SQUANDERING OUR BIRTHRIGHT

Rev. Bertrand Comparet

 

   The 25th Chapter of Genesis tells us that Jacob and Esau were twin brothers, sons of Isaac, and in line to inherit the wonderful blessings God had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and their descendants; also that Esau was the first‑born, and therefore entitled to the Birthright of a double measure of blessings.  Yet God told the prophet Malachi, "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?  saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." (Malachi 1:2-3I)  The Birthright was lost by Esau, and inherited by Jacob our ancestor, whose name God Himself changed from Jacob to ISRAEL (meaning "ruling with God") and to whom God confirmed all of His great promises and prophecies.

    In all the world's history, no one was ever offered such marvelous blessings as were in this Birthright.  To lose it was a most terrible loss; yet Esau and his descendants lost it.  We now have it: yet we are today in great danger of losing it the same way Esau lost it. Genesis 25:34 tells us that ESAU DESPISED HIS BIRTHRIGHT ‑‑‑and therefore lost it. Today, our politicians and our churches are in an evil contest to see which can teach our people to despise our Birthright the most.  If we do not swiftly repent of this, we, too, can lose our Birthright.

   What are we talking about?  What is this Birthright?  It is all the blessings promised by God.  But every coin has two sides; and every bless­ing has the corresponding duty on our part to do the thing which God has said: they are both promises and commands.  Let's briefly list these major promises God made to Abraham, Isaac and Israel, our ancestors: "I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand of the seashore (Genesis  22:17); I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great (Genesis 12.2); I will make nations of thee . . . a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in thee (Gen 35:11); thou shalt spread abroad, to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south (Genesis. 28‑14); for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the nations, and make the desolate places to be inhabited,(Isaiah 54:2-3); thy seed shall, possess the gate of his enemies (Gen.22:17)‑‑thou art My battleaxe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms (Jeremiah 51:20); behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by Me; whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake . . . No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord (Isaiah 54:15-17); ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen (Isaiah 43:10); you only have I known, of all the families of the earth (Amos 1.‑2)‑‑therefore, God give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: let people serve thee I and nations bow down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother s sons bow down to thee; cursed be ever one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee (Gen, 27:28‑29)."

   A pretty Impressive list, isn't it?  Why would Esau be willing to lose it?  Because It carried duties he wasn't willing to bear: to keep the race line pure; to be strong; to spread abroad in colonies and rule the back­ward peoples; to develop the rich natural resources of the earth; to des­troy in battle all satanic nations who oppose God's plan; and to be God's witness to the truth of our religion.  Esau was of too weak character to assume these duties: he lost the Birthright when he polluted the race by marrying Canaanite and Ishmaelite wives (Gen, 26:34-35 & 28:8‑9); his sale of the birthright for a bowl of stew was only a formal ceremony expressing what was already a fact.

   WHERE DO WE COME IN?  God has fulfilled His part of the bargain, by giving us all the promised blessings; but we are now backing out of our part, refusing to do the things God said we should do in this same birth­right.  Our politicians and our churches teach us to violate God's commands, for the evil profit they can make from our enemies both within and without our nation.  The command was that WE should be strong and rich with the fatness of the earth ‑‑‑not that we should make God's enemies rich and strong with it.  Go gives these blessings to those who worship HIM, not to those who worship devils.  We are to be God's witnesses that prosperity and power are His gifts and, obtainable only from Him.  Yet now we are told that we must share all this equally with the "have not" nations, reduce ourselves to their level, while making them rich and strong; that we must dissipate God's gifts to finance the Congo natives in their cannibalism and worship of witch doctor voodoo devils; that we must give up our right to determine our own, independent course, and become a helpless pawn in the hands of the United Nations, where the cannibals are out voting us by a large majority.

   God expressly commanded us to be colonizers ‑‑‑He did not say "you MAY" I but "thou SHALT."  Today, how our politicians and our preachers denounce "imperialism"; Franklin D. Roosevelt said that his great ambi­tion was to be known in history as "The man who broke up the British Empire." OUR financial pressure forced Britain to pull out of India and Egypt.   We brought Cuba and the Philippines the greatest liberty and prosper­ity they ever had; then we became ashamed of our good work, and pulled out.  What is Cuba today? The Philippines have lost their prosperity.  We forced the Dutch out of Indonesia.  We forced European influence out of China, and made it what it is today.   We forced Belgium, France and England out of Rhodesia, Angola, Africa and South  Africa.  This demonstrates what we are thereby accomplishing,  Do we expect God's approval when we destroy civilization in half the world?  Not content with that, it has now become our policy to waste our wealth, des­pising God's blessings, to finance uncivilized pagan, God hating govern­ments.   Do you expect God to bless us when we try only to strengthen His enemies? God commanded us to be His battleaxe and weapons of war, to destroy the satanic nations when they threatened peace.

   God commanded us to be His witnesses.  Yet, when we should be witnessing for Jesus Christ  what do we find?  The blasphemous spectacle of Jewish Rabbis being invited to preach in Christian churches, in the name of brotherhood".  Brotherhood with what?  With Anti-Christ II John 7‑11 warns us, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; that is a deceiver and anti-Christ ­WHOEVER TRANSGRESSETH AND ABIDETH NOT IN THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST HATH NOT GOD . . . IF THERE COME ANY UNTO YOU AND BRING NOT THIS DOCTRINE,  RECEIVE HIM NOT INTO YOUR HOUSE, NEITHER BID HIM GODSPEED: FOR HE THAT BIDDETH HIM GODSPEED IS PARTAKER OF HIS EVIL DEEDS." Jesus Christ, Himself, said. "He that hateth ME hateth MY FATHER also." (John 15:23)