Something Needs to Change about Your Name

And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.-Genesis 35:16-19***When Jacob was returning to his father Isaac in Canaan, the Lord God appeared to Jacob and confirmed that Jacob's name was changed to Israel. The Lord God spoke promises to Jacob and commanded Jacob to be fruitful and multiply. Over 2,000 years earlier, the Lord God commanded the water creatures and flying creatures to be fruitful and multiply, and the Lord God commanded Jacob's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Adam, the 1st man, to be fruitful and multiply. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that the Lord God created Adam. The Lord God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, and the Lord God made Adam's wife Eve, the mother of all living, after taking a part out of Adam. Rachel was Jacob's 2nd and favorite wife. After a 2nd son was born to Jacob and Rachel, Rachel named the newborn son Ben-oni, and died immediately thereafter. The name Ben-oni is defined as son of my sorrow or son of my misfortune. Jacob renamed their son Benjamin, defined as son of honor, son of good fortune, son of the right hand, or son of the south. Jacob's 11 other sons also had meaningful and descriptive names. Leah, Jacob's 1st wife, named their firstborn son Reuben, saying the Lord God looked upon her affliction. Leah named their 2nd son Simeon, saying the Lord God heard that she was unloved. Leah named their 3rd son Levi, saying at last Jacob would become attached to her. Leah named their 4th son Judah, saying that she would praise the Lord God. Leah named their 5th son Issachar, saying that the Lord God had given her wages. Leah named their 6th son Zebulun, saying that the Lord God bestowed her with a good dowry. Dinah was the last child born to Jacob and Leah. Years before Rachel gave birth to Benjamin, Rachel sent her maidservant Bilhah to Jacob for Bilhah to bare children on Rachel's behalf. Rachel named Jacob and Bilhah's 1st son Dan, saying the Lord God heard and judged her case, and Rachel named Jacob and Bilhah's 2nd son Naphtali, saying with great wrestlings she wrestled with Leah and prevailed. Leah sent her maidservant Zilpah to Jacob for Zilpah to bare children on Leah's behalf. Leah named Jacob and Zilpah's 1st son Gad, saying a fortunate troop comes, and Leah named Jacob and Zilpah's 2nd son Asher, saying she was happy and daughters would call her blessed.  Sometime after Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, and Zebulun were born, Jacob and Rachel's 1st son was born. Rachel named the infant Joseph, saying the Lord God had taken away her shame and the Lord God would add to her another son. Approximately 1,900 years after the children were born, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-8:40, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
                            

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