Pastor Deborah
GENESIS 27:1-2 NLT
One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, “My son.” “Yes, Father?” Esau replied.
“I am an old man now,” Isaac said, “and I don’t know when I may die.
GENESIS 27:3-4 NLT
Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows, and go out into the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
Prepare my favourite dish, and bring it here for me to eat.
Then I will PRONOUNCE the BLESSING that BELONGS to you, my FIRSTBORN SON, before I die.”
For Jews, the blessing is the pronouncing the Word's blessings.
PSALMS 89:27 AMP
I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent), The highest of the kings of the earth.
COLOSSIANS 1:15 AMP
He is the exact living image [the essential manifestation] of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible], the FIRSTBORN [the preeminent one, the sovereign, and the originator] of all creation.
GENESIS 27:5-7 NLT
But Rebekah overheard what Isaac had said to his son Esau. So when Esau left to hunt for the wild game, she said to her son Jacob, “Listen.
I overheard your father say to Esau, ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare me a delicious meal.
Then I will bless you in the Lord’s presence before I die.’
The blessing is in God's presence.
GENESIS 27:8-10 NLT
Now, my son, listen to me.
Do exactly as I tell you.
Go out to the flocks, and bring me two fine young goats.
I’ll use them to prepare your father’s favorite dish.
Then take the food to your father so he can eat it and BLESS YOU before he dies.”
GENESIS 27:11-13 NLT
“But look,” Jacob replied to Rebekah, “my brother, Esau, is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.
What if my father touches me? He’ll see that I’m trying to trick him, and then he’ll CURSE me instead of BLESSING me.”
But his mother replied, “Then let the curse fall on me, my son! Just do what I tell you.
Go out and get the goats for me!”
GENESIS 27:14-15 NLT
So Jacob went out and got the young goats for his mother. Rebekah took them and prepared a delicious meal, just the way Isaac liked it.
Then she took Esau’s favourite clothes, which were there in the house, and gave them to her younger son, Jacob.
GENESIS 27:16-17 NLT
She covered his arms and the smooth part of his neck with the skin of the young goats.
Then she gave Jacob the delicious meal, including freshly baked bread.
GENESIS 27:18-19 NLT
So Jacob took the food to his father.
“My father?” he said.
“Yes, my son,” Isaac answered. “Who are you—Esau or Jacob?”
Jacob replied, “It’s Esau, your firstborn son.
I’ve done as you told me.
Here is the wild game.
Now sit up and eat it so you can GIVE ME YOUR BLESSING.”
GENESIS 27:20-21 NLT
Isaac asked, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?”
“The Lord your God put it in my path!”
Jacob replied.
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “COME CLOSER so I can touch you and make sure that you really are Esau.”
GENESIS 27:22-23 NLT
So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him. “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s,” Isaac said.
But he did not recognize Jacob, because Jacob’s hands felt hairy just like Esau’s.
So Isaac PREPARED to BLESS Jacob.
GENESIS 27:24-25 NLT
“But are you really my son Esau?” he asked.
“Yes, I am,” Jacob replied.
Then Isaac said, “Now, my son, bring me the wild game.
Let me eat it, and THEN I will GIVE you MY BLESSING.”
So Jacob took the food to his father, and Isaac ate it.
He also drank the wine that Jacob served him.
GENESIS 27:26 NLT
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come a little CLOSER and KISS ME, MY SON.”
GENESIS 27:27 NLT
So Jacob went over and KISSED him.
And when Isaac caught the SMELL of his CLOTHES, he was finally convinced, and he BLESSED HIS SON.
He said, “Ah!
The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the Lord has blessed!
God wants us to have intimacy with Him.
Blessings comes from intimacy with our Lord.
Clothes in the New Covenant is the robe of righteousness.
When Adam sinned, God clothed him.
God covered his nakedness, shame etc.
God gave us the robe of righteousness.
When we stand before God, God does not sees our shame and sins anymore because we are clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
There is no more condemnation, shame, fear, guilt and inferiority that came from the nakedness of sin.
All can stand before God with the robe of righteousness of Jesus Christ.
When we come into God's righteousness, blessings come.
GENESIS 27:28 KJV
Therefore God give thee of the DEW of HEAVEN, and the FATNESS of the EARTH, and PLENTY (increase) of CORN and wine:
Physical blessings will come after the spiritual blessings; the pronunciation of words.
H1711
Original: דּגה
Transliteration: DÂGÂH
Phonetic: daw-gaw'
to MULTIPLY, INCREASE
Strong's Definition: to MOVE RAPIDLY; used only as a denominative from H1709; to spawn, that is, BECOME NUMEROUS:- grow.
GENESIS 27:28 NLT
“FROM the DEW of HEAVEN and the RICHNESS of the earth, may God ALWAYS GIVE you ABUNDANT HARVESTS of grain and BOUNTIFUL new wine.
First thing is God's blessings comes from above.
Nobody can produce dew, it is from Heaven.
Blessings and dew comes from Heaven.
Bible uses DEW as a symbol of God’s blessings in general.
It is among the blessings that Jacob received as the firstborn; Isaac promised Jacob that as the earth would produce its fatness of grain and new wine, so also the heavens would produce dew (Gen. 27:27-29).
As a symbol of blessing in general, it is fitting that dew is depicted as COMING out of HEAVEN, since ALL BLESSINGS come down from the FATHER of LIGHTS.
Just as dew is a symbol of blessing, its absence is a symbol of cursing.
Esau was to be “away from” the dew of heaven
Every blessings comes from God.
GENESIS 27:38-39 AMP
Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father?
Bless me, even me also, O my father.”
Then Esau [no longer able to restrain himself] raised his voice and wept [loudly].
Then Isaac his father answered and [prophesied and] said to him, “Your dwelling shall be AWAY from the fertility of the earth And AWAY from the dew of heaven above;
Blessings of God comes without stress and toil.
Let Him take care of us.
In Christ, we are no more orphans. We have a Father.
Dew was withheld along with rain from Israel during the ministry of Elijah.
1 KINGS 17:1 AMP
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Because the restoration community left the temple in disrepair, God withheld the dew from them.
HAGGAI 1:10 AMP
Therefore, because of you [that is, your sin and disobedience] the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its produce.
Every good and perfect gift comes from above.
What specific kinds of blessings are associated with dew?
1. Dew comes from ABOVE.
It comes, according to the biblical worldview, out of HEAVEN, from the CLOUDS.
The GLORY-CLOUD from which God sends His blessings.
EXODUS 40:34 AMP
Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible, dwelling presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory and brilliance of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
In the spiritual, we are receiving blessings in the anointing.
2. Dew is a gift from a superior to his subjects.
PROVERBS 19:12 AMP
The king’s wrath terrifies like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is as [refreshing and nourishing as] dew on the grass.
Because it is a symbol of the favor of our King and Judge, dew is a reminder of the sovereignty of God’s grace.
Favour comes down to our lives in Christ Jesus.
3. Dew is a symbol of the resurrection.
ISAIAH 26:19 AMP
Your dead will live; Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural], And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.
In Christ, our new spirit man is now alive and risen, resurrected with Christ.
When we believe in Jesus Christ, we are alive and our spirit man is alive.
Dead to sin, alive in Christ.
Just as the earth brings forth its dew, so also it shall bring forth the dead to new life.
Dew thus is a symbol of the redeemed and resurrected people of God.
God’s saints are those that are raised with Christ in baptism (Rom. 6:4), and thus become partakers of the first resurrection.
Dew is a fitting reminder of our baptism into Christ’s death and resurrection, since it pictures by its renewal of the earth the “washing of regeneration.”
4. Dew is associated with the ANOINTING of the priest.
PSALMS 133:2-3 AMP
It is like the precious OIL [of consecration] poured on the head,
Coming down on the beard,
Even the beard of Aaron, Coming down upon the edge of his [priestly] robes [consecrating the whole body].
It is like the DEW of [Mount] Hermon Coming down on the hills of Zion;
For THERE the LORD has COMMANDED the BLESSING: LIFE FOREVERMORE.
This passage links dew with Baptism.
The priest is like the mountain, and the dew that falls is parallel to the oil of ordination.
Oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit throughout Scripture.
Thus, DEW is connected with the OUTPOURING of the SPIRIT, which in turn is symbolized by the pouring of WATER in BAPTISM.
To experience the blessings, go more under the anointing.
Moreover, the anointing of the head is the rite of induction
into the priesthood — in the New Covenant, baptism.
Baptism is also our induction into the Body of Christ.
Psalm 133 stresses the unity of God’s people as they are ingrafted into the priesthood of the Greater Aaron, and share in the “one baptism” — the baptism of Christ.
The fact that the Mountain can symbolize God’s people as a whole
adds a collective dimension to the imagery of Psalm 133.
HEBREWS 12:22-23 AMP
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering], and to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are registered [as citizens] in heaven, and to God, who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous (the redeemed in heaven) who have been made perfect [bringing them to their final glory],
Today, we are in Mount Zion. We experience freedom and is longer under the law.
5. Dew is associated with manna, and thus with food.
EXODUS 16:13-15 KJV
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the DEW lay round about the host.
And when the DEW that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was.
And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to EAT.
6. DEW too is compared to the Word of God.
DEUTERONOMY 8:3 NKJV
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with
MANNA which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone;
but man lives by EVERY WORD that PROCEEDS from the MOUTH of the LORD.
DEUTERONOMY 32:1-2 NKJV
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Let my TEACHING drop as the rain, My SPEECH distill as the DEW, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
When God's word spoken from our mouth, it will be like dew; refreshing and blessings.
JOHN 6:58, 63 NKJV
This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead.
He who eats this bread will live forever.”
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
The WORDS that I SPEAK to you are SPIRIT, and they are LIFE.
Whatever verses we are meditating, we are actually eating and feeding our spirit man.
7. DEW symbolises strength of youth
PSALMS 110:3 NKJV
Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the DEW of Your YOUTH.
PSALMS 110:3 NLT
When you go to war, your people will serve you willingly.
You are arrayed in holy garments, and your STRENGTH will be RENEWED EACH DAY like the MORNING DEW.
8. DEW is a symbol of the ministry of the people of God in the world.
MICAH 5:7 NLT
Then the remnant left in Israel will take their place among the nations.
They will be like DEW sent by the LORD or like rain falling on the grass, which no one can hold back and no one can restrain.
Dew is gentle. We become like dew that falls gently and refreshes others.
Just like a fruit that comes out from us and we water others.
Micah compares the remnant of Israel to dew among the nations.
The heavenly people of God goes into the world to bring refreshment and new life to a sinful world.
The blessing of Jacob: Jacob was not only promised the dew of heaven, but also that he would rule over nations.
9. GOD HIMSELF will be to His people like DEW from Heaven
HOSEA 14:5-7 NLT
I WILL BE to Israel LIKE a REFRESHING DEW from HEAVEN.
Israel will GROW (BLOSSOM) like the lily; it will send roots deep into the soil like the cedars in Lebanon.
HOSEA 14:5-7 NLT
Its branches will SPREAD OUT like BEAUTIFUL OLIVE TREES, as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.
My people will again live under my shade.
They will FLOURISH like grain and BLOSSOM like GRAPEVINES.
They will be as FRAGRANT as the WINES of LEBANON.
DEW is a window on the whole of the Christian life.
It symbolizes the unmerited favor of our heavenly King; our induction into the covenant through baptism; our continuing refreshment in Word and Sacrament; and our task of ruling the earth through works and words of mercy.
10. DEW is a sobering reminder of our sin, our faithlessness, and encourages us to perseverance as our God is faithful.
HEBREWS 4:14-15 NKJV
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed
through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
HEBREWS 4:16 NKJV
Let us THEREFORE COME BOLDLY to the THRONE of GRACE, that we may obtain MERCY and find GRACE to help in time of need.
GENESIS 27:26 KJV
And his father Isaac said unto him, COME NEAR NOW, and KISS ME, MY SON.
GENESIS 27:28 KJV
THEREFORE God GIVE thee of the DEW of HEAVEN, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
When we grow closer to Jesus in relationship, in the Word, blessings come upon us like dew.
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