The doing of the unjust:

Justice is allowing a person to have and enjoy what belongs to him: what God has named as his own. God is the sole Creator of Heaven and Earth. He owns everything that is on earth (Psalm 24:1).  He is final authority in deciding to whom He gives what  -  to let everyone have a sense of belonging on earth as an authority: to have an area in which to make his influence/ dominion palpable.

 In the beginning, God planted a garden in Eden and put Adam there to tend it (Gen 2:15). He was principal there and owed account only to God.  He was in the right place to enjoy all but one fruit (the fruit of the tree in the middle of the Garden ) as long as he remained loyal to God Almighty. Adam thought he was in vulnerable  - that all in the animal kingdom were the ones he named and knew.  He did not know that there was a beast that God has cursed (satan) who was not content with the place that God allocated him as an angel - subject to God’s God‘s authority  (Isa 14:12 – 15, Luke 10:18; Ezek 28:12-17 NIV).

The precious Lucifer became fallen for his rebellion against his Maker and he became despicable satan.  Unknown to Adam that he would need to fight the unfinished battle that predated his creation before his place in the garden was confirmed.  He did not know there were beings and beasts beyond the God he know and the creatures he named which were his subject and harmless.

But before he could quite settle to enjoy his allocation (the Garden, his woman and the fruits for his food, satan (the adversary of God) appeared to spy Adam’s allocation . He was speechless by the order beauty and decorum that characterized Adam’s allocation while his residence had become an empty sphere.  He became sick with envy.  Adam was not yet let in on the history of the past (God’s intolerance for rebellion and what Lucifer suffered) and was not on guard about the enemy he did not know.  He could not define boundaries to his subjects.  Hence, he allowed the serpent that satan had possessed to have an encounter with Eve - who was yet to have good knowledge of her person as a authority (like Adam) over other creatures (Gen. 1:28) such as had no Likeness with them.

As even Adam could not realize that the serpent was not created to talk like man or with man, they were not shocked that the serpent engaged Eve in a conversation to their detriment.

The serpent was possessed by satan to fight and disrupt the order that God had established in the garden through the insensitivity of Adam and Eve who suffered irrecoverable losses. My heart bleeds for Adam and Eve who never imagined there was any possibility for them to suffer such blows from the being they never knew as their enemy  - whom they never encountered or did any wrong to.

For eating just the fruit of one tree they were commanded not to eat, they lost their consignments (authority) to satan and they lost the Garden and all the privileges that were theirs to enjoy in the Garden.  They lost God and all He meant to them.

Satan in the rebellion coveted the consignments of the consecrated and although he stripped Adam of authority and ruined creation for a while with it, he did not have the final say.  In its fallen state satan was better than the cursed man whom he used to attack the set order for creation by God. But thanks be to God Almighty who could not allow the fallen beast to enjoy the consignments of the man He created in His Image and Likeness.

God Almighty painstakingly worked out the restoration process of man.   Through Abraham, God got again the man with whom He could bestow consignments that were to cause him to represent Him on earth as His Image and Likeness - one that fully appreciated the Sovereignty of God to relate with God as if satan was no longer in existence.

 In Gen 15:6, Rom 4:3; James 2:23 it is reflected that Abraham believed God and it was counted for him as ‘righteousness.’  In his righteousness, he was yet a friend of God. Abraham had set a pattern for righteousness which earned him and his seeds the Blessing on grounds of the Covenant.

The raging foe was yet to be under control because he still had fellows in mankind to use to achieve his dastard mission of upsetting God’s programs.

In Abraham God got a people to bestow the Blessing  - which made them superior to satan but subject to pressures from the overactivity of satan (Gen. 12:2-3).

Despite the massiveness/ greatness of the person of Abraham by the Blessing, God was yet satisficed because the beast was yet to be stripped of the authority he stole from Adam.

The revolution that would give birth to man’s full restoration to the Image and Likeness of God (when satan would become a totally inconsequential beast) would be spearheaded by the descendant of Abraham.  The covenant son of Abraham (Isaac) gave birth to Esau and Jacob .  Jacob was crafted and wired by God for a good course that was not clear to insensitive lots. Only his mother (Ma Rebecca) had insight into God’s plan for the boy because she dared to approach God to in her time of need.  She could not see herself as a second fiddle in the covenant climate.  She registered her presence at the altar of prayer (enquiry) and she became God’s choice for a confident (Gen. 25:22-23).

In the course of time, God had allocated so much riches in the Blessing and satan was yet to accept his status as a failure, he schemed to strip the covenant lineage of her consignment. He had plotted to use for bidden Canaanites to encroach into the covenant lineage. He had seen Esau as a suitable instrument (like Eve) but unknown to him that God had wired Jacob rugged to defend the heritage of God (even the Covenant) in his generation.

 Pa Isaac remained ignorant of God’s program to use birth position to confuse satan and the forbidden Canaanites. Satan had thought the heirship and headship in the generation of Esau and Jacob belonged to the biological first born Esau) who was a cheap catch for satan and the Canaanites whom he broke the covenant hedge to go to mingle with.

They were in for a shock.  The Esau through whom they had access into they had access into the Covenant household contrary to divine order was only  holding the first born post briefly for Jacob who ceased it from him at the set time (Gen. 25:31) with the divine assistance that occasioned Esua’s lost of value for what was priceless and invaluable.

For a plate of porridge, Esau sold his birthright as Adam/Eve lost their God and Godliness for the fruits of a tree. Esau was vile, vain and virtueless yet he coveted the heritage of the covenant lineage. He was by no means a reflection of the covenant yet his father thought God would cast His pearls before the swine.

Esau was not conformed to the covenant yet he longed to enjoy the Blessing that was specifically for such as respect the covenant. He distanced himself from the covenant and he could not deserve the consignments of the covenant.

In the Old Testament context, the consignment of the covenant lineage was the Blessing and all that Esau needed to do to qualify for the Blessing was to conform to the covenant. Hence, Esau coveted consignments without Conformation. He crashed – he did not conform to the covenant and he did not access the consignment. 

 

CONSIGNMENTS IN THE COVENANT (OLD)

1). PROPRIETY: ‘Correctness in behavior and moral; good manners, seemliness’. Jacob was a naturally blessed person. Having been chosen by God for divine purpose, he was born behaving well. Jacob was very prudent and was not in the wrong in whatever he did: not minding how the society (even his father) misunderstood him.

While Esau was busy reveling with the wrong people -  imbibing for bidden ways, Jacob was within the home imbibing the moral principles that defined the Covenant. His mother was pre-occupied with teaching him the principles that his grandfather (Abraham) even his father embraced that stood them out in their generations and sustained the covenant that bonded them to God. Without propriety, Esau coveted the Consignment in vain.

  As far as the Covenant and the heritage of God in the lineage was concerned, Isaac was only a beneficiary of God’s magnanimity and not a sovereign to have been allowed by God to ruin the Covenant that God established on principles morally-correct Jacob got the Blessing She deserved.