Israel (Jacob)

Pronunciation: IZ-ree-uhl (Jacob: JAY-kub)

His Place Among the High Priests

Israel is eighth in the order of the 24 High Priest Communities. He is brother to the Hills. His Watcher is Regel, “Feet of God,” who teaches diligence. Israel gave Messiah a new name, and it was “The Prince of Peace” (I Achee 3:90).

The Name Israel

“While it was predicted that he would find the name of Israel, it was at the Day of Instruction that the name Israel truly became his, because Anokeesed prevailed by His hand, and it was done by the power of the Living Water that flowed out with him in Motsah the Lamb, the Messiah of Israel” (Moses 5:26).

What He Established

Israel established the meaning of virtue in families and society. Through this, he allowed Christ to be the identity and definition of human virtue — or, more simply said, to have virtue.

Born Crippled

Jacob was born with his hip out of joint, crippled from birth. He was slow to walk, needing a rag tied around his knee to lift his leg and take a step. When Isaac and Abraham blessed both sons at their Coming of Age, both blessings were acceptable in the eyes of Anokeesed. Esau’s anger came instead from his brother’s disability: he mocked that a cripple was fit for nothing, could not hunt or gather, and should be cast out to starve.

Sent to Find a Wife

Some years later, when Jacob was twenty, Abraham and Rebecca sent him to Haran to find a wife. Esau mocked again, doubting Jacob could even sit a donkey. Rebecca, frightened the mockery might prove true, wanted to cancel the journey — but Abraham, who had seen by Urim, insisted Jacob must go and prove himself against the war coming upon his soul. A special saddle was built so Jacob could ride sideways, and Abraham mapped the trail for him by hand.

The Vision on the Journey

Departing with blessings from both parents, Jacob traveled north until he could look out over the Jordan Valley and the Sea of Kinnereth. Afraid his brother’s scorn might come true, he prayed in earnest, offering his life to Anokeesed’s service if he lived to return. That night, the Lord gave him a dream of a holy pathway to heaven, with twelve faces on one side — the sons of Yaatsekawd — and twelve more on the other.

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