A Hidden Younger Brother Story In The Old Testament

A common and much repeated theme in the Bible is favor upon the younger brother. "The greater shall submit to the smaller" (Genesis 25:23 Alexander). E.g., God accepted Abel's offering, and not Cain's. Shem, the greatest of Noah's sons, was the youngest. Isaac was heir to the promise, not Ishmael. God loved Jacob, but denigrated Esau. Joseph was salvation in Egypt, his brothers - not so much. Joseph crossed his arms to bless Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

Israel's delivery out of Egypt fits the same motif, as does only the children of Israel entering the Promised Land. Young David was lifted above King Saul. Spiritual Christianity supplanted typical Judaism, as Pentecostalism supplants typical Christianity today. My own theory: Mark, a Buddhist Therapeutic missionary from post-Ashoka India, learned the deeper, spiritual meaning of Judaism (perhaps in Alexandria). Mark "got it" better than the Jews he learned from, and wrote the first Gospel of Jesus Christ -- reformed Buddhism. And I have found another one:

Moses' Judaism supplanted the Medianite (Midianite) religion it came from. Moses spent forty years among the Medians (more a people than a place), and learned the worship of YHWH from them. He got better at it than they, and got to meet the "Face" of YHWH. That Face is the loving imagination of God within us, Who is imagining this projection into reality. The love of God in the Messiah's heart supplanted the worship service in the Temple.

The motif continues right here and right now. Jacob was Moses' inner man, Esau his outer. All the characters also apply to us, to everyone who will believe. Our inner being is ever what God is cultivating to the full expression of Its manifestation. So the new convert gets the big miracles. Here is an idea: serve your younger inner being. Be the inwardly righteous, noble being who has eternal life. The abominable only gets the grave.