The Bethel United Methodist Church Getumo-Kisii Kenya.

09/04/2026

He rose , he is not in the grave.
Now seated in the right hand of our God.
Shalom

21/02/2026

02/01/2026

🚨 Did a Man Wrestle God Himself… or an Angel? The Bible’s Most Unsettling Encounter Explained

One of the strangest and most misunderstood moments in the Bible happens in Genesis 32, when Jacob spends an entire night physically wrestling a mysterious being. The text says Jacob wrestled “a man.” By morning, Jacob is injured, renamed, and forever changed.

But here’s the question most Christians never slow down to ask:

Was Jacob wrestling God Himself… or an angel?

The answer is not as simple as people want it to be—and the Bible leaves it intentionally unclear.

Genesis 32 describes the figure only as a man. Yet after the struggle ends, Jacob makes a shocking declaration:
“I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
He names the place Peniel, meaning Face of God.

So which is it?

The confusion deepens when the prophet Hosea looks back on this same event centuries later and gives us another detail. Hosea says Jacob “strove with the angel and prevailed,” and then, without pause, refers to that same being as the LORD, the God of hosts.

An angel… yet God.

This is not a contradiction. It’s a theological tension the Bible refuses to resolve for us.

Throughout Scripture, there is a unique figure called the Angel of the LORD—not a typical angel, but a divine messenger who speaks as God, carries God’s authority, receives worship, and even renames people. Many theologians believe this figure represents a divine manifestation of God, possibly even a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ.

What Scripture does not say is that Jacob wrestled God in His full, unveiled essence. The Bible is clear that no one can see God fully and live. Instead, God meets Jacob in a form he can survive, yet one powerful enough to break him.

And that is the point of the story.

Jacob does not win by strength. He clings. He refuses to let go. He demands a blessing. And in that moment, he is no longer Jacob. He becomes Israel—one who wrestles with God and lives marked by the e

29/10/2024

ONCE AGAIN ,ON BEHALF OF THE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH-BETHEL GETUMO WELCOME OUR BISHOP, BISHOP SCOTT JONES.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR APPOINTMENT AS OUR BISHOP.

27/05/2024

🚀 Announcing the Climate Justice Impact Fund for Africa (CJIFA) Call for Proposals!

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03/03/2024

Global Methodist Church -Bethel Getumo
Welcome to our Thanksgiving Sunday Worship!
Deuteronomy 8.
Psalms 65.
Mathew 6:20-23.

17/01/2024

The Global Methodist Church has.....

07/01/2024

Praise God Christians!
Join us this morning in the Global Methodist Church- Bethel Getumo during our first Sunday worship service 7th Jan 2024
WE ARE TRYING TO BE WHO GOD WANTS US TO BE AND TO DO WHAT GOD WANTS US TO DO!
BE A DORICAS !😃😃💓
Acts 9:36...

25/12/2023

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU WHO WORSHIP GOD IN TRUTH AND SPIRIT.
ALERT TO PUT THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND DEFEND IT.
THE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH BETHEL GETUMO IS HONORED TO WISH YOU A
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲AND A HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2024.
SHALOM!!!