i don’t deny that ishmael as well as esau were given blessing as well but their destinies differ from Jacob, the seed that sprang from Jacob are the children of promise, these are those that God “elected” and these are those that are spoken of by all the prophets, those that came from the seed of Jacob are the only ones given any covenant and also the only ones known by God.
JER. 31:31-34
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33But this
shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
AMOS 3:1-3
“
1Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
2You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”
Esau sold his birthright and more importantly mingle his seed committing formation with the strange wives he took of the Hittites who were Canaanites essentially of mixed seed and by doing this Esau changed his destiny and although he was repentant, God did not hear his voice. When the Israelites marched through Mt Seir they were commanded to let them alone cuz God did give that land as am inheritance to Esau but only on account of keeping his promise to Abraham. The Isrselites were being taken by God to their inheritance, the land of Canaan.
Hebrews 12:16,17
“Lest there
be any
fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17For ye know how that afterward, when he
would have inherited the blessing, he was
rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.”
Romans 9:6-13
“Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham,
are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these
are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9For this
is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10And not only
this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
even by our father Isaac;
11(For
the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil,
that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works,
but of him that calleth12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
We either have origin with the Father or we don’t but regardless of that fact we all have a destiny and it has all been decided by the foreknowledge of God. Esau was hated while still in the womb because God knows the end from the beginning and he knew the evil of Esau and his seed before any evil was committed but he loved Jacob, Although Jacob would break his covenant and God would cast him off, Jesus Christ was had already been slain before the foundation of the world and He would be the redeemer of his brethren and God will bring the children of Israel to glory as described in prophecy when He comes again to destroy Esaus offspring forever and restore the kingdom to the children of Israel, all of this being by the will of the Father, not the will of men. That is what makes it so beautiful and awesome.
Obidiah 1 is the primary reference i would use and i encourage everybody to read it however i can offer much more scripture from Revelation and Isaiah as well but i will leave it here unless anybody would like to discuss this further. Praise YHWH, the Holy One of Israel🙏🙏🙏