Pertanyaan: 611. Apakah Yakub Benar-Benar Melihat Allah Wajah ke Wajah Ketika Berada di Sungai Jabbok?
Pertarungan misterius Jacob telah menjadi sumber kesulitan dan penafsiran yang menguntungkan. Jacob telah meninggalkan tanah Kanaan, penuh dengan rasa bersalah dan rentan terhadap kemarahan, dan dia akan memasukinya dalam pertentangan tajam, seperti yang mungkin menyebabkan pencarian hati yang besar, kerendahan spiritual yang dalam, dan penolakan terhadap segala perbuatan berdosa dan bengkok. Inilah konflik yang harus dia alami dengan malaikat hadirat Tuhan." Pertanyaan Jacob tentang nama lawannya tidak terjawab. Tetapi dia menamai tempat itu Peniel ("Wajah Allah") sebagai tanda kedekatannya dengan Yehuwa saat pertempuran besar berlangsung. Dia telah dikalahkan, namun melalui kekuatan imannya, dia telah menang dan mendapatkan berkat."
Question: 611. Did Jacob Really See God Face to Face When at the Brook Jabbok?
Jacob's mysterious wrestling has been a fruitful source of difficulty and misinterpretation. Jacob had left the land of Canaan, full of guilt and liable to wrath, and he was to enter it amid sharp contending, such as might lead to great searchings of heart, deep spiritual abasement and renunciation of all sinful and crooked devices. This was the conflict he had to undergo with "the angel of the Lord's presence." Jacob's inquiry for the name of his antagonist was unanswered. But he called the place Peniel ("the Face of God") in token of his nearness to Jehovah while the great struggle was going on. He had been overcome, yet, through the strength of his faith, he had prevailed and got the blessing.