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“And when Esau heard the voice of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry…And he [Isaac] said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing” (Genesis 27:34-35).
Here we see the sad end of Esau, who despised his birthright as the eldest son, and then became very angry when his younger brother Jacob cheated him and deceived his father. But the whole incident caused longstanding bad feeling between Jacob and Esau, and resulted in Jacob’s having to leave home. Jacob never saw his mother again, for she died before he was able to come home again. Later on, the descendants of Esau treated the children of Israel very badly. All this resulted from the fact that Esau would not submit to the will of God, and from the fact that Jacob (with his mother’s advice) resorted to lying and cheating in order to get God’s blessing.
It is all a good lesson for us, and shows us that we may bring a bad family character and sinful tendency into a marriage, which may cause untold harm. Let us remember to deal with these things before the Lord, before they cause this kind of trouble for us.
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