GENESIS

THE BEGINNING AND THE END

ALPHA & OMEGA

The Kingdoms

The Blessing



  1. Charge to Esau
    1. Genesis 27:1-4 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered. [2] Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death. [3] Now then, get your weapons--your quiver and bow--and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. [4] Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."
      1. Esau will do as his father asked, but the blessing will not be his.
        1. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. [7] Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
          1. Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet the Lord set his affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations, as it is today.
        2. Amos 3:2 "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins."
        3. Romans 9:10-11 Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. [11] Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad--in order that God's purpose in election might stand:
      2. He [Esau] will not get the blessing because it was not his.
      3. Isaac and Esau made a determined effort to take the blessing from Jacob
        1. The culture of the time, the oldest should get the blessing.
          1. Isaac a "type" of the born again believe, wants to keep the status quo, but it would appear God has something new in mind. A warning to the believe to day who does not first seek God in all things..


  2. Rebekah's Plot
    1. Genesis 25: 5-13 Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, [6] Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, [7] 'Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.' [8] Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: [9] Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. [10] Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies." [11] Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin. [12] What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing." [13] His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."
      1. First, why did Rebekah do this?
        1. Genesis 25:23 The Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."
        2. Genesis 25:31 Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."
          1. Later we shall look at this birthright closer.
          2. The family of Esau [Edom] and the family of Israel will be enemies from now on. For a time, the Edomites would appear to do better. But in the Millennium the family of Esau will serve the family of Jacob.
        3. Some will look at this family and say it was a dysfunctional family. Maybe, but it was the plan of God that was being fulfilled. As I stated above, Isaac and Esau were about to steal the blessing from Jacob. What you do not see in any of this, someone LOOKED TO GOD FOR AN ANSWER!
        4. What was Jacob after?
          1. The blessing!
            1. But no where do we see that he wants the spiritual side of the blessing only the material side of the blessing.
        5. What will he do to get it?
          1. Put on the cloths of Esau, I see this as putting on the things of the world. The Born Again person has strict orders.
            1. Romans 13:12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
            2. 1 Corinthians 15:53-54 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. [54] When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
            3. Galatians 3:27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
            4. Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
            5. Ephesians 6:11 Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
            6. Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
            7. Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
            8. Colossians 3:14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.


  3. The Plot executed
    1. Genesis 25:14-25 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. [15] Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. [16] She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. [17] Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made. [18] He went to his father and said, "My father." "Yes, my son," he answered. "Who is it?" [19] Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing." [20] Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The Lord your God gave me success," he replied. [21] Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not." [22] Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." [23] He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him. [24] "Are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "I am," he replied. [25] Then he said, "My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing." Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.
      1. This is so clear.
        1. If I am a child of God, [born again, born of God, the nature of God] I WILL WALK in the spirit
        2. Either I serve the God of Light, [truth] or rely on the god of darkness, [lie, deceit, half truths]
          1. Look at this person real close.
            1. Can you see yourself, your spouse, your child, your neighbor.
              1. You look at people who do less than the above and you judge them lost.
          2. But remember this.
            1. "I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB"
              1. Again for this person who studies the Word of God. The WORD is saying I am the God of three groups of people.
                1. Abraham = The man of faith
                2. Isaac = The unnatural born, saved by the lamb, the born again of God.
                3. Jacob = The natural man that one day will wrestle with God. [later in our study]


  4. The Plot is successful
    1. Genesis 27:26-29 Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here, my son, and kiss me." [27] So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed. [28] May God give you of heaven's dew and of earth's richness- an abundance of grain and new wine. [29] May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."
      1. The blessing!!!!!
        1. May God give you of heaven's dew
        2. and of earth's richness-
          1. an abundance of grain and new wine.
        3. [29] May nations serve you
          1. peoples bow down to you.
          2. Be lord over your brothers,
            1. may the sons of your mother bow down to you
        4. . May those who curse you be cursed
        5. and those who bless you be blessed."
      2. What is this blessing all about.?
      3. What do we not see in the blessing?
        1. No important relationship with God.


  5. The Plot Discovered
    1. Genesis 27:30-33 After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. [31] He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing." [32] His father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau." [33] Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him--and indeed he will be blessed!"
      1. The question of Isaac has to be looked at!
      2. Who are you?
        1. This is the question for all of us, who are we?
        2. Esau answered correct.
          1. I am your son, your firstborn son.
            1. I am putting my future in this one thing!
              1. Not what is important to me!
              2. Not what I have done with my life!
              3. Not what I want out of the future!
      3. Now Issac must think about what has happened.
        1. He has just blessed the one that God had chosen.
        2. He becomes fearful.
          1. God will have His way. What was he thinking of.
        3. He will let the blessing stand.


  6. Esau's unavailing remorse
    1. Genesis 27:34-38 When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me--me too, my father!" [35] But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing." [36] Esau said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?" [37] Isaac answered Esau, "I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?" [38] Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.
      1. The battle of many today!
        1. Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing
          1. This is not true.
          2. It was never Esau's to have.
            1. Look at the father. How often when we see someone in one way deceiver] , we want to see everything they do in that light. Even if it is wrong.
          3. Look at the brother.
            1. Jacob never deceived him, it was a pure act. I will give you this [soup] for your birthright. It was agreed upon.
            2. Now he wants to try and make a distinction between birth right and blessing, when in fact he is talking of the same thing.
            3. Hebrews 12:16-17 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. [17] Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears.
          4. Again look at the things that were given.
            1. I have made him lord over you
            2. made all his relatives his servants,
            3. I have sustained him with grain and new wine.
        2. So, the question now to the one not chosen of God.
          1. So what can I possibly do for you, my son


  7. Isaac's wicked suggestion
    1. Genesis 27:39-40 His father Isaac answered him, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above. [40] You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck."
      1. The were and are a warring people.
      2. Israel will rule over them for long periods of time.
        1. 1 Samuel 14:47 After Saul had assumed rule over Israel, he fought against their enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them.
        2. 2 Samuel 8:14 He put garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. The Lord gave David victory wherever he went.
        3. 2 Kings 14:7 He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.
      3. The time came, when this rule ended!
        1. 2 Chron. 21:8-10 In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king. [9] So Jehoram went there with his officers and all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night. [10] To this day Edom has been in rebellion against Judah. Libnah revolted at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the Lord, the God of his fathers.


  8. Esau's Plot against Jacob
    1. Genesis 27:41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
      1. This felling lasts until this day.
      2. The question we might ask, what should people in like circumstances do?
        1. Seek God as a Gentile. Jacob has a earthly blessing. Every man, woman and child can seek God and find Him.
          1. John 3:15-16 that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. [16] "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


  9. The Plot Discovered
    1. Genesis 27:42 When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.
      1. A divided family.
      2. Rebekah sees her oldest son, "he is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.
        1. Philip. 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.


  10. Rebekah's plan to save Jacob
    1. Genesis 27:43-45 Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran. [44] Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides. [45] When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
      1. A terrible price Rebekah will pay.
        1. "stay with him for awhile"
          1. 20 years - 20 later
        2. She will never see this son again on this earth.
      2. As we have seen in the lives of all those before. It is not good to try and help God. She would have been better off to seek God and let God take care of the situation.
        1. Now she has likely lost both her sons.
      3. The anger of Esau will not change until Jacob seeks God in earnest.


  11. Rebekah's plea to Issac
    1. Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."
      1. It sounds so good.
      2. Her interest was not in the marriage of her 77 year old bachelor son, if it were she would have done some thing before.
        1. I am sure she did not want her son to marry a Hittite, but I see the Isaac family as I see to many of the Christian families of today. How can you tell them apart from those who live around them.