Jacob and Esau Bible Story Puzzled Over by Puzzled Lost Fans
The Lost season finale didn't begin in 1977 or 2007, but possible in the mid 1800's - when the Black Rock slave ship arrived and the four toed statue was still standing. This event was marked by two men having a typically cryptic conversation - with the one in the white shirt revealed as the long awaited Jacob.
The second man, wearing a black shirt and played by Deadwood actor Titus Welliver, was never revealed by name. All we learned of him was that he has a dim view of humanity, and he wants to find a loophole to kill Jacob. And in the end of the season finale, Lost provided its biggest shock of the night by revealing he had.
The strange, resurrected John Locke was not resurrected - but in fact, was being impersonated by Jacob's long time nemesis. And this unknown man had manipulated Ben Linus all throughout the last few weeks to finally kill Jacob, which he appeared to accomplish.
In the desperate search for clues as to who this shape shifting, vengeful, possibly villainous figure is, Lost fans have searched the Bible story of Jacob and Esau. In the Bible, Jacob is a quiet, intelligent, crafty being, much like Lost's Jacob.
Esau, on the other hand, is an impulsive hunter and gatherer who blames Jacob for stealing his birthright. So Esau tries to get one up on Jacob and take power over him, perhaps like the mystery man did to Lost's Jacob last night.
But the lesson of Jacob and Esau is that it was a battle between two strong, flawed would-be leaders that had to combine their strengths to overcome their weaknesses - a common theme of Lost. Good and evil was often at a blur, as is always the case on Lost. Jacob was the chosen son, but Esau was always lurking behind the scenes - just like the Esau stand in on Lost seems to have always been lurking.
With Jacob's unnamed rival getting a decisive win in the Lost season finale, fans have nine months of Bible studying to figure out if Jacob can rise again. As if this season, with its constant Jesus and religious parallels, didn't drive enough Lost fans to study the Bible when not studying physics.
Sources
Jerusalem Center for Bible Affairs- "Jacob and Esau and the Emergence of the Jewish People" www.jcpa.org/dje/articles/jacob-esau.htm
YouTube- "LOST - Season 5 Finale - Opening Scene (Jacob)" www.youtube.com/watch
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6 Comments
Post a CommentThe whole show was Jack'e death dream. Didn't you see the plane fly over him as he lay dying. So anything about Jacob and Esau was all in Jack's head.
Well I just figured it out all by myself! so hah!
Harry, in the biblical story, for Jacob to actually get the birthright he as to get it from his father, he pretends to be Esau and then gets the birthright that way. Yes Esau agreed to give him his birthright, but in order for Jacob to receive it, he had to have Issac bless him. So you might want to check your facts before dispeling the entire Bible. And for the record this is a messageboard aout Lost not your book.
The Bible says Esau gave his younger brother Jacob his brithright for food when he was starving. This could not have happened without the approval of their father, so it is a myth. There are many impossibilities, misconceptions and blatant lies in the Bible which I have pinpointed in my book, The Gospel Truth: A Reality Check. To check it out go to:
: http://www.eloquentbooks.com/TheGospelTruth-ARealityCheck.html
I was half expecting the thing that Jacob's been sewing all these years to be a coat of many colors.... instead it's a tapestry of hieroglyphs... once again reinforcing my guess that Richard Alpert is an ancient Egyptian.
But it's just a guess..
Wow. I just started searching the web this morning for Lost theories. This one hadn't occurred to me, but it certainly makes sense. I did wonder about the looks exchanged when Ben said something about "Locke" being like Moses, and Ben questioning Jacob after obeying him for so long without being able to see him kind of brought religious themes to my mind. Good job on this!