Why Would God Bless a Con Man? Jacob's Journey
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Why Would God Bless a Con Man? Jacob's Journey
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His name basically means "trickster." He cons his brother out of a birthright, deceives his blind father for a blessing, and runs for his life. So why does God meet Jacob on the road and hand him the same covenant He gave Abraham?
Jon Fortt and David Tieche open the Jacob cycle with two very different reactions to the man — David can't stand him; Jon quietly relates — and work through Genesis 27 and 28 to figure out what a deceiver is doing in the lineage of God.
In this conversation:
• Why Jacob lives like a street urchin when he actually has a Father
• The "deception inception" of Genesis 27 — a lie inside a lie inside a family
• How favoritism quietly destroys a family, from Isaac and Rebekah back to Cain and Abel
• Esau's bitter cry, and why there could only be one blessing
• How God rewrites a broken, man-made code — "you are all firstborn sons"
• Jacob's Ladder: the stairway, the angels, and the staggering promise at the top
• The altar, the vow, and the first sign the trickster is starting to change
It's a portrait of a flawed, grasping man who is always reaching — and a God who comes down to a desert to meet him anyway.
Next time: Jacob meets his match in Laban — the trickier trickster — and two very different daughters, Leah and Rachel.