Parashat 6 Portion 25 – Beresheet/Genesis 27:1-29

Blessing for the Torah:

Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-O’lam, asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim,

v’natan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim , King of the Universe,

you have selected us from among all the peoples,

and have given us your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)

1Co 1:25  For the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men, and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men.

1Co 1:26  For look at your calling, brothers, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

1Co 1:27  But Elohim has chosen the foolish matters of the world to put to shame the wise, and Elohim has chosen the weak of the world to put to shame the strong.

1Co 1:28  And Elohim has chosen the low-born of the world and the despised, and the ones that are not, that He might bring to naught the ones that are,

1Co 1:29  so that no flesh should boast in His presence.

Yitzchak was convinced that Esav was YHVH’s choice, he was the popular charismatic leader and the pride and joy of his father. Esav however was not YHVH’s choice.

In fact YHVH hated Esav and loved Yakov.

Rom 9:13  as it has been written, “Ya’aqoḇ I have loved, but Ěsaw I have hated.”

One of the most frightening realities for believers is that we can be completely deceived and not know it.

Pro 14:12  There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah 17:9  “The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Matters are complicated when one is confronted with a statement such as:

Yochanan/John 14:6  יהושע (Yahshua) said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

If Esav were alive today, he could well have been a born again believer and leader in the church.

Yoch/Joh 6:44  “No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. And I shall raise him up in the last day.

Rom 9:15  For He says to Mosheh, “I shall favour whomever I favour, and I shall have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”

Rom 9:16  So, then, it is not of him who is wishing, nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour.