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Date Posted: 20:45:46 09/16/10 Thu
Genesis 26:34-35 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
1 Samuel 15:23 "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. ---"
It seems that rebellion is in the heart of Esau. Unlike his father he is perfectly happy to marry two Canaanite women (Gen. 36:2). Esau is 40 years old when he does this and thus did not act hastily from the passion of youth. His actions were deliberate and calculated to hurt his parents.
When it came time for Esau's daddy to marry, Abraham sent his servant back to the land of his nativity to secure a wife for his son Isaac. The Canaanites were an idol worshipping people who lived by totally different standards than Abraham and Isaac. Abraham, believing in God, did not want to do anything to displease God so rather than give his son over to be tempted by an idol worshipping, God dishonoring people he sent his servant back to his own people to secure a proper wife for Isaac. Genesis 24:2-3 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Just for a reminder: When you consider Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and then his 12 sons you are considering the line of the Royal Seed that was the subject of Genesis 3:15. Through this line of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and then Judah, the 4th son of Jacob through his wife Leah the Messiah came.. Satan new of the general line through which God had chosen to bring the Messiah. He just didn't know which son would be the progenitor. Satan had no trouble figuring out it would be through Isaac as he saw Ishmael put away. He now had to work on the sons of Isaac. Satan was very much in the temptation of Esau to rebel against God and his father Isaac. In the selection of his wives Esau had a way of "getting even. "After all," Esau thought, "my father loves Jacob more than me." Esau's action was through jealousy and spite as much as anything else and Satan could goad him through his self serving character.
Genesis 28:6-9 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram; 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Jacob obeyed and was blessed. Esau turned green with envy and rebelled further. It wasn't enough that Esau's first two wives brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah now he had to go and add insult to injury and marry two more that would bring even more grief and consternation. Is it any wonder God looked ahead in time and chose Jacob over Esau to be the one through whom the chosen seed should come. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated" (Rom. 9:13) becomes more understandable when you take a close look at the character of Esau.
Many is the mother and dad who have had to walk in Isaac and Rebekah's shoes. A son or a daughter who is caught up in infatuation and or rebellion and will not look at the character of their intended spouse can and will bring grief of mind to the parents. We want the best for not only our children but for the grand children that will come from the union. Christian parents want Christian spouses for their sons and daughters. Christian parents want the peace of mind that comes with knowing their grand children will be cared for both physically and spiritually.
We are only on this earth for a short period of time and then we will spend eternity in one or two places. There are only two. Time here is a preparation for there, which ever place you go. We have a song we sing in Church from time to time titled "Will the Circle be Unbroken?" The greatest peace of mind a parent can have is to know that their children have made preparation to live eternally with Jesus. The same goes for our grand children. How awful to think that any of these have not made preparation and have died in a hopeless condition. My greatest desire is to see all my loved ones in heaven. My greatest desire is for the circle to be unbroken. A family circle without one member missing. What a blessed peace of mind that brings.
The grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah must have centered around this greatly. They knew their son Esau would further turn from God through his wives and their precious grand children would almost certainly follow the examples of their parents. Truly, in this case, it was a grief of mind.
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