How Esau's Stew Led to Herod Trying to Kill Jesus

Grab the 52 Weeks of Bible Investigation: https://www.discernmentmadeclear.com This video explains how Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of stew in Genesis connects, almost two thousand years later, to Herod the Great’s attempt to kill the infant Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. The study traces a single family feud from the twins Esau and Jacob through the nation of Edom and into the New Testament. It shows that Esau became Edom, that the Edomites were later known as the Idumeans, and that Herod the Great was an Idumean ruling on a Jewish throne. Drawing on Genesis, the prophets, the Gospel of Matthew, and the first-century historian Flavius Josephus, it argues that the birthright Esau despised was the covenant line leading to the Messiah, the very child Herod later tried to destroy. What’s covered in this video: The opening paradox of an Edomite king, Herod, holding the title King of the Jews while sending soldiers to kill a Jewish child in Bethlehem. Rebekah’s difficult pregnancy and the prophecy of Genesis 25:23 that two nations were in her womb and the older would serve the younger. The birth of Esau, described as red and linked to the Hebrew word adom, and the birth of Jacob, whose name Yaaqob means one who grabs the heel or supplants. What the birthright meant in Isaac’s family, including the Abrahamic covenant, the promised land, and the Seed through whom all nations would be blessed. The sale of the birthright for red stew in Genesis 25:29-34 and the Hebrew word bazah, meaning to despise or count as worthless. The New Testament verdict in Hebrews 12:16-17, which calls Esau profane, uses the Greek word bebelos, and says he sold his birthright for one morsel of food. The stolen blessing in Genesis 27 and Esau’s vow in Genesis 27:41 to kill his brother Jacob, the first murder plan in the covenant family. Edom’s long hostility toward Israel shown through Numbers 20, Psalm 137, the book of Obadiah, and Malachi 1:2-3, which Paul later quotes in Romans 9.