Some call this Jacob’s sin in stealing the covenant. Actually the Covenant was his all along, as God intended. Jacob’s sin was in deceiving. It was an inappropriate method of getting his rightful Covenant. Even though she was a dutiful wife, Rebecca knew that God’s will was more important than her husband’s will. God’s will is always going to be done and if she had waited God would have achieved it in a way that did not accommodate Jacob and Rebecca’s deception. Rebecca instructs Jacob on how to achieve this perceived miscarriage of God’s will. She was going to make sure that Jacob received blessing and not Esau. Esau did not seem to care about the spiritual blessing of the Abrahamic Covenant. It seems he was primarily concerned with the material aspects of the blessing. This story has similarities with Sarah’s impatience with God’s promise to give her and Abraham a promised son. Sarah took matters into her own hand and had Abraham father a son with Hagar the handmaid. Rebecca is going to help God along as if He is constrained in His ability to affect the outcome He desires. She simply had a lapse of faith. We must have a clear understanding of that fact that God is in control of all things on this earth. He chooses to cause events to happen by His causative will, and by His permissive will He allows things to happen.
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