April 23, 2010 - Genesis 32

So, we have Israel and the name change. What are we to take from the confrontation with God's messenger. And when he says the name is because he has contended with divine and human beings. That isn't pointing to Jesus as the person he confronted, is it. Does it just mean that he has bested humans, in his father in law, and now the divine in the form of this messenger. And they fought all night with out a winner, but then the messenger injures him very quickly at the end, so it appears that he was much stronger than he let on during most of the fight. And why injure his hip. It is all something that I really don't know where to fit it in or no what to think of it.