Jacob I love But Esau I have hated 🔎🔍
🎞️ · 25.04.2024 · 15:39:07 ··· Donnerstag ⭐ 552 🎬 7340
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🎬 · 25.04.2024 · 15:39:07 ··· Donnerstag
😎 · 03.07.2024 · 15:40:29 ··· MiTTwoch
Did God really love Jacob and hate Esau as individuals before they were born and before they had done anything good or bad? Did God choose one for salvation and the other for damnation before the very foundation of the world? Some people say "yes" and they even believe that God chose some people for salvation and others for damnation before they were even born and before they had done anything good or bad. In other words, billions of people will burn in hell for all eternity because God chose to hate them and this hatred is not based on anything good or bad that they had done. Something is wrong with this interpretation. It's morally wrong to express hatred towards someone who has done nothing wrong.
Matthew 5:22 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.
This is not speaking of Jacob and Esau as individuals but as nations, and the only thing that was said before they were born was that the older will serve the younger. The hatred part was spoken thousands of years after both Jacob and Esau were buried and dead.
When it says “for the children not yet being born” it is not referring to some time in eternity past. It’s referring to a very definite time in history just before Jacob and Esau were born.
Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If all is well, why am I like this?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. And the LORD said to her: "Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And the older shall serve the younger." Genesis 25:21-23
So, we are talking about two nations here, not two individual people. It’s worth noting that Esau never served Jacob, but the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, did serve Israel as a nation when they were conquered by king David.
Likewise, when the bible says Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated, that’s not referring to the individuals but to the nations of Israel and Edom.
"I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'In what way have You loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" Says the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved; But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness." Even though Edom has said, "We have been impoverished, But we will return and build the desolate places," Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever. Malachi 1:2-4
Malachi prophesied these words after Israel’s return from captivity in Babylon and the point that Malachi was making is that after the Babylonian captivity God had re-established Israel but he had prevented the edomites from returning to rebuild their land.
Also, hate is a pretty strong word today, but we have to remember Jesus said that unless you hate your mother and father you are not worthy of him.
Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Most people understand Jesus as saying that you need to love him so much that in comparison your love for your father and mother seems like hatred.
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