How we slander Jacob 2

We also do not recognize how importance of the ceremony that Isaac performed with Jacob. It was not a mere "Bless you, son." Notice nothing physically passed from Isaac to Jacob; it was purely spiritual in nature. And it was the passage of the rule over the covenant line that would lead to the Messiah and the receipt and keeping of the scripture. Isaac, like his father Abraham, was a prophet and a father in that line, so his words had power before God. Rebecca understood that and would not stand by for the passing of the torch, the coronation, to be accomplished on the wrong son. Remember that Esau was her son also, so there was affection there. But this was the woman who was willing to do the will of God, leave her home, go several hundred miles by donkey and camel, and marry someone, sight unseen because she submitted to God. This was a woman of spiritual insight and commitment like few others in the bible. She also, like Jacob, receives little honor for her ability to see the danger that was about to occur and risk alot to thwart the serious error Isaac was about to perform. Thus, by our lack of understanding, we abuse Jacob's reputation, and that of his mother, Rebecca.