The ‘Struggle’ Has Already Been Won

‘The Struggle’ for independence and choice land has been won by God’s chosen people:  the Jews, and later, the Christians, as illustrated in their domination of the Holy Land and America, respectively.

God chose Isaac, the second son born to Abraham, over the elder Ishmael (from whom arose the Arabic people, who now call Islam their god and Muhammed their prophet).  Isaac was born to the holy woman of God, Sarah, matriarch to all God’s people; while Ishmael was born of her handmaid Hagar.  Ishmael was likely always jealous of Isaac and purportedly ‘scoffed’ at Isaac’s weaning celebration, and so was cast out with Hagar to the east where-God assured Abraham-Ishmael too would make a great nation, because he was the seed of Abraham:

^{Genesis 16:10-12} 

Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude.” ¹¹ And the Angel of the Lord said to her:

“Behold, you are with child,
And you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the Lord has heard your affliction.
¹² He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man’s hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”

We see that God kept his promise to Hagar and Ishmael.  Yet God saved His biggest blessing for Isaac and his descendants.

Isaac was rewarded with a son which further fulfilled the promise God made to Abraham that through Isaac, God would bless this family.  When Isaac’s wife Rebekah birthed Jacob, God’s irrevocable plan to multiply and bless Abraham’s offspring was cemented into place.

Jacob eventually journeyed to Haran to find a wife among his relatives, and on his way home from that long endeavor, Jacob spent a night alone on his journey back to the Promised Land.  Here he wrestled in the wilderness with a Man of God.  All night they struggled and Jacob did not give up his struggle nor let go until the Angel blessed him.  In that moment the Angel changed Jacob’s name to ‘Israel’ which means ‘to struggle with God and man and prevail.’

Wrestling with God

²² And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. ²³ He took them, sent them over the brook, and sent over what he had.²⁴ Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. ²⁵ Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. ²⁶ And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”

But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”

²⁷ So He said to him, “What is your name?”

He said, “Jacob.”

²⁸ And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel;^[a]for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

²⁹ Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.”

And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there.

³⁰ So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel:^[b] “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” ³¹ Just as he crossed over Penuel^[c] the sun rose on him, and he limped on his hip.

Of course, Israel became the name of the entire nation of Jews, and from the line of Judah arose Christ the Messiah.  But in that decisive moment of struggle, God’s covenant with the Israelites was sealed forevermore, and the nation of Israel became the recipient of God’s favor, because they believed in, loved, and worshiped the One True God.

Therefore there can be no more fruitful struggle by other peoples or nations.  All struggles by peoples and nations other than Christians to take over the Promised Land of America fight in vain and fight for evil, because they have NOT been blessed by God in this venture.  It is uncanny that in both the Nazis, and the Islamists (who are descendants of the incestuous Lot and the false prophet Muhammed) whose goal is world domination, we find the definition of my struggle rife in their own language.

Jihad is a word with a bad connotation.  We know Jihadists as the terrorists who blow themselves up to effect mass damage to human beings, predominately.  Jihad is defined as:

Correspondingly, Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, translates exactly into My Struggle.

But as we can see, God’s patriarch Jacob already struggled with, and was blessed by the Angel of God, or Man of God, otherwise believed to be Jesus Christ.  There is no more struggle to be had, there is no more reason to wage war.

Thousands of years ago God sent His Angel to Jacob and chose Christianity to reign supreme and blessed it with a new name.  All that anyone in the world, Nazi or Muslim, need to do is accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

And ‘the struggle’ is over.

God did not bless the Nazis, nor has He made a covenant with the Islamists because they do not know Him.  And it is obvious to everyone with a mind to comprehend that these groups are evil, and are so far removed from God and His Way that they might as well be satan personified.