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¶ And Jacob went on his way, and the
angels of God met him. 2 And when Jacob
saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place
Mahanaim.
Jacob sees an amazing sight from the spiritual world.
An army of God’s angels approaches him. This is a sign to Jacob showing the
protection of God.
Psalm
34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth
round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Angels are spiritual beings, typically unseen to us.
Psalm
104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his
ministers a flaming fire:
What a spectacular and frightening apparition that
must have been.
As he saw God’s host, His army, Jacob called it
Mahanaim, the plural of a word that is translated as camp or host or armies
elsewhere. Jacob may have named it based on his people meeting God’s angels,
two groups passing each other, his and the angels. Remember what angels are;
representatives of something or someone that is somewhere else.
Hebrews
12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion,
and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels, 23 To the
general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and
to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
We are surrounded by a great army of God’s saints that
have gone on ahead of us, as a matter of fact. Paul says this after talking
about the great saints of God that have gone on before us.
Heb
12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are
compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us, 2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down
at the right hand of the throne of God.
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