Esau & Jacob

Things to Note:

1. Prophetic positioning
2. Productive system
3. Purpose and value system
4. Impact of the 3 on their destinies

Prophetic Positioning

• Jacob & Esau are prophetic positioning of people and nations. There are Jacob people and Esau people. There are people who run their lives after the pattern of Esau; and people who run their lives after the pattern of Jacob.
• The Jacob system and the Esau system do not have equal strength - one will be stronger than the other. They do not have equal advantage. You cannot have the same result from the two. Although of a common origin/birth, they have different destinies.
• Do you operate by the strong or by the weak system?
• The old shall bow to the  new. The one operating the old system is disadvantaged. The one operating a new system is advantaged.

Productive System

• Esau is a hunter.
• A hunter has to work very hard. Hunters rely on their physical strength to produce.
• A hunter goes after one animal at a time.
• The hunter kills whatever he gets. He goes in for the kill.

• Jacob is a cultivator. 
• Cultivators use thoughtfulness to produce.
• A cultivator works with several animals at a time.
• A cultivator grows what he gets. He doesn't kill what he has.

• One system works with diminishing returns. Whatever he has got a limited life. God may bless him with abundance but he depletes it.
• You may start with little but grow it to much. Jacob asks for seed and grows it into a forest. Esau gets a forest and turns it into a desert.
• Jacob multiplies what he has.

There are Esau nations and there are Jacob nations. Singapore is just a city state yet it's per capita income is close to all of Africa. A nation can develop from nothing and a nation can destroy everything.

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