Genesis 27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou came, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 178] Esau had no love for devotion, no inclination to a religious life. The requirements that accompanied the spiritual birthright were an unwelcome and even hateful restraint to him. The law of God, which was the condition of the divine covenant with Abraham, was regarded by Esau as a yoke of bondage. Bent on self-indulgence, he desired nothing so much as liberty to do as he pleased.
To him power and riches, feasting and reveling, were happiness. He gloried in the unrestrained freedom of his wild, roving life. His whole interest was in the present. He was ready to sacrifice the heavenly to the earthly, to exchange a future good for a momentary indulgence. In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance pure and undefiled, eternal in the heavens!
We tell you the truth, we are mighty glad Jesus did not sell His birthright for a loaf of bread in the hour of temptation, for like Esau, He too was very hungry except that Jesus was forty days more-hungry, than Esau was, and yet Jesus refused to bow down, by selling His birthright.
Genesis 27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God Bless!