Genesis
32:1 ¶ 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:
They represent something or someone that is somewhere else.
Isaiah 63:9a In
all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them…
Judges 2:1 And
an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go
up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your
fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Matthew 18:10
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto
you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which
is in heaven.
Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and
the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven
churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
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.
Hebrews 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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