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Genesis chapter 27 verse 24

He said,

Are you really my son, Esau?

He answered, I am.

Now I need to give a little bit of context

behind this verse, because this is when Isaac had promised to bless his sons and he calls Esau his older son and

says, I want you to go prepare a meal for me, bring it into me so that I may bless you.

And the picture is give you the superior blessing, so to speak.

But then Isaac's wife, Rebecca, who loved Jacob more than he saw, pulled Jacob aside and said,

hey, we got to prepare a meal and fix it for your dad before ESAW gets back so that you can receive

the superior blessing.

And so that's what Rebecca and Jacob conspired to do.

Jacob goes in there.

Isaac is basically wondering, is this really Esau?

And Jacob outright lies and says, I am.

And as a result of his lying,

he ends up receiving the superior blessing that actually belonged to

Esau according to what Isaac had planned.

Now you put all that together and it's one of many stories yet to come here in the book of Genesis where we see

sin at the center of the story just outright deception, lying, and yet, even in the midst of sin, God is sovereignly working. Now there's mystery here. I don't understand how all of this

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