One day when Jacob had cooked some stew, ‘Esau came in from the open country, exhausted, and said to Jacob, “Please! Let me gulp down some of that red stuff — that red stuff! I’m exhausted!”–Genesis 25:29-30 This might not strike us as strange in our day and age but notice that Jacob was cooking. In […]

The Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other; and the older will serve the younger.” -Genesis 25:23 During Rebecca’s childbirth, there appeared to be a violent struggle in her stomach like two animals clawing and […]

This is a followup to one of my recent posts titled “25-2: Where did the Old Testament Saints go after death?“, which turned out to be one of my most popular posts ever.  (Thank you everybody for reading and your support!!!) The reason for this followup is that I was kindly shown an alternative viewpoint […]

Before we move into the third and final part of Chapter 25, I need to talk about how exactly the first Hebrew came to be and what defines a Hebrew today. Let me start with a fact that while obvious might give some folks pause for reflection. Abraham, as we all know, was born a […]

The Muslims claim that Ishmael is the founder and father of Islam. We have been carefully studying the Torah from chapter one of Genesis and have already read for ourselves that not only is Ishmael not the father of Islam (a religion that wasn’t even in existence), but Ishmael is not even the father of […]