Gen 35:10-12 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name”. So He called his name Israel. 11Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body. 12The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land”.
Jacob was synonymous with a fraud, con, swindler, trickster, and crook. But God had an agenda to transform and make him great. Instead of him wallowing in failure of his crookedness, God made him to be fruitful and multiply. Nations and kings were to be born of his stock.
What a transmutation! Even though he had erred, after cleansing himself and his household, he made a total come back to God. God did not view the old crooked person but saw a New Creation. He was ripe to be plunged to the covenant.
2Co 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. We are no longer called by our old names. Jehovah has given us an everlasting name that shall not be cut off (Isa 56:5) . 1Pe 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Further readings:
Gen 17:5
Gen 48:4
Exo 6:3
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