Stealing of Blessings

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped
for every good work.

The "stealing of blessing" do you remeber Jacob played on Esau. Many people
struggle to justify this event. After all, Jacob was later renamed Israel and was the
father of that nation. The eventual descendant of Jacob was, of course, the Lord Jesus
Christ.

To get some understanding of this event we must first consider that all men are
sinners. Every man in the lineage of Christ Jesus was a sinner. All fail to come up to
the glory of God. That is the reason that man-kind needs a savior.

Getting back to Jacob and Esau: Esau despised his birthright. He sold it to Jacob for a
bowl of soup. This shows that Esau was carnally minded. He sought for fleshly
sustenance, rather than turning to God to provide for his needs. Also, the spiritual
picture here, is that Esau could not see past his flesh, his belly, to grasp the priceless
value of his birthright, and for that reason, was unworthy to be the vessel of the great
nation of Israel.

After that deal was done, Issac should have willingly given Jacob the blessing. After
all, he had the promise that out of him would come a great nation through which would
all the families of the Earth be blessed.

So as we look back through the history of Israel, and see the fulfillment of prophesy,
and the eventual birth of the Messiah. And also, when we consider the gross evil that
would come out of the nation of Edom, we can see that the blessing of Jacob was the
will of God. We also see that in spite of the folly and treachery of sinful men, the will
of God was done on Earth.

As to the sale of Esau's birthright; there is a lesson there for those who love the Lord.
If we sacrifice the treasure that God has bestowed on us for the comfort of the flesh,
we forfeit the first blessing, and settle for the lesser blessing. If we live in the spirit,
our spiritual lineage is blessed, if we live after the flesh, our spiritual lineage is lost.
How tragic it is for believing parents to lose their children to Satan.

Just know that God what is stolen from was also stolen from our Father in Heaven,
knowing that we do not want to steal at all. every thing on earth belongs to our God.

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