There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel. El Elohe Israel means God, the God of Israel. The altar named for the new covenant name Jacob received at Peniel is Jacob's first act of worship as Israel. The God who was the God of Abraham and Isaac is now, by Jacob's own declaration, the God of Israel. The application: the altar that names God from your own covenant name is the altar that declares personal, not merely inherited, faith. Jacob worships not as Abraham's grandson but as Israel.

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