Genesis 27:31
And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me. And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Esau himself is the one who has prepared the savory meat and brought it to his father, asking him to arise and eat of his son's venison so that his soul may bless him, coming in after Jacob has already obtained by deception and fraud the blessing intended for Esau. Those who held the other understanding took the verse to show Jacob bringing the savory meat to Isaac and asking him to eat so that Isaac would bless him, as part of Jacob's deception in obtaining his father's blessing. The blessing so sought involved more than spiritual privilege, being connected with the temporal birthright including leadership of the family and a double portion of Isaac's wealth.
Esau had lost the blessing because he had rashly sold his birthright, and when he learned this he was deeply distressed and repented too late to undo his choice. Jacob resorted to fraud to gain what was already his by God's promise and foretold purpose, when he should have trusted God to fulfill it without deceit, and even without the privileges of the firstborn he could have received God's blessing through a righteous course. The blessing itself did not guarantee prosperity, for the prosperity of Esau or of Jacob depended on God and on whether each loved and obeyed Him.
The wrong led to Esau's hatred and threat so that Jacob had to flee for his life, and years later when Jacob returned to his homeland at God's command he feared Esau was coming to take revenge. The deception reaped twenty years of exile in which Jacob himself was wronged and defrauded and at last forced to flee, followed by a second harvest as the evils of his own character cropped out in his sons. What a person does is the result of what he is, life's experiences are the fruition of thoughts and deeds, and every deed reacts upon the doer so that the evils that curse life are the fruitage of one's own sowing.
Jacob's sin in obtaining the blessing had to be and was repented of before he could confidently plead with God for deliverance, illustrating that unconfessed sin would leave God's people without confidence to plead for deliverance in the time of trouble. The account warns that people may trade their inheritance of heaven for appetite and other selfish pleasures, and may find no place for repentance when it is too late. The chapter exemplifies deceptive dealing to gain advantage over another by secret methods, partiality and hypocrisy, and deceptive reasoning to bind freedom, turn a man from his rights, and grasp all that can be gotten regardless of agreements and of the disappointment and wrong done to others. Such handling of men as machinery to be harnessed and driven, and such ruling as a lord over God's heritage by men in positions of trust who claim their councils stand as the voice of God, is an offense God will not tolerate, justify, or excuse, imperils souls, corrupts through selfishness and covetousness which is idolatry, and stands open to the eye of Him with whom we have to do. Yet even thus there is hope, for God will not contend forever nor be always wroth, but sees the sinner's ways and heals him and leads him and restores comforts to him and to his mourners, giving peace to him that is far off and to him that is near.