Remember Your Heavenly Heritage

“Then God said, ‘Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.’”  – Genesis 17:19 Today, I want to fill you in on some of the history that preceded Esau handing over his birthright, or bekorah, to his brother Jacob. As you know, Abraham was the father of the Lord’s people. Though he was an old man and had no children, God told him to look up at the sky and behold the stars, and He promised him that his descendants would be just that numerous. As the years went on, Abraham was unsure that the Lord would keep His word, so he slept with his wife’s household maid and she gave birth to Ishmael, who later had twelve sons of his own, and they became the