THE SOURCE OF AFRICAN (BLACKS) SUFFERINGS

D: THE SOURCE OF AFRICAN (BLACKS) SUFFERINGS

1. Now, if Isaac were to know the efficacy of the word, he would have been quite objective that, he was not misdirecting his love. Isaac called Esau, his beloved son, and asked him to prepare him some food with fresh meat.

2. The mother, Rebecca, when she heard this, immediately directed Jacob to bring a ram. The ram was slaughtered and Rebecca used the meat to prepare a delicious meal for Isaac. When he asked his mother how he would go about the differences in his voice and skin, she told him not to bother.

3. Jacob had a deep voice, and in order to deceive his father, his mother advised him to inform his father that he (Jacob claiming to be Esau) lost his voice while he was returning from the bush in search of animal.

4. Esau was naturally hated and to successfully deceive the old man, Rebecca covered Jacob's arms with the skin of the ram on Jacob to impersonate Esau.

5. While Esau was still in the bush hunting, Rebecca had prepared the food, which Jacob served his father Isaac. On presentation of the food, Isaac observed that the voice he was hearing resembled that of Jacob, when he felt Jacob's body coupled with the excuse he gave as regards his voice, Isaac was convinced that it was Esau kneeling before him and so blessed him.

6. Immediately Isaac had finished showering blessings upon blessing on Jacob, Esau appeared and went to his father to inform him of his return from the hunting. Isaac was most disturbed when he realised that he had been tricked, because he was blind. When Esau insisted that Isaac should bless him, he said that he had no blessing left.

7. In our present age, unlike Isaac, the blessing of our Father is exhaustible. If Isaac were to come around to see the consequences of his action on the blacks, their predicament today, he would have wept.

8. The source of the suffering of Africans is traceable to the statement, which says that, the elder shall serve the younger. Out of anger for being tricked, Esau decided to kill Jacob. But because Rebecca loved Jacob more than Esau, she advised him to escape to another land. On the other hand, Isaac their father loved Esau more than Jacob because of taking very good care of him.