Jacob and Esau

Jacob and Esau were brothers who even from the womb were jostling against each other. Rebekah their mother was the wife of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the father of faith and of the nation of Israel (Genesis 12:1-3) (Romans 4:3, 11). Rebekah asked God why the babies jostled with each other in her womb and God told her that these two represented two nations and that contrary to the normal culture of the time the older would serve the younger (Genesis 25: 21-23). God had promised Abraham that his descendants through Isaac would inherit the whole land of Israel which at that time was called Canaan from the River Euphrates all the way down to the Wadi of Egypt to be for them “an everlasting possession” (Genesis 12:7, 14-17; 15:17-21).

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