Genesis 27:18–29
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of those passages in Scripture that makes modern, tidy Christians nervous. It is a story of blatant deception, of a son lying to his blind father, of a mother scheming against her husband, and of a blessing obtained through fraud. It is a tangled mess of family dysfunction, carnal ambition, and sensory confusion. This is a hard truth for us, because we like our heroes to be clean and our stories to be simple. We want God's will to be accomplished by people in white hats, not by conniving matriarchs and mama's boys in goatskins. But the Bible is not a collection of moralistic fables for children. It is the unvarnished history of God's redemptive work in a fallen world, and God has never been shy about using crooked sticks to draw straight lines.