The Supplanter is Sent Away

Having been taken advantage of by his wife, Rebekah, and his son, Jacob, and in his blindness having been deceived, Isaac blessed the son he had no intention to bless, and cut off from the covenant blessing the son to whom he intended to give it all. He could soothe his conscience by taking the position that after all Esau was the firstborn. And we quickly and quite easily do that ourselves. We will look for a "technicality" that will defend us in that which we know we should not have done and...