Hated By, Yet Elevated Above

In Genesis 25:19-26 we find an amazing and very revealing act of our God in His sovereign grace. Esau and Jacob were born to Isaac and Rebekah. And therein we are given a picture that reveals to us an extremely important truth, and a shadow of what we have in God's grace, and shall enjoy when Christ returns to bring His church to everlasting glory. It is true that God had promised Abraham that he would have seed like the sand on the seashore, and like the stars of heaven in number. Of that we...