Jacob Rapture Archetype Part II

Jacob:  The Elect – Jacob means Supplanter – which may ultimately be the supplanting of Satan and his horde, but also Israel means wrestles with God.

Rachel:  Name means the lamb.

Leah:  Name means weary.

Esau:  Stands for God in this passage.  Seems odd since Esau was not a model of Godliness.  But to Jacob feared him and his condemnation from his past.  Similar to what we will possibly feel before meeting God.

Genesis 32

 1And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. On our way to heaven as angels meet us (see last study which is the departure – Part I)

 2And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. God’s host – Rapture clue!

 3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

 4And 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:

 5And 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. Here is a clue that Esau stands for God and facing our faults and past.  Let us find Grace Lord!

 6And 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.

 7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

 8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

 9And 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:

 10I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, (humility) 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.

 11Deliver 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, and the mother with the children. (desperation and crying out to God to save)

 12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

 13And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

 14Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

 15Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

 16And he delivered them 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.

 17And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

 18Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

 19And 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.

 20And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is 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.

 21So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

Jacob is righting the wrong between him and Esau.  He is giving over an abundance of goods and also humbling himself and also trusting himself into God’s care this time vs. where he “tricked” Esau and his father with the birthright and blessing before.

 22And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. 22 is a departure number.  Want to know the Rapture departing flight number?  It will have something to do with 22.  Notice they pass over the ford.  What’s a ford?  I’m glad you asked!  It’s a low place that you can cross over.  Mountains, bodies of water, etc. are always clues for moving spiritually from one place to another.  In this instance it’s to another level of heaven.  Jacob has already departed earth and is preparing to meet his Maker!

 23And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

 24And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

 25And 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.

 26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

 27And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

 28And 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.

 29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

 30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Notice Jacob righted his wrong with Esau first and was seeking God.  We see all the clues, the number 22 and the body of water and the ford and then God shows up.  Jacob sees God face to face, and also receives a new name – Israel.

 31And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

 32Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

Blessings,

Tony