Rebekah's Womb
The lines of antithesis are not like chalk lines left on the sidewalk
after a child's game, to use Van Til's illustration. Those lines can be
washed away by the next rain. The lines of the antithesis are two lines
of generation, two lines of seed -- the seed of the woman and the seed
of the serpent (Gen. 3:15).
These two races occupy the same human history, and all is not well
between them.
The history of the world is Rebekah's womb, and she picked
up on the fundamental problem early on. "But the children struggled
together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like
this?”(Gen. 25:22, NKJV). The elder humanity is Esau, but the older will serve the younger -- Jacob -- and the meek will inherit the earth.
Douglas Wilson.
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