Genesis 27:40

Question from listener on August 17, 2019 on open line moody radio: I have always wondered what Genesis 27:40 meant? After Jacob gets the blessing by the seed and then Esau says to his dad: "Do you have only one blessing my father?" and then his dad describes all the things that he will serve his brother and then he says it shall come about when you become restless and you shall break his yoke from your neck. What does that mean and happened? Also wondering do you know who his descendants are today?

Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik: Well, we know who his descendants became, they became the Edomites and they live across the Jordan river. Though they were brother nation, because Jacob and Esau being brothers, that was one of God's complaints by the prophets about Edom is that they join the Babylonians when they attack Judah and that was a negative. On their part, they should have stood with their brothers. Instead they join the Babylonians. I think Genesis 27:40 is referring to the fact that they would break up. You will serve your brother but when you rebel, you will break his yoke from your neck. And what's that talking about is sort of the idea that you are going to not want to stay submissive, you are going to have two different worlds, you are going to have a different nation, you are going to go in a different place and I think that's all it's talking about and that's exactly what happened. Does that help?

Listener: Yah, when we do we know what happens that they got freed?

Dr Michael Rydelnik: Right away, he goes off and has his own tribal kind of community. You could see that when Jacob's coming back, he was afraid of Esau. But ultimately, I am not exactly sure when but some time after that Esau goes and lives across the Jordan river and establishes the nation of Edomites.

Genesis 27 40By your sword you shall live,And you shall serve your brother;And it shall come to pass, when you become restless,That you shall break his yoke from your neck.” -nkjv