May 19, 2008

• The Book of Isaiah Chapter 1 V.1 Part 4.4

  The Book of Isaiah

  Chapter 1 V.1 Part 4.4

   

  Now…bear with me while I make this point. Sometimes when we are busy walking in our own strength, with our eyes focused on everything but God, we don’t realize who we are aligning ourselves with until it’s too late. Additionally, we also have no idea why, most of the time, we are being attacked…what’s behind the attack, and who it is that is really attacking us. We are like racetrack horses with blinders on. To illustrate this point, let me give you a bit of background on the Edomites that had come again and smitten Judah.

   

  First of all, we all know the story of Esau, the oldest of Isaac’s twins, and grandsons to Abraham. We know about how he sold his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for a bowl of stew in Gen. 25:27-34. The last part of verse 34 says that he despised his birthright.

   

  This word “despised” means to regard with contempt or scorn; to consider as worthless, inferior. In other words, his attitude was similar to that of some of the (dogs) men that used to catcall to me in the street. You know the type… “Hey baby…” etc; and then when you ignore them and don’t respond to it, suddenly you are called a female dog and numerous other names, and told, “You ain’t all that!” Well…my response (at least mentally) was… “Apparently I was (all that), until I let you know that you weren’t worth my attention.”

   

  But I think Hebrews summed up that attitude very well.

   

  Hbr 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;

  Hbr 12:16  Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

  Hbr 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

   

  The reference was really just verses 16-17, but I thought that verse 15 was relevant, having come just before it, and demonstrating that when one fails the grace of God, bitterness springs up in them and they are defiled; in this case, forever.

   

  We also know that according to verse 17, he found no place of repentance, and was rejected when he would have inherited his blessing in Genesis 27. Again, in verse 34, we see a reference to bitterness. I also found a cross reference to Gen. 37:4-5, in which reference is made to the hatred of Joseph’s brothers towards him because they knew his father loved him more.

   

  I also see a parallel with Lucifer and Christ. Although Lucifer was an arch angel, he was the most elevated and glorified of the angels, and his position was similar to that of a son, but the birthright of Son of God was Christ’s, and so again, we see the first example of that same hatred and bitterness in Satan, whereby the first is displaced by the second, just like the prodigal son, and just like the favor of Abel over Cain. It’s a repetitive theme throughout the bible.

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