Jacob and Esau

I don't know how many of you have seen children that are twins. And usually they're so cute, and usually they're the best friends. You know, really you'll find twins are kind of the same genetic code, and they're very similar, and they're really good friends. In the Bible, there's reference to two sets of twins. I mean, obviously there's been many twins, but the Bible talks about two sets of twins. One is Esau and Jacob, and the other one is Pharaohs and Zera, the son of Judah, which have significance to the line of kings. But again, that's not my topic today. But I want to mention about Esau and Jacob, which in fact is the first set of twins that I refer to in the Bible. And they're very significant because there are many prophetic things related to Esau and Jacob. From Jacob, as you know, Jacob's name was changed to Israel, and then you have the Israelite nation, the twelve, so it's pretty significant. But Esau, one of the situations was that Esau ended up marrying, amongst others, he married a Canaanite woman first, but then because his father was unhappy, he ended up marrying a daughter of Ishmael, which came from Abraham, Ishmael, and so Esau and Ishmael, we can see today, is basically the Arab type people, Arabs, Palestinian type people, which, by the way, are children of Abraham. And indeed, if you look at the Arab wall, they quite often say, they're children of Abraham. But if you look at the Israelite wall, they say they're the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which basically finds that line of children of Abraham and Isaac, so it's not Ishmael, and then of Jacob, because it's not Esau. So that's why there is this specific mention of children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because it defines they're not from Ishmael, and they're not from Esau. It's the children of Israel, the 12 tribes, which in fact, as you know, are actually 13 because of Joseph. The name of Israel was given to both children of Joseph. But anyway, today I want to talk about Esau and Jacob, but I don't want to look at it from the prophetic point of view, because yes, there's a lot of points related to the Middle East and the prophetic issues related to that come from Esau and Jacob. In other words, Israel and the Arab world. There's a lot of things that come from them, but Arab world is a generic word, which includes Palestinians and all people around those areas, which includes Serbia, which includes Lebanon, and all those countries, things like that, in Jordan, Saudi Arabia. So it's all that war. But I want to look at lessons from Esau and Jacob, as far as they apply to humanity and as far as they apply to you and I, to us. So, let's first start by reading at Genesis 25, Genesis 25, verse 19. Genesis 25, verse 19. We'll start in verse 19 and we'll read through quite a bit all the way from verse 26, but we're going to first start in Genesis 25, verse 19 through 22 first.

And it says, and he asks, talking about Isaac and Rebecca. And Rebecca, the wife, was pregnant. And then it was realized that she had twins in a womb. The twins in a womb, they were not born yet, of course, that says in verse 22, but the children struggled together within her. And she said, if all is well, why am I like this? I imagine you, as a matter, expecting I have twins. And there is a wall inside your womb. Two brothers, twin brothers, are already fighting. And they're in a womb. They're already fighting. Now, imagine you now coming to, as a peacemaker, going to Israel and to Arab walls and says, well, I'm coming out to give peace. Well, they were already fighting in a womb. So there's something more to it than just that. So they were fighting in a womb. So she went to inquire of the eternal. And the eternal said to her, two nations are in your womb. These two boys in your womb are going to become two groups of people. Two nations in your womb, two peoples, shall be separated from your body. One people shall be stronger than the other. And the other and the older shall serve the younger. So now, she was expecting twins. They were in the womb. They were fighting. Which, I think you know, it's quite abnormal for two children not born yet to already be fighting in a womb. So there's something here from God. And then he says, there are going to be two big groups of nations. As we know, Jacob became Israel and Esau became the Arabs, which then even later he married, as I mentioned, the daughter, one of the daughters of Ishmael. So the Arabs and the Palestinians. So when her days were fulfilled, so she came to nine months for her to give birth. Indeed, there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red. It was the first born. It was Esau. And it was red. He was like a hairy garment all over. So he was hairy. And that hairy, that's where they got the name, Esau, meaning hairy. And so they called his name Esau. And afterward his brother came out. And his hand, now a tiny little hand of a little just born baby, all right, says, took hold of Esau's heel and was grabbing the heel of Esau. That's miracle. That's from God. I mean, you know. And his name was called Jacob. And the word Jacob means supplanter, a supplanter, an overcomer, a fighter in a way, in other words, Jacob. And Isaac the dad was six years old when she bought it. So Esau the dad was six years old when his wife Rebecca gave birth to the children.

So now we have an opportunity, as we can see, to get some real spiritual lessons from this.

Because what do we have is two little innocent babies. Yeah, what do you think? They just born and they're really fighting, and one is already trying to grab the other one.

And so this is spiritual lesson for us. Now, you and I know there are prophetic implications as far as the Middle East. And as I mentioned, that's not what I'm talking about today. And therefore, from that prophetic point of view, peace in that area, in the Middle East, is only possible through God's information. There's no other way.

But I want us to look at lessons that are applicable to you and I, to us. You see, we have here two children that genetically, if we study genetics, they should be very similar.

But it was a big difference between the two. And so what is the big lesson that God is giving us here? And so let me give you the conclusion so you know where I'm going. So I'm going to give you the conclusion, and that means afterwards you can go to sleep. No.

But you know where I'm going. The lesson is, the time to bless Jacob was first. He was not the firstborn. The firstborn was Esau. But the time that God decided to bless Jacob was first. And the one will be stronger than the other. In other words, God is the master potter. And what he does with the clay, and he does some flavours, then some clay with that, and it comes out of the same mass, but he uses a portion of clay to maybe do a beautiful job, and maybe he does the same portion of clay to maybe just a clay for everyday use. He's the potter. He's the seizure.

Now, isn't it true that we're brothers? Yes. Isn't it true about us as brothers? Yes. Some brothers, some of us, are going to be blessed first. Others are going to have physical blessings later. It's God's choice. Some of us are stronger. Some of us are weaker. Some of us are very healthy. Some of us have just continuous health issues.

God is the master potter. He decides when and who. When to bless one person. Anyone like that? He decides that one will be stronger now, and the others will be weaker. It's his call. He's got that right as the potter.

Is that one is better than the other? No. Is one more love than the other? No.

But God decides how he wants to do things with all of us.

Some are more blessed financially now. Some are more talented than others. Is that because of that you are better? No.

God is just. He will reward everyone according to his talents. Remember? One that had five talents, the other one maybe only had one talent, but both of them multiplied. And God rewarded them according to their works, according to their talents, according to the abilities God gave them. That's what God looks at us. It's God's decision who to call now.

And who to call later? It's his call.

He decides who to bless now, who not, who to call now, who not. It's his call. There's a scripture which is very well known by many of us. It's in John 6, verse 44. Some of you might not know it. Some of you know it very well. But let's look at it. John 6, verse 44. This is a thing the Christian world, quote-unquote, the generic Christian world out there does not understand. John 6, verse 44 says, No one can come to me in order to Christ, unless the Father who sent me Christ draws in, and I'll raise him up at the last day. The Christian world cannot understand it. Just people, just say, oh well, the people in the world today, the Christian world, what they do? The people in the Christian world say, well, I just have to make sure that I tell him about the Lord so that he can be saved. Now, do we have to do our example and do our part? Yes. But understand, no one can become a Christian unless the Father has called him. That's where we really are in verse 44. No one can become a true Christian unless God calls him first.

That the world cannot understand, because they think, well, God is in faith. Well, God is not in faith, because God's got a time plan. People don't understand God's plan and that he has the time. Those that are not called now will be called later. But people don't understand that. Obviously, it's difficult to understand for a lot of people, but you see, God is the master potter. He's got eternity ahead of him. This physical life is only a breath. He can let people die. He can resurrect them. And if they never knew the truth, it can then later on show them the truth and give them the only opportunity which they never had. Sure, it's their second life, quote-unquote, but it's their first opportunity because they never had an opportunity beforehand.

You see, God chose to bless Jacob first, but as you will see, he blessed Esau later. And he's a spiritualist, like that, for us.

You see, God has started to work with one of the twins first and the other twin later. The enmity between them was a decision from God because they were really doing it from birth. I mean, you as a tiny little baby in your mother's womb, you can't even remember that. So God brought that in there to teach us a spiritual lesson. God's wisdom. You and I cannot understand the great wisdom of God in putting together his plan. It just, we cannot understand. It boggles our minds. Our little feeble little minds. It's just beyond understanding. Look at Acts 2, verse 23. Acts 2, verse 23.

In this section here, it's during the Day of Pentecost, and God's Holy Spirit was given to the apostles. And there, Peter is giving his sermon, and there in the middle of his sermon, he says, he's talking about Jesus Christ, in verse 23, him, that's Jesus Christ, being delivered by the determined purpose and for knowledge of God the Father. That you, people out there, Jews, you have taken by lawless hands, you have killed, crucified and put to death. But what he's saying is something very important. That God allows certain things in God's predetermined purpose and for knowledge. God as a purpose, that does not mean you are predestined to be saved or to die eternally. No. But God has predestined a purpose for us to be sons and daughters of God in his kingdom. He has predestined for us to be his children. But he has not predestined whether we'll succeed or not. He's giving us every little thing you and I can to succeed, but it's up to us to roll up our sleeves and do our part and succeed. And he leaves that with us. That's the free moral agency that we have. But God wants you to succeed. God gives you all the tools to succeed. God wants you and I to be his children in his kingdom. So he's predestined us to be sons and daughters of God. He's predestined us to be heirs of God. But whether we'll succeed or not, that's our call. That's what we do with God's Holy Spirit when he gives us his Holy Spirit. Now, some of us have given us Holy Spirit. Now, others he has decided in his great wisdom to give later. That's his call because he's the master potter and he'll decide when to do it. Everything will happen according to his plan. Nothing can spoil God's plan. God's plan is to procreate, quote-unquote, to create more sons of God and daughters, of course. More children of God. Nothing will spoil it. Oh, I know Satan tries to, but he wants to succeed. He wants to succeed because God's more powerful.

He is an absolute complete control. You have nothing to fear. Nothing! In fact, Satan has got his hands behind his back and he can only do what God allows. He's restrained. Imagine if he wasn't. He's restrained. And if you and I are close to God, we have God's Holy Spirit, you can't have evil and good at the same place. You can have God and evil in the same temple. Can't! Impossible! So you've been close to God, you have nothing to fear. Nothing! And so, man never fell. Oh, the fall of man, Adam and Eve, the fall of the man didn't fall. Satan fell because Satan was an angelic being and he was given a great responsibility to try to educate the future children of God and he messed it up. So he's temporarily still the God of the swole, but he's restrained. He fell from his position. Man is just contested. You and I are just given a time to choose. Just like Adam and Eve had to choose between two trees, you and I have to choose. And God says, choose the right that you may live. God wants you to choose the right. God wants you to succeed. So Satan is not upsetting God's plan. He's not. Sure, man's sin and sure there are consequences from our sins and sure we can mess it up and if we're not making it into the kingdom because we messed it up, not Satan made me do it. It's our choice.

And indeed, when we mess it up, we can make problems for ourselves or we can make problems for others. And so you might be an innocent bystander in which somebody else has messed it up and is making problems for you. But God knew man's weakness. Why? Because he created that in mankind which we call human nature. The human nature is frail. And you know what? It's incomplete and we need God's Holy Spirit to actually overcome that. And that's part of learning to overcome so that in the end, when we are children of God, God has no more little Satan's walking around because we have learned to fight those BAs, bad attitudes. Right? You know, we all could graduate with a BA, but we don't want to. Right? We want to overcome these BAs. So we have to manage and grow and overcome.

Look at Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter 9.

Starting verse 20. Romans 9 verse 20. But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him, or formed it, Why have you made me like this? In other words, we are clay in God's hands. He is the master potter. Do we have the right as clay to tell God, Why did you make me in this collision? We don't. We have no right. It's his choice. Verse 21. Does not the potter have power over the clay from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for this honor? And so God decided to do certain things with Jacob, even though he was the second born. So traditionally, the first born would have gotten certain things, but he decided to do it the other way. And you know what? He told the parents while they were in the womb that this would be so. They knew better right before they were born. In other words, Isaac and Rebekah knew that the second born was going to be first. They knew better. God told them before they were born. So, verse 22. What if God, wanting to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much suffering the vessels of wrath preserved for destruction, and that he might have known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy? You see, so God chooses to do certain things. And you think about it. Look about Pharaoh. He says, God hardened his heart. Do you think God then will not show mercy to him, let it off? He won't. He won't. You see, God allows certain things to teach you some lessons. But we need to understand that God does things for a specific purpose. And sometimes we don't know the whole purpose. Why that person is wealthy today? And you are not wealthy. That's his goal.

The point is, should we be deceitful? And or should we have a bad attitude in the process thereof? If we don't have something, should we deceive? Or if we have something, should we deceive to have more? Or if we don't have something, should we have a bad attitude about it? Or just wait for God's time? See, that's the lesson of Esau and Jacob.

You see, the lesson is, how do you and I react to the situation we are in? What is our attitude?

We have to wait for God to bless us. He won't. But he might not bless us now. He might bless us later. That's his goal. And he looks at our hearts. So am I being almost trials today? Could be health trials, could be whatever. I just don't. Why? God knows.

Because I have trials, they're my greatest sinners and somebody else, quite often we think, oh well, person is trial. Oh, he's done something wrong. And you know what? Maybe not. Maybe God's just allowing for some reason to teach us all some, some thing. We don't have all the answers. We don't. But we just have to wait in faith. Why? Because it's a matter of faith, of trusting God that he knows better. Will the thing form, thank you God? Why did you do this or do that? No. We can't say to God, why is that this? Because it's a test of our faith. You see, he has the danger. He has the real danger. Those that have to wait, because they're not blessed now, they could become bitter and jealous. That's a test. On the other ones, those that have success now, there are the supplanters, you know, the Jacobs, the supplanters, could cheat for more. Oh, I'm succeeded. I'm going to cheat. I want more. And you know, you bird people have money. They want to have more money, and they want more money, and they want more money, and they cheat. Now, sure, there is time and chance. Sure, there is time and chance. We know there are some things that happen to people who have been in Ecclesiastes 9, verse 11. Proverbs Ecclesiastes, chapter 9, verse 11. I returned, and so, under the sun, that the race is not for the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of skill, that time and chance happen to them all. In other words, there are certain things that, hey, you're just the right person in the right place at the right time, or the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Time and chance, it happens. And God allows that, if it does not affect his master plan. If God has a plan for you to be there, and time and chance kind of makes it you're not to be there, God will intervene to make your head there. I mean, you heard of some people in the church, they were wearing the building in 9-11, and an angel came and told them, move the eye and this, and go there, and ran away, and next thing you need to first look, then the person disappeared. And we've heard another one, a case like that in South Africa, where it was the case that God intervened for someone. If God wants you to be there for his greater purpose, and he's planning for you to be there, and there's some time and chance event, then God will intervene. On the other side, if you are displeasing God, and that time and chance things go there, and you're not kind of doing your things, God may say, well, let it go, because I'll move forward to somebody else. Time and chance happens, but God will intervene if it will affect his master plan, because his plan will be complete and achieved. And when intervenes for you and I, how many times we say, oh well, by chance this happened? Well, maybe it wasn't by chance, it was because God intervened, and if we are giving chance to honor and glory, we'd better be careful, because we should give glory to God.

You see, in the end, God determines when, what, who. According to his plan. Romans 8, verse 28. Romans 8, verse 28. God's plan will be for full, and he's got the power to do it. Romans 8, verse 28. And we know, Romans 8, 28, that all things work together for good. Sure, there's time and chance, but you know what? They'll work together for you, for those that do what? That love God.

And that's where people usually just stop and close, reading the sentence. But you see, that's not the end of the sentence. It's not just you loving God. There's many people that love God, but they have not been called now to a job today. God will call them later. It's not time they don't love God. There's many people that are zealous for God, but God hasn't called them yet. So, all things work for good for those who love God to those who are called according to God's purpose.

You see, there's two conditions, then, the same. There's two conditions. You and I must be called to God's purpose. And as we read early on in John 6, 44, you know, it's the Father that decides who to call now, and others later. And that is the lesson from Jacob and his soul. Jacob was blessed at that time, and his soul would be blessed later. It was God's call. So, with that as a background, by me, I've been giving you the conclusion. Let me now look very briefly at the specifics of the story of his soul and Jacob. So, let's go back to Genesis 25 verse 28. Genesis 25 verse 28.

And East Park loved Eastall because he ate of his game, but Rebecca loved Jacob. Oh! Can you see something? There's a family problem here. There's a big family problem, because you're my favorite, and the other one is my favorite.

That's the best problem. And you know what? Because, in fact, Isaac was going against God's plan. Because Isaac knew, as we read in verse 23 a little earlier on, that there were two nations in the womb, and he says there, that the older shall serve the younger. He knew that the older, which was the firstborn, which was Eastall, would serve the secondborn, the younger, which was Jacob. He knew it was God's will, but he was fighting God's will because he liked the cooked, innocent that his son made. He knew better. And so, there were family problems. Can you imagine? There's a little debate that was happening at home. Well, the Bible doesn't tell you everything, but can you imagine this? After years and years of having this favoritism on one side and favoritism on the other, and they knew what it was God's will. And look at verse 29.

As of this day.

The fruit of this family augments got to a point that Jacob was seeing Esau being favored, and Jacob now wanted to buy that because he knew he was not the firstborn. So he wanted to get that because he was not being favored by his dad. You see, this whole thing, you think about the psychology behind it, there were a whole lot of consequences there. Verse 32, and Esau said, look, I'm about to die, so what is of a fright to me? Dangerous. He designed the gift of God, which was the firstborn. He designed the gift of God to be first. Now, here's a lesson to us. We are the first to call them out. Do we disdain their opportunity? There are so many people that have been called first, and they kind of threw it away. We've got to be careful. Then Jacob said, swear to me as of this day, and so he swore to him, and his soul was both right to Jacob. And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and then he ate and drank rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

You see, so there was a family argument. The things started developing further, and this argument only grew with time. Look at Genesis, verse 27. Genesis 27, verse 1-4.

Then he said, Be old now, I'm old, I do not know the day of my death. Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt again for me. Get me some venison, and make me that slavory, savory venison, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die. Now Isaac knew before they were born that God wanted the other way around, and he was going against God's will. And he was now starting to sing with the argument with his wife and all these things, and now he says, I'm gonna bless him before I die, and I'm gonna spoil God's plan. You can't do that. You can't do that. So, Rebecca was listening, and so verse 6, so Rebecca spoke to Jacob, a son, saying, Indeed, I heard your father speak to his or your brother, saying, Bring me the game, and make savory good for me, that I may eat it, and bless it, and order it, and the love. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you, go now to the flock, and bring me from there two-choice kids of the gods, that I may make a savory, I may make a real imitation of that venison for your dad, the way he likes it, because I know how he so likes it. Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat, and that he may bless you before he's dead. And so, she schemes a plan. See, this family argument is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. There's reception here. And you can see that, and you can read the story in the rest of the chapter. That's what Jacob did. And you can see, Jacob said in verse 12, Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him. I beg your pardon, he was a deceiver. He didn't seem to be a deceiver, he was a deceiver, because he did that, and he deceived his father. He was a deceiver. So Yah is a schemer, his mother and him and I deceived. And you know the story, that damn, he was blessed, given a blessing. And when Esau came, when Esau came, and Isaac realized that he had made a mistake. Look at Isaac's reaction here, in verse 33. Then Isaac trembled exceedingly.

Why? Because he knew he had gone against God's wish, and he trembled exceedingly, and he knew what was God's wish. He had rejected it, and he realized, and he had to repent of that.

You see, so, what happened? What happened is that Esau hated Jacob. He saw hated Jacob. And look at verse 41. And so he saw hated Jacob, because of the blessing within his father blessing, and he saw that in his heart, in the days of mourning, I beg your pardon, the days of mourning for my father are at hand, and then I will kill my brother. You see that family argument? God so big, and that Esau now had an attitude against his brother. So we see Jacob deceiving, and you see deceiving through buying the soup, and now through getting dressed up with the skin and appearing like Esau. So it's a deceiver to supplant, to get the blessing, and you see Esau having an attitude. An attitude became bitter, he despised the birthright, and then that attitude led to an attitude of murder. So now we have a deceiver and a murderer. They both wrong. They both had to repent. And you read the story, what happens? Jacob goes to his uncle's house, and he wants to marry one of the daughters, and what happens? How does God teach you if you're deceiver? He was deceived by his uncle. He gave him the medicine. You know the story about Rachel and Leah? You go and read it there in chapter 28. And he was deceived by his uncle.

And you know, if it had not been for God to bless him and to intervene for him, he would have been cheated. And you know the story about the sheep and putting them underneath the branches and being speckled and strikes and all that story. You can read that. I'm not going to go through it now. Because it's nice to actually take it and start reading it in this context and see that you cannot ski against God. What God has planned, you can try to do what God has planned will happen. And that's it.

The first lesson we have here is that human intervention is not necessary. If you try and change things, you know what? It's just going to cause more trouble. It's just going to cause more grief. And so, Jacob had to learn that lesson by being cheated himself, by receiving the same treatment from labor. Then he repented and then he didn't cheat any further. He learned to leave it in God's hands. Look at Genesis 31, verse 41 and 42. And he says, Thus I have been in your house twenty years. I have served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock.

And you have changed my way just ten times. Unless the God of my father, the God of Abram, and the fear of Isaac had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away. Empty-ended. But God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuke you last night. In other words, Jacob got to a point that he learned that he had to trust God and leave it in God's hands.

You think about King David. King David is the same thing. He had a lot of troubles. And how many songs this David says, I've got to leave it in God's hands. I've got to leave it in God's hands. The second lesson is, while waiting, don't become jealous and bitter. You see, initially, he saw the not-value, the gift of God, to be the firstborn. When he saw himself getting behind, he became bitter.

And over time, he had a spirit of murder. That root of bitterness is dangerous. Look at Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12, verse 14-16. Push the peace of all people, holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. Looking carefully, lest anyone fall short of the grace of God, of the loving kindness of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble. You know, if we see other people having success, don't be bitter about it. Don't be jealous. And by this, many become defiled. By this, because of people become bitter, many people got themselves into trouble.

Lest there be any fornicator, all profane person like Esau, calls Esau a fornicator and profane person. Why? What is a fornicator? It comes from the word fornals, where we get today words like pornography.

But it basically means you prostitute your body for hire. And he called him profane, says yeah, fornicator, or profane. Profane means godless. You see, he actually was selling his birthright and things like that, and doing that, he did not value the gift that he had in his body, and he sold it for a bowl of soup, and God compared that to fornication. You know, it was selling yourself for something. It doesn't just even have to do with sex, but it was an attitude of selling something of value for something else which is no value.

And so, calls Esau a fornicator and a godless person. And because of that, he developed a root of evidence. The lesson to us is not yet better or jealous, because you have to wait. You see, God will bless everyone. All have an opportunity to be sons and daughters of God in the kingdom of God, so all will be blessed in his own time.

As we being the first fruits, God does die the gift of God, which is to be in God's church, to have God's own Spirit. We're not any better than others. God will call them later. Each one is on time. Romans 8 verse 23. Romans 8 verse 23. He says, not only that, but we also have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves, grown within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the sonship.

It says adoption, but it's actually the word in Greek is sonship, to be the sons, you know, to be the sons and daughters of God. You know, it was the redemption of our body. We wait for that reward. Our reward is not now. We're not better, but by the grace of God, we have to wait. And that's the lesson to us, and the lesson to humanity is that humanity has to wait for the salvation, which is to come when Jesus Christ will come to earth to save the world, to save humanity.

God has chosen a few to be called now to be the leaders to help him save the world tomorrow. But the world has to wait for God's time. While we're in Romans 8, look at verse 18. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time, Romans 8, 18, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. The creation, humanity, even though they don't know, they are all waiting for the revealing of the sons of God.

Why? Because look at the misery we see in the world. Crime, bombs, suicide bombers, immorality, whatever. People don't even know, but they are waiting for the sons of God because it's the only hope we have for this world. The only hope, the coming of Christ and the establishment of the government of God. It's not the establishment of a new leader in this nation that is going to save this nation.

No! No man is going to make this nation great! Only Christ will do that at the kingdom of God. And you'll make a whole humanity great. And there will be peace on earth. You heard about the angel when Jesus was born and says, let there be peace on earth when Christ will come. There will be peace on earth. Verse 20, For the creation of subject to futility, not willingly, this all is futile in this world. It's all an exercise in futility, not willingly, for because of him was subject in hope. Because the creation itself also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Brethren, we all have to wait. And you know what? All had to repent. You read the story about Esau and Jacob. Then after Jacob left Leibn, he went and then he met Esau. And you know what? What they did? They kissed. Esau didn't kill Jacob. They kissed and made peace. And Jacob said, let me bless you. And Esau, don't worry. I have been blessed. And then Jacob said, but don't worry. I still want to bless you more. You see, Esau was blessed. The lesson, prophetically, is the Arab nations will be blessed in their time. And the Israelites, God will use them to bless them even further.

And not just only the Arab nations, the whole world will be blessed in its time in the kingdom of God. But they have to repent first. Jacob had to repent. Esau had to repent. And when they both repented, they both got further blessings. Esau's weight was worth it. The nations of the world waiting for the return of Jesus Christ is worth it. But all in its time and order. Christ does everything in order. You read about the resurrection.

And he says, Christ the firstborn. Then those are in Christ's coming. And then they asked the rest at the end. Everything's got time and order. Let's look at Romans 11. Romans 11, verse 29. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. When God blesses you and God calls you, he's not going to say, oh, I made a mistake, I want it back.

It's there. It's not irrevocable. Verse 30. But as you were once disobedient to God, yet now have obtained mercy.

Through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that God, through mercy, shown to you, or by that I may also obtain mercy. In other words, God has a way of doing things. And you know what? Once you repent and change, if you have deceived, repent and change and stop that, God will bless you. If you have not been blessed now, instead of being bitter, stop that. Don't be bitter. Repent and be just and show justice and mercy. Walk in faith and God will bless you at his time. We all have to wait for God's time.

So, look here at verse 32. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that he had mercy on all. Jacob, the soviet, he was a deceiver, but he showed mercy on him. He saw, had a P.I., a bad attitude, but he repented and God showed mercy on him in his time. That's the lesson to all of us. God wants to show mercy to all of us. God decides who to bless first and when. Don't cheat. It's God's call. If you cheat, he's only going to cause more grief and more troubles. Sure, we've got to do our part, but God does the rest. And how many times have we seen that sometimes we wait, we wait, and we think God's not going to intervene at the last moment? God intervenes. It's unbelievable. But you know it's a test of faith. It's a test of faith. When we see others get ahead, don't worry. You do all injustice and mercy. Don't get bitter. Don't get confused. Rejoice when others succeed. And have faith and trust. Walk humbly with God. We all have to repent first. We all have to have justice and mercy. Walk humbly. We will be blessed in God's own time in the Kingdom of God. Seek you first, the Kingdom of God, and He's just as we know that. Meditate about these lessons, brethren, of the Deceptions of Jacob and the Attitude of Israel. But never forget that God allows these things because He's so bright and so clever. He can see the wisdom of this. And that's why it says, Yah, in verse 33, of Romans 11. O, the depths of the reaches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways, past finding out. But you and I have to have faith that God will do that.

Amen.