Some people are saying Jacob and his nemesis are like God vs the Devil. Or a biblical reference, like Jacob and his brother Esau:
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
on the lost-forum, someone wrote: |
In the old testiment, Rebecca (Jacob’s mom) is having twins, Jacob and Esau. She was having trouble during pregnancy and asks God why she was suffering. She received the prophecy that the twins were fighting in her womb and would continue to fight all their livs, and after they became two separate nations. The prophecy also said that the older would serve the younger, and the statement “one people will be stronger than the other,†has been taken to mean that the two nations would never gain power simultaneously: when one fell, the other would rise, and vice versa.
Read that last sentence of my statement, and then go read the title of the book Jacob is holding outside of the building where Locke is thrown by his father out the window. “Everything That Rises Must Converge.†So everytime one of the ‘nations’ takes power, they must fight for it.
(Just was lazy and quoted from a Lost mb
)