FBCHS Bible Study -"Rebekah"

"Rebekah"

Genesis 27:1-46

Isaac asked for food, but he seemed to mostly glory in Esau’s power as a manly hunter. We later find that he could not taste the difference between what Esau hunted in the field and what his wife Rebekah could prepare from the flock. It wasn’t the taste of the food that attracted him, but how he prized the thought of Esau as a mighty hunter.

Jacob twice claimed that he was Esau, a direct, willful, and blatant lie. He also deceptively answered that God allowed him to make the soup so fast, implying that he had actually killed wild game. There is no sugarcoating this nor is there any excuse for his actions.

His mother commanded him to do this, yet Jacob is still responsible for his own actions. Perhaps his mother had told him of God’s prophecy so Jacob and his mother felt the need to help God along by getting this blessing. Yet helping God is not necessary. God could have used any number of ways to cause Isaac to bless Jacob rather than Esau including for example, Esau’s sinful and pagan wives.