The answer helps us to understand the faith of both, and the extent to which they exposed themselves by caring for the Revelation that God had given them.
God is no respecter of persons, this is the first establishment of Truth and Righteousness that the Scripture presents regarding the Essence and Nature of God… The presence of a righteous person causes the region to be blessed, and the judgments which weigh upon it to be halted or postponed, not to deliver its inhabitants from judgment for their evil establishments and to set them free, but to give them opportunity for the inhabitants to come to repentance,…
More than inheritance benefit, the birthright consists of succession of God’s purpose for a generation, including all the spiritual benefits of what it means to be the firstborn of a caste.
Esau was his father’s favorite: Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison; so Esau had a greater vow of trust before his father than Jacob did, did Esau need a birthright having his father on his side?
Many men and women of God have become contaminated with apostasy, for knowing that Jesus was not born on the dates when the pagan world celebrates his birth, they celebrate equally, thereby incurring an alliance with darkness. To accept Christmas and celebrate it as a religious holiday accepted by the Scriptures is to accept an apostate doctrine. It is a doctrine that numbs the discernment, that dissipates the senses, and that subjects us to the demonic hosts that operate in the heavenly regions.
