Esau: He Found No Place for Repentance

“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears." (Hebrews 12:14-17)

Esau was the grandson of Abraham; a son of Isaac and Jacob's brother.

"The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 'I have loved you,' says the Lord. 'Yet you say, ''' In what way have You loved us?''' 'Was not Esau Jacob's brother?' Says the Lord. 'Yet Jacob I have loved; but Esau I have hated, and laid waste his mountains and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness.' "

"Even though Edom (the sons of Esau) has said, 'We have been impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places,' thus says the Lord of hosts: 'they may build, but I will throw down; they shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, and the people against whom the Lord will have indignation forever.' Your eyes shall see, and you shall say, '''The Lord is magnified beyond the border of Israel.''' "

(Malachi 1:1-5)

Although raised around the testimony of living for God, Esau made a mockery of it by his embedding himself with other peoples and their gods. Much had been made available to him through his grandfather and father; his brother also a testimony.

"And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more."

(Luke 12:47,48)

Surely, backing up all the way to Genesis, we see that Esau had been afforded every opportunity to walk the walk, but neglected it. Because he did, he was afforded no right to the blessing, no repentance was available to him. It is imperative that we pursue peace and holiness in the Lord, for our own and so others may see.

"See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they DID NOT ESCAPE who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more SHALL WE NOT ESCAPE if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven."

(Hebrews 12:25)