Something Needs to Change about Your Name

The Lord God, and Jacob,

and Rachel, and Benjamin

And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el. And they journeyed from Beth-el; 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 Beth-lehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.-Genesis 35:9-20***Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), Nahor (Nachor), Haran, and Sarah (Sarai) were born to Terah. Ishmael was born to 86-year-old Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's maidservant. When Abraham was 99 years old, the Lord God gave him the covenant of circumcision, and gave the new names for Abraham and Sarah, and assured Abraham about the son who would be born to Abraham and Sarah, and gave Abraham the name for the child. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Isaac was born to 100-year-old Abraham and 90-year-old Sarah. When Isaac was 40 years old, he was married to Rebekah, Nahor's granddaughter. Fraternal twin sons Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) were born to 60-year-old Isaac and Rebekah. Esau, the firstborn son, was named from a variation of the Hebrew word for "red," and Jacob was named for the Hebrew word for "trickster/heel catcher/supplanter." However, since Esau loved red stew, they began calling him Edom, from another variation of the Hebrew word for "red." Esau was Isaac's favorite son, and Jacob was Rebekah's favorite. Isaac was elderly and his eyesight was diminished when he sent Esau to hunt an animal and prepare a specific meal and said he would bless Esau. Rebekah heard the conversation and prompted Jacob to deceive Isaac and cheat Esau. When Rebekah learned that Esau planned to kill Jacob, she spoke words to Isaac that led him to send Jacob from their home in Beersheba, Canaan, to the home of Rebekah's family in Padan Aram, Haran. In Bethel (Luz), Jacob was asleep and saw, in a dream, the angels of God. and saw and heard the Lord God speaking to him. In Haran, Jacob made a deal with Rebekah's brother Laban the Syrian (Aramean) to become the husband of Laban's youngest daughter Rachel. During the 7th year of their agreement, Laban tricked Jacob, and Laban's oldest daughter Leah became Jacob's 1st wife. Laban proposed another deal before Jacob was married to Rachel. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and daughter Dinah were born to Jacob and Leah. Dan and Naphtali were born to Jacob and Bilhah, Jacob's maidservant. Gad and Asher were born to Jacob and Zilpah, Leah's maidservant. Joseph was the 1st son born to Jacob and Rachel. During his 20th year in Haran, Jacob began journeying to Canaan with his family, servants, animals, and possessions. Before reuniting with Esau, Jacob was in a divine wrestling encounter, exhibiting that he had overcome his struggles with man and the Lord God, and was renamed "Israel," possibly meaning "prince with God" and "fights or persists with God." Sometime thereafter, Jacob and Rachel's 2nd son was born near Bethlehem, and Rachel, dying, named the child Ben-Oni, meaning "son of my sorrow/son of my pain/son of my misfortune." Jacob renamed the child Benjamin, meaning "son of the right hand/son of good fortune/son of the south." Approximately 1,900 years after Jacob reunited with Isaac in Hebron (Mamre/Arba), and 180-year-old Isaac died, 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 in Bethlehem into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 26:1-27:23, Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra 1:1-11, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

Reference Information
Benjamin = Binyamin = ben + yamin/yamiyn = son of the right hand

Ben-oni = owni ben = ben + aven = son of my sorrow 

Israel = Yisrael = sara + el = strives with God, prince with God

Jacob = Yaaqob = aqeb/aqab = heel catcher, supplanter

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