Victory's Limp — Don Wilkerson

Transcript Introduction and Scripture Reading

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Yes, if there's also in a nursery in the back if you are need you go to the back and the ushers will Point you in the direction of the nursery at Genesis chapter 32. I'm reading in the New American Standard beginning at verse 22.

It says. And now he arose. This is Jacob. Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the jay book and He took them and sent them across the stream and he sent also whatever he had.

Then Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until daybreak and When he saw that he had not prevailed against him. He touched the socket of his thigh. So the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

Then he said let me go for the dawn is breaking. But he said I will not let you go unless you bless me. And so he said to him. What is your name? And he said Jacob and He said your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.

Then Jacob asked him and said, please tell me your name. But he said why is it that you asked my name and he blessed him there. So Jacob named the place Penal for he said I have seen God face to face yet.

My life has been preserved. Now the Sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penal and he was limping and He was limping on his thigh. I Want to speak to you tonight about victories limp. Victories limp shall we bow in a word of prayer?

Lord we pray tonight as we as We come Into your precious word. Oh Lord, we thank you for it. I Thank you how it is minister to my own heart. And Lord, I just pray tonight that you would enable me by the Holy Spirit To share and to bear that which you have done and worked within my own life.

I thank you for victories limp. I Thank you Lord that you wrestle with us until you get at our lives that what you want to change. Oh Lord do it we pray in this service do it in our hearts. We pray we thank you Oh Lord for your persistence.

We thank you Lord that you will wrestle us. Hallelujah until victory comes. May we understand victories limp in Jesus name. Amen. Picture this touching scene if you will as the patriarch Jacob Is coming to join his family after?

Jacob’s Limp as a Sign of Transformation

The most important experience and encounter of his life the most important night of his life and Now morning the Sun comes up in the morning Sun Rises to a new day symbolic of a new day dawning for Jacob and I believe I'm not out of order.

It's not beyond the realm of possibility. That is Jacob makes his way back to his camp that a servant one of his servants Might have seen him walking Walking towards him walking towards the camp where Jacob had left The two wives and the maids and the leavened children as well as the servants and As a servant looks at Jacob coming.

He notices something different about his walk, which is different when. Then from when he last saw him Jacob is limping and Perhaps the servant wonders. Did he stumble and fall did a rock come down off of a mountain somewhere and injure him?

Did he stumble and fall what has happened to him. And I can imagine that the servant rushes to Jacob Who is probably has a staff? He has a stick the cane in his hand to assist him as he walks along as he limps along and The servant I can see in my mind that rushing to Jacob and saying my lord my lord what has happened to you.

You are injured you're injured. May I carry you. Are you in pain? And I believe that I can hear in Jacob's voice and I can see a smile on his face and he says no. No my servant. I am. Well, I am well, I am healed.

Yes, I'm healed. Do not trouble yourself. And so Jacob limps along walks along and his servant walks along beside him. Perhaps perplexed by the strange words that he has heard and he thinks to himself.

My master says that he is fine. My master is walking with a limp and yet he tells me he's healed and Yet he walks like a crippled man. This is a strange and remarkable story. One worthy of our consideration for the rich lessons that it has for us.

The Thompson chain Bible states of Jacob and I quote. No other Bible character represents more fully the conflict between the lower and the higher nature. Bending on the downward at times it reaches glorious heights.

Only to sink again into sword struggles for gain. But Jacob emerges at the very last upon the plane of triumphant faith. Unquote. Now I call that triumphant faith victories limp victories limp the life of Jacob is a warning to every believer that When the Spirit of God does not conquer the flesh nature We cannot walk in righteousness and holiness and the blessings of God in reality are Unclaimed blessings.

There is a limp of victory that belongs to each one of us and Just as the Sun rose upon Jacob upon Peniel. So there is a victory that can rise upon us bringing with it a work of the Holy Spirit in our lives as remarkable as Jacob's and I want you to consider some steps in Jacob's life.

Which brought about this limp of victory and I'll consider it for you in four areas. One was I want you to look at Jacob's promised blessing. I Want you to look at day at Jacob's problem. I want you to look at his purging and then finally we'll look at Jacob's prayer or Jacob's victory.

Jacob’s Promised Blessing

Turn with me to the 27th chapter of Genesis as we see there. An account the first account of the promised blessing to Jacob in spite of the mayor the way in which it was obtained. Chapter 27 verse 26.

It says then his father Isaac said to him, please come close and kiss me my son. And so he came close and kissed him and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said See the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.

Now may God give you of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and an abundance of grain and new wine. May people serve you and nations bow down to you be master of your brothers and may your mother's sons bow down to you.

Cursed be those who curse you and blessed be those who bless you. This was Jacob receiving from his father the birthright and Then at a place called Haran. The Lord reaffirmed in chapter 28 in David, excuse me.

Jacob has to flee for his life because of Esau and Yet in the midst of his fleeing God comes to him and reaffirms the promise to him. Verse 10 of chapter 28. Then Jacob departed from Bersheba and went towards Haran and he came to a certain place and spent the night there.

Because the Sun had set and he took one of the stones of the place and he put it under his head and laid down at that place and he had a dream he behold a ladder was set on the earth and its top reached to heaven and Behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on it and behold the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac the land on which you lie.

I will give it to you and to your descendants your descendants shall also be like the dust of the earth and You shall spread out to the west and the east and to the north and the south and you and your descendants shall or and through all of your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed and Behold, I am with you and I will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land.

For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. That's a reconfirmation of the promise blessing and In fact, it says Jacob awoke out of sleep and he said surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.

He didn't understand what God was doing. He didn't understand. There was a great revelation that God was trying to give to him, but he could not receive it at that moment. He could not enter into it. In fact, it goes on and it says so joke and he was afraid verse 17 and he was afraid and he said how awesome is This place this is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven.

But Jacob sadly could not enter into the house of God. He couldn't enter into the gate of heaven because there was something yet in Jacob's heart. And it is life that God had to deal with. Had to get it out of his life and it hadn't come out yet.

And then also in chapter 32 as we read already read to you again. He is he is pleading he is asking to enter in finally again to this blessing of the Lord. Now what was so important about this blessing that Jacob however would resort to such carnal means to obtain it now the birthright included temporal material and financial blessing as We've read it also gave him almost unlimited power over his brethren.

But most importantly it gave Jacob a mighty influence with God and a great access to the courts of heaven. Which he was yet not able to enter into. But all this was overshadowed by the fact that from him would descend the Messiah.

He who was to be the prince of the kings of the earth. Before whom all the nations should come and worship and who was to rule them with a rod of iron and break them to shrivers as a potter's vessel and From Jacob also would come the church of the Living God of what you and I tonight are a part of.

And yet Jacob seemed to be the least and undeserving of these blessings and the privileges of the birthright and It took 20 years. We're good we'll find in the message and then as we follow the story as you know it Why did it take 20 years exile in a place called?

Paran Aram. Before Jacob could walk in the fullness of the promise blessing you see it was not until the Lord touches and eradicates and Destroys something deep within Jacob that he is able to be worthy of the blessing.

It's only after the limp of victory is he able to enter in to the fullness of the promise of God to him. And until Jacob experienced that change of character until the unrighteousness of his heart was dealt with.

Jacob was a man walking about with an unclaimed blessing an unpossessed blessing. Have you ever received? I'm sure you have in the mail a little notice that says that you are a recipient of a prize that you if you fly off to Florida somewhere or go up in the Poconos and you sit through a Presentation of high-pressure salesmanship or whatever or you buy a piece of land or whatever you are sure to win.

Some fantastic prize you've all received that I'm sure well suppose that you went to collect and You were told of course that there's there is a there's always something to it and you were told Hypothetically this prize this blessing that was going to come to you is yours, but you got to pass a test.

And you say well, okay, I agree. But then you're told that you have to pass a weight test. W EIG HT. Well, you might or might not be offended by that but you agree, but You find out that it's not a weight test based upon pounds.

But it's based upon character. It's based upon morals. It's based upon spirituality and You see this is the test that Jacob failed and the reason that he could not enter in to the blessing of God. Listen to Hebrews 12 1 it says therefore.

Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us. Let us lay aside every encumbrance or weight and the sin which so easily besets us or entangles us and Let us run with patience or endurance the race that is set before us.

Jacob was incapable of claiming his prize. He was incapable of entering into the blessing until he did something about his weight problem. The sin that so easily beset him. There was something wrong with Jacob's walk.

It had no limp in it. There was too much of Jacob in his walk. Now I hear preaching today about how God wants to bless his people and that they have unclaimed blessings and rights that are promised to them in the new birth and It is said that faith is just the key to obtaining all of the blessings of that new birth.

Brother called me today on the phone. He said please pray for me. He's from Connecticut. He's been to our church a few times. He said I've been going to this church for four months. He said I love it.

But he said this Sunday they had a special speaker and he said it was one of the quote-unquote faith teachers and He said he gave a message and he gave an appeal and he said everybody in the church went forward but me.

Because he said there was something missing. You see there was only a part and he realized that there was only a part of the truth. There is more than faith. Necessary to walk in the blessing of sonship my friend.

There must be a laying aside of every weight of every encumbrance of every sin that does so easily beset us. Now you talk about sin that entangles and chokes. Jacob spun a web that nearly choked him to death spiritually and morally and even physically.

Jacob’s Deceptive Character and the Problem of Self-Reliance

Now his problem was that Jacob's name described his character and Unfortunately, Jacob lived up to his name. It was through deception and deceit and trickery and underhandedness that Jacob stoled the birthright from Esau.

Listen, look what it what Esau says turn to the 27th chapter. The 27th chapter at verse 34. It says when Esau heard the words of his father. The words of his father blessing Jacob. He cried out with an exceeding great and bitter cry and he said to his father bless me even me also.

Oh my father. And his father said your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing and then Esau said That doesn't surprise me one bit. Is he not rightly named Jacob for he has supplanted me these two times.

He took away my birthright and behold now he has taken away my blessing. In other words Esau says Jacob is living up to his name. He said I'm not surprised at what he did. That's the way Jacob is. That's his character.

He's truly a Jacob. He's a trickster. He's a con man and There is no question that that description was accurate because from the facts of the remarkable history. We see in Jacob the most unadmirable.

Fleshly carnal unrighteous traits of character. Jacob had a severe weight problem. While Jacob was still in the womb the scripture tells us of the twins Born to Rebecca that the children struggled the twins the children struggled within.

They struggled together within. Do you know what that struggle was? That was Jacob trying to get ahead of Esau even in the womb. Look at Genesis 25 verses 25 and 26. It says and now for first came forth red all over like a hairy garment and they named him Esau and Afterwards his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel.

So his name was called Jacob. Again a sign of Jacob strong indeed will and Determination he didn't even want to let Esau get out of the womb first. He's holding on to trying to pull him back in and say wait a minute.

Let me get ahead of you. Now Jacob's name is taken from the Hebrew a Hebrew word, which is translated heel. Now we don't have the expression too much anymore. But I remember when I was a kid, we used to talk about a lowdown character.

We'd say he's nothing but a heel and that's what Esau was saying. He said Jacob's nothing but a heel. English translation of Jacob's name is sir planter and that word in Latin is taken from two words sub which means under and planta, which means sole of the foot and To putting it together.

It has a sense of tripping up to take advantage over somebody and that's what it what's what Jacob was. And You see can it be any clear that Jacob was truly a Jacob. He was a mixture of flesh and spirit of righteousness and unrighteousness of truth and trickery and Until and unless Jacob dealt with a Jacob in his heart He could not enter into the blessing of God.

And if he had not dealt with it if that wrestling match had not happened on that eventful night in Pinal I believe that God would have had to take the promise away from him and give it to somebody else.

Now I said all of that to say this that God was. Listen to me carefully. God was and God is committed to getting at the Jacob in all of us. Jacob's problem is our problem. Jacob's flesh is also our flesh.

His conflict is our conflict. Now Jacob's problem was this. He was unwilling to truly and utterly depend on God for all of his needs. He wanted things his own way. He did things his own way. He was dominated by the flesh.

He was always reaching out to grab a hold of somebody's heel. To take an advantage of them or to use them to get ahead. Jacob's history is that of one who plots and schemes to reach some intended purpose.

But he's unwilling to wait on in God's time in God's way to bring it about. You know Frank Sinatra has written a song that describes many a worldly person, but also many a believer. It's entitled. I did it my way.

Jacob was not prepared to wait for God's time in God's way. He much preferred Jacob's way in Jacob's time. He thought it much better to arrive at the blessing and in the inheritance by all sorts of cunning and deception and trickery.

Then by simple dependence upon the will of God. Whose power and wisdom assuredly would accomplish all of that for him. You see this is the trait. This is the sin that does so easily beset us and all how I see it in the body of Christ.

When I look around I think of a young man in Bible college. He's about to graduate to go into the ministry. His goal is to be a youth pastor. But not in any church. He has striven by every effort of the flesh to get with a quote-unquote.

Named pastor in a quote-unquote big church. And then he states after that I can write my own ticket anywhere in the denomination. Now I feel sorry for the young man. Because by the flesh he's going into the ministry and by the flesh is going to try to live and by the flesh He's going to die.

But I must be charitable to him. Because I recognize in him that which has at times characterized my own methods. One of my saddest failures in the ministry had to do with a fleshly ministry project one of those projects that I was sure that was going to be the cure-all for our ministry a fundraising project a project undertaken because of my failure to trust and to believe God and to seek God instead to lean on the arm of flesh and It cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

And every time I think about it I feel limp inside me and I have to limp to an altar of repentance because of the Jacob that was in me. Romans 8 and 6 says to be carnally minded is death but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

And My friend we have a choice to make. Do we do things the carnal way the fleshly way or do we let Jesus have his way in us and through us. Nothing can be more blessed than to be a position of hanging on in childlike faith and Dependence upon God and to be entirely content in trusting in his way and in his time to bring things to pass.

You see the flesh waits hates to wait. The flesh is always full of its own ideas its own schemes its own wisdom its own plans. I know I've been working on a book for a little by a little over a period of time and I'm not ready to finish it yet.

It's called gaining weight. W-a-i-t. It's all about impatience and patience. And I remember when I started on it my my my kids. Asked me said dad, what are you working on now? And I said I'm working on a book new book.

What's it about? I said it's about patience and the three of them laughed in unison. A roar came out of the living. They laughed in unison. You are working on a book on patience. But my friend the greater the temptation there is to take ourselves out of God's will.

The ritual will be the blessing of leaving ourselves right there. Hebrews 12 1 says that we are to lay aside every encumbrance and sin that entangles us and Let us run with endurance or patience the race that is set before us.

And then the next verse if you're familiar with this. You know what the next verse says. Verse 2 of Hebrews 12 says fixing our eyes upon Jesus. The only one who ever occupied the position of complete trust in God and Rejected every proposal of the flesh every proposal that the enemy put before him was the Lord Jesus himself.

When tempted of the devil to satisfy his hunger his reply was it is written Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Jesus said he was going to do it God's way or no other way.

Jesus’ Absolute Dependence on God

When tempted to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple his reply was it is written Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. When tempted to take the kingdoms of the world from the hand of another other than God.

His reply was it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou worship. You see nothing could move Jesus from the place of absolute dependence upon God. And you know what's interesting is that it was God's purpose that Christ should come into his temple.

It was his purpose to give him the kingdoms of the world. But Jesus would wait for God to accomplish it. He did not set about to accomplish his own ends. He left himself thoroughly at God's disposal. He would only eat when God gave him bread.

He would only enter the temple when God gave him the permission to go until God sent him. And he would only ascend the throne when God appointed the time. Psalms 100 says sit thou at my right hand until I make thy foes thy footstool and that's exactly what our Lord did and That's why we can fix our eyes upon him.

And I ask you tonight. Are you prepared to fix your eyes upon Jesus to follow his example and say this in thee? Do I put my trust hallelujah? Another favorite psalm of mine is this promotion. Comes neither from the east or from the west.

In other words, it doesn't come from the earth. Actually, it comes from the north. It comes from above. Psalm 62 and 5 says my soul wait in silence for God alone for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation.

Hallelujah, my friend the scene of some of our greatest battles will be in this conflict between the impetuousness of the flesh and The domination of the Spirit of God and I've seen the Spirit of Jacob destroy Many a man a woman and a young person.

I Think of a young lady tonight. She's no longer young. She was young and when she was younger, she was called to the mission field. But because she wanted marriage. Because she wanted a marriage more than she wanted God's will and God's way.

Tonight she is backslidden. She is bitter. She's about to enter her senior citizen years as a lonely woman and The man she married has been a source of bitter pain and humiliation to her. I think of a young man who was unwilling to wait for God's time and God's way of financial blessing so he went out and he stole his birthright as it were and Today he has all the financial security.

He's hot. With an empty soul to go along with it. And he justified it in the beginning. He said oh if I could just be financially secure. Oh what I could do for God all the time I'd have for God and listen now.

He has no time for God and the devil and the government gets most of his money now because Jacob did not do things God's way. God had to have his way in Jacob through painful discipline and God took Jacob through some purging.

Purging Through Laban and the Consequences of the Flesh

In one of the ways God purged Jacob is to bring him face to face with himself and another person just like himself. Genesis 29. Jacob is told by his father to go to his uncle to Laban and Jacob has led some 500 miles to a place called Padan Aram.

But Dan Aram a place where some of you dwell right now, that's where you are right now. We'll see we'll see it in a minute and there he came to meet a man. His uncle. Uncle Laban look at the chapter 29 in verse 13 and so it came about after this long lonely trip Jacob finally finds his uncle in verse 13.

Chapter 29. So it came about when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister son that he ran To meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. And then he related to Laban all these things.

Now if Jacob had knew what Laban was all about He'd be heated. He'd have wished he'd never arrived there. Because Jacob was a man who had dollar bill signs imprinted on his eyeballs. And when he saw Jacob, he said oh, he said he kissed him.

Listen to what he said verse 14 and Laban said to him surely you are my bone and my flesh and That's where Jacob should have knew he was in trouble. He said look my bones are just like your bones. My flesh is just like your.

If he only knew what was in his flesh. He'd have flea he'd have he would have fled. He said my bones are just like your bone my flesh is just like your flesh. And Laban offers Jacob a job verse 15. He said hey, he said and Laban said to Jacob because you're my relative should you therefore serve me for nothing?

Tell me what you you you name it. You you just name the wages. You see unbeknown to Jacob he was about to fall into the hands of a crafty schemer cheat and deceiver and Laban turned Jacob into a slave laborer.

Making him work 14 years for the woman. He loved working six years on Laban's ranch and changing his wages ten times and in the end Laban out Jacob. Jacob in the end Laban out Jacobs Jacob you see Laban was God's Instrument to teach Jacob some lessons and to purge him of his fleshly nature.

For example Jacob learned something about submission. You see the birthright which was obtained by carnal means carried with it the rights of the firstborn. Now in stealing the birthright Jacob desired to be served rather than to serve.

This is this is one of the Characteristics of the flesh. The flesh goes around and says look at me. You know help me, but you know a minister to me. And so what happened when Jacob worked seven years for Rachel the woman that he loves look at the chapter 29 verse 22.

After in verse 21 and Jacob said to Laban give me my wife for my time is completed that I may go to her. Seven years are complete and Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast wedding feast and now it came about in the evening that he took His daughter Leah and brought her to him and Jacob went into her.

And Jacob gets up the next morning and the wrong woman's in his bed. Laban tricked him into marrying his daughter Leah. And he gives an excuse and Jacob says well Jacob says what is this verse 25? What have you done to me?

Was it not for Rachel that I served you why then have you deceived me. And Laban said well this is the custom here you see that. It's a practice in this place to you see we marry off the Uglier before the print.

I mean the younger before the firstborn. You see what's happening. Jacob wanted the privilege of the firstborn. Of being the firstborn and so what he does he ends up working seven years for a firstborn bride that he did not want and then worked another seven years for Rachel the younger and So chalk up another one for Laban he out Jacob.

Jacob. You see God has his ways of teaching us submission. He has ways of revealing our character to us if we're unwilling to be purged by it. Jacob failed to judge the inherent character of the flesh before God.

Therefore he had to reap what he sowed and God put him right in a place where he stared the same Characteristic that was his own heart. He was stared at a day after day at his boss that he worked for now the lesson here is simple.

If we don't deal with the flesh. If we don't deal with the Jacob in us God will allow a Jacob to come into our lives to mirror ourselves to ourselves. I've seen it in a marriage. I Seen it in the ministry.

I've seen it in a family. I've seen it on a job. Very often the difficulty we have with somebody else we live with and work with and minister with is because we are seeing a reflection of ourself in the other person and God says if you don't deal with that if you can't see it, I'll let you see it.

I'll let you marry it. I'll let you work with it. I'll let you minister with it. Wait a minute I I got a lot of amens. I wasn't expecting there Shame on you all you people that said amen. I married was Shame on you.

I didn't mean it that way. But listen if it's not an exact reflection of ourselves. At least in principle a laban is someone that God uses to bring to death a Jacob. Which is in our own heart to reveal the Jacob, you know, it's amazing.

It's amazing how God I've seen this happen over it's amazing how God in a Live-in situation or in a roommate situation at college or at a ministry or a rehab center or in a An apartment such a way. It's amazing how God Divinely brings certain people together a Laban and a Jacob a Jacobus and a labanus and God looks down and said I can't accomplish it any any other way and he looks down and he said They deserve each other.

You've heard that expression. Well, God has it as well. He said I'm gonna let them at each other. Because it's a reflection of themselves and I think Jacob began to get the picture. God began to do a work in his heart and after God was finished purging him Jacob Is finally the Lord says, okay 20 years 20 years is enough now folks.

I hope I hope you get it. You get at it quicker than 20 years. But it was upon his return to Medesol that he experienced his limp of victory. Go with me now to Genesis 32. At a place called Pinal Jacob has an experience that changed his life and his character.

Wrestling With God at Peniel

Jacob is about to meet Esau. The Lord says go back. I want you to go back home now. You're ready to go back not entirely because the Lord knew that something else was going to happen and Jacob is very fearful of the reunion.

That's going to take place between him and Esau. And so he goes off alone here in chapter 32. He goes At what. Excuse me. What verse is it where we started at verse 22? He arose and he came that night and he took his two sons and two maids and 11 children.

He crossed the ford of the Jay Bach and that word Jacob and it says in the next verse it says and he was left alone. But it's interesting the word Jay Bach means emptiness. You see news had reached Jacob that Esau had 400 men with him now God had told him and said go back and I will be with you.

But there's still Jacob. There's still too much Jacob in it. And so he schemes a scheme and He said okay. He's now rich and he has this whole company of men and he says well. You know in case Esau does not receive me I'll send out one company ahead and that way if he destroys that company at least I have another company left and So he still is not trusting God.

But when he hears that Jacob has excuse me that Esau has 400 men. I believe that he's thrown in complete despair and He says he was left alone and it seemed like he had tried everything. There was nothing left for him to do.

He had he had schemed this scheme of how maybe to protect himself and to save his wealth. And there was nothing he had no more trump cards left no more Jacob's ways to follow and he's left alone before God and My friend it's not until we are alone that we can come face to face with ourselves.

And many times we try this and that and we go and look at excuses and we say this is a problem and that's the problem and and finally it's still not solved and we're left all alone with ourselves and Some people move some people keep running all the time.

They run from church to church. They run from ministry to ministry. When the problem is that within themselves and I've said it before in this pulpit. Let me say it again. Remember if you're one who's always running.

And you haven't dealt with a thing that's in you. Remember that wherever you go. There you are. You take yourself with you everywhere you go and you might as well deal with it finally deal with it and Jacob is left alone and it says that a man then came to him and wrestled with him until daybreak and Hosea 12 for says that that man was an angel.