Genesis 27:41-28:9
What
a tangled web! Jacob has cheated Esau. Now, Esau is saying, ‘I will
kill my brother Jacob’(41). What are we to make of all this? We must
look beyond the human scene. Behind it all, there is ‘God Almighty’(3).
God will fulfil His promises. Nothing will distract Him from His
ultimate purpose of salvation. We look at the complex series of events
involving Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob and Esau. God looks beyond all of that
to Jesus Christ. He looks beyond the nation of Israel. His purpose
concerns ‘the ends of the earth’(Acts 1:8). ‘The blessing of Abraham’
refers not only to the ‘land’(4). There is also ‘the promise of the
Spirit’(Galatians 3:14). We are to live ‘by the power of the Spirit’,
and not ‘according to the flesh’ as Esau did when ‘he went to Ishmael
(the child of Abraham's unbelief...)’(9; Galatians 4:29).
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