Jacob, One Who Contends With God

7/19/20

Continuing in the book of Genesis, Elder Chris focuses today's topic on Jacob. What kind of man was Jacob? The name “Jacob” means “deceiver,” or “One who contends with God,” and Jacob came to live up to those meanings. Yet, despite Jacob’s deceptive deeds, the Bible is very clear that God loved Jacob and hated Esau.

In Genesis chapter 32:24-30 we find Jacob "was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day." (verse 24). The man that Jacob wrestled with was a picture of Christ.