Jacob Yields Rule to Esau Until the Messiah Claims the Kingdom

"My lord knows that the children are tender." Jacob said to him: I see that sufferings are destined to come upon my children from your children; rather, you exercise your authority and use your crown until a Messiah arises from my loins and receives the kingdom from you, as it is said, "Let my lord, I pray, pass over before his servant." "Until I come to my lord to Seir" — this is Beit Guvrin. Rabbi Aha expounded: All the nations of the world are destined to betray the fourth kingdom and to clear it out from among them, and they will leave it neither walled city nor province, and they will push it from nation to nation until it reaches Beit Guvrin, and there it will find the King Messiah and surrender the kingdom to him. From there he flees to Botzrah, and the Holy One, blessed be He, is revealed to him to slay him. And he says, "But You did not command" — "that he should flee to one of these cities and live" (Deuteronomy 4:42). And the Holy One, blessed be He, answers him: Did you not read what is written alongside it, "the avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death" (Numbers 35:19)? And it is written, "Israel is My son, My firstborn" (Exodus 4:22), and it is written, "My brothers and my companions," and it is written, "for the children of Israel, a people near to Him" (Psalms 148:14), and it is written, "My beloved is white and ruddy," and it is written, "either his uncle or his uncle's son shall redeem him" (Leviticus 25:49). Immediately the Holy One, blessed be He, seizes his prince by the lock of his head, and Elijah slaughters him, and his blood spatters on His garments. On His return from there He says, "Who is this that comes from Edom" (Isaiah 63:1) and so forth.