Jacob is the poster child for flawed and crafty biblical characters that God still loves, uses, and tests. Genesis chapter 27 begins with old father Issac, who is blind and dying. (The son of ...

“Be lord over your brethren and let your mother’s sons bow down to you.” Isaac intends to give Esau physical dominion over Jacob. Why would he want to do that? Isaac meant this dominion literall ...

Isaac hung out with his wicked son Esau; that is strictness? Jacob tricked his brother to take his first-born right, misled his father to take the blessing, and fooled his boss and father-in-law ...

But recall that Laban was the brother of Jacob’s mother, Rebekah — a champion schemer responsible for robbing her older son Esau of his blessing — ensuring that instead, Issac blessed Jacob.