1.1 THE CONCEPTION BY ISAAC
1.2 THE BASIS OF CHOICE
2.1 Not of works
2.2 But of grace
1.3 PROPHETIC WORDS
2.1 The Word to Rebecca
3.1 THE TWO NATIONS
3.2 WHEN ESAU SERVED JACOB
2.2 The Word from Malachi
3.1 THE IDENTIFICATION
4.1 Edom (Malachi 1:4) = Esau (Malachi 1:3)
4.2 Israel (Malachi 1:5) = Jacob (Malachi 1:2)
3.2 THE DESTINIES
4.1 The one loved
4.2 The one hated
(Given secondary place)
1.4 THE MATTER OF ELECTION
2.1 Election for what?
3.1 NOT SALVATION / DAMNATION
3.2 BUT TO ROLES THAT INDIVIDUALS / NATIONS PLAY IN EARTHLY LIFE
2.2 Jacob and Esau individual or national?
In election, God exercises His sovereign will to accomplish His perfect plan
The Messianic line:
3.1 ABRAHAM
3.2 ISAAC
3.3 JACOB
10 And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls), 12 it was said to her, The older shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated. (NKJV)
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