(Text : Genesis 25:20)
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
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Satan hindered the birth of Jacob for twenty years. God overruled the malice of Satan to emphasize once more the great truth that He displays the riches of His Grace and Glory where nature is dead; this is a principle in the spiritual Iife which nature is unwilling to learn.
Genesis 25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
They were twins in her womb; two energies struggled within her, the one believing and the other unbelieving, and were present even before they were born; it is like the two natures, sin nature and Divine Nature, within the believer. Could be paraphrased, “if, in answer to prayer, God is about to give me the joy of being a mother, why am I so physically oppressed that I am in danger of death”; it must indeed have appeared perplexing to her that such an answer to prayer should be accompanied by such mysterious suffering.
Finally, Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Those two nations were Edomites and Israelites; from the time of their birth, Esau and Jacob would be sperated, dividend, even hostile for they would have nothing in common. Jacob who was younger, would be the stronger, but only through the Lord. Every person is born with sin nature, which makes that the “elder”; th Divine Nature comes into the believer at conversion, and is the younger. However, if we follow God’s pattern of victorious living, which is Jesus Christ and Him Crucified, “the elder shall serve the younger,” meaning that the Divine Nature will be victorious over the sin nature.
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