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In Genesis 32:24-28, Jacob wrestled with the angel, and was given the name of Israel. Later, on his deathbed, he prophesied to his son Judah that the scepter of Israel would not depart from his descendants.

(Q) What should be understood by the statement [Genesis 49:10], “The scepter has not departed from Israel”?

(A) Israel is the chosen of the Lord, and that His promise, His care, His love has not departed from those that seek to know His way, that seek to see His face, that would draw nigh unto Him. This is the meaning, this should be the understanding to all. Those that seek are Israel. Those that seek not, have ye not heard, “Think not to call thyselves the promise in Abraham. Know ye not that the Lord is able to raise up children of Abraham from the very stones?” So Abraham means call; so Israel means those who seek. How obtained the supplanter the name Israel? For he wrestled with the angel, and he was face to face with the seeking to know His way. So it is with us that are called and seek His Face; we are the Israel. Know, then, the scepter, the promise, the love, the glory of the Lord has not departed from them that seek His face.

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¹¹See 262-87.

¹²Revelation 21: “. . . there is then the new Jerusalem.” For as has been given, the place is not as a place alone but as a condition, as an experience of the soul. Jerusalem has figuratively, symbolically meant the holy place, the holy city . . . the ark of the covenant in the minds, hearts, the understandings, the comprehensions of those who have put away the earthly desires and become as the new purposes in their experience, become the new Jerusalem, the new undertakings, the new desires. (281-37)

¹³1 Corinthians 3:15.

¹⁴When this entity asked Cayce to describe the karmic relationship she had with her present father, Cayce responded, “He was Er, the husband in that experience. And is there a wonder that there are those disturbing forces in the material relationship in the present. Leave these with the Lord!” (1436-2)

¹⁵She had been healed of arthritis by following advice in her three previous readings.