🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 25:19-34 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 23) 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 11-02-24

🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 25:19-34 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 23) 🔥
Esau vs Jacob/ the flesh vs the spirit

VERSES: Hebrews 12:5-29; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 4:17-5:21; 1st John 3:7

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Events in this Chapter
Ishmael’s line of seed and death, gathered up to his people Verses 12-18
Isaac’s entreaty to God for the promised seed Verse 21
Rebekah’s pregnancy and birth of twins Esau and Jacob Verses 22-26
The history of their youth together Verses 27-28
Esau’s despising his firstborn birthright Verses 29-34

The issue was for Jacob, now grown up, was two things; first, the right of primogeniture (the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child) with the double portion, but secondly, it probably had even more to do with his valuing being the line from which the Seed of Promise would come, a value that he embraced from his elders; Isaac, Shem and Abraham. That which Esau saw as having no real value.

The theme of these verses being the Scriptural principle of “the elder will serve the younger.”

Verses 19-34… “And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begot -- Isaac: And Isaac was forty years old when he took -- Rebekah -- to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of -- the LORD. And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bore -- them. And the boys grew: and Esau was -- a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. And Isaac loved -- Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved -- Jacob. And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with -- that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom (meaning ‘red’). And Jacob said, Sell me this day -- thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore unto him: and he sold -- his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised -- his birthright.”

The Biblical principle of the older serving the younger is set forth here in in Esau and Jacob, and recognized in another 12 or more other places in Scripture.

*Adam, ‘the older,’ was made a living soul with the natural body (that later became the fallen body) and the Second/Last Adam, ‘the younger,’ was made a quickening spirit. (1st Corinthians 15:44-49… “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”)

*The Old Man/the flesh nature, being ‘the older,’ who we all have within us as a result of being the seed of Adam, born of a woman into the Earth… versus… the New Man/the spirit nature, being ‘the younger,’ having been ‘born from above’ and redeemed from satan’s kingdom… being the seed of Christ. (Romans 8, Colossians 3, Ephesians 4:21-5:20)

*Ishmael is typical of the Nation of Israel, being the elder son… and Isaac, the younger son, is typical of the Nation of the One New Man. (Galatians 4, Matthew 21:43… “Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”)

To be the seed of Isaac (a type of the Christ) is to have the promise of inheritance passed on from of Abraham (a type of the Father). In typology, the twins of Rebekah answer to the redeemed person, who has two different natures within, at enmity one with the other....