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We’re here to refresh your memory and make your Crimes of Grindelwald viewing experience more enjoyable with this crib sheet. Some of new characters are also slyly the ancestors of not-yet-born, future Death Eaters. Old characters are getting reintroduced by new actors who are playing their younger selves. Unless you spend your days reading Fantastic Beasts theories, it might get a little confusing. Magic is already a little confusing, but even muggle Jacob Kowalski is going to be very overwhelmed by all of these new faces. Of course, most of these characters are sneakily connected to Harry Potter characters as well. For better or worse, Rowling just threw fans in the deep end and dove into her new story, adding characters left and right. This is exactly the opposite of what Fantastic Beasts did. As Harry learned more about the extraordinary world, we were right there with him. Rowling slowly waded us into the wizarding world with Harry Potter, adding more and more characters gradually. This post is adapted from chapter 2 in Shining Like the Sun by David H. As Wenkel concludes, ?Jacob the ?heel-grabber? limped way when the fight ended and the sun rose, but he was blessed and changed because of God?s grace.? This encounter with God left him forever changed. His physical wound reflected the larger transformation that he experienced. When he names the place ?Peniel,? he recognizes that his very life was spared in this encounter. His plea for a blessing is one of dependent faith in God?s promises to the patriarchs. Jacob here is not striving against God, but with Him. What does all this mean for Jacob? While Jacob?s striving may simply appear to be perpetuating his lifestyle of deceit, the opposite is in fact the case. Jacob?s encounter is the first in Scripture where the phrase ?face to face? is used of someone meeting with God. After the encounter, Jacob ?called the name of the place Peniel, saying, ?For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered? (Gen 32:30).

Jacob believes that he encountered God.

The larger context of Genesis prepares the reader to conclude the same could be happening with Jacob. In Genesis 18, three ?men? appear to Abraham but one is revealed to be the LORD Himself.

This story may point back to another similar encounter.

This suggests that he would not release authority to Jacob by revealing his name and/or that Jacob already knew his identity.

The man did not reveal his name to Jacob.

The context strongly suggests that this very encounter exemplifies the man?s statement. The man?s rationale for naming Jacob ?Israel? is that ?you have striven with God and with man, and have prevailed? (Gen 32:28). What?s more, in the narrative of Genesis, it was God Himself who previously renamed Abram to Abraham. Giving names was reserved for the father, so this stranger had unique authority indeed. This wound was not from a strike or blow, but a simple touch.

The man crippled Jacob through simply ?touching? his hip.

Of course, this need not require the man to be God himself but it suggests more might be in play. Since he blessed Jacob, the man was ?greater? than him (see Heb 7:7). In Shining Like the Sun: A Biblical Theology of Meeting God Face to Face, David Wenkel makes several points that build a cumulative case that Jacob wrestled with God in the form of a man: However strange it may seem though, it appears that the ?man? was more than a human or angel this person was indeed God. As the day breaks, he pleads with Jacob to release him, but Jacob will not let him go unless the stranger blesses him.Īll this leads one to think that Jacob simply wrestled an unidentified human.

The ?man? fights Jacob all night and realizes that ?he did not prevail? so he put Jacob?s hip out of joint (Gen 32:25). The text simply says that ?a man? wrestled with Jacob. Jacob?s encounter in Genesis 32:22-32 is odd enough on the surface, but did he really wrestle with God Himself? It seems unlikely at first.

As Jacob waits at his camp?fearing a coming battle with Esau?he is attacked by an unexpected opponent (Gen 32:24). Jacob hears that Esau is coming to meet him with 400 men so he sends a gift ahead of him (Gen 32:6). In Genesis 22, Jacob was about to encounter Esau for the first time in 20 years. He wrestled with Laban to marry Rachel (and Leah). He wrestled with Isaac to secure Esau?s blessing. He wrestled with Esau to take his birthright. In the earlier chapters of Genesis, Jacob had wrestled with virtually everyone around him. And when it comes to Jesus? disciples?however unlearned they were?it was evident that they had been ?with Jesus.? The same can be said of Jacob, who was forever altered by his experience of ?wrestling? with God.

Isaiah was overwhelmed by his own inadequacy. Moses descended the mountain with a radiant face. One cannot encounter God and remain unchanged.