Genesis 27: The Elder Shall Serve The Younger

Gen 27:1	And it came to passhaya, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold [here am] I. ___________________________ The birthright blessing was for the line of succession, in the Messiah King. It was likened to the mystical Order of Melchizedek. These original mysteries of existence formed the structure to our species. These were all in the program of our existence, created by God. This type of divine Imperial line, was emulated throughout human history, but, only one progenitor accomplished producing the Messiah, the Son of God, the Son of Jacob, Son of Isaac, Son of Abraham. This was according to the original Promise to Abraham, and then sealed in the theatrical provenance of the LORD, and His Prophets, starting with Abraham. Through Jesus Christ, son of Mary, all human seed is blessed. All of these rituals and rites were for our benefit. They teach us the foundation of the mysterious mystical realm of Heaven, and like a stairway to heaven, which was open to Jacob, gives us a way to reach for God. This path is frequently used in Biblical History, and allegory. Imagine knowing you were going to be related to Christ, the Messiah? Well, we are related on the other side. Not because Christ had blood relatives, who sat on the thrones of Europe, lording their royalty like mini-gods, but, Christ crowned all those who are redeemed. The price for this is faith. Esau never overcame his own selfish needs, so Jacob was blessed. Ironically, this can represent the smoldering hatred Judaism has shown Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMaschiach. OUR MESSIAH. He was certainly Esau's Savior as well. In fact, Esau was a mystical image of Christ himself, certainly of King David. It is a very tangled ladder of DNA that Jacob inherited, and all those in Christ are now pillars in. The rungs are from these two pillars of faith, Old and New. The story shows Rebekah contriving to fool Isaac, but, I don't think Isaac was deceived. He knew Jacob's voice, but, he blessed him anyway. Jacob loved Rebekah and it wasn't because she favored him, as much as he strove to understand the holy legacy. Like a kingly prince, he seemed to prefer learning from his mother, home schooled in God Himself. Esau and Jacob are certainly our inner and outer natures, as well. Scholars spent lifetimes examining every jot of these sacred scripts. I wish I had ten hundred lifetimes to do the same. Loving God's Word is the way to be part of the pillars of God's DNA. The answer isn't to prove our strength or manhood, but, our love. Not to be androgenous, in a neutered sense, at all. Inside every man is an angelic voice, who they perceive as their mother's voice, preferring it to hunting, eating, and more mundane things. If someone is to be a king, a leader, shouldn't he love the things of God first? Who are we? Esau or Isaac, or both? How do we overcome? The only way is forgiveness and LOVE. In Christ, both Esau and Jacob represented. Only those who refuse to believe He is Christ, the Messiah, are forbidden to enter. The story of Jacob and Esau represents mankind. Esau, born first, was not the child of promise, because he did not care about the things of the LORD first. He sold his sacred birthright to his brother, Jacob, for a bowl of red bean soup. He cared more about his own hungers, and flesh. Isaac heard him make light of selling his crown to Jacob for a bowl of pottage. we can't judge Esau, since that is how we all come into the world. At some point, we have a choice to let God's Kingdom become our priority, and this makes us just as much of a blood relative of Jesus Christ. He calls us, "BRETHREN" not slaves or servants. While John, Paul and the Apostles lovingly call themselves "slaves" and "bondservants" to Christ, it is with the most profound humility. What is man that God should crown us? Jacob and Rebekah may have schemed to accomplish the holy blessing, but, Esau rejected his incredible birthright to the Kingdom of God. He took the amazing grace of God for granted. He had jealousy, and smoldering hatred for Jacob, his twin brother. Christ commands us to love our brother Esau, though. He exhorts us to understand this way of thinking. This distinguishes a real follower and brother of Christ, from a deceiver. No child of God raises their hand to slay another human being. If they have killed another, like Moses and King David, they have God to mediate for their sins. That doesn't mean it's okay to sin and repent, ever. But, if someone was about to kill a good person, and you intervened and the one who got killed was the murderer, then situations have to be considered. Any of us would do that. Even so, we are technically forbidden to murder, and without Christ, would be condemned by the strength of the Law. Christ is our propitiation in all things. If we curse today, we have sinned, because everything done outside of love is sin. How valuable is Christ in saving us, and presenting us in his pristine image, before a Holy and Perfect GOD. When Esau discovers his loss, he wails and is filled with self-pity and wrath. This is an image of the unredeemed, on Judgment Day. In a human sense, this is also the brotherly hatred that corrupted the entire world, and all of us. Jealousy, wrath... Instead of repenting, and accepting his own sins, Esau blamed his family, especially his twin, the Usurper, the Holy Plant. This meant tons to them then. It means just as much, or more, today. Esau's vow to wipe Jacob's seed from the face of the Earth is eternal. It is born in hell, with thorns of wrath and hate sowed, fermented, and distributed from one generation to the next. Esoterically, our isolated egos, which sometimes feel like one of those lonely stars out in the heavens, battles against unity with heaven. We become ego-centric like our very own sun symbolized before our eyes. Why are we like this? God knows. God is the Creator. He is our healer, as well. All plagues are cured by Him. Chillingly, we consider too, that there are Seven Vials of Sins still waiting... We need to repent, to turn and humble ourselves, and love our brother. We need to overcome our own hatred of ourselves. Fraternal twins, or not, Jacob and Esau were created together. In every sinner there's a new man. We can only come to grace by admitting our limitations. Hairy Esau was not as "evolved" as Jacob, probably quite regal, in bright colors. This was huge in their day, yet, it was meant for our benefit, and we gloss by these endless passages in Genesis. Look at me, I can't get past the first verse today. For those who doubt the power of the Bible, consider how this is clearly how our world will end. It is like handwriting on the wall to see the Islamic Jihad, inherit Esau's wrath, to carry out their own sacred vows. This is behind the hidden meaning of original sin. And Came to pass (haya), [01961] hayah that when Isaac [03327] Yitschaq was old, [02204] zaqen and his eyes [05869] `ayin were dim, [03543] kahah so that he could not see, [07200] ra'ah he called [07121] qara' Esau [06215] `Esav his eldest [01419] gadowl son, [01121] ben and said [0559] 'amar unto him, My son: [01121] ben and he said [0559] 'amar unto him, Behold, [here am] I. (hineni=Here I am - not in Strongs) Hebrew for 01961 Hebrew for 01961 Haya' {haw-yaw} x75 Haw-yaw Come to pass "And it came to pass"... The PRIMITIVE ROOT is Hawvah. (Str. & Ges.) (Str.) Ha-vah (haw-vaw) To Be x 6 be thou 2, be 1, shall be 1, may be 1, hath 1 TO BE; TO BREATHE like the wind [compare 0183, 01961] The infinitive's power is originally bound to essential existence, to be, to breathe, to exist is caused by an external creative will. To cause, or to cause to "fall down," (implied to be ordained down from heaven, or from God, to cause to be.) This is the force of God causing an event, causing it to be. Haw-vaw/ Haw-yaw (In the Hebrew culture, the letter for v, vaw, in the original hawvah, symbolizes man, as opposed to the yod of God, or hand of God, who causes BEING.- Haya (hawyaw)) HAYA 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out a) (Qal) 1) ----- a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass b) to come about, come to pass 2) to come into being, become a) to arise, appear, come b) to become 1) to become 2) to become like 3) to be instituted, be established 3) to be a) to exist, be in existence b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) d) to accompany, be with b) (Niphal) 1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 2) to be done, be finished, be gone hayah {haw-yaw}
Gen 27:2	And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Gen 27:3	Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison;
Gen 27:4	And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Gen 27:5	And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring [it].
Gen 27:6	And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Gen 27:7	Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
Gen 27:8	Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Gen 27:9	Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
Gen 27:10	And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
Gen 27:11	And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
Gen 27:12	My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Gen 27:13	And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them].
Gen 27:14	And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
Gen 27:15	And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
Gen 27:16	And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Gen 27:17	And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Gen 27:18	And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?
Gen 27:19	And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Gen 27:20	And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought [it] to me.
Gen 27:21	And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau or not.
Gen 27:22	And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau. __________________________________ Esau was the first twin born to Isaac and Rebekah. Red-haired, hairy and ruddy, he is a sacred image of his ancestors in John, the Baptist, and his first cousin, Jesus Christ. Isaac adored Esau, and in Gen 25, it is said that Rebekah adored Jacob. Esau was a manly man, and Jacob was implied to be more domestic, tending sheep and goat, staying close to home more. More of a mama's boy. _________________________________________
Gen 27:23	And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
Gen 27:24	And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I [am].
Gen 27:25	And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Gen 27:26	And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
Gen 27:27	And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
Gen 27:28	Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
Gen 27:29	Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed [be] he that blesseth thee.
Gen 27:30	And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Gen 27:31	And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Gen 27:32	And Isaac his father said unto him, Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
Gen 27:33	And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be blessed.
Gen 27:34	And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.
Gen 27:35	And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
Gen 27:36	And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
Gen 27:37	And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
Gen 27:38	And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Gen 27:39	And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
Gen 27:40	And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Gen 27:41	And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Gen 27:42	And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, [purposing] to kill thee.
Gen 27:43	Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
Gen 27:44	And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
Gen 27:45	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: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
Gen 27:46	And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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The personal message and parable in Genesis 27 is clear.
Jacob, surnamed "Israel", is the one who receives the
inheritance to succession. Once again, "The first shall
serve the last" and "The elder shall serve the younger."