Jacob was to restore Adam's position as well as the position Abel lost. However, he was exiled, to Haran, and for 21 years he not complete his mission. Then he returned to his hometown, Canaan, with his property. In the course of the Fall, the mother initiated the fallen action and her son completed the action. Mother and son together brought the Fall to humankind. Therefore, in the course of restoration, the reverse process must take place. That is why the mother, Rebekah, and her younger son, Jacob, cooperated to accomplish the purpose.

In the course of the Fall, Eve lied to her father (God) and to her brother Adam; therefore, Rebekah deceived her husband, Isaac, and her first son, Esau, in order for Jacob to receive the blessing. Isaac, as the father of the two brothers, was in God's position, and Esau was in Cain's position.

That was just a foundation; the substantial restoration was not yet established. Until that time, Jacob's mother was fulfilling her mission, and then it was Jacob's turn to fulfill his mission. Jacob's mission was to restore Adam's position invaded by Satan and to restore the position of Abel, who had been killed by Cain. Jacob was to go up to Esau's position and to make Esau surrender to him.

You should remember how Adam lost his position, because Jacob's first chief mission was to restore Adam's position. Adam was dominated by Satan; therefore, Jacob had to fight against an angel at the ford of Jabbok. He wrestled with an angel all night until daybreak. What was the result of it? The angel admitted Jacob's victory and blessed him. In this way, the original position was restored.

Why did the angel hit Jacob's hip bone before giving him the blessing? The human fall was caused by misuse of the hip bone; therefore, indemnity was completed through the blow to the sinful part of the body. The principle of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" was applied there. For that reason, the angel was able to bless Jacob.

What was Jacob's second mission? First, he needed to win a victory over the angel. Adam's position was restored by winning an internal victory. Next Jacob was to restore Abel's position on this condition for restoring Adam's position. Coming back from Haran after 21 years, Jacob gave all his possessions to Esau in order to appease his brother; he just wanted to receive the blessing from Esau. That is why the older brother Esau welcomed Jacob. In this way Esau went down to his younger brother's position. Because Jacob restored Esau's position, he could cross his arms to put his left hand on Joseph's elder son Manasseh and to put his right hand on the younger son Ephraim when he was blessing them.

According to the Bible, Jacob's nature seems very cunning. Isn't it strange that God blessed such a cunning Jacob? There is a clear reason for this from the viewpoint of the Principle. Because Jacob fulfilled his mission given by God, God could bless him. Can you believe such a story? Do you think I made up all those stories? All those things happened several thousands of years ago, so nobody could understand the true meaning of the stories in the Old Testament until the Principle was revealed.

The name Israel started from D in the above diagram. Even though Jacob set up a victorious foundation, at point E the original position was not restored. So D had to be restored at point E through a certain condition. If God had stopped His providence at Jacob's age, the standard prior to Jacob's age at that time would have remained unrestored.

Suppose God's providence had started with Jacob and had been completed during Jacob's generation. Then people older than Jacob's age could be restored due to his victorious condition, but those younger than Jacob's age-from children to middle-aged-could not be restored. Therefore, restoration had to start again from the origin-the mother's womb.