Genesis 25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Another answer to yesterday’s question might be that the love of the Son is more important than love of food.

I understand this is a stretch but this line of investigation came about because my sister-in-law brought up the issue of Esau and Jacob. I reminded her of Rebekah’s involvement which led me to verify my comments were true.

Many times it is the Word of the Lord that leads us to understanding just how God’s will is discovered. It was there in the scripture all along.

It was Rebekah who received the Word about the fate of her sons. It was Rebekah that saw an opportunity to be used to see His will could be done. It began with the Word of the Lord.

John 6:26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

When I read this I think about Isaac’s reason for loving Esau.

John 6:45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—

The Word is how God teaches us.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

This is all tied together from the very first Word to the very last.

We can see God’s will being planned and carried out by everyone who keeps the Word.

Luke 11:28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Keeping His Word goes beyond just hearing. He causes us to obey, just like Rebekah did.

Genesis 25:31-34 English Standard Version

31 Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” 32 Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” 33 Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 27:5-17 English Standard Version

5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, 7 ‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you. 9 Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. 10 And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” 11 But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.” 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”

14 So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved. 15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Genesis 27:41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Esau threw his birthright away but hated Jacob for stealing his blessing. It would appear that the Father’s blessing is more important than a birthright. Esau did not know that his mother orchestrated this deception that led to Jacob fleeing to Laban and the marriages that led to the twelve tribes of Israel. So which is more important?

Genesis 25:23And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.”

Romans 9:11-13 English Standard Version

11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12 she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”