Genesis 27:41–45
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the inevitable and messy fallout of the previous scene. If you were to read the story of Jacob and Esau as a standalone drama, you would be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled into a particularly sordid daytime television program. We have a blind and failing patriarch, a manipulative mother, a profane and worldly older son, and a grasping, deceptive younger son. Every character in this story is deep in sin, and yet, this is the family God has chosen to carry His covenant promises to the world. This is the line through which the Messiah, Jesus Christ, will come. God does not wait for us to get our act together before He works. He does not look for perfect families to accomplish His purposes. The story of our salvation is not the story of noble men and women making wise choices.