Recently I was studying the story of Jacob and Esau and realized that although God loved Jacob and hated Esau, Esau was really the more righteous of the two.
First, Jacob takes advantage of his brother Esau, who is admittedly really stupid to trade his birthright for a bowl of soup. Then he goes ahead and lies to his father to steal his brother's inheritance. He then fears for his life and runs off. He marries two people and their maids. He goes home and is prepared to give Esau large amounts of cattle and land in exchange for not killing him and Esau forgives him. (It might have just been for the cattle. Who knows.)
What's really annoying is that if I were Esau and Andrew were Jacob, I would probably kill him promptly, but Esau forgave him. This is really bad because although Esau did something extremely admirable right there, the only other thing we knew about him was that God hated his guts.
The only consolation I have is that it doesn't matter how righteous you are because of Christ's death and resurrection. Without that, I would be beyond saving, worse even then a man God openly despised. Praise God.
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I'm sure Esau only forgave him for the cattle. He probably still wanted to kill him, but it doesn't occur to someone stupid enough to sell his birthright for soup that he could still keep the sheep even if he killed Jacob after all.
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