The Book of Genesis
Day 256
Ge 27:36 And Esau
said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two
times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my
blessing!" And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for
me?" 37 Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Indeed I have made him
your master, and all his brethren I have given to him as servants; with grain
and wine I have sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?" 38
And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless
me-me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 39 Then
Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall be
of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above. 40 By your
sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; And it shall come to
pass, when you become restless, That you shall break his yoke from your neck."
Prophecy is
amazing! All these things pronounced upon Esau by Isaac came to pass. Just as
Isaac’s blessing let Jacob know what was in store for him, so does his blessing
of Esau!
The descendants of
Esau are known as Edomites in the Bible
and they indeed did inhabit a rich fertile country to the south of Judah. They were a people
who lived by the sword. It was Edom that refused to let Jacob’s descendants
pass through their land on their way to the Promised Land. They flat out told
them in Nu 20:18, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against
you with the sword."
Later, King Saul would make war against them,
and later still, David would actually conquer them, and they would (as the
blessing stated) “serve their brother Israel.”
In the end, Edom
threw in with Babylon and helped overthrow Judah, and God pronounced a special
judgment against them in the days of Ezekiel.
He said in Eze 35:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against
Mount Seir (a mountain located in Edom) and prophesy against it, 3 "and say to it, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand
against you, And make you most desolate;
4 I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you
shall know that I am the LORD. 5
"Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the
children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity,
when their iniquity came to an end,”
This hatred
started here with Esau and was never totally resolved. Esau never did see and
come to grips with the fact that God intended the blessing of the firstborn for
Jacob all along.The reason he
couldn’t see it was because all he could concentrate on was the trickery of
Jacob. He and his descendants were never able to let go of that root of
bitterness, and in the end it cost them dearly….they became a desolation.
Unforgiveness
going on in your life? Stop focusing on the faults of those you choose to not
forgive. Rather look for the positive, and let those positive things open the
door to dialogue, and let that dialogue lead to forgiveness and restoration
through Jesus Christ
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