Esau & Jacob

Esau pleaded, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

A series of in-depth Studies on the rivalries between Esau and Jacob are presented here.

It’s the result of a cryptic rivalry between the posterity of Esau and Jacob which only the Targum reveals in this prophecy:

“And upon thy sword shalt thou depend, entering at every place: yet thou shalt be  supple and credulous, and be in subjection to thy brother [Jacob]; but it will be that when his sons [the children of Israel] become evil, and fall from keeping the commandments of the law, thou shalt break his yoke of servitude from off thy neck….and then will I kill Jakob my brother, and will be found the killer and the heir,” Genesis 27:40-41 Jonathan

Below is a bit more on what this phase means “and will be found the killer and the heir:”

Esau reasons to himself that he will not make the same mistake as Cain. Cain killed his brother Abel, thinking that that would make him the sole heir. But then, Adam had another child, so Cain still had to share the inheritance.

Hence Esau reasoned that he would not do that. Instead, he would delay the killing of Jacob until the death of Isaac, so that when Jacob is killed, Esau would become the sole heir.

So the struggle continues as Esau hopes he would be both the killer and the only heir.

(1) A Jonathan Prophecy of a Yoke against Esau

(2) Who are the children of Esau?

(3) Who are the Amalekites?

(4) A Prophecy by Obadiah

(5) Did the Ibēr or Ibēros River has its Hebraic roots?

(6) The “Monroe Doctrine” Is the Yoke of Jacob

(7) The Sword and Flaming Fire from the South!

(8) The Gog and Magog Prophecy

(9) Balaam’s Oracle as a warning to Modern Israel

Esau was to live an unstable life of violence, warfare and by the sword