God told Jacob to go to Bethel and renamed him Israel. Rachel died having Israel's twelfth son Benjamin. Isaac died in Hebron.
"God in His grace, in His very last meeting with Jacob calls him Israel. Now Israel was the name that was to signify all that God had planned in and for Jacob. It was a name that was to separate him from his somewhat shady past. But Jacob didn't live like Israel very often. And it's exceedingly precious, I think, that in His very final meeting God refuses to think of him as Jacob and thinks of him as Israel. My friends, you see there the benefits of justification and God looking upon us not as we are in ourselves but as we are in Christ."
(Ligon Duncan)
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