OUR FATHER WHO LOVES JACOB AND HATES ESSAU (LOVE OUR BORN AGAIN SPIRIT AND HATES OUR FALLEN NATURE

Starting in the book of Malachi in chapter 1 verses 1 - 5, we read this,

1 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

2 “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;

3 But Esau I have hated,

And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.”

4 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.

5 Your eyes shall see, And you shall say,  ‘The Lord is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’

This passage is quoted in Romans chapter 9 verse 13 where Paul discusses how the calling on individuals is not self-determined but rather a divine determination that occurs before the birth of the person.

As well, in as far as the twins Jacob and Essau are metaphores for the duality of a believer, Jacob, who is the younger one and represents the born again spirit of the believer, is destined to rule over the older Essau who represents the flesh oor the corrupted spirit. The phrase ´Jacob I loved and Essau I hatedˋ illustrates the reality that the fallen nature is contraty to God while the born again spirit loves the  things of God and is loved by God,

The passage goes on to foretell that the fortunes and holdings of the flesh would be destroyed by the Lord in the work that is ongoing in believers to make them complete.

Amen,

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