Jacob was to become a founder of new people that will live for many centuries like no other, will go against "the world," against the system. He was afraid, but he remembered the words of the covenant, he remembered that God had promised His protection. However, a promise is one thing, and a real leap into the unknown is quite another thing. Theory is one thing, while to surrender completely in the hands of an unknown future is a completely different thing. And realize what will give impetus to the development of a new ethnic group, the most powerful on Earth. This has never been done before.

God forced nobody to realize this mission. God always sets a target. And waits until there is a volunteer who will achieve what others fear. It's really scary to believe the unbelievable, to trust fully and without reservation; this is as if you bring yourself in sacrifice. It is always safer to have a bird in the hand...

But the hardest part is, perhaps, not even fear, but to believe that a chosen path is right. All humansare fallible and can be wrong. And many people are mistaken and fall. As long as this is not done, nobody will say if you are right or not. At the contrary, people are clinging with their teeth to the arms and legs. With the best intentions, of course... To save a madman from a mistake... No one has ever done it before! And if you put yourself to do something new, then you automatically become a parvenu. And you will be hated twice.

Against Jacob was his brother's army. 400 armed men tried to kill him, kill his whole family. And Jacob had just a few hours before dawn to make a decision. He devoted his life to the Project of God, a great mystery of the holy people formation. He lived for it. And understood more than others what to do for the man would become an ancestor of a new humanity. Such humanity that God wants. To glorify God, not man. A godlike humanity enthroned above Creation. And not the humanity in the image of an animal that fears an unknown deity.

Just need a man. The man who will embed himself into the Project of God. Who will put his life on the foundation of a large building. And then God will undertake a great eternal construction site.

It's easy to be the last. How much correct words are invented to justify cowardice. And how difficult is for man to act according to the superior logic of God based on the understanding of Creator’s design. It is easier to man to fall through the earth, to tear himself by his own hands. God does not force anyone to implement His project. Look around you; it's always the same thing. People do not care about the Project of God. They do not seek to contain large and grandiose things. Instead they glorify their little lives and encourage others to follow their example. Jacob probably heard the same words that are said to all the pioneers: "Who do you think you are? Are you the son of the carpenter, aren’t you? Nobody does so since the creation of the world. Isitdemonacting inyou? "

Probably, if the situation does not become desperate, Jacob would never have dared. Because all great men are the shortest, in reality. And they do not undertake the great things unless it is absolutely necessary. And Jacob, running away from his pursuers, humbly prayed: "I am unworthy of all the faithful love and constancy you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, and now I have grown into two camps." However, it remained only a few hours before dawn. And there was no time to make a choice. It's just now or never. Everything or nothing...

Oh, half a Kingdom of Salem!..

Jacob's struggle with God has a completely different meaning. This is not a fight of rabid Judaism (or "Russian" Communism). Jacob, in the system of formation of the original Trinitarian core of God’s People, fulfils a function of the Holy Spirit which is omnipresent and omnipotent. Abraham - father, Isaac - sacrificed son, and Jacob had to run - carry out the Project of God. He was to be a spiritual space, a Bosom of Abraham, which will grow and form a new People of God. This is why the 12 tribes of Israel are originated from Jacob, not from Abraham or Isaac.

Jacob had become a fully formed stone from which will grow the Holy Scale - the Mother of God towards the Heaven. This is the same stone that was under his head during sleep. The problem was the same: in the entire universe there was no man willing to stand in the way of total disintegration and say: STOP!!! Beelzebub will not pass! I took my place in Creation, and from this point, absolutely another story begins.

At all times, we have always heard the same sad story about the "big brother" who has everything for this mission, but does nothing ... and a man who has nothing but is watching with horror everything sagging around him, the world collapsing and atomizing. And nobody does not care! In all times, it's the same question: why, in the universe, there is nobody apart me; is it really me who should do it? Why me, I am nothing? The man who crossed the Jordan with only a stick...

To stop the disintegration of being, it was necessary to create a new existential basis. After the fall of man, the world seemed to be condemned to eternal death. For the creation of the godlike Kingdom, we had to create a special new basis, woven with God, His power, angelic army that Jacob met on shore. It is not by his own strength that Jacob was going to fight Beelzebub...

Did you not create man; did younotdesigned to make man a receptacle for Yourself? Is it exactly the same that you are expecting from us, aren’t you? And if it is your will, it means I'm going to succeed...

Heaven overturned and a mysterious power pushed Jacob into the Abyss of water. The waters of the entire universe flowed into his heart. He stood in the way of this existential flow as an indestructible dam. He was time mercilessly overflowed by the streams of time. The centuries rushed before him, billions of people's lives, kingdoms, and historical epochs. He saw how grows and strengthens a branch of the holy people, how, at the top of a mighty tree, shined a bright star. It shined under the ceiling of Heaven. And in the glow of dawn rose, he saw new waters, completely new. What is it? Lord, give me your blessing, and I will understand, I will endure, I'm up, I will not leave, I go further, I'm doing the next step...

«Then Jacob asked, 'Please tell me your name.' He replied, 'Why do you ask my name?' With that, he blessed him there. Jacob named the place Peniel, 'Because I have seen God face to face,' he said, 'and have survived'» (Genesis 32:30-31).