‘By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.'

Similarly by faith Isaac proclaimed the future hopes of his sons in his blessings. His confidence in God and what He had revealed was such that he pronounced their futures hopes because God had promised them (Genesis 27:27; Genesis 27:39), even to the point of finally recognising that God's greater blessing would come through the younger. It was irrelevant that he did not know that Jacob was not Esau. He was not fortune-telling, he was declaring what God had promised to his seed.

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