Justin Doc Brown

And then it gives this extra little detail that Jacob, his brother, is clutching the heel.

So if he's coming out first, you can easily imagine that his foot pushing

the head of his younger brother to exit the womb bruising the head and then here he is bruising the heel so it's a Polaroid picture in my eyes of the curse in Genesis 3 15 and that would have been the first thing that the ancient reader thought about because they just read this event in the garden you know put enmity between the two the angel says two nations two peoples are in your womb they're battling amongst themselves

One would bruise one's head, the other would bruise the heel.

And at the birth, that's exactly what you see.

I mean, it's a Polaroid picture.

That's crazy.

That was one of the more famous stories known in the Bible.

It was the trading of the birthright.

And in that story, you have Esau.

He was known as the mighty hunter.

described as what we would call in our modern vernacular a Sasquatch, a huge man covered in hair from head to toe.

And it just says in Genesis that he comes in from the field exhausted, and he sees his brother preparing red stew.

And he says, hey, give me some of that red stew.

He's like, sure, but you're going to trade me your birthright.

And he's like, sure.

And he kind of makes this remark that I thought was kind of like a little catty, smart aleck remark.

But he's like, what use is a birthright to me when I'm dead?

Take it.

I was like, that makes absolutely no sense to me.