Lentils

Published on 15 March 2026 at 20:28

Son's of Perdition Series

Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated... (1)

The problem of Esau was not the lentils that he ate or exchanged for the birthright (2). The lentils were simply a manifestation, the opening of the grave of the spiritual state of Esau. The lentils were simply a mirror for Esau to see himself to recognise the state of his soul that on his own he was not able to see. The lentils was truly the grace of God, the gift and mercy towards him in that moment of time. A hand outstretched offering him an opportunity to see where he had fallen and change, the opening of the graves (3). It was a simulation to wake him up from the path of perdition he was treading in that he also exchanged his fathers advice (4) for the lentils of his flesh in choosing for himself whom he would marry that would compromise the Promised Seed that was to come forth through the covenant and linage of Abraham with God.

As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations... I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. (5)

However due to Esau's Pride he was not able to accept this gift. He was not able to see where he fell short. In that he easily despised the birthright, the advice, the direction of his father Issac in whom he should marry. The lentils were simply a parallel illustration of this contempt. In prioritising his flesh, the immediate hunger that burned within him as he grew weary of his hunt. The same weariness he did not reign in to wait or travel to the kinsmen of his father in order to find a more suitable companion that would help in the establishment and continuation of this covenant through the seed.

One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry. Esau said to Jacob, “I’m starved! Give me some of that red stew!...”(2)

Upon this opening of the grave when the simulation played out of his exchanging the birthright for lentils; his responsibilities to satisfy his flesh. He would have had opportunity to repent in recognition and acknowledging his initial mistake and sought forgiveness in God and confession in acknowledgement to his father for his disobedience of his father's advice (4). If indeed he had that communion with God. Though he may have still lost the birthright even after acknowledging his contempt towards the advice of his father and still be married to the women (according to those times) whom he chose for himself from Canaan. Like it happened to Moses, in not entering the Promised land after he despised God's instruction (6) he was still able to enter the Eternal Promised land and a speculation that he may be used by God at a later time for a different mission (7). In the same way, Esau would have reaped and have to live with the consequences of his choices (8) even the cancellation to the birthright and responsibility due to whom he chose to marry that was not compatible with the purpose of God through the seed and the covenant (4).

Yet it happened so in the reverse case of Judah, bearing witness to us of the path Esau ought to have taken or at least the necessary trait in the woman whom he ought to have found. A testimony of the Way the Truth and the Life (i) that is found in sincerity and Faith in God. Judah also had to take responsibility for his bad choices that led him to fathering the children and heir that came through Tamar, his daughter in law. A result of his wrong decisions after abandoning his family (9) to also marry a Canaanite outside of the advice again of the family inheritance. However, unlike Esau, Judah repented in his heart before God but could not reverse the outcome of a now impregnated Tamar. Yet God honoured not only the faith and righteousness of Tamar to claim what was hers by right but also the sincerity of Judah in recognising, acknowledging through the simulation, that was also a projection and opening of the grave of Judah's initial unfaithfulness towards Tamar promising his son (10) yet deceiving her by sending her away to her parents to die. Yet Tamar shrewdly reconstructed the Promise he had given her with the items that he then Promised to her (11) after her service as she feigned to be a prostitute at the regular spot Judah would attend in order to conceive the birthright and Promise through the seed that would be passed through her unto her sons, from father to son.

Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. (3)

Judah saw the dead bones in the opening of the grave of his offence towards Tamar with those Promised items. Judah was sincere so that God honoured him in being in the lineage (12) of the Promised Seed, the Lion of Judah through whom came from even Tamar a foreigner yet a foreigner who sought the rights and privilege to be apart of the family of Faith. A foreigner who believed. A woman of Faith like Abraham and the Canaanite woman (13). Therefore if Esau had but recognised in that moment of the simulation being played out for him through the projection of the lentils. At the very least he would have inherited rather the peace of his soul and the eternal rest that would await him, the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God (14). Abraham understood this that's why though God promised a nation yet with only one son born from his seed, he believed and today we bear witness of that Faith. From one seed came descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore (15).

I also have had my lentil moments, if you recall from the blog disclosure about food and becoming extremely tired due to low iron. Yeh that’s me. Oh when I get my hands on those lentils of eating too much, or resting instead of working, dosing off because my body essentially has a system failure called Edom (2). Yes lentils for us today is none other than laziness which is a lack of discipline and commitment in fulfilling our duties and responsibilities. Lentils of bad decisions of leaving things until later. Lentils of disorganisation and time management. All of which leaves us in the end weary and dissatisfied in fulfilling and completing our responsibilities so that we do not attain the birthright of the reward that comes with that. The end result is a bitter Esau with the name Edom. Meaning lazy.

Laziness = Lack of Discipline

So the secret is out. Esau was a lazy guy and he lost his initial birthright of whom he should marry essentially because he didn't have the discipline to go all the way to Padan Aram where his kinsmen were of whom he should marry (16). How long, difficult and arduous it was to walk through the desert in those times. The dark nights alone travelling the Middle Eastern desert. The risk of bandits. Starvation and thirst.

Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; They will still be praising You. Selah Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, They make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength; Each one appears before God in Zion...For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. (17)

Yet it was in that desert struggling and persevering that Jacob even encountered God. Yes people, when you persevere and don’t give up to make the sacrifices necessary to do what is right.. no matter how hard, long, tiring, impossible it may be the reward is the birthright that will be projected in a simulation that will confirm what is already inside of you. A simulation of self control with little habits such as eating too much, to say no. A simulation of patience dealing with family and friends, having a good reaction. All this attitudes and behaviour will project and conclude the end results of the reward fulfilled that is the birthright. Birthright of a graduation and successful career. Birthright of a good choice in marriage. The birthright of a peaceful fulfilled life that God lays out for us when we keep His advices found in His Word and passed down from generation to generation.

I mean remember Esau was the handsome, strong, brave and talented one of his father (18). Yet it was Jacob the deceiver whom God chose because there in the dessert alone hungry and tired striving to do what was the right thing to do is where he encountered God.

Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set...Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. (19)

The ladder today where you can find the angels ascending and descending before the thrown of God is none other than the second institution (20) that God established. The first was the family there in the Garden where God formed Adam and Eve and told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The second institution that God established after the first institution of the family was robbed of its rights and privileges of peace and safety in the Garden of God by the trick or treats of that sneaky snake (21)... Yet the second institution came through Jesus Christ by His Sacrifice on the Cross in order to establish the church by His blood a new covenant extending the first institution, the family to the second institution a community of families and people from all nations and tongue (22) who would dwell in the paradise of His Spirit, by the hearing of the Word of God ministered by His angels ascending and descendng before the thrown of God on the altar with prayers and supplications to all the souls. Interceding with prayers and supplication so that the families of the earth will be established once again in the presence of a loving Heavenly Father like it was back in the Garden. Returning the families to the first Love. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (23). It was this arduous and difficult Journey that Jacob was wiling to do in order to do what was right to establish a Covenant through the Seed passed down from father to son so that in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed (24) as it was Promised to Jacob.

Yet Jacob I have loved; But Esau I have hated (1)

So why is it that God hated Esau and loved Jacob in the end? As we compared earlier, that Judah also in a way gave up his birthright of whom he should marry and ran away from his father's house to marry a Canaanite woman and bore the seed of his family through a foreign woman of faith who treasured the birthright called Tamar. Even Jacob who is called the deceiver a personality trait that is synonymous with Satan himself for he is a liar and the father of lies (25). So the rejection and betrayal of Esau that branded him as one more Son of Perdition was not necessarily laziness as the much loved skilled hunter (18) of his father or the marrying of a foreign woman as it was with Judah. No the true rejection of Esau like Judas was unbelief.

Without Faith it is impossible to please God for whoever comes to him must believe that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (26)

Though Jacob did the unthinkable thing of deceiving his own father on his death bed... I mean can you believe it? The nerve of him to steal the birthright blessing from a dying man, his own father. Yet... Jacob I loved...(1) Judah also sold his brother Joseph as a slave, ran away from his grieving father assuming his son was dead by the lies of his own sons. Then Judah went to marry a Canaanite woman. Yet... the lion of Judah...(27) So how is it after all those atrocious offences of both Jacob the son of Satan the deceiver (25) and Judah running away from home to marry a Canaanite after selling his own brother and deceiving his father; both of which did not compare to the offences of Esau, yet warranting him the contempt of God and yet the exoneration of two comparable offenders?

...The two thieves on the cross... Peter and Judas... David and King Saul...

How is it that God hated Esau from the little information that we know and assume to be due to laziness Edom (2), or disobedience to his father's advice of whom he ought to marry... No, as we evaluated the above examples there is a more deeper root to the contempt and indifference warranted to Esau.

For without Faith it is impossible to please God and whoever comes to God must believe that He is a rewarder to those who diligently seek Him. (26)

He who honours Me, him I will honour and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed (28)

Esau did not have Faith. He did not have a communion with God and it was this indifference that brought the end results of contempt and indifference towards the one who was supposed to be with the rights to the birthright. A rights that carried more weight than the material benefits and worldly honour of a birthright passing from father to son but more importantly the spiritual Purpose of Faith in the seed that would be passed through the covenant that was established in Abraham to establish a nation that would be used to bring forth the Promised Seed, the Son of God, Jesus the Christ.

Esau did not have Faith in God. Esau did not regard God but trusted in his own strength as a mighty hunter. Esau did not have communion with God. He sought forgiveness in his father with tears (29) but did not perceive the true repentance of his sins towards God Himself and His covenant of the seed. As David did, as Peter and countless examples of those who did far worse but found forgiveness and repentance when they sought it in He who is able to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness... (when we) confess our sins (30).

Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge. (31)

Jacob encountered God, he made a covenant with God (20). He had communion with God. He brought his case to God and God honoured him. State your case, let us contend together...(32) God is a loving Father ready and waiting to hear the case of even the most despicable offender. Like the thief on the cross He is willing and waiting to make all things new in the life of those who believe for this is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He sent (33). The Promised Seed. The Son of God. Jesus the Christ.