I Love You So I Hated

There's a lot of sympathy for Esau that's written into this account. He did what he was supposed to do. And yet his birthright is the blessing of the firstborn is taken away from him. It kind of fits with this whole messianic typology we talked about earlier with Christ being the one who's cut off. But at least read in this way, I think it does fit. The days of mourning for my father are near then, I will kill my brother Jacob.