The Story of Esau and Jacob is the Story of Our Day

    It's a biblical story. Esau loses his birthright, and therefore hates his brother who won it from him, and vows to kill that brother. Sounds exactly like what is happening today between the descendants of that story. The Muslims hate Christians, as well as the nation of Israel, and they are vowing to wipe the nation of Israel off the face of the earth.  

  The story of Esau's losing his birthright to Jacob laid out, prefigured, what would happen in our world. Just as Jacob gained the birthright, even so the Christian nations have ruled the world. Esau was told, though, that there would be times "when thou shalt have dominion, that thou shalt break his (Jacob's) yoke from off thy neck." Even so, we have seen the Crusades, and all the wars between the Muslims and the Christians and the Jews in Israel ever since. And, there have been times the Muslims have broken the yoke, even as the story foretold. Esau was told that, "By thy sword shalt thou live," and it has been war for his posterity ever since.

   "And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him." Even so, there are those of Islam who hate Christians. There perhaps is even a rage of jealousy within them, thinking they should be the ones ruling the world. "And Esau said in his heart . . .I will slay my brother Jacob." Even so, the Muslims sometimes speak of sweeping the Jews into the sea. 

  "Bless me, even me also," Esau had cried. And, his father had replied that he would. "Thy dwelling shalt be the fatness of the land, and of the dew of heaven from above," his father promised. Even so, look at the Muslim nations today. They have the "fatness of the land." They are rich, in many ways, with oil. Dubai is one of the richest cities on earth, its becoming so only in recent decades. Dubai is a fulfillment of the story-prophecy we have seen just within the span of the last few decades, in our own day. Nor have the riches of the oil fields blessed them all along, but that too has been a fulfillment just in the last century or so.