Question 1

Great question! 

Why does Jacob get Esau’s blessing?

Did God want it like that?

When the two boys were still in the womb, God told Rebekah, their mom, something about their future:

The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 

And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you shall be divided;
the one shall be stronger than the other,
the older shall serve the younger.” - Genesis 25:22-23

God clearly knew what would happen and so did their mom after He told her. But your question was, did God want it that way. God never wants us to sin, so the lying and manipulation that goes on between Rebekah and Jacob, and Isaac and Esau was definitely wrong. 

Yet God had chosen to pass the blessing on to the Jacob rather than Esau. God tells this to Israel through the prophet Malachi:

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” - Malachi 1:2-3

Paul says this was to prove that God’s blessing and favor is not something earned by the person, but freely given by God. By choosing one twin over the other, it can be seen that just being born into the right family doesn’t make you saved. God must call you, and you must follow.

And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. -Romans 9:10-16

So Scripture clearly teaches that God plans the future, and enters into special relationships with whoever he wants to for his own reasons. However, the Genesis story also shows that Esau personally rejected the special relationship with God. He traded the birthright, which was the great promises of God to Abraham and Isaac, for a bowl of soup!

Thus Esau despised his birthright. - Genesis 25:34b

So we learn to be thankful for God calling us into a relationship with himself and revealing the gospel of Jesus Christ to us and helping us to believe, and we also learn to hold on to it and not trade our relationship with Christ for anything! Better to die than to give up Jesus.

Brandon Current 

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