Season 5 Episode 4 – Genesis 27:  Stolen Blessings!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 1:50

Meet Pastor Ron - 2:46

A’ight So Boom! - 4:27

Read Genesis 27 1-4 - 10:17

•  Some time has passed since we last saw Isaac

• When Isaac was Old

• His eyes dim (blind)

• Called his favorite son Esau (loved him for his food)

• Here I Am - same words that Isaac said to Abraham on Gen 22

• Told Esau what he wanted to do - Bless Him

• Ready to appoint his successor

• I am old (announcement)

• I do not know how many days I have left (immediacy)

• Bring me a meal of the food that I love

• Bless you before I die

Read Genesis 27 5-13 - 26:02

• Rebekah Ear Hustling - Just Like Sarah

• Explains to Jacob what she heard

• She knows more than all the people in this passage

• Begins a plan with her knowledge

• You will take it to him

• Isaac will bless ‘my’ son

• Jacob’s response - ‘Hold On Now’

• Dad is not stupid (compensates for lack of sight with other senses)

• Consequences if I am out

• Mom takes all the responsibility

• Let your curse be on me (any outcome or just if Isaac curse him)

• Go do what I told you

Read Genesis 27 14-17 - 1:05:53

• Let;s Do This!

• Jacob goes to get the Goats (went, took, brought)

• Rebekah prepares the meal

• Preparing for anything

• Let’s take his clothes (best clothes in the house)

• Let’s make Jacob hairy with goat fur (hands and neck) 

• The Puppet Master - abusing the knowledge she has

Read Genesis 27 18-25 - 1:11:09

• Jacob brings the food

• Isaac starts with the questions - Who are you?

• Jacob’s 1st lie - I am Esau

• Jacob’s 2nd lie - I did as you told me

• Isaac’s second questions - How did you get it so quickly

• Jacob’s 3rd lie - The LORD your God granted me success

• Isaac’s first test - I want to feel you

• The goat fur comes in handy

• Isaac notes the voice but overlooks it

• Isaac asks again who are you

• Jacob lies again - I Am

• Isaac eats and drinks 

• Proceeds to bless Jacob

Genesis 27 26-29 - 1:20:35

• One last Test - The Smell Test

• The smell of Esau leads into the blessing

• The smell of a field (smelled like outside?)

• The LORD has blessed

• The formal blessing

• Abundance - Dew of Heaven, fatness of the earth, plenty of grain and wine

• Stature/Honor - Peoples serve you, mother’s sons bow down to you

• National Implications - Blessings and Curses, you get what you give

Read Genesis 27 30-33 - 1:31:05

• The Immediacy

• Isaac was too late to catch Jacob and stop Jacob

• Jacob had scarcely left the room (can you imagine them crossing paths and Jacob seeing Isaac with the food, knowing what he had done, sinister)

• Esau did what was expected

• He is Esau

• He caught the game

• He cooked the food

• Isaac Visibly upset

• All the lies

• Whose food

• Who was it

• Who was blessed

• “Yes and he shall be blessed”

• A finality about it

• Can’t change it

Read Genesis 27 34-40 - 1:37:35

• Esau’s reaction to the news of the blessing

• Exceedingly great and bitter cry

• Bless me, even me also - the same level of blessing as Jacob?

• Jacob can’t - He blessed the brother already

• Does not use Jacob’s name

• Nothing else to give - blessed with all the land and all the honor

• Esau blames Jacob - twice

• Jacob’s name fits him

• Tricked him twice (birthright and blessing)

• The Blessing covers all that he could positively bless his son with

• We get the meaning of the blessing

• Blessed with all that, what else is there

• Esau asks for any blessing

• Jacob manufactures an anti-blessing

• Away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be

• Away from the dew of heaven on high

• You will have to fight for all you will have

• You shall serve your brother

• (the positive?) when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck

Read Genesis 27 40-46 - 1:48:20

• Esau’s anger is kindled

• Mom to the rescue - she has the knowledge and hears everything

• Smoothes it over with Isaac

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