The children struggled together within her,
and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to
inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb,
“Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you shall be divided;
the one shall be stronger than the other,
the older shall serve the younger.”
Rebekah asked God what was happening to her and God provided her with a specific response: you are having twin boys and the younger of the two is the one that God was choosing to pass the baton of His promise from Genesis 3:15. This will come into play going forward as we will see a good deal of jockeying and strategy sessions aimed at wrangling the blessing from each other. But God clearly chose and communicated his choice before they were born. All ingenuity then geared toward taking it away or keeping it away from the other was a lesson in futility, because it wasn't ultimately a game of capture the flag from the hands of men, but an attempt to pry a blessing from the hand of God who had said from the onset what He was going to do and through whom He was going to do it.
Rebekah asked God what was happening to her and God provided her with a specific response: you are having twin boys and the younger of the two is the one that God was choosing to pass the baton of His promise from Genesis 3:15. This will come into play going forward as we will see a good deal of jockeying and strategy sessions aimed at wrangling the blessing from each other. But God clearly chose and communicated his choice before they were born. All ingenuity then geared toward taking it away or keeping it away from the other was a lesson in futility, because it wasn't ultimately a game of capture the flag from the hands of men, but an attempt to pry a blessing from the hand of God who had said from the onset what He was going to do and through whom He was going to do it.
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