PATRIARCHAL BLESSING
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BLESSING
BLESSING
EVERYONE WANTS TO BE BLESSED...
BLESSING IS A MAJOR THEME OF GENESIS
22 The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
and he adds no sorrow with it.
OR BETTER TRANSLATED “The blessing of the LORD makes rich and no struggle can add to it.
34 When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35 and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
BITTERNESS CAN LEAD TO A LACK OF FAITH
1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. 3 Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,
IN GENESIS THE PATRIARCHS ARE PROPHETS
PROPHETS BLESS AND CURSE
BIG DEAL
IT IS NOT THE BIRTHRIGHT THAT ESAU ALREADY SOLD
ISAAC CERTAINLY KNEW THAT THE BLESSING WAS GOING TO PASS TO JACOB BUT ESAU WAS HIS FAVORITE
THIS IS FAITHLESSNESS - HE'S TRYING TO GET AROUND GOD
22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you shall be divided;
the one shall be stronger than the other,
the older shall serve the younger.”
IMPOSSIBLE TO THINK ISAAC WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS!
5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, 7 ‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you. 9 Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. 10 And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” 11 But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.” 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”
14 So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved. 15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.” 20 But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the Lord your God granted me success.”
THIS IS NOT ONLY BEARING FALSE WITNESS IT IS USING THE LORDS NAME IN VAIN.
HOW DOES GOD FEEL WHEN PEOPLE CLAIM TO SPEAK FOR HIM THAT AREN'T?
JACOB SAW HIS BROTHER AS AN ENEMY/OPPONENT TO BE BEATEN
JACOB SAW GOD AS A TOOL/RESOURCE TO BE EXPLOITED
JACOB SAW HIS FATHER AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PROSPERITY
21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.” 22 So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. 24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.” 25 Then he said, “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” 27 So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said,
“See, the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
28 May God give you of the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and plenty of grain and wine.
29 Let peoples serve you,
and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”
30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.” 32 His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” 33 Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.” 34 As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” 35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 37 Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” 38 Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:
“Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be,
and away from the dew of heaven on high.
40 By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
you shall break his yoke from your neck.”
In Exodus 15:14–16 (the “Song of the Sea”), Edom is listed along with the nations of Philistia, Moab and Canaan toward whom the exodus miracles were directed in order to create fear and thus ease the establishment of the Israelites in the Promised Land. Edomites are listed among the enemies of Israel in the time of Saul (1 Sam 14:47), and Edom was subjugated to Israel from the time of David (2 Sam 8:11–14; 1 Kings 11:14–22; 22:47; 2 Kings 3:8–10, 26). They then rebelled successfully in the time of Jehoram and won their independence for a while (as seen in 2 Kings 8:20–22; 16:6; 2 Chron 20:1–26; 21:8–10; 28:16–18). This subjugation and subsequent successful rebellion during the Iron Age fulfilled Isaac’s prophetic blessing of Genesis 27:40.
1. GOD DOESN'T NEED OUR HELP.
1. GOD DOESN'T NEED OUR HELP.
2. GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED OR THWARTED
2. GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED OR THWARTED
20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
3. GOD WILL HONOR HIS WORD - HE IS FAITHFUL.
3. GOD WILL HONOR HIS WORD - HE IS FAITHFUL.
REMEMBER 2 TM 2:13: IF WE ARE FAITHLESS - HE IS FAITHFUL - FOR HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF!
4. CHRIST IS THE ULTIMATE SON WHO RECEIVES THE FATHERS BLESSING. IN HIM, WE ARE BLESSED!
4. CHRIST IS THE ULTIMATE SON WHO RECEIVES THE FATHERS BLESSING. IN HIM, WE ARE BLESSED!
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.