GENESIS CHAPTER 25 - 25:25 and 25:31

GENESIS  CHAPTER  25

25:1 As Sarah stands for "the mother of us all," of those who by grace, are one with the true Son of promise, of whom Isaac was the type ( JOHN  3:6__8;  GALATIANS  4:26,  28__29 - HEBREWS  2:11__13 ); and joint heirs of His wealth ( HEBREWS  1:2;  ROMANS  8:16__17 ), so Keturah ( wedded after the full blessing of Isaac ) and her children by Abraham may well stand for the fertility of Israel and natural seed, Jehovah's wife ( HOSEA  2:1__23 ) after the future national restoration under the Palestinian covenant ( DEUTERONOMY  30:1__9 ).

25:25 Esau stands for the mere man of the earth ( HEBREWS  12:16__17 ). In many respects a noble man, naturally, than Jacob, he was destitute of faith, and despised the birthright because it was a spiritual thing, of value only as there was faith to apprehend it.

 25:31 The "birthright" had three elements:  ( 1 ) Until the establishment of the Aaronic priesthood the head of the family exercised priestly rights.  ( 2 ) The Abrahamic family held the Edenic promise of the Satan-Bruiser ( GENESIS  3:15 )__Abel, Seth, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Esau.  ( 3 ) Esau, as the firstborn, was in the direct line of the Abrahamic promise of the Earth-Blesser ( GENESIS  12:13 ). For all that was revealed, in Esau might have been fulfilled those two great Messianic promises. The birthright Esau sold for a momentary fleshly gratification. Jacob's conception of the birthright at that time was, doubtless, carnal and inadequate, but his desire for it evidenced true faith.

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