Jacob Deceived a Blind Man… And God Loved Him?
Did you know that the Bible says:
“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated”
(Romans 9:13)
But… let’s look at the facts.
Jacob took advantage of his brother’s weakness to obtain the birthright:
(Genesis 25:29–34)
And then he deceived his own father, who was blind, to steal the blessing:
(Genesis 27)
Is that justice?
The same Scripture condemns that kind of act:
“Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”
(Deuteronomy 27:18)
It also says:
“You hate all who do iniquity.”
(Psalms 5:5)
So the question arises:
How can God love a usurper who deceives a blind man?
Can truth contradict itself?
Or…
Could it be that the Roman Empire presented a distorted message?
A usurping message… like Jacob himself?
If the system teaches you to honor a usurper… who really wrote the story?
In Genesis 25:29–34, the text does not say that Jacob deceived Esau, but that Esau sold him his birthright.
The explicit deception does appear later, when Jacob deceives his blind father
(Genesis 27).
However, Esau himself interprets both events as the same act of usurpation in Genesis 27:36, when he says:
“Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing.”
(Jacob means: “He who grasps the heel.”)
Is it a coincidence that the serpent in Genesis 3:15 is marked by striking the heel, and that Jacob is born grasping the heel and is called “Supplanter”?
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