https://odb.org/2024/05/21/a-warm-embrace
The ancient bible story of Esau and Jacob was interesting because the antagonist appeared to have prevailed against the innocent. Esau was tricked into giving up his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup, and later, their father, the Patriach Isaac, was tricked by Jacob and his mother, to give his blessings for the elder son to Jacob, the younger one. Isaac’s blessings, which are the blessings of the father, had natural, spiritual, and prophetic significance.
https://www.gotquestions.org/fathers-blessing.html
As the story goes, Isaac had Joseph, and the whole clan was subsequently saved from the great famine and settled in Egypt. Over 400 years, they became slaves to the Egyptians, and the LORD raised Moses to bring them all out from Egypt back to Canaan across the Red Sea and the wilderness. Thus, from the antagonist, Isaac became the protagonist because it was his line that led to the birth of King David, and many years later, our dearest Lord Jesus Christ.
But the story of Esau and Jacob was not actually a story where the bad guy had won the day. This is because in Genesis 35, Jacob wrestled with an angel (it was actually God Himself) and emerged as Israel. The cunning and conniving Jacob became Israel (“let God prevail”). In other words, Jacob, like us modern-day Christians, had a life transformation moment and became someone of use to God. Additionally, in Genesis 33, Esau, although he was deprived of his birthright as well as the father’s blessings, was kind and merciful enough to accept Jacob’s deference and peace offering and forgave him. All the key virtues that we were taught in our faith were present in the life story of Esau and Jacob, which goes to show that there is redemption in God despite our past.
We might have done some terrible things in the past, like Jacob. Nevertheless, if we repent from our sins, the Lord will forgive us. Most importantly, if we relent and let God prevail in our lives, we can become like Jacob transforming into Israel and will be of much use to the Almighty God, the Great I Am. It is a moment everyone of us need to go through for the spiritual breakthrough that we may have been seeking!
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