{"id":24065,"date":"2026-09-25T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=24065"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:57:06","slug":"jacobs-trouble-yeshuas-end-times-warrior-bride-the-second-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/25\/jacobs-trouble-yeshuas-end-times-warrior-bride-the-second-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob\u2019s Trouble, Yeshua\u2019s End Times Warrior Bride & the Second Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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YHVH\u2019s saints are people who walk in the past, present and the future<\/strong> all at the same time. How is this? The saints of YHVH, who are wise and filled with wisdom, knowledge and understanding, look to history to show them their roots to learn who they are, where they have come from, which in turn guides them forward into the future. YHVH\u2019s wise children, the disciples of Yeshua also learn from the mistakes of those who have gone before them, so that they do not repeat these mistakes of the past and suffer the consequences of past failures. This understanding guides us in the present and helps to lead us forward into our future destiny, which is the anchor of our hope for tomorrow. This is why we are people of the past, present and future. The warrior bride of Yeshua as a\u00a0 child of the light knows her spiritual ancestry and heritage, who she is along with her divine mission and her future destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One key to unlocking the mysteries of the Bible is understanding the cycles of history. Like a giant wheel that keeps turning relentlessly and irrevocably, the Bible chronicles the endless cycles of YHVH\u2019s people as they encounter the forces of evil and darkness and either overcome it, or succumb to it. To know the past is also to understand the future. In these end times, heaven\u2019s enemies are pulling out the stops to destroy YHVH\u2019s plans and purposes on this earth along with his people who are executing those plans to defeat his enemies and to spread and enlarge his kingdom here below through the spreading of the gospel. Yeshua\u2019s bride will play a pivotal role in the end times in helping to prepare the way for Messiah\u2019s return and will be part of his heavenly army that will defeat the forces of Antichrist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As end time warriors for Yeshua our soon coming Warrior King\u2014the Messiah Son of David\u2014YHVH\u2019s saints do not have to be children of darkness who are unprepared and who do not know what lies ahead. If we read the road map of the Bible, it will guide our steps like radar through the darkness and foggy mist of the future. Yeshua\u2019s warrior bride will know who she is and what her role and destiny will be in the end times. She will be like the wise virgins in Yeshua\u2019s Matthew 25 parable prepared and ready for her Bridegroom\u2019s wedding (Matt 25:1\u201313).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shofar trumpet is sounding in the distance for those who have the ears to hear announcing the soon coming King of kings, the saints\u2019 Heavenly Bridegroom (Matt 24:31 cp. 25:6). Now is the time to awaken from our spiritual sleep (Rev 3:14\u201322), then to exit Babylonian religious systems which are mixture of good and evil (Rev 18:4), and to make ourselves ready by repenting of the sins, and donning the white ropes of the works of righteousness to be the bride for which Yeshua is coming from his Father\u2019s house to marry (Rev 19:6\u20139). Yeshua through his apostolic servants is calling his bride to awaken and be ready for his soon return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, \u201cPeace and safety!\u201d then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overt take you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing. (1 Thess 5:1\u201311)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. (Rom 13:11\u201314)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our quest to learn more about the end times role of the bride of Yeshua, let us step back into the annals of biblical history and uncover a mystery that will enlighten us as to what is happening on earth today with regard to the epic struggle between good and evil, light and darkness. We are literally going back into history to learn about the future, for, again, like a giant wheel that goes round and round, history often repeats itself again and again. Through this, we will gain an understanding of how Yeshua\u2019s warrior bride figures into the giant picture of the events of the last days and how she can prepare to meet her Heavenly Bridegroom. Let us begin gathering the puzzle pieces and then begin assembling them to see what the Bible reveals about this rather mysterious figure which we refer to as Yeshua\u2019s warrior bride. So buckle your seat belts as we embark on an epic journey through several thousand years of biblical history. It\u2019s back to the future! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Let first start in Jeremiah  30:7 where we find a rather cryptic and arcane passage that has engendered much fanciful speculation among many Christian Bible teachers. Here is the passage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob\u2019s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it. (Jer 30:7)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Forget the past speculations you have heard concerning Jacob\u2019s Trouble. Instead let\u2019s read the Bible and it will tell us. Understanding Jacob\u2019s Trouble will unlock a treasure trove of  information that will reward us with understanding concerning where we are presently at regarding the end times world as it relates to Yeshua\u2019s bride as well as her role to play and her ultimate destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before defining Jacob\u2019s Trouble in detail, we must first step back. Before facing Jacob\u2019s Trouble, YHVH had to prepare his people for the face-off with evil they were about to encounter. YHVH will not leave his people defenseless and unprepared to face their enemy. He is a good and loving Father and Shepherd who goes before his children-sheep and prepares them for what is to come\u2014IF they will follow his instructions! IF<\/em> is a big word. YHVH\u2019s protection and provision is always based on how his people respond to him. The choice is theirs. Wake up and get prepared or go back to the sleep of spiritual complacency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bride of Messiah<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Yeshua views the saints as his bride as do the apostolic writers. Yeshua cryptically alludes to this idea several times in the Gospels (Matt 9:15; 22:1\u201314; 25:1\u201313; Mark 2:19\u201320; Luke 12:25\u201340). Several apostolic writers openly discuss this theme in some of their writings as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Messiah. (Col 11:2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Messiah; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto Elohim. (Rom 7:4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of Elohim. (Rev 19:7\u20139)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb\u2019s wife. (Rev 21:9)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Two Old Testament prophets also predict Yeshua\u2019s marriage to his Israelite bride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know YHVH. (Hos 2:19\u201320)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For thy Maker is thine husband; YHVH of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the Elohiim of the whole earth shall he be called. (Isa 54:5)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yeshua\u2019s Warrior Bride\u2014Getting Ready For Battle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not only does the Bible view the saints as a potential bride for Yeshua, but she is called to be a warrior confronting on earth the enemies of Yeshua her bridegroom. Thus, Scriptures views her a spiritual warrior, not a spiritual couch potato twiddling her thumbs on the sidelines pretending to be a Christian. The Bible records that all of YHVH\u2019s servants from Noah to John the Revelator were battle hardened warriors fighting against the forces of evil under direct orders from YHVH Elohim. The disciples of Yeshua are no exception. They were all warriors, and many lost their lives preaching the gospel and opposing the dark forces of evil. The apostolic writers view the saints as more than mere passive church attendees. Church is a spiritual launch pad, not a cul-de-sac for the warrior bride of Yeshua (e.g., 2 Cor 10:4\u20136; Eph 6:14\u201318; Jas 4:7; Rom 8:37; Rev 19:1, 11\u201321).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If, therefore, Scripture views the saints as spiritual soldiers being trained and equipped for battle and then being sent into the actual battlefield, is it not imperative to know who your enemy is that you will be fighting? No commander sends his army to war if the soldiers without such information. Similarly, Yeshua the Messiah, who is the captain of our salvation (Heb 2:10), is returning to earth as the Conquering King to defeat his enemies and establishe his kingdom on earth. Accompanying him will be his warrior bride\u2014the resurrected and glorified saints, who has prepared herself ready for this very moment including knowing about the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the YHVH Elohim omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of Elohim.\u2026And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of Elohim. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty Elohim. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Rev 19:6\u20139, 11\u201316)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As disciples of Yeshua living in the last days, now is the time for us to prepare to be the bride of Yeshua with all expeditious earnestness, alacrity and feverish passion! But if the bride of Yeshua is a warrior, then, again, who is she battling? This is the question we will address next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Is the Real Enemy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who is the enemy that Yeshua and his army of saints and angels will fight and defeat? The Book of Revelation likens the enemy that Yeshua and his warrior bride will defeat at his second coming to a great whore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the YHVH our Elohim: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped Elohim that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our Elohim, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. (Rev 19:1\u20135)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thus the enemy of Yeshua and his bride is a spiritual one but with human faces that the Bible likens to a great whore. Why a whore? Because this a woman is feigning itself as being the bride of Christ, but she is actually the demon possessed bride of Satan, who is walking in lock step with him, doing his bidding as he endeavors to expand his kingdom at the expense of the kingdom of heaven. This counterfeit kingdom is a worldwide system, where God-hating humans have prostituted themselves to Satan the devil\u2014the so-called Light Bringer, who is a false or pseudo-messiah. But his real mission is to kill, steal and destroy all humans, who are his chief rival as the millennial rulers (under King Yeshua the Messiah) of this earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 32\u2014 \u201cJacob\u2019s Trouble\u201d Then and Now & How Bible Patterns Repeat Themselves<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The battle lines between the forces of good and evil, between the children of Elohim the sons of the devil were drawn long ago. In reality, this war started at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil back at the beginning in Genesis chapter three. It was there that the serpent\u2014Satan the adversary\u2014cunningly deceived the first humans into his perennial rebellion against divine law and order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little later, Satan struck again when he recruited more rebellious angelic beings and humans to his rebellious cause in the days of Noah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then this same satanic rebellion insinuated itself into the very family that YHVH rose up to bring salvation to the world through the Seed of Abraham. This time he planted the seeds of rebellion into the heart of Esau the son of Isaac, the twin brother of Jacob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eternal conflict and competition between Esau or Edom (his nickname), and Jacob is at the root of many if not most modern global conflicts. This conflict will terminate once and for all at the second coming of King Yeshua at one final epic battle where the Messiah and his warrior bride will victoriously defeat Satan and his human minions forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we fail to understand the biblical origins of this conflict, we will be blind to what is currently going on spiritually behind the scenes globally geo-politically, and what the saint\u2019s role is in this ongoing war between good and evil, the secular and the holy. Today this conflict, with its roots in Genesis 32 is being manifested in the present battle between Islam or the spirit of antichrist and \u201cthe people of the book.\u201d The deception of the antichrist spirit is deluding and deceiving many nominal, Christians in name only, cultural Christians to its side. Those who are taking a stand against the Israel of Elohim and redeemed Israel are taking a stand against the God of the Bible and his people. For the moment forget about current conflict and actions between specific nations and even the so called State of Israel and its ongoing war with its neighbors. Why? Because this issue is much bigger than this, although this conflict is definitely a central factor in the whole picture. If we get caught up in the weeds of Israel\u2019s current Gazan, Hezbollah and Irani conflict, we will miss the much larger ongoing conflict that goes back to the conflict between Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and Esau (or Edom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History repeats itself like a giant wheel that turns round and round again and again. This is true with regard to the ongoing spiritual battle between Edom and Israel, which in truth is merely a continuation of the same conflict between Satan and Elohim. Let\u2019s now chronicle Edom\u2019s attempt to dispossess the children of Israel of their divine inheritance in the Promised Land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This repetitive wheel of history began turning when Satan incited Esau (also known by his nickname as Edom) to murderously oppose Jacob as he was endeavoring to return with his family from Babylonia to Beth El (the future Temple Mount in Jerusalem) in the Promised Land (Gen 32:6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this, the Amalekites, who were the descendents of Edom (Gen 36:12), attacked the children of Israel as they were leaving Egypt (Exod 17:8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, in the Book of Esther Haman, another descendent of Esau or Edom, plotted to exterminate the Jewish people (Est 3:1, 6), thus preventing them from returning to the land of Israel, but his genocidal plot was foiled (Est 9:14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satan\u2019s next attempt at derailing heaven\u2019s plans to install the people of Elohim into the Promised land occurred some thousand years later in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah who led the Jewish exiles in their returning from Babylon to the land of Israel. The Bible does not specifically identify these enemies of Israel as being Edomites, but they were likely Edom-affiliated allies who pulled out all the stops in attempting to prevent the Jews from rebuilding the temple or the house of El or Beth El on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, Satan and his Edomite minions attempted to thwart YHVH\u2019s plans for his people at the advent of Yeshua the Messiah who came to regather and redeem the lost sheep of the house of Israel from all the places in spiritual Babylon where they had been gathered and eventually return them to their Promised Land. First, King Herod Archelaus, the Edomite (or Idumean), tried to kill the child Yeshua (Matt 2:16\u201318). Then King Herod Antipas (also an Edomite) at Yeshua\u2019s arrest and trial had his soldiers physically abuse and blaspheme him (Luke 23:6\u201312). He acquiesced to Pilate in the crucifixion of the Son of Elohim. This time, Satan along with his human henchmen took aim at the very Son of Elohim. He hit and yet missed his target all at the same time, for Yeshua ultimately came out victorious when he resurrected from the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, history will repeat itself when at Yeshua\u2019s second coming, the armies of Babylon the Great known today as the New World Order (of Novus Ordo Seclorum<\/em>), that is, Antichrist and his comrades, will attempt to prevent him along with his redeemed Israelite warrior bride from entering the Holy Land and (suddenly) coming to his temple or Bethel (or the House of El; Mal 3:1). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we see, the descendents of Edom (or their political and ideological comrades), instigated by Satan the devil,  are like a recurring nightmare, and like a venomous and murderous serpent that has been in perpetual opposition to YHVH\u2019s people down through the generations. History is repeating itself in our day. How is this, and who are the modern descendents of Edom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The modern biological and ideological descendents of Edom are Islamic, which is an Edomite (and Ishmaelite\u2014Esau or Edom married into Ishmael\u2019s family; Gen 28:9) religion, which has historically spread itself by the sword of killing, stealing and destroying. Currently, Islam is incapable of defeating the Christian West militarily or by frontal assault, so it is doing so via immigration invasion and by defeating the West from within due to the West\u2019s spiritual weakness which is evidenced by its abandonment of biblical values, and its rabid bent toward secular humanism, liberalism, wokeness, atheism, socialistic Marxism, and freedom of everything the condones licentiousness. The Muslims are using civil liberties like a knife to the neck to defeat the weakened post-Christian West. YHVH is allowing this as a judgment against the lukewarm, effete and feckless Christianity of the West. Islam and its godless, antichrist fellow travellers who also hate the Bible (e.g., Marxists, leftists, anarchists, atheists, socialists, the American Democratic Party, the democratic socialists of Europe) and those who profess to follow it (religious Jews and Christians) are<\/em> the modern manifestation of the spirit of antichrist. These satanic forces are in an all out war against Christians, so-called Christian Zionists, and the nation or State of Israel. They vehemently oppose the ultimate fulfillment of the promises YHVH made in the Abrahmic Covenant concerning the Messiah and Israel\u2019s possession of the Promised Land including greater geographical Israel which includes many Middle Eastern nations which are Mulim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can you and I do to fight this impending evil? The same thing Yeshua and his disciples did. In their day, the iron boot of the Roman Empire was their \u201cEdom\u201d. However, Yeshua never instructed his disciples to attempt to overthrow the this brutally oppressive enemy or even the Jewish religious system both of which were of the antichrist spirit. Rather Yeshua instructed his followers to preach the gospel and make disciples and to live a righteous life oriented around the Word of Elohim. Each saint was expected to clean up his or her own spiritual house, even as Jacob\u2019s family did as they were entering the Promised Land in Genesis 35:2\u20134. Was each person aligned with the will of their Heavenly Father, which sent \u201cthe terror of Elohim\u201d upon Israel\u2019s enemies (Gen 35:5). From that point of spiritual strength, regeneration, commitment and letting the kingdom values, priorities and objectives thereof dominate in their lives, they then went forth into the spiritual darkness to spread the light of YHVH\u2019s Truth. And it was from such a rock foundation of faith in and obedience to the Almighty Sovereign Creator of the universe that Jacob and his family faced and overcame his enemies when returning to the land of his spiritual inheritance. Jacob\u2019s experience has much to teach us, for it is a prophetic road map that will help guide us through the onslaught of satanic opposition as well as the geopolitical confusion and turmoil of the last days just prior to the return of Yeshua the Messiah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 32:1\u201332, \u201cJacob\u2019s Trouble\u201d \u2014 Yeshua\u2019s Warrior Bride Is Following in Jacob\u2019s Footsteps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The phrase \u201cJacob\u2019s trouble\u201d is a curious code term found buried deep in the prophetic writings of the ancient Jewish prophet Jeremiah who lived in the sixth century bc. In Jeremiah 30:7 end times prophetic ramifications relating to the struggles of the saints of those days are manifold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob\u2019s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Bible commentators have recognized that this phrase has end time prophetic implications and have attempted to decode this perplexing prophecy. Many Bible prophecy pundits have offered novel explanations as to its meaning. But most have fallen short. Why is this? Because unless one takes into consideration the greater contextual backdrop of this phrase, any explanation will wildly miss the target. Once the veil of mystery is lifted, this prophecy along with its Genesis 32 historical context, suddenly opens a huge panoramic window of understanding that explains the current conflict in the Middle East between the Jews and the Muslims, between the country of Israel and its surrounding neighbors as well as the tension between Islam and Christianity, plus explosive eruption of the current rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiments worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Moreover, a failure to understand the meaning of \u201cJacob\u2019s trouble\u201d explains the current animus in some of the most unexpected places including among some so-called contemporary American Christian social media influencers and news commentators. Many such people are turning their backs on the Judeo-Christian values that form the moral and spiritual foundations of the formerly Christian West and are aligning themselves with the spirit of antichrist as manifested by the rise of Islam in the West. If these misguided and uninformed media personalities were to understand the true biblical end times implications of Jacob\u2019s trouble, they en masse would be stunned into silence, put a hand over their mouths, and immediately shut off their microphones for a long moment of reflection and repentance. They would quickly realize that they are on the wrong side of history, the truth and YHVH Elohim, and the God of the Bible. In fact, they are taking the position of the spirit of antichrist! This may seem like a wild assertion on the part of this author, but once the facts are revealed, the pieces of the puzzle will suddenly and easily fall into a place and a huge picture of undeniable truth will form and the foolish, silly, childish babbling of those who hate the God of the Bible along with the Christians and Jews will once and for all be silenced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, these haters of YHVH Elohim and his people have failed to learn the lessons of history. Woe be to anyone who finds themselves on the side of the enemies of the God of Israel. The Pharaoh of Egypt, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Muslims, the Catholic Church, the Russian Tsar, the British Empire, Hitler, the Palestinian Authority, the Muslim Brotherhood, the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Yemen and many more have attempted or are attempting in vain to squelch or even extinguish Jacob\u2019s descendents from fulfilling their God-mandated, Abrahamic covenantal right to the land of Israel. Down through the millennia, each enemy of YHVH and his people have failed in their efforts to thwart heaven\u2019s inexorable will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let\u2019s learn what the phrase \u201cJacob\u2019s trouble\u201d means, and may the veil of ignorance be lifted and the scales fall off the eyes of the unbelievers and skeptics, and may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their along with the timeless truth of the Bible be vindicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJacob\u2019s Trouble\u201d Is an End Times Prophecy Pertaining to the Saints<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have probably heard the saying that the night is the darkest just before the dawn. Metaphorically speaking, when circumstances conspire against a person and the outcome looks the bleakest, that is often when the rays of hope begin to shine through the darkest darkness and a positive outcome to a seemingly desperate situation suddenly reveals itself. A way forward unexpectedly manifests itself out of the obscure gloom of apparent defeat and hopelessness. People of faith can more easily relate to such a scenario. This was exactly the place in which the patriarch Jacob found himself when returning to the land of Canaan\u2014the future Promised Land. He had reached the pinnacles of success in his earthly endeavors in Babylonia, and now circumstances beyond his control in front of and behind him were conspiring to dispossess him everything away including his very life This is not only the story of his life, but each of us has likely found ourselves in similar spots as well. Deliverance and victory often emerge out of the darkest and bleakest periods of life. This is a test of one\u2019s faith that, if we are to advance to the next level in our spiritual growth, we must pass this difficult test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 32 is the story of Jacob\u2019s return to Canaan after having been exiled from his homeland for 20 years. His exile occurred after he obtained his divinely promised birthright through shrewd and somewhat unscrupulous means from his brother Esau resulting in his having to flee Canaan for fear of his life due to his brothers lust for vengeance. Jacob took refuge in the region of Babylonia at his Uncle Laban\u2019s home, where he married Laban\u2019s two daughters, Leah and Rachel. After twenty years working for the greedy and treacherous Laban, Jacob had to flee Babylon with is father-in-law in angry pursuit. As if that were not enough, while Jacob and his family were returning to Canaan, they encountered Jacob\u2019s still vengeful brother Esau, who was still angry two decades later of being cheated out of his inheritance. Esau along with a small army not only stood in Jacob\u2019s way from entering the land of his promised inheritance, but also wanted to kill him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This account of Jacob\u2019s personal, spiritual struggles also has prophetic, end times implications relating to the regathering out of exile of the twelve tribes of Israel (the Jews and the Christians) and their return to the Promised Land in Israel under King Yeshua the Messiah at his second coming. The Scriptures refer to this time period as \u201cJacob\u2019s Trouble.\u201d The Bible verses that refer to the regathering of Israel and to the opposition they will face in so doing are found in Jeremiah 30,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The word that came to Jeremiah from YHVH, saying, \u201cThus speaks YHVH Elohim of Israel, saying: \u2018Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, the days are coming,\u2019 says YHVH, \u2018that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,\u2019 says YHVH. \u2018And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.\u2019 \u201cNow these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. \u201cFor thus says YHVH: \u2018We have heard a voice of trembling, Of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see, Whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins Like a woman in labor, And all faces turned pale?  Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob\u2019s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it. \u2018For it shall come to pass in that day,\u2019 Says YHVH of hosts, \u2018That I will break his yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave them. But they shall serve YHVH their Elohim, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them. \u2018Therefore do not fear, O My servant Jacob,\u2019 says YHVH, \u2018Nor be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I will save you from afar, And your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet, And no one shall make him afraid. For I am with you,\u2019 says YHVH, \u2018to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.\u2019 (Jer 30:1\u201311)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The ancient Jewish sages believe that the encounter between Jacob and Esau (no doubt informed by Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy) is prophetic in nature and will happen again in the end times, but this time on a much grander scale involving the numerous descendants of both Israel (or Jacob) and Esau (also called Edom). That is to say, the Israelites of the end times will be attempting to return to their ancestral homeland, while the modern descendants of Esau (the forces of Antichrist as represented by the antichrist religion of Islam and their Elohim-hating allies) will be blocking their way. As we proceed in this study, we will see whether this prophecy is beginning to come to pass in these last days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relating to Jacob\u2019s coming into the Promised Land, the ancient Jewish sages speak of two major redemptions in Israel\u2019s long history. The first redemption occurred when YHVH delivered the oppressed and enslaved children of Israel out of Egypt at the exodus. History will then repeat itself in what the Jewish sages refer to as \u201cthe second or final redemption,\u201d which will occur at the end of this present era when the Messiah will regather and then lead his exiled and scattered Israelite people back to the Promised Land in fulfillment of numerous biblical prophecies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling the time line backwards a little in the present story of Jacob, not only had Laban chased his son-in-law out of the area of Babylon, but Jacob was also being blocked from entering Canaan by his murderous brother Esau (or Edom). This is reminiscent of Pharaoh pursuing the Israelites as they were exodusing Egypt only to find their escape route blocked by the Red Sea. Pharaoh was the first Edom, if you will, or, stated otherwise, Edom is the second Pharaoh. In both instances, YHVH\u2019s people were forced to rely totally on him for deliverance from their enemies who were both in front of and behind them. History will repeat itself in the end times prior to and at Yeshua the Messiah\u2019s return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, Jacob dealt with his crisis in a typically human way\u2014by scheming and conniving \u201cto save his own skin,\u201d so to speak, instead of having faith in YHVH \u201cto work things out.\u201d He figured that by bribing his angry and bloodthirsty brother with wave after wave of gifts, he might appease and assuage Esau\u2019s desire for murderous revenge (Gen 32:13\u201320).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet Jacob\u2019s bifurcated response to this present danger by resorting to both appeasement and prayer was not acceptable to YHVH, who wanted Jacob to be a man of unmitigated faith, that is, to solely trust in Divine Providence. Or as Job put it, though you slay me, yet will I trust you (Job 13:15).To bring Jacob to this point, a part of him had to die: his prideful self-reliance and his inclination toward extricating himself from difficult situations through his own cunning ingenuity. This innate tendency of his, not unlike our own, was based on fear of death, and not on faith in YHVH. The Bible tells us that where there is fear, there is no love (1 John 4:18), and that YHVH has not given his people a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7). For Jacob to mature spiritually, YHVH wanted him to leave the fear and faithless aspect of his human nature on the east side of the Jordan where Babylon (a spiritual metaphor for the old carnal and sinful man and the ungodly ways of this world) was located. In its place, a faith-filled man who would totally trust YHVH in all things had to rise up. Jacob could no longer trust in his soul man (i.e., his mind, will and emotions) to determine his actions; rather, he had to rely on the Spirit of Elohim to lead him and to inform his inner man or personal spirit, in faith, where to go and what to do. Only a man of faith, who is mighty in the Spirit and obedient to YHVH, will be deemed worthy to enter the Promised Land (see Ezek 20:33\u201338, especially note vv. 37\u201338). The children of Israel learned this lesson the hard way too. The carcasses of the older generation who lacked faith in and obedience to YHVH littered the wilderness outside the Promised Land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it\u2026Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience\u2026(Heb 4:2, 6)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Like Jacob\u2019s descendants later learned, he too had to discover that his old, carnal man, who lacked faith, had to die prior to entering the Promised Land. But this was a difficult process. This is because Jacob had to come to grips with his own limitations and overcome the ugly side of his innate human nature that was directed by his mind, will and emotions, and not by the Spirit of Elohim. This internal battle between the soul and the spirit occurred during a \u201cdark-night-of-the-soul-encounter,\u201d when Jacob wrestled all night with the Messenger of Elohim (Gen 32:22\u201332). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result was that in this struggle Jacob became permanently lame in his hip (Gen 32:32). He became physically injured, but more importantly, he became humbled in his heart. Out of this, his soul man (i.e., his mind, will and emotions) became subservient to his spirit man (under the leading of the Spirit of Elohim). As a result of his wrestling match, he gained a new identity, a new heart and a new name. Jacob<\/em> the \u201cheal catcher\u201d became Israel<\/em> \u201cthe prince of El [God]\u201d or \u201cthe prevailer with El.\u201d By wrestling with and overcoming his own soulish or carnal limitations, that is, his own pride, self-reliance on his mind to figure things out instead of trusting Elohim by walking in the faith and in the Spirit, he became a broken and changed man. By trusting in YHVH, he became a vessel that the Creator could use to further his plan of redemption as promised to Abraham, the father of our faith, for it was through Jacob that the birth of birth the nation of Israel was to occur. This is a struggle that each of us face in the spiritual wilderness of our earthly existence. Will we yield to our sinful, carnal nature or will we learn to hear the voice of Elohm and submit to his will? This is based on the choices we make each day step-by-step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through events leading up to Jacob\u2019s dark night of the soul, he learned a vital spiritual lesson: his carnal attempts at appeasing Esau gained him nothing except a slimmer net worth through the loss of material possessions. On the other hand, his wrestling with and surrendering to the Messenger of Elohim\u2014who was, in reality, the preincarnate Yeshua\u2014gained him and his descendants not only a nation and the Promised Land, but ultimately the whole world, through Yeshua the Messiah, and a place in YHVH\u2019s eternal kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly and as part of a larger picture that would latter play out prophetically in the Bible\u2019s pages, as a gambit to save his own skin from his vengeful brother, Jacob divided his family into two camps in the hope that if Esau killed one group, the other would survive and vice versa. This was another one of his schemes that failed to work, but which has tremendous end-time prophetic implications. Genesis 32:2 records that Jacob called the name of the place where he split his family into two camps Machanaim<\/em>, which is a Hebrew word meaning \u201ctwo camps\u201d and is the plural of the root word machanah<\/em> meaning \u201cencampment, camp, camp of armed host, army camp, company or body of people.\u201dThis spot is near the River Jabok, which is a tributary to the Jordan River and is located on the east side of that river in the modern country of Jordan.During the time of the nation of ancient Israel, it was located in the Gilead region on either the border between Gad and Reuben or Gad and Ephraim. The Song of Solomon makes reference to machanaim<\/em> in chapter 6:13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company [Heb. m\u2019kolah<\/em>] of two armies [Heb. machanah<\/em>].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Hebrew word m\u2019kolah<\/em> means \u201cdance.\u201d<\/em> There is a correlation between Song of Solomon 6:13 and Genesis 32:2, since machanaim<\/em> in \u00adGenesis and machneh<\/em> or \u201ctwo armies\u201d in the Song of Solomon are the same word; the former is the plural and the latter is the root word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the prophetic connection between these two biblical passages? Simply this: Genesis 32 is a prophetic shadow-picture or antetype of just how<\/em> Jacob\u2019s descendants will come back into the land of their inheritance prior to, at and after Yeshua\u2019s second coming. This prophetic scenario is confirmed in the Jeremiah 30:7\u2014the Jacob\u2019s trouble prophecy. In Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy, the context is Jacob\u2019s end time descendants (i.e., the Christians and the Jews) returning from their captivity and exile in the (Babylonian) nations of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor behold, the days are coming,\u201d says YHVH, \u201cthat I will bring back from captivity My people Israel [the house of Israel who would become the Christians] and Judah [the Jews],\u201d says YHVH. \u201cAnd I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it\u2026Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob\u2019s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day,\u201d says YHVH of hosts, \u201cThat I will break his yoke from your neck, and will burst your bonds; foreigners shall no more enslave them. But they shall serve YHVH their Elohim, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. (Jer 30:3, 7\u201310)\u201cFor behold, the days are coming,\u201d says YHVH, \u201cthat I will bring back from captivity My people Israel [the house of Israel who would become the Christians] and Judah [the Jews],\u201d says YHVH. \u201cAnd I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it\u2026Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob\u2019s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day,\u201d says YHVH of hosts, \u201cThat I will break his yoke from your neck, and will burst your bonds; foreigners shall no more enslave them. But they shall serve YHVH their Elohim, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. (Jer 30:3, 7\u201310)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, this prophecy along with a resurrected King David to rule over a regathered and reunited Israel (i.e., Christians and Jews) has yet to occur. This will happen at Yeshua the Messiah\u2019s second coming. The corollary to this prophetic passage is Ezekiel\u2019s Two Sticks Prophecy where, again in the end times, the two camps or houses of Israel are regathered and reunited with King David ruling over them in the sight of the Messiah (Ezek 37:13\u201327).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, prior to the end times regathering and reunification of the twelve tribe of Jacob, the Bible foretells that the twelve tribes of Israel will be divided into two camps (i.e., the Jews and Christians) as they enter the Promised Land of Israel. They will then have to confront the modern, blood thirsty descendants of Esau or Edom, who will be blocking the way as Esau did with Jacob long ago. Who are Esau\u2019s modern descendants? Many of them are the Palestinian-Arabs, their Muslim allies God-hating atheists that have aligned themselves with Islam in order to defeat their mutual enemy\u2014the Jews (or Judah) and the Christians (or Ephraim\u2014loosely speaking). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both camps (Judah and Ephraim [see Ezek 37:15\u201316; 19\u201320]\u2014as presently represented by the Jewish and Christians peoples)\u2014are beginning to and will continue to return to the land of Israel out of end-times spiritual Babylon (see Rev 18:4), where they have been in servitude to the Babylonian the Great New World Order antichrist system, even as Jacob was a servant to Laban (who lived in the area of ancient Babylon). Judah and Ephraim will not defeat Esau through appeasement (Gen 32:20), even as Jacob failed to do with Esau. Appeasement got Jacob nowhere except monetarily poorer, and the modern state of Israeli has largely, until most recently, been dealing with the Palestinians as Jacob did with Esau by giving in to their demands by exchanging land and criminal Palestinian prisoners for peace. Appeasement failed to work for Jacob, and it has not worked for the Jews in the current State of Israel either. Moreover, the modern nation of Israel has also been relying on its superior military might to defeat its enemies with limited degrees of success. But the ultimate victory will only come through their repenting of their soulish, self-reliance (through appeasement and military might), and by trusting in Elohim and in the Messiah to deliver them as Jacob learned long ago in his dark night of the soul event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As our father Jacob did, so YHVH\u2019s end times Israelite people (both Jews and Christians) will have to learn to trust Elohim to help them to overcome their enemies who want to eliminate them. This will involve, like Jacob, a face-to-face wrestling with and Elohim (Gen 32:28), where they will be forced to learn to trust in him and to walk in obedience to his Holy Spirit as opposed to trusting in their own fleshly machinations and resources. As Jacob found out, this is something that YHVH requires of his people before they can return to the Promised Land. The end times Israelites (both Jews and Christians) will have to prevail with YHVH and demonstrate to him that they are serious about wanting to possess their promised inheritance, and at the same time, overcome themselves (their carnal and sinful self reliant nature) as well as the misguided notion that they can return to the land of their promised and eternal inheritance by their own strength and prowess apart from YHVH\u2019s divine direction and empowerment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When YHVH\u2019s end-times people (both the Jews and Christians) finally repent of their pride and self reliance and die to \u201ctheir sinful self\u201d as a people-group, this will please the Father and he will give his people victory over their enemies. (Remember what Yeshua said in Luke 17:33, \u201cWhosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.\u201d) Appeasing one\u2019s enemies, as the modern Israeli government has had a long history of doing with their enemies will get them nowhere, even as it gained Jacob nothing with Esau. YHVH\u2019s people must confront their demonic enemy head-on in humble faith in the Abrahamic Covenant promises of YHVH. As with Jacob, YHVH\u2019s people as collective Israel need to spend a dark night of the soul wrestling with YHVH. We need to get a good look at Elohim\u2019s face to see who he really is, which will in turn help us to understand who we really are spiritually. Only when we are finally humbled, will we learn to place our unconditional and unmitigated trust in the promises and protection of YHVH resulting in our being transformed from being a Jacob<\/em> (meaning \u201cheel catcher, supplanter, a deceptive sneak-thief\u201d) into an Israel<\/em> (meaning \u201ca prince of El or prevailer with El\u201d) with a new name and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Jews and Christians both individually and collectively must go through the same process. The good news is that the kingdom of Israel will rise up. Spiritual Jacob will get transformed into the One New Man (Eph 2:15) and bride of Yeshua the Messiah (Rev 19:7\u20139). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we as a united people-group be sure that this will happen? Because IT IS WRITTEN in YHVH\u2019s Word! The two camps or two houses of Israel, as alluded to in the Song of Solomon 6:13, will eventually learn to dance with each other in preparation to dancing on their wedding day with Yeshua our collective Sar Shalom<\/em> (or Prince of Peace), who is our Heavenly Bridegroom to come. Only then can we as followers of Yeshua become his bride, even as the Shulamite (derived from the Hebrew word shalom<\/em>) woman was a bride to King Solomon (another word derived from the Hebrew word shalom<\/em>) in the Song of Solomon. This will occur when the people of Elohim have made peace with King Yeshua and with each other as the Song of Solomon (Heb. for shalom<\/em>) and Genesis 32 both prophetically depict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus \u201cJacob\u2019s trouble\u201d was a phase through which the self-confident and self-reliant Jacob had to go. The humbling of Jacob was necessary because he was a self-made man, who had started 20 years earlier penniless, homeless, and fleeing for his life in disgrace as an exile in a foreign land. But through his own hard work and self-reliance had now amassed a small fortune along with wives and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En route westward back to Canaan, Jacob endured his own wilderness experience, even as his children would again encounter several generations later, when they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. No one enters YHVH\u2019s physical, much less, his spiritual Promised Land without going through the refining fires of dying to self\u2014of picking up one\u2019s cross and following Yeshua to the cross and dying there to one\u2019s ego and self will. The way of cross is the only entrance fee to Paradise! The ticket price is at the same time free and yet the most expensive price one will ever pay for anything, for it requires death to the carnal and sinful self!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What type of individuals does YHVH not<\/em> permit as well as permit to enter into his land of promise? The answers are found in Hebrews 4:1\u201311, where the writer lists the sins of doubt and unbelief, faithlessness, hardness of heart, not resting in YHVH, and reliance in the works of the flesh as factors that kept the children of Israel out of the Promised Land for forty years. As with the prodigal son in the Yeshua\u2019s parable, who had to repent of his sins and return to his earthly father (Luke 15:11\u201332), even so the descendant of Israel (both Jews and Christians) in the end times must return to the home of their Heavenly Father (Beth-El<\/em> or House of El\/God<\/em>) as Jacob did after leaving Babylon and upon returning to the Holy Land. To return to the land of his Beth-El<\/em> (Gen 28:19), Jacob had to manifest brokenness, humility, a new identity, and repentance of his prodigal ways. The same will be true of both the Jews and the Christians in the end times at the return of Yeshua the Messiah. Each person will be required to repent of their sin of disobedience to YHVH and unbelief in the Messiah, and then accept Yeshua the Messiah not only as their Savior but as their only Lord and Master. They must die to self, and then resurrect as a new creation\u2014as an unconditional servant-follower and disciple of the Messiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end-times Israel of Elohim, who are the descendants of Abraham and the patriarchs (see Gal 3:29; Rom 4:16; 9:8\u201311; Eph 2:11\u201319), are now following in their father Jacob\u2019s footsteps leaving their exile and captivity in spiritual Babylon (see Rev 18:4; both Christianity and Judaism are enmeshed in spiritual Babylon which contain a mixture of both good and evil elements). As they leave \u201cBabylon,\u201d they are returning westward (spiritually speaking) across the Jordan River into the land of promise, to their spiritual inheritance, which is defined in terms of YHVH\u2019s covenants (plural) with Israel (Eph 2:12\u201314). Some of the lost sheep of the house of Israel (i.e., the Jews of the tribe of Judah) are currently returning to the land of Israel in a physical sense, but they will still be required to accept as their Jewish Messiah (Zech 12:10), but for the majority this will occur only after great tribulation and affliction from their Muslim enemies and their antichrist allies (Zech 13:8\u20139; 14:1\u20132). For the rest of us, we must first begin returning to YHVH\u2019s Promised Land spiritually in our hearts and minds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently YHVH is calling out a growing remnant of redeemed believers to be the wise virgins bride of Yeshua and to embrace this vision by returning to the Hebraic roots of their Christian faith. Jacob\u2019s life is a prophetic road map of what each saint must go through to obtain his fuller spiritual inheritance. Furthermore, Jacob\u2019s life is not only a prophetic picture of what all Israelites individually must experience, but also of what the whole house of Israel (including the house of Judah and the house of Ephraim or, stated otherwise, the Jews and the Christians) collectively<\/em> or nationally<\/em> must go through. This then is the Jacob\u2019s Trouble in the end times that Jeremiah predicted would occur and the ancient Jewish sages recognized and wrote about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On an individual basis, Genesis 32 is a study of how we are often forced to deal with major trials and stressful situations in our life that are divinely intended to refine us into a people worthy of entering into the kingdom of Elohim. We can learn much from our Jacob patriarchal father, for his journey back to Elohim and to the Promised Land is similar to ours. For example, Jacob (a) was gripped by fear, (b) resorted to fleshly schemes to appease his brother\u2019s wrath and \u201cto save his own skin\u201d and that of his family, and (c) at the same time he expressed faith in YHVH by uttering what some consider to be the first prayer in Scripture (Gen 3:9\u201312). Jacob resorted to the \u201cshotgun approach\u201d by relying on several strategies simultaneously in hopes that at least one would work to his benefit. He was afraid, he schemed, yet he also prayed in hopes that he and his family would be saved from certain death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many of us have resorted to similar tactics to \u201csave our skin\u201d when facing insurmountable obstacles and deadly foes? We exercise both \u201cthe strong arm of the flesh\u201d as well as our mustard seed-sized faith in the hopes that if a miracle does not occur, then our plan B schemes will somehow work out. Does YHVH\u2019s grace cover us in such times of spiritual weakness and lack of faith in him? Yes. For example, Yeshua healed the son of the man who said, \u201cI believe, help my unbelief,\u201d (Mark 9:24). But as we mature spiritually, YHVH requires more faith and less faithless carnality from his people. To build their faith and reliance in him, YHVH sometimes even engineers situations where his people will be forced to have faith in him or die. This was the case with the children of Israel who, when exodusing Egypt, found themselves trapped between \u201cthe devil and the deep blue sea\u201d so to speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does Jacob\u2019s wrestling all night with the Messenger of Elohim and him becoming a lame and humbled man with a new name (i.e., a new spiritual identity) figure into this process? As we have learned, Jacob did not gain the victory through appeasing Esau (Gen 32:20), but by wrestling with his own carnal limitations and with the pre-incarnate Yeshua the Messiah resulting in him coming out a broken, humbled and spiritually changed man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when did you last face such a trial? How did you handle it? Like Jacob who schemed and plotted? Or are you learning to \u201clet go and let God\u201d as the old saying goes? To walk by faith and not by sight? To trust and obey YHVH? In Proverbs 3:5\u20137 we are instructed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trust in YHVH with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding [or knowledge and wisdom]; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear YHVH and depart from evil. (emphasis added)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thus, Jacob\u2019s story is also ours as well. We will be a wise people if we understand its deeper spiritual implication and then fully embrace it. This story is the road map for the warrior bride of Yeshua if she is to gain obtain spiritual inheritance and reach her eternal destiny. Each of us will go through many dark nights of the soul as we struggle with YHVH and our own carnal limitations. This process is like peeling away the outer layers of a rotten onion to get to the edible layers. This involves peeling away the layers of sin, carnality and faithlessness, so that we, as Yeshua\u2019s potential bride can become YHVH\u2019s princely and glorified children, who will rule and reign with Yeshua the Messiah in his millennial kingdom from the Promised Land. The process of wrestling with and overcoming the world, the flesh and devil, as Paul outlines in Romans chapter seven, will last a lifetime, but like Jacob, if we fail to give up, while pursuing heaven\u2019s blessing and are willing to continue to wrestle through the darkest hours of the night, we too can become prevailers with YHVH and receive the spiritual reward of inclusion in the Promised Land of our spiritual inheritance as the forever bride of Yeshua the Messiah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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