Genesis 27:5-29

"But Rebekah overheard the conversation. So when Esau left to hunt for the wild game, she said to her son Jacob, "I overheard your father asking Esau to prepare him a delicious meal of wild game. HE wants to bless him and in the LORD’s presence before he dies. Now my son, do exactly what I say. Go out to the flocks and bring me 2 young goats. I’ll prepare your father’s favorite dish from them. Take the food to your father; then he can eat and bless you instead of your brother before he dies."

"But Mother!" Jacob replied, "He won’t be fooled that easily. Think how hairy Esau is and how smooth my skin is! What if my father touches me? He will see that I’m trying to trick him and curse me instead of bless me."

"Let the curse fall on me, dear son," said Rebekah, "Just do what I tell you. Go out and get the goats."

So Jacob followed his mother’s instructions, bringing her the goats. She took them and cooked a delicious meat dish, just the way Isaac liked it. Then she took Esau’s best clothes, which were there in the house, and dressed Jacob in them. She made a pair of gloves from the hairy skin of the goats, and she fastened a strip of the goat’s hair around his neck. Then she gave him the dish, with its rich aroma, and some freshly baked bread. Jacob carried the platter of food to his father and said, "My father?"

"Yes my son," he answered, "Who is it—Esau or Jacob?’

Jacob replied, "It’s Esau, your older son. I‘ve done as you told me. Here is the wild game, cooked the way you like it. Sit up and eat it so you can bless me."

Isaac asked, "How were you able to find it so quickly?"

"Because the LORD your God put it in my path!" He replied.

"Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come over here. I want to touch you to make sure that you are really Esau." So Jacob went over to his father and Isaac touched him. "The voice is that of Jacob, but the hands are Esau’s", Isaac said to himself. But he did not recognize Jacob for he had put on his brother’s clothes. So Isaac pronounced his blessing to Jacob. "Are you really my son Esau?" he asked.

"Yes, of course." Jacob replied.

Then Isaac said, "Now my son, bring me the meat. I will eat it and then I will give you my blessing" So Jacob took the dish to his father and he ate it. He also drank the wine that Jacob had served him. Then Isaac said, "Come here and kiss me, my son."

So Jacob went over and kissed his father. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, "The smell of my son us the good smell of the open fields and that the LORD has blessed." May God always give you plenty of dew for healthy crops and good harvests of grain and wine. May many nations become your servants. May you be the master of your brothers. May all your mother’s sons bow low before you. All who curse you are cursed, and all who bless you are blessed."

(Taken from the TruthQuest Inductive Student Bible)

Well I really tried to do something nice about Jacob, but he didn’t give me much to work with!

I can’t even think of a title for him. Ugg!

But what I learned from him is that: Sin will always catch up with you. I learned that in the summer of 2003 and summer of 2005. I did some things and am still dealing with the repercussions of the sin I committed. You can go to this post  to hear what I have to say about the sins in life: Sin is like Kryptonite, The One Ring & Pirates.

Jacob had both Leah and Rachel for wives because of his sin of deceiving his father and brother.

And because of this Rachel and Leah hated each other because they had the same husband that they had to share. Does sharing usually go good with siblings? I don’t think so. Yeah they should share because it’s the right thing, but there is that still feeling of ownership. I think that they both felt that. Rachel because he loved her first and Leah because she married him first. I think that is why God made it so that 1 man and 1 woman should be married. Not 2 women or 2 men with each other. We as humans have a selfish me first nature and He knew that. He knew that there would be this kind of situation between people.

If you take a look at both incidents where there was deception you will see that it came from Rebekah's side both times. You can see where Rebekah’s lie made Jacob lie many times and that caused a lot of painful situations in his life. Rebekah’s favoritism caused the brothers to hate each other. And they did not get to have families together.

And as I was typing this I am seeing that Isaac had to know that it was Jacob. Back then you could change your clothes and smell, you could not change your voice. IMPOSSIBLE!!!! So maybe he did actually know that it was him and he still blessed him. Obviously it was the LORD who wanted Jacob to be blessed.

I don’t think that he and Esau had a very good relationship. Esau was the opposite of Jacob. Esau hated Jacob so much he swore to kill him. If he was to that point then he was very far from it in the first place.

And I don’t think that when he sold him his birthright that he was deceiving him. Esau apparently didn’t really care in the first. And Jacob actually was supposed to get the blessing because Esau sold him his birthright. The blessing came with the being the firstborn. I am right?

But God did give Jacob the nations of Israel. WOW that is cool that you fathered the 12 tribes of Israel and helped fulfill the promise of God. See God always makes things better in the end!

Well that is all I can think of for Jacob.

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