Genesis 32 Commentary: Why Did God Wrestle With Jacob? 

Wow i didn't realize thia book of genesis is all i need to understand what God wants to tell us. He is Mighty,big,patient, understanding and so on. Im just in awe How God is. He deserves all the Praises. I love you Lord so so much please help us to be faithful until the day you come. Hallelujah

One night I was on my knees praying to God that I wanted to hear his voice like other people do . Because I wasn’t really understanding what was he doing in my life so this morning 07/2/22I was laying in my bed and I asked God out loud around 20 times can I hear your voice and to speak to me God . And all of a sudden for the left side of my head to my left ear I heard Israel clear as day . My father died in 2012 and I never got a chance to get any love from him but I didn’t know who my father was until last summer. When I was born the Doctors wanted to break my hip to fix it my mom and grandma did not let them do it story short I was fighting with God doing of the world and With my R&B music. And it wasn’t until last week on Saturday that I surrender to God . When I was in Atlanta when my Organization voted me in on the spot to be the national chaplain and I started to hear my calling to minster to God people through my testimonies and through Gospel music.

As a wrestler, this makes me believe that wrestling is a biblical sport.

I found it interesting how Esau ran excitedly and happily to meet his brother - I was expecting him to be bitter. I learnt from Esau about forgiving and learning what is more important than things is family.

This is a great analysis. I think it's important also the timing of it: Jacob is headed back to meet Esau for the first time after having wronged him; Esau had vowed to kill him and is bringing 400 men with him. Jacob, through all his wit and mischief and flattery, is finally at a reckoning. He has reached the limits of his ability to rule by his cleverness alone; he now finally, humbly, wrestles with the idea that he needs God - that he CANNOT do it alone any longer.

I am 20 years old and have a traumatic brain injury from an assault in 2016. My name is Jacob, i don’t feel like I am an important figure but I feel as if me and Jacob have something in common

This story was a hard one to wrap my head around. I "Wrestled" with it a lot this last year (pun intended lol). Thank you Pastor Adam for making it clear as day. My Dad used to wrestle with me, best memories ever! That memory now is redefined as reminder that my confidence and blessing does not come from myself, but from my God...

Wow!!! I needed to hear this. Praise God!!

appreciate the insight how God wants us to chase him for His blessings and not the blessings of the world which Jacob so easily got with his cheating and supplanting. God feigning weakness for us to get His blessings. What a revelation! TQ

Thank you so much for this video. You explained this topic so well. The example you gave of wrestling with your young sons and letting them win really brought the the message home for me.

Before I watched this video I was really confused about the passage, but now that I’ve watched this video I understand it to my best ability! Thank you so much for making this video! I know you’re going to help a lot of Christians by making these videos on ur channel

Amen glory be to GOD in the highest 🙏

Best explanation so far…. Thanks

I got a better understanding of the passage now. Thank you so much!

Thanks for sharing this. It really clarified the chapter for me, I also loved how you mentioned the cross, because all the Bible connects to that moment when Jesus died for our sins to be forgiven by the Father. God Bless ✝️

Like many others, I was confused by this passage. Now I finally understand it. There’s so many lessons for my own life. Amen!

Good morning....pastor I hope you are able to read this.....this commentary is powerful. This represents many men who have had limited biological father validation...at least that is how I receive this. You helped with a question I had. God bless ✝️. Your talent could give you increased earthly wealth. Be leery of that

Powerful message. Thank you so much.

I'm blessed by this word

Excellent. Thank you.

THANK YOU. I never really understood this passage but your commentary helped! It's so clear.

Wonderful. Thank you, brother.

Finally understanding! And the hip- a reminder! Thank you for your clear concise explanation!

Praise the Lord 👑❤

I needed this today! 🙌🏽 Thank you!

Thankyou. This beautiful teaching unpacked such a blessing to me. So helpful

This helped a lot and helped me have a really good perspective on it thank you

Thank you so much!! God Bless!!

Wow. This was SO helpful. Such a good no gimmicks straight to the point well researched, well thought out, well structured sermon . Thank you!

This is the best explanation I’ve heard on this chapter. I appreciate you taking the time to break this down for others to understand. Thank you!

Thank you love this talk on the passage

God bless you pastor. I am from Brazil, and gonna share this with my friends. Thanks!

Amazing!!!May the LORD GOD and his son the LORD Jesus Christ (which are one) bless you all❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you it really helped

Excellent overview and insights here. Thank you from the UK. God is good.

Soo beautiful, thank you!!

This answer is actually very well thought out and explained.

Soooooooooooooo good!! Great explanation! Thank you so much!

wow. thanks so much for this! totally understandable now! love from Sri Lanka

Glory to God

God in flesh sets this event far apart from other events

this is beautiful i can relate

THANK YOU!!!

This Is So Awesome... Pray That God Continue To Enlighten Your Mind ... That The Heart Of All Humanity will also Be Enlightened and Blessed

This blessed me soo much!

This was a great video. Makes you understand so well

I've been seeking understanding of this event for months. I greatly appreciate you going over it. I couldn't make sense of it. I tend to believe whenever God is seen he's actually Jesus. I wondered if he was literally wrestling Jesus, hanging from his foot screaming "I'll let go if you bless me" similar to his birth as the heal grabber.

Love the book of Genesis

Absolutely brilliant 1001 nights story

Just became a fan of the UFC. Thanks.

Very powerful

Wow amazing thank you 🙏🏼

Interesting video, thanks

Awesome!

Powerful

Thank you🙏

This is beautiful! Thank you!

I understand the meaning of this story.

Great analogy with the kid thanks

Good stuff amen

This is perfect! Wow! Thank you

Lol God has a thing with names🥰 He's so sweet!

What I love about the fact that he wrestled with God is that it was God's way of legitimizing Jacob's blessing. Jacob had to earn it the right way

👏🏽💜💜💜😭 love it, God is our blessing

All I do is struggle. I struggle with myself, with God, who I am, with sin, etc. I want desperately to have genuine closeness with God and it just seems to elude me at every turn. My life is seemingly one disaster after another and it got to the point yesterday that I yelled at God for 20 minutes. I was going to get a job, only to find that that I was not eligible to re-hired. I'm behind on my rent, almost out of food, and likely about to be evicted. I know could fix those things if He so chose, but I just want my heart fixed, my mind fixed, my soul fixed and I just want this gulf between God and I to be sealed. I know my life is of my own making but it seems I can do nothing to change it. I'm afraid years will go on as they always have, me suffering, me being on the outs with God and I'll eventually die this way. Will God ever choose to bless me? I have no idea.....

"He told him it was Esau**" @ 3min not Isaac lol.... this video is super helpful! Thank you for the history behind the customs.

Amen!

So goood

I get a lot out of your smart interpretations of theses parables when you’re Adding practical information and your research to it.

“God feigning weakness to bless man: Jesus Christ crucified.” Powerful. Thank you, Reverend.

Thank you! That was beautifully stated & explained very well. God bless all!

How do you rectify Hosea 12:5 (4) in the Christian bible? 4 He struggled with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel(L) and talked with him there-

Been watchin the sky and noticed jupiter in the hip of aquarius for awhile. Wonder if that's what they are meaning

I always wondered, when God told him to let go and Jacob said no not until you bless me, why god blessed him but ended up dislocating his hip

Can you do John 1:18 And Genesis 32:22 can you make a video of both of them

Excuses me whiles I let the water works. 😭

Wow.. what a a realization,.i was reading the bible.,- the stoy of jacob and esau, i didnt get it...now i know

I strongly relate with Jacob now lol

Is it written in your book that Jacob our father changed the name to Israel?

I'd definitely lose to God in arm wrestling.

Because they are both spirit and mortal on earth .

Who's was there mother and where was she from? And was esau red and hairy at birth?

Hallelujah 🇮🇱❤

The better question is: "Why is it that God couldn't defeat Jacob?"

Was it Jesus that he was wrestling with?

In book Hosea Jacob wins

GOD didn't wrestler Jacob Jacob wrestler which GOD for he's blessings Because he was chosen by God Because Jacob listen the voice of God Because he was listening the voice of God he when to meet God at the mountains ,but didn't know But Jacob was very valuable for God to do he's wheel

The REAL question is: Why did JACOB wrestle with God?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL PREACHING AND SHARING ON JACOB. BUT SORRY TO SAY I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND. I STILL PITY ESAU ....WHY ? HIS BIRTH RIGHTS WAS SNATCHED AWAY AS HE TRUSTED HIS OWN BROTHER TO BE HONEST.... JACOB HIS HEEL SNATCHER. LOOKS LIKE HE IS BLESSED BY MANY GRACE. THIS CHEATER SINNED AND WAS FORGIVEN WITHOUT REPENTANCE. GREATER THE SIN & GREATER THE GRACE IT SEEMS ...... MY FAITH US HARRASSED AGAIN WITH MISPLACED JUSTICE & LOVE AND UNDESERVED GRACE. EKS... DISGUSTING....