As the senior member of his family, Isaac had the right to give the birthright and special blessings to his children. Now therefore, take thy quiver and thy bow, go out to the field, and take me some venison; and make me good-tasting meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, so that I may eat, so that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Rebekah overheard her husband speaking to Esau and ran to find Jacob. The Lord had revealed to Rebekah that Jacob was to receive the birthright, but Rebekah knew how much Isaac loved his oldest son and wanted to give these blessings to Esau. Because Esau had not always made right choices, Rebekah knew he was not worthy. He had rejected the teachings of his parents by marrying a daughter of the Canaanites.
Rebekah knew by inspiration that Jacob should receive the birthright blessing. Rebekah told Jacob that Isaac had sent Esau for venison and that he was going to bless Esau after the meal. I will make good-tasting meat for thy father just as he loves it. She then told Jacob he was to take the food to his father.
Then Isaac would give Jacob the blessing instead of Esau. My father will feel me and know that I have deceived him. It shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing. Jacob hurried out, and when he returned with the two small goats, his mother prepared the good-tasting meat.
She also took the skins of goats and made a hairy covering for his hands and neck. Jacob nervously approached Isaac. Sit and eat of my venison that thou may bless me. Isaac was surprised that he had found the meat so quickly. Jacob served the food. Isaac blessed Jacob with the good things of the earth and prophesied that his brother would bow down to him and serve him.
He was to inherit a promised land and have many descendants. Those descendants were to bear the holy priesthood and be a blessing to all nations of the earth. Soon after Jacob had left the room, Esau returned. He had also prepared good-tasting meat for his father. Where is he who brought venison to me? I have eaten before thou came and have blessed him. Esau wept. He had lost the blessings that could have been his because he had not lived to be worthy of them.
He begged his father to give him but one blessing. Rebekah found out what Esau had threatened to do and called Jacob to her. She understood that Jacob needed both blessings—to combine spiritual strength with mastery over the physical world—in order to be the father of the Jewish nation. She thus wanted Jacob to undergo an apprenticeship with her brother, Laban, the master trickster, so that he would know how to combine these traits.
This new name demonstrates his completed evolution, a name by which we, his descendants, are called: Benei Yisrael the Children of Israel. R eprinted with permission from the Orthodox Union. In their relationships with each other, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Esau, struggle between models of unity and connection and separation and deceit. We use cookies to improve your experience on our site and bring you ads that might interest you. No one is trapped in Israel.
Many in fact came out of her and became Christians, in order to be saved. Entire nations, people groups, went the way of Sodom and Gomorrah, became extinct, because the wages of sin is death, and no nations were righteous, not even one.
Even Edom suffered the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah, became extinct, not because God hated her and loved Jacob, but because she was not righteous, even exceeding the other two nations in her depravity.
Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters. God doesn't hate, love individuals less. He loved Israel more, in the sense He preserved her, in spite of her being as depraved as other nations, and His choice was based on grace, His promise to Abraham, not the Covenant she insisted on. Romans ESV God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
God hates no man, neither can He, for He created man in His image and likeness, so how can He hate His image and likeness, which is every human being?
Thus, God does not and never has had hated Esau, neither before his birth, nor after his birth. Thus, the phrase "God hated Esau" can mean but that God being omniscient pre-knew bad choices and actions of Esau and this He hated, I mean, the transgressions of Esau, not Esau himself. He hated those transgressions out of love of Esau, in whom He always and forever unto ages of ages viewed His own image and likeness, eternally lovable for Him.
He could not suffer His beloved Esau to suffer from his own transgressions. Finally, when I say "God hated Esau's transgressions", again I use human way of talking, but God's hatred of transgressions is absolutely different from ours: we always identify person with his sins, but He never does, for in all great sinners He still sees His own image and likeness which He loves.
And, you also need to understand two other points. Exodus We are redeemed via Jesus, as he is the firstborn of all believers. If you are to consider the possibility of Genesis 6 as being true and accurate, namely that the sons of God copulated with human women in order that they might corrupt the human seed genome and thereby destroy the possibility of a redeemer as prophecied that would restore humans back into right standing with God.
And that God decided after the nations rebelled against The God of heaven, to put over them gods to rule over them as they were divided Deu LLX and Psalm But God made His own nation from Abraham by the son of promise Isaac Deu and Deu the youngest and therefore the fewest of all the nations.
If you believe that God had a specific plan and therefore a particular bloodline lineage through which He would bring the Messiah into the world then it will make complete sense why Esau was hated. The passage in Romans does not deal with Salvific predestination but with a linage choice through which the messiah would come.
Obviously salvation in the New Covenant which makes the Old Covenant obsolete does not come by way of bloodlines John For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son. This hatred occurred at the moment of conception. And God does not do thing arbitrarily. So there is something that distinguishes Esau from Jacob. We know Isaac was a child of promise from parents God had chosen and we might argue from the Hebrew word they were tamaiym.
But Rebecca we have no reason to believe she was tamaiym. This means based on other passages that Esau carried in his genome the seed of the deceiver or of his counterparts the sons of God that copulated with human women. The choice was obvious at this point why Jacob was favored purely for his genetic purity tamaiym-ness. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why did God hate Esau from the womb when he had done no evil? Ask Question. Asked 2 years ago. Active 1 year, 1 month ago. Viewed 11k times. Improve this question. Ernest Abinokhauno Ernest Abinokhauno 2, 4 4 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. The reference is at Romans What I see about this question is something that revolves around the election of grace. The Hebrew expression loved X, hated Y is idiomatic , referring to choosing or preferring one over another see Luke As to why, Genesis might provide a clue, in light of divine foreknowledge, as mentioned by Paul elsewhere see Romans But, could it also be metaphorical that God promised to destroy the progress he would make in Malachi ?
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Just like the example of the vessel in Rom [Rom 9: ] Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Improve this answer. The spanish version is interesting. Where does it say God saved Jacob and not Esau in that passage of Romans?
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