">Genesis 32:23</a></div><div class="verse">And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-24.htm">Genesis 32:24</a></div><div class="verse">And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-25.htm">Genesis 32:25</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-26.htm">Genesis 32:26</a></div><div class="verse">And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-27.htm">Genesis 32:27</a></div><div class="verse">And he said unto him, What <i>is</i> thy name? And he said, Jacob.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-28.htm">Genesis 32:28</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-29.htm">Genesis 32:29</a></div><div class="verse">And Jacob asked <i>him</i>, and said, Tell <i>me</i>, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore <i>is</i> it <i>that</i> thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-30.htm">Genesis 32:30</a></div><div class="verse">And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-31.htm">Genesis 32:31</a></div><div class="verse">And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/32-32.htm">Genesis 32:32</a></div><div class="verse">Therefore the children of Israel eat not <i>of</i> the sinew which shrank, which <i>is</i> upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.</div><div class="comm"><div class="comm"></div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Synopsis of the Books of the Bible, by John Nelson Darby [1857-62].<br>Text Courtesy of Internet Sacred Texts Archive.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/31.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 31"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 31" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/33.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 33"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 33" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/genesis/32-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>