Genesis
24 – 27
I am sorry but I have to mention this because it’s something
I don’t get. Verse 24:9 implies something that seems odd:
The trusted
servant took the oath, holding in his hand Abraham’s power to give life. He
swore to do what his master required.
“Abraham’s power to give life” near his
“thigh” is his “tally-whacker”. I read this and cannot imagine how or why
someone would ever start that tradition. That would freak me out!!
Today is going to be a bunch of questions,
like after Sarah’s death Abraham takes another wife and has more children, what
comes of them? And in verse 24:67 Isaac takes a wife:
Then Isaac brought
Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and slept with
her, and grew to love her deeply. In this way, Isaac found comfort
in the wake of his mother’s death.
This is not a traditional love story, since
the sex part comes before love. Sounds like modern day courtship!! I understand
arranged marriages, but doesn’t mean I agree with them or accept them as
“normal”.
Finally the story of Esau and Jacob always bothered me since
Jacob manipulated his way into the head of the Jewish nation. Why did God allow
this? He got the birth right by taking advantage of his brother’s hunger. In
verse 27:24 he says “I am” Esau to his father and got the blessing by telling a
lie to his father. How can that be a true blessing? And then why could he only
“bless” one of his children? I want to “bless” mine “equally” and give them an
“equal” share of the estate. No one is special or above the other.
Sometimes you have to ask why in Malachi he said that God
hated Esau. Why did God grow the nation of Israel from a manipulative and lying
mama’s boy over a self-centered independent one? Just questions, and am not yet
happy with the answers I have found over the years. In the end, it’s God’s will
and that’s all we really have to know about it.
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