God a Gives Jacob a New Name

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-Aram, and He blessed him:

Your name is Jacob, you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.

So he named him Israel, God also said to him:

I am god Almighty, be fruitful and multiply. 

A nation indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you,

And kings will descend from you.

I will give you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac.

I will give the land to your future descendants.

Then God withdrew from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him-a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it wih oil. Jacob named the place where God had spoken to him Bethel.

Genesis 35:9-15

Although there is great blessing in God's words, the saddest things is: 'God withdrew from him'.

I am grateful that Jesus came and that I now have His Spirit living inside. He is my light and salvation, my guide, counsellor, navigator.

When God meets with Jacob He gives Jacob a new name. Each one of us, as victors, is given a new name, that only we will know (Revelation 2:17). I know what mine is! Do you know yours?

This is the first time there is mention of kings descending from a patriarch, and also an assembly of nations. Each time God meets with his man the picture grows.

God is indeed creating His plan. He is establishing a house of praise, a line of hope, a future king.