Why did Jacob identify the angel he "wrestled" with as El (God) and name the place Pnei-el (face of God)?

Question

Also, oddly enough, the angel said that Jacob would be called Yisra'el, or, "one who struggled with God".

Answer 1

It's called a Christophany.

Answer 2

Yes i have heard all he intersting ideas on this. My thinking is simple it was God who wrestled Jacob. Angles do not bless men God does. Jacob in this story is a fortelling of the fact that great men of God will have to wrestle with God. And they all do. The blessing came as a result of holding on and not letting go. This is now it always works. This story is a physical parable or spiritual events in people lives. The story did happen but also the events are those that happen in all peoples live that seek God.

Answer 3

In addition to the occurrence of the nighttime wrestling, the stranger gave Jacob a blessing that only God could give. When Jacob asked for the strangers name, he is given a rhetorical question in reply. I believe that these things are what finally helped Jacob understand that he had been confronted by God Himself.

Answer 4

The Angel that Jacob rescued with came with the express Authority of God - which means He was a repersentation of God to Jacob in that encounter - So He could be said to be God. And also it was recorded that the "angel" blessed Jacob at that place, and since only God can bless a person, it butresses the fact that He was God personified!

Answer 5

i think of you already comprehend the respond to this Q . as quickly as the Romans made Christianity a criminal worship some seven-hundred yrs after the death of Jesus . all different worships have been deemed unlawful and the only way you ought to worship on your procedures replace into in case you payed for the splendid . this illegalization is how those different worships have been categorised as pagan . in basic terms because of the fact the word mongrel replace into derived from the Mongolians . Christianity has made worship into something that i've got confidence is as a sin . and the bible tells this to be actual . however the desirable actuality to that's that Jesus is worshiped even tho ! the bible says to not worship any different than God . and a pair of Jesus by no skill stated he's Christ .

Answer 6

LORD God and Lord God and lord god.

I have to say, if I was translating the bible, some things would be difficult, as Matt.22:42-44 [ The LORD said unto my Lord ]; Jesus says, The LORD is his LORD and He [ Jesus ], is the Lord of David. So I try to understand the difference between LORD and Lord and lord all through the bible Deut.10:17; Bible study is done with care.

Jacob is Israel :Gen.32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And 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. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And 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. 29 And 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. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32 Therefore 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.

Answer 7

He worshiped the one He fought with....Angels refused to allow worship, this one accepted it, that proved He was more than an Angel, He was God. Most likely Jesus actually.