Twin Babies of Biblical note

TWIN BABIES OF BIBLICAL NOTE Case study, Jacob and Esau Gen. 25: 21-26. https://www.engageawesomeblog.blogspot.com Email:josevangelseven@hotmail.com;jazubuike904@gmail.com INTRODUCTION: What do we mean by this term “twin Babies of Biblical note”? It means that the issue of Jacob and Esau in the Bible were so peculiar in their nature. Yes, before this time the first born had the birthright in the family, that immediately after the demise of the man of the house, his first born son takes over from him. That was even the reason the man Isaac wanted to personally bless his first born Esau in his lifetime that he instructed him to go and fetch for him the kind of meat he used to prepare for him. And you know what happened, and his wife Rebecca heard it from Isaac and she substituted with Esau with Jacob. Throughout scripture the case of Esau and Jacob is well known. It is not because there were no twins born before them, no but due to their peculiar issue. The issue was especially how Jacob was able to take away the birthright of Esau with a pot of soup in the first place. In the second issue Rebecca was instrumental to Jacob’s taking away of Esau’s blessing from his father. But in the whole exercise we see God fulfilling his purpose for mankind with Jacob. The most important aspect is that what God said concerning humanity was fulfilled at the end. The Bible has it that the promise which God made to Abraham was to pass from him to son Isaac to rest on Jacob not Esau Ps.105:8-11. So we see that even in this game from Jacob, God could be seen at the centre. But we do not blame him in any way because Isaiah said he is doing his will Isa. 46:9-10. If you create a world you will do what you please. Before Jacob’s games he had been chosen by God. The only question we are asking is, “was there no other way to bring God’s purpose into effect than playing Esau with his birthright”? Well, this may have been the only way to fulfill it, or that God left them to use their own way. WHY JACOB PREVAILED OVER ESAU: From the text below we see Jacob beloved more than Esau as God chose him Gen.25:23. God said, “The Elder shall serve the younger”. Only this statement from the Lord is enough to position somebody into an enviable one. Even if that person was at the back before, this statement will bring him forward to the first position, no matter how one tries, the word of God is able and it is what places you in accordance to his will. When God makes a choice, no matter how you try, you can’t cross over it. This was the case of Esau. Jacob’s schemes over Esau were from here. Jacob was not all that wise so to say, but you see, God’ choice must prevail over all others. You may ask, “Does it mean that God supports evil”? Apostle Paul also traced this issue to such question asking “If it is so, why doth he yet find fault with man, for who hath resisted his will”? Rom. 9:19. He was able to give back the answer saying “who art thou man that replies God”? That God made the choice of Jacob when the children were yet not born. When nothing would be recorded for or against any of them as per their behavioral characters, yet God knows who would be good or bad when such a person is yet in the womb. We use the example of what we see with what God said to Jeremiah saying “Before you entered into your mother’s womb I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb, I ordained you a Prophet” Jer. 1:6. No one would claim that God does not know him or her. Even though some might claim so, but their claims are not true. We are going to discuss the case of Jacob and Esau properly. WHO WAS THE ACTUAL FIRST BORN? Biologically and literally in every home, the first child that is born into a family or from a twin pregnancy is the first child. This applies whether the child is a male or female. But the first male child takes the son-ship inheritance of the family with the birthright of that family. Women may take the birthright while they remained in the family, but the moment they got married, they may cease taking it from the family with her siblings. Like the people of Israel, in our family setup, women are not to take any inheritance in the family. The reason is not farfetched, they will marry and leave the family to go with their husbands and build their own families elsewhere. So in this setup, how can we prove between the case of Esau and Jacob, who was actually the first born? Although the Bible says Esau came out first and Jacob then came out. And God said the Elder shall serve the younger. But we should consider that their struggle started from the womb of Rebecca. What were they struggling about? They were struggling about the birthright that belongs to the first born. This is my own belief, I don’t know about your own idea. I have a different belief here that Jacob might have been the first to be conceived inside the womb. My reason and belief came from studying the Word. I came to where God informed Moses to tell Pharaoh that Israel was his first born Ex. 4:232. You may say God was saying a different thing here. What I believe is that first born is first born anywhere. Let us try to discover why God made that statement in the first place. It is not because he loved Jacob more that Esau, no I’m having a deeper and different understanding of the thing altogether. FIRST BORN CONCEPTION: What I’m saying now is what I believe after studying Ex. 4:22. God said Israel was his first born. This brought me into a serious thought and finally I came up with this belief. In conception, though only God knows when it takes place inside the womb. I am of the opinion that in the case of a twin Pregnancy that results in giving birth to twin babies, the first child that is conceived inside the womb is the second one that comes out, why? The first one that entered into the womb, seeing his brother or sister coming gives way for him/her to come in. By so doing he or she goes more in into the womb, just to accommodate his/her brother or sister. When the second one enters into the womb, he or she blocks the road or closes the womb when no other one is coming. Even if they are triplets or more, I believe that this is the way they gather at the womb. Now in delivery, the last one to be conceived which closed up the womb is the first to go out or delivered, while the first one to enter becomes the last one to be delivered. I want my fans to believe what I believe, and even if you will disagree with me now, a time comes that you will agree with me. I believe this was the reason Esau and Jacob were struggling inside Rebecca’s womb. I also believe this gave additional right to Jacob for tricking Esau the second time, in spite of the fact that Rebecca loved Jacob more than Esau. Although God had earlier made choice between them and had chosen Jacob. But Esau was Isaac’s choice because he was his first born, secondly because of his bush meat which he used to enjoy always. It maybe that Esau didn’t allow his mother Rebecca to enjoy his meat at all, and even Jacob. We think it might be one of the reasons Jacob insisted that unless Esau sold his birthright to him, he would not give him his porridge to eat, no matter how hungry he was at that time. GOD SEES EVERY SECRET: When Jacob and Esau were struggling inside the womb, Rebecca was greatly troubled within her. Therefore she enquired from God’s prophets about her troubles and she was told by God that “two manners of people were inside her womb, and that the Elder which was Esau would serve the younger which was Jacob”. God might have seen that Jacob was conceived first, and that he gave Esau chance to come in, and that at delivery Esau must be delivered first before Jacob. It might possibly be the reason the children struggled while inside the womb. Even though God loved Jacob and his generation, to be used in blessing and fulfilling his promise to Abraham Ps. 105:8-11, Jacob had a good disposition in himself So what made God to choose Jacob was that he sees inside the heart of everyone and knows who to use for any purpose, and who not to choose. Yes, the Bible declares that every heart is open to him, whether we believe it or not, he sees all. He might have agreed with Jacob that he was conceived first before Esau, and that if that pregnancy was single, he would not have given chance to any one inside the womb. He would be born as the first child in the family, and would not struggle with any one for his birthright. So the struggle inside the womb was all about the birthright. You could see how Jacob insisted that Esau should give him his birthright before he would give him that pot to eat. This meant that even from the womb Jacob had been struggling for that issue before they were born. Even at delivery, Jacob still held his heel Gen. 25:26, this is wonderful to hear of newly born babies. We see that Jacob by this singular act was telling Esau that he was the rightful owner of that birthright. We believe that God has the right to chose who owns what, like in the case of David and his brothers. The youngest among eight was chosen to be king. There was no question for this, as God was involved. But in the case of Esau and Jacob, I believe that what I said is correct in every good sense. But if you believe it is not so, you can write your comment in the contact/comment page. You can also contact me through my email address at the contact page. Thank you and God bless.