1. “SIBLING RIVALRY”
EPISODE 3

2. A Little Genealogy

6. CAST OF CHARACTERS
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Isaac – Laughter
Rebekah – Ensnarer (Trap Layer)
Jacob – Supplanter (Con-Artist)
Esau – Hairy, also Edom – Red
Leah – Weary
Rachel – Ewe (Lamb)

7. Read Genesis 25: 19-23
A STRUGGLE BEFORE
BIRTH

8. Rachel’s Pregnancy
• Why did God allow her to
conceive?
• Was it an easy pregnancy?
EXPLAIN. What was the
conflict?

9. Read 25:24-28
TWINS

10. The Twins
• Esau was a rough and tumble
hunter and an outdoorsman. His
daddy was crazy about him.
• Jacob was quiet (sneaky) and
loved to stay at home. His mama
loved him.

11. The Big “BUT”
• Vs 28
• And Isaac loved Esau,
because he did eat of his
venison: but Rebekah loved
Jacob.

12. Most sibling rivalries
are a result of the
environment that
parents have set up.

13. Read 25:29-34
THAT WAS SOME GOOD
RED PEA SOUP!!! OR
CHILI…

14. Esau did not take this
stuff seriously.
• Obviously, Rebekah taught Jacob
how to cook.
• “What will a man give in
exchange for his soul?”
• What was the exchange?

15. Let’s take a look at Isaac
REWIND

16. Isaac
• Blessed of the Lord and the
blessing of Abraham is upon
him.
• Tries to pass off Rebekah as his
sister while in the land of the
Philistines, but he got caught
making out with her.

17. Isaac
• Prospered in that land as a
foreigner because of God’s
covenant with him.
• He dug wells and all of them were
plenteous, and the Philistines
(natives) were jealous and stopped
them up.

18. 40 years later
READ 25:34-35
FAST FORWARD

19. Dysfunction
• Esau is probably resenting
Rebekah’s favoritism, so he
marries not one but two Hittite
Women.
• The HCSB version says in verse 35
that Esau and his wives made life
bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

20. READ 27:1-6
ISAAC’S REQUEST

21. READ 27:6-17, 22-23
REBEKAH AND JACOB’S
SCHEME

22. Even though this was a
blessed family that was in
covenant with God, they
had a lot of dysfunction…

23. Dysfunction
• Esau purposely marries the
kind of women that his
mother hates.

24. Dysfunction
• Rebekah –the trap layeruses her favorite son to
destroy her husband’s plan
to customarily bless the
older son. She wants to set
Jacob ahead of Esau.

25. Dysfunction
• Jacob (the slick son) agrees
to lie to his father in
cahoots with his mother in
order to cheat his brother.

26. Dysfunction
• Esau is duped out of his
birthright that he never
valued to begin with – his
stomach was worth more
than his inheritance.

27. Dysfunction
• After realizing what he lost,
Esau not only has a grudge
against his brother, he
vows to kill him in verse 41.

28. Dysfunction
• This scheme forces Jacob
to leave home, and we
never read where Rebekah
sees her son again.

29. Had this happened…
• Rebekah would have lost
both of her sons that day:
one to murder and the
other to capital punishment

30. Had this happened…
• The promise given to
Abraham through the seed
of Isaac would have been
lost.

31. QUESTION:
• What 5 devices did
Jacob use to deceive
Isaac?

32. ANSWERS
• 1. Goat skins
• 2. Pot of stewed Goat
• 3. His brother’s clothes
• 4. Alcohol
• 5. Blatant Lies

33. QUESTION:
• Describe to me Jacob’s 4part blessing:

34. 4-Part Blessing
• 1. Agricultural Prosperity
• 2. International respect and success
• 3. His elder brother would serve
him.
• 4. He would have the ability to bless
and curse like his grandfather.

35. QUESTION:
• Describe to me the 4-part
ANTI-BLESSING that
Esau receives.

36. 4-Part ANTI-Blessing
• 1. He would live away from the
richness of the Land and the dew
of the sky – DESERT.
• 2. His younger brother would be
the master of the clan.
• 3. He would have a life of violence.

37. • 4. (Actually a Consolation)
– He would some day –
through rebellion, break
Jacob’s yoke from off His
neck.

38. MORE CRAZY…
• Read 27:46
• Trying to live her life
vicariously through her son,
she lays such a guilt trip
about whom he marries.

39. MORE CRAZY…
• Read 28:6-9
• Esau gets back at his parents
by marrying two Canaanite
women, one of whom is the
daughter of his half brother.

40. MORE CRAZY…
• Jacob flees to his uncle’s
house where he is taken
advantage of and duped into
marrying a woman he does
not want.