If you need a reminder about the family tree, Issac was the father ... Again, refer to the footnote in my study Bible: “In doing so [despising his birthright] Esau proved himself to be ...

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil represents struggle between Good and Evil, and it goes without saying that Evil must be subdued by Good, it follows that Esau represents the direction of ...

Family trees don’t usually work this way. After all, there is no Ishmael in the genealogy, no Esau, no Reuben, Levi, or Ephraim. But Matthew feels compelled to record that Judah was “the ...