Esau sold his birthright (the right to be recognized as firstborn) for a bowl of red pottage ( a type of vegetable stew) some translations say it was a lentil soup.  This decision we know angered God where HE says in the word, “Jacob I loved Esau I hated.” Yes the only true God who is the God of love also hates, HE hates those who oppose HIM, those who hide the truth. It is four hundred years before the birth of Christ when the prophet Malachi opens his book up with Malachi 1:1-3  The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.  (2)  I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,  (3)  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons… Read moreWrestling With God