He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he proceeded to bless him. The failure of recognition is the failure the deception was designed to produce. The blessing proceeds. The covenant transfer is about to happen through fraud. Yet Hebrews 11:20 will honor Isaac's faith in the act of blessing — the faith by which Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future. God's purposes are accomplished through the deception without endorsing the deception. The application: God's sovereign purposes are not thwarted by human sin, but that does not make the sin acceptable. The blessing will stand; the fractures it causes will also stand.

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