Shades of Halloween!
This "disguised" biz comes from the Bible! Isaac's wife, Rebekah, was pregnant with twins, and the Lord told her about the "two nations" in her womb, which we now recognize as the Jew and Gentile from what we learn in Rom2:9.
Esau was the rugged outdoorsman, while Jacob seemed tied to the apronstrings, but since the scripture says twice about God loving Jacob and hating Esau, Rom9:13/Malachi 1:2 KJV, we may have misunderstood. ?
And [Esau] said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. Gen27:36. [Wrong! Esau is a liar!]
Did Jacob really take away Esau's birthright, or did Esau trade it to him for beans? Hebrews12:16 "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright". Seems to make him a liar.
We know Jesus as the Son, the Light of the World, the True Bread, the Word, etc., but we don't know, do we, what form he was in before he was placed in Mary's womb. "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me". Heb 10:5
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh". Rom8:3 KJV
"But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men" Phil 2:7
"For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven". 2Cor5:2
So, don't we see the seeds of disguise in the Bible, and can't we acknowledge this truth by not spoiling the kiddows innocent Halloween fun? [True; there will be 'incidents', like what happens in all normal every-day pursuits.]
What say you?
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