Just asking (13): how could Jacob again?

Jacob wrestles with the angel till daybreak [RP-P-1943-640, between 1881 and 1934] (Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Jacob’s story in Genesis has been broached in “Just asking: How could Jacob?”

This is asking a follow up question.

I used to think, even preach, that the moral of the Gen 32 story is that God has a soft spot to pleading. That’s why a weakened Jacob could still prevail and exacted blessings.

Now I sense the coarseness of it.
And I want to ask again.

The fault lies in reducing the moral to the level of human nature, irrespective of time and space, equally ethnicity and background as well.
It may be a good preaching objective and admirable approach.
It’s coarseness, however, is it irons out history, secular as well as sacred.

No doubt Gen 32 records that Yahweh, through the angel who wrestled with Jacob, finally answered Jacob’s pleading.
Yahweh’s soft heart couldn’t stand a chance of a lame Jacob’s pleading.

But Genesis was written as Jewish Scripture.
Genesis was written firstly for a Jewish audience.
So for Jews, better call it Israelites, when reading Gen 32, inevitably will read the moral as this: Yahweh will listen to the prayers of Israel, just like He yielded to the weakened Jacob!
It is guaranteed, by Gen 32, that Yahweh is Israel’s God and will always answer Israel’s prayer with blessings.

So how is it possible to jump over the historical chasm and conclude that He always has a soft spot for pleas from weak humans?
Isn’t it too moralistic a reading of the Scripture, ignoring its topography?
After all a Xerox copy of an oil painting isn’t exactly showing the same thing.

But perhaps am I asking for a bridging step, which morphs Jacob-Israel the chosen people into the Church-Elect?
Then all those are in-Christ can safely expect God always has a soft spot for His own people in distress.

I’m just asking.