| Jacob | Enos |
| Struggled and wrestled | Wrestled and struggled |
| Peniel | Before God |
| All night, into the day | All day, into the night |
| Estranged brothers/nations (Jacob and Esau) | Estranged brothers/nations (Nephi/Laban) |
| Esau wanted to kill Jacob | Laman and Lemuel wanted to kill Nephi |
| Jacob fled into the wilderness to escape | Nephites fled into the wilderness to escape |
| Esau is a cunning hunter, with skill in the bow (Gen. 27:1-5) | Lamanites are hunters, with skill in the bow (Enos 1:20), Enos went to “hunt” |
| Records preserved and “sealed” up in an earthen vessel for a long time recording Esau’s loss of the birthright (Jasher 56:55-57). | Preserved and “sealed” records coming forth to convert the Lamanites. |
| Reconciliation with God and man | Reconciliation with God and man |
| Blessed | “Thou shalt be blessed” |
| “Life is preserved” | “the Lord God would preserve a record” |
| Entered the promised land | Soul did “rest” |
| Seeing Esau like seeing the “face of God.” | Then shall he “see His [God’s] face” |
| “and thou wast pleased with me” | “see his face with pleasure” |
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wrestling Before the Lord Continued
Continued from: http://amateurscriptorians.blogspot.com/2009/10/summary-of-my-sperry-presentation.html
Here is a summary of the similarities between Jacob and Enos's wrestling:
Let me know if you can think of any that I missed.
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