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Betrayed By What You Feel

Genesis 27:18-28 " When he came to his father, he said, My father. and he answered, Here I am. Who are you, my son? Jacob replied to his father, I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me. But Isaac said to his son, How did you ever find it so quickly, my son? He replied, Because the Lord your God made it happen for me. Then Isaac said to Jacob, Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not? So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau. He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him." Jacob continuously lives up to his name. His name meant heel-grabber or supplanter. He was born holding his twin brother Esau's heel and as he grew up he would eventually fulfill the meaning of supplanter, which is someone who wrong