A Study Guide for the Book of Lamentations by John Teague, ThD - HTML preview

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his body were more important to him

than the promise of God.

b)

Esau's second foolish choice was to disobey his parents and tie himself to the line of Ishmael, who did not share in God's promises.

(1)

Israel is still hated by descendants linked with Ishmael namely the Arab Muslim

people that believe Israel belongs to them

for whatever ungodly reason.

(2)

Esau (Edom) married Ishmael's daughter

(36:23) and two Hittite women (26:34).

(a)

Esau allowed himself to become

"yoked" to a line that was not to inherit the covenant of God and shall

never inherit that covenant.

(b)

By this yoke, Esau cut himself from

God's covenant completely.

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Jacob did not do this to Esau.

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Esau did it to himself and to

his descendants.

(3)

Selling this blessing was so important that it made Esau into Jacob's servant thus

fulfilling the prophesy that his parents

received when they were born, (25:23, 7:40, 27:29b).

(4)

The thing that made Esau so angry was not

that he was now Jacob's servant, but that he was called Jacob's servant.

c)

Two things seem to have been most important to Esau and those things were his pride and that he perceived that he was respected.

(1)

These two things are made evident when

Esau sets out to kill Jacob and years later, when Esau finds Jacob, Esau is at least