Jacob's Deception Genesis 27

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Issac was getting old and his eyesight was starting to fail. He thought he was going to die soon, however we know from the Bible he lived decades after this point in time. He sent Esau to the fields to hunt for some venison. Rebekah heard Isaac make this request and she called Jacob to her and told him to prepare two kids from the flock. She was going to make the dish for Jacob to give to his father Isaac so Jacob would receive the Blessing from Isaac instead of Esau. Although Jacob had already bought the Birthright from Esau (Gen 25:31-34) he did not have his Father's blessing. A blessing is the family title.

Jacob was fearful that he would receive a curse instead of a blessing. Rebekah told him that the curse would be on her instead of him. She had Jacob put his brothers clothes on so he would smell like Esau, and put hairy goat hide on his neck and hands in case Isaac were to feel his hands and neck to see if he was hairy like Esau was. In the end Isaac ended up blessing Jacob instead of Esau.

This is important...

These blessings in V28-29 are the same blessings that Abraham had which was passed to Isaac, then was passed to Jacob who's name was later to be changed to Israel (meaning to rule with God or to rule under God's law). This includes the fatness of the earth, and blessings for all those who bless Jacob and his descendants (in other words will be successful farmers, will have food of plenty, and will bless other lives through the acceptance of their assistance). 

Anyone that that curses Jacob or his descendants will be cursed and who ever blesses Jacobs descendants will be blessed. I have said many times in this blog that I believe that the literal people of the Bible are the Caucasian peoples of the earth that both feed the people of the world and bless all through their advances in Technology, Education, Science, and Civilization. In fact, I have a hard time thinking of what the planet would be like without the Caucasian. Praise Yahweh!

Continuing on...

As a result of Jacob being blessed by Isaac, Esau wanted to kill Jacob. Rebekah ended up telling Jacob to go to Laban her brother, which was about 450 miles from where they were. Asking him to leave had a dual purpose, one reason is protection because Esau wanted to slay Jacob, and second Jacob was to find a wife of his own kind because the Canaanite women of the area were not of his race. If Jacob were to have taken a wife from the Canaanite's then he would create a new race of people just like his brother Esau did (Edomites), and Rebekah would have no value to her because both of her children would be race mixing with the Hittites. This would abruptly end Isaac's bloodline. In the words of Rebekah in Genesis 27:46 “And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth (daughters of Heth were Hittites), if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?”

Praise the Lord for the wisdom of Rebekah to send Jacob to Laban!

There are a few things to remember in this chapter:

Rebekah said the curse would come upon her if Jacob was detected, in which it did because the Bible doesn't say that she ever saw Jacob again after that day, and it's assumed she didn't.

Isaac was surrounded by Hittites. There were no Hebrew women available for Jacob to marry in Canaan land. This is a main point on why he was sent to Laban.

Esau hated his birthright and the Father hated Esau (Romans 9:12-13 and Ecclesiastes 3:8), this choice was made before they were even born (Gen 25:23), and proves that the Father does know our future before it even happens.

It was the act of race mixing on the behalf of Esau that finalized the deal  Gen 26:34-35. The Messiah was not coming to the Hittites, Edomites, nor any other race of people except his own which of course were Hebrews directly from the blood line of Abraham and Isaac.

Jacob paid dearly for his fraud (Genesis 29), when Jacob was cheated an extra 7 years of his life for Rachel.

The Fathers predictions came true about the elder serving the younger Genesis 25:23.

Another important note I want to add is that most churches teach that at this time Esau and Jacob were in their teens or early twenties, this is totally untrue. The bible does not say what their ages were, but if you work backward then you can determine their ages:

Some time before this Esau married two Hittite women which of course were out of his race, he was 40 years old (Gen 26:34), and Jacob was also 40.

When Jacob stood in front of the Pharaoh years later, he was 130. At that time Joseph then was 39. So therefore Jacob was 91 when Joseph was born.

Joseph was born 14 years after Jacob's service for his two wives. Therefore Jacob was 77 when he began this service. This is right after he arrived at Laban's home where he fled when Esau was trying to kill him.

So Jacob was about 76 years old when he received his fathers blessing. Therefore, Jacob was not a teenager.