ESAU IS TO RACE VERSUS JACOB IS TO GRACE
ESAU IS TO RACE VERSUS JACOB IS TO GRACE Jon, can you prove and if proven true, expand on the following idea: from the mountainous base at Mt. Seir, Esau-Edom, twin brother of Jacob-Israel, would come down to free tribes in the low lands and seized whatever they had so Esau's tribe in food-less, less fertile Seir would not just survive but also enjoy luxury. To make his criminal act legit or more acceptable to the people, he installed one of his sons to act as his representative, tax collector and eventually ruler among the racially different tribe they had "conquered". Thus born his first branch of a chain of business or wealth-source that came to be known as government. Government was of course earlier formed by Cain, the first king. But patriarch Cain did not see government as a business. It was Esau who most probably did. That is why Esau envisioned of in today's term, THE FIRST CHAIN OF BRANCHES ALL OVER THE WORLD and launched his...