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My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge: Hosea 4:6.

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[QBFimi]

Heel catcher - wow! The things we miss - not knowing Hebrew!

[arthurus]

Lord was inteated of him

was what ?

[marron]

Neither Jacob nor his mother understood that, if God promises to bless you, you don’t have to cheat or steal to get it.

In fact, you can’t steal a blessing anyway. Having attempted to “steal” Esau’s blessing, he wound up leaving with nothing at all, and Esau inherited everything. Jacob wound up working for 20 years for a guy who cheated him over and over... and yet once God made good on his promise to bless him, cheating him was pointless. He got his blessing in spite of what his father-in-law did.

You do note that cheating seemed to run in that family, everyone cheating everyone. The father-in-law cheating Jacob, the wives cheating each other and their father, their sons selling one another out. God evidently didn’t choose them because they were the most noble people, but because he saw what they could be, not merely what they were.

[Ezekiel]

Unlike most stories in the Bible, there are no heroes or villains in this one. Everyone is guilty. Isaac favored one son over the other. Rebekah was a manipulator. Jacob was a deceiver. Esau was careless.

And the experts are perpertually guilty for jumping to conclusions, just like Esav did when he flew off the handle in assuming that he received an inferior blessing.

Jacob needed to hold Esav back, and Rebecca was a visionary.

Her last words to him are heartbreaking: Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: (verse 45). But she was lying to herself; she would never see Jacob again.

She wasn't lying to herself, it's a long view prophecy of rectification. Everyone is going to forget and learn to laugh over the epic misunderstandings and be willing to start fresh. Laughter is the best medicine. Life from the dead. No laughter, no inheritance.

Jewish understanding: Esav is Western Civ, the Christian world.

And...

"When we rise above the root of evil and perceive the Divine plan in its entirety, then there is no longer any difference between Haman's curse and Mordechai's blessing -- both are part of God's plan for human history."

http://www.aish.com/h/pur/t/dt/48944556.html

Rebecca made the first Purim costume, dressing up Jacob in Esav's "Sunday best."

As far as the reference to Romans 9:13...

Romans 9

12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Jacob ---> mercy
Esau ---> compassion

This whole process reminds me of Spock causing the two identical androids to short circuit. Death by illogical input.

"I love you, but I hate you"...

"But we're identical!"

Gotta laugh. That's where Isaac comes in.