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This issue of the two people who are, in reality, two brothers who went two different directions is about the "Birthright". It began when Isaac & Rebecca had twin sons. Esau was the elder who gave up his "Birth Right" to his younger brother Jacob.

This took place after Abraham's son Isaac, the Son of Promise , given to him in his old age AND it took place when Abraham had already been established in the Land of Promise given to him by Almighty God.

So, it can be established, the two brothers were born in the Land of Israel.

Scripture tells us this in Romans 9:11-13 that God loved Jacob (Israel) and hated Esau (Edom, contemporary Palestinians) even in their mother's womb. This may sound extremely harsh, especially for God. But, He being The Almighty One, knew Esau would become a profane, licentious and rebellious person who would hate his brother Jacob.

Esau, showed indifference to his birthright and he showed indifference to the righteous standards of his parents by marrying two women who were not followers of God.

God had revealed to Rebecca that her oldest twin, Esau, would serve the younger Jacob. Rebecca acted on this revelation by having Jacob trick his father into bestowing the blessing, normally, reserved for the oldest upon himself.

Yes, it was through trickery that Jacob gained the promise that God had for him. It cost him dearly and he had to flee for his life. All his life, he had one misfortune after another as he lived many years in exile. (Hasn't Israel, the nation, also lived many years in exile?)

Esau did receive a blessing from his father Isaac, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above, you will live by the sword and you will serve your brother, but when you grown restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck". This means that they would not reside in "The Land" (Israel). This grudge between brothers continues to this day.

Esau (the Edomites) has thrown off the yoke and is determined to get back the birthright he believes is rightly his. This is what is playing out in Israel today. You may think the Edomites/Palestinians have a right to feel this way but we must go back to the Bible and how God has determined it from the get-go. God's Word is the Only and Final Authority.

These Edomites were given land to the East (which is in modern day Jordan). Has Jordan been part of the on-going trickery by the United Nations to get rid of the Real Israelites by moving these people into the newly declared Land of Israel in 1948. You bet.

God, in His Sovereign knowledge, could not have Esau, after giving up the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, be the one through whom the Messiah would come forth. Christians, please keep this in mind when you try to separate the facts from propaganda.

Sure, since the Land of Israel was pretty well deserted by the events of 70 AD and the Edomites are a nomadic tribe, they occupied parts of Israel but it was not legally theirs. They did not thrive in the land, as was explained in this article...they were simply living like they always did, wandering about with their herds. Even, many of the original Jews were still in the land. They lived side by side for all practical purposes.

When the Arab Nations did not accept the portion set aside for these "wanderers" renamed Palestinians by the revived Roman Empire known as the "United Nations", the people of Israel even offered them citizenship in the land but no, the Palestinians/Edomites believed the Egyptians and Jordan who assured them that they would destroy Israel so they best leave the land.

Well, we know Israel won against great odds and now the Palestinians are constantly making the world believe that they have a right to the land, when they didn't own the land in the first place and actually left it when the Arab nations decided to destroy Israel at it's first year, legally, declared a Nation once again.

So, it needs to be known who it is that is keeping these squatters on the land in the portion known as Gaza in their impoverished condition.

Let's not forget Arafat, the Egyptian who became the first head of the so-called Palestinian Authority. Billions of dollars came from Europe and the United States to help these people get a foot-hold of making something of themselves in this land called Gaza but the money didn't go to the people.

It is a fact that can be searched out on-line, that Arafat squirreled billions of dollars into Swiss banks. He even married a woman to cover up the fact that he, himself was a flaming homosexual. That woman was the wife of one of Arafat's top terrorist leaders. She was paid off and lives in luxury in Europe for her part in the plot. The daughter claimed to be Arafat belongs to this terrorist leader whom did spend years in Israeli prison for his part in crimes against Israel.

I say all of this to show you, that although Israel, herself, has crooked leaders in her own government, the nation of it's people have done their best to help the people despite the on-going hardships put on them by their own people, the Arab nations that surround Israel. It has been Israel's best doctors and hospitals that have been their for the renamed Edomites.

You see, they need this "Cause" to stir up the nations against the one people and land that Almighty God called "His Land".

God cemented the Covenant of this Land in Genesis 35:11-12, "And God said unto him., I am God Almighty, be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee and kings shall come out of they loins and the Land which I gave Abraham, and Isaac, to thee I will give it and to thy seed after thee will I give the Land". It was with this declaration that God changed Jacob's name to Israel.

gerlinda