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Jacob's twin, a hunter who traded his birthright for a bowl of stew, then ran to embrace the brother who cheated him.
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The Enthusiast · 7w8 (Challenger wing) →Jacob's twin, a hunter who traded his birthright for a bowl of stew, then ran to embrace the brother who cheated him.
“But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.”
Esau was born first, red and hairy, with his twin Jacob gripping his heel. He grew up a skillful hunter, a man of the field, and Isaac loved him for the game he brought home. One day he came in exhausted and sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of red stew. Scripture sums it up: Esau despised his birthright.
Later Jacob, with their mother's help, took Isaac's blessing too. Esau cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and planned to kill his brother. Twenty years passed. When Jacob finally came home, terrified, with gifts sent ahead, Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and wept. He said he had enough and did not need the gifts. He settled in Seir and became the father of Edom.
But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
Beginning
A hunter, his father's favorite.
Turning point
He sells his birthright.
Low point
A great and bitter cry.
Low point
He means to kill Jacob.
Turning point
He comes out to meet his brother.
Ending
An embrace, a kiss, and tears.
Starts as a hungry firstborn. Ends as a brother who ran to forgive.
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To be satisfied and not to go without.
Scripture doesn't give us much here, so treat this as a best guess.
Lives for now. He trades his birthright for a meal. ()
Out in the field. A skillful hunter, a man of the field. ()
Moves on. Twenty years later, he says, I have enough. ()
Big Five. Read from what is recorded in Genesis.
DISC style: Physical, impulsive, warm-hearted.
Skillful in the field (). Honored his father (). Forgave his brother ().
Lived for the moment (; ). Rage after the stolen blessing (). Married to grieve his parents ().
His father's blessing ().
Going without; he said he was about to die ().
The Lord
Where this points to Christ
Hebrews holds Esau up as a warning: he sold his birthright for a single meal (). In Christ, God gives us an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven (). And Esau's run to embrace Jacob points ahead to the father in Jesus' parable who ran, embraced and kissed his son ().
What is your bowl of stew, the thing that feels urgent but costs too much?
Esau ran to embrace the brother who wronged him. Who might you run toward?
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