There is a subtle but (for the astutely discerning) quite detectable and rather obvious diabolical malignment against the person called "Jacob" (renamed "Israel" by the Lord) committed by certain leading and purportedly-"respected" conservative baptist preachers and ministers and others of the reformed or evangelical-free religious community -- propagating misrepresentation against Jacob and other Biblical patriarchs.

For example, I remember - years ago - hearing Chuck Swindoll state (on the radio) that Samson (of the Old Testament) died: "a loser."

Admittedly, for the record, Samson had a dangerous and finally self-crippling means for attacking and destroying God's enemies (the Philistines): by consorting with Philistine women . . . but done so for a justifiable end-purpose reason:

Judges 14:4 His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD; for he was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

And although it was because of the Philistine-seductress Delilah, who Samson voluntarily and willingly got sensually involved with and who was the cause of Samson temporarily losing his strength and getting his eyes gouged out by Philistine enemies, the LORD even then did not reject so-called "loser" yet humbled-and-penitent Samson by allowing his hair to grow back, and by positively accommodating to his request for righteous justice and retaliation by empowering Samson to 'bring down the house' against the enemies of Israel:

Judges 16:21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
22 But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."
24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has slain many of us."
25 And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may make sport for us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he made sport before them. They made him stand between the pillars;
26 and Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them."
27 Now the house was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about three thousand men and women, who looked on while Samson made sport.
28 Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray you, and strengthen me, I pray you, only this once, Oh God, that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes."
29 And Samson grasped the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and he leaned his weight upon them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.
30 And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.
31 Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

Praying to the LORD at the end of his life, and being empowered by the LORD in response to that prayer, hardly qualified Samson "a loser" -- in my estimation - contrary to the ridicule pinned on Samson by Chuck Swindoll.

One Baptist preacher in the western suburb of Plymouth Minnesota misconstrued the character of Asaph as having "basic moral defects" supposedly evidenced by Asaph's confession in Psalm 73:

Psalm 73:1 A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.
2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.
5 They are not in trouble as other men are; they are not stricken like other men.
6 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
7 Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore the people turn and praise them; and find no fault in them.
11 And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
12 Hey, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
13 All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.
15 If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.
18 Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
20 They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.
21 When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward you.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with you; you do hold my right hand.
24 You do guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27 For wow, those who are far from you shall perish; you do put an end to those who are false to you.
28 But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Clearly from the words written above, it is true that - like Job - Asaph did some look-at-other-people-not-in-trouble-now complaining concerning his wicked-people-sourced predicaments besieging and befalling him at the time.

But, presumed "basic moral defects" are NOT indicated in Asaph by his discerning and humble statements such as:

(v. 1) Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.

(vs. 15-17) If I had said, "I will speak [against God and His ways]," I would have been untrue to the generation of your children.
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.

[ NOTE: By the way, that statement: "I would have been untrue to the general of your children" to this author does NOT mean (as the aforementioned baptist preacher misconstrued) that Asaph was conceited and worried about becoming embarrassingly two-faced to the detriment of his own selfish reputation, but rather that Asaph was genuinely concerned that he (Asaph) would not misrepresent God while non-selfishly having the best in mind for his children and not confusing them with contradictory words-vs-action turncoat discrepancies ]

(vs. 21-22) When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward you.

[ NOTE: Does that humble, correct, and frank admission of and by Asaph of himself reveal that the temporary 'those-who-enter-the-kingdom-of-God-enter-it-violently' shortsightedness Asaph admitted to was "a basic moral defect?" It takes a quality man with a right attitude toward God to admit that he himself has grumbled to God. Perhaps the baptist preacher thought that Asaph was bragging? about Asaph's temporary look-at-other-people waywardness, but I don't view Asaph that way, and I wonder if the baptist preacher himself would admit that he himself has been stupid and ignorant to God at times in his own life? ]

(vs. 23-28) Nevertheless I am continually with you; you do hold my right hand.
You do guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
For wow, those who are far from you shall perish; you do put an end to those who are false to you.
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Do those previous sections of verses of Psalm 73 of Asaph plainly show a man who was "basically morally defective?"

I think not!

Now we get to the person of Jacob, who the aforementioned Plymouth-MN baptist preacher crudely libeled: a jerk.

[ Do I detect some "I'm-consternated-because-I-cannot-convince-diehard-Jews-to-convert-and-join-my-church" hidden antisemitism there? ]

I heard one AM1030 preacher revile Jacob as one who [supposedly] was maliciously and adversarially "angry against God" by wrestling Him according to the following passage of Genesis 32:1-30:

Genesis 32:1 Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him;
Genesis 32:2 and when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's army!" So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

[ NOTE: Why should Jacob have been fearful of upcoming single-weakling-human Esau, having seen God's powerful angelic army? It is also significant to note that lies told to Jacob later on in his life by his own sons pertaining to the supposedly-killed-by-an-animal death of Jacob's son Joseph was probably a payback for Jacob previously lying to his father Isaac in the case of the Blessing-related identity theft Jacob himself had committed ]

Genesis 32:3 And [ take-matters-into-his-own-hands ] Jacob [ the aggressor, needlessly just asking for trouble? ] sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom (remember that when we get to the Old-Testament book of Obadiah later on!),
4 instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord [ my "lord?" ] Esau: Thus says your servant [ your "servant?" ] Jacob, 'I have traveled with Laban [ Oh Whoopie ], and stayed until now;
5 and I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight [ patronizing the non-righteous brother? Why? ].'
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,
8 thinking, "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company which is left will escape." [ equivalent to relinquishing God-given-land to so-called "palestinians" (anti-Zionists) for peace at the behest of Oslo-Accorded Iran, Saudis, or Syria by demand of Obomination? ]
9 And Jacob said, "Oh God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Oh LORD who did say to me, 'Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the continual love and all the faithfulness which you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
11 Rescue me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him [ equivalent to relinquishing God-given-land to so-called "palestinians" (anti-Zionists) for peace at the behest of Oslo-Accorded Iran, Saudis, or Syria by demand of Obomination? ], lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.
12 But you did say, 'I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for quantity.'"
13 So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau, [ equivalent to relinquishing God-given-land to so-called "palestinians" (anti-Zionists) for peace at the behest of Oslo-Accorded Iran, Saudis, or Syria by demand of Obomination? ]

20 . . . For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me." [ equivalent to relinquishing God-given-land to so-called "palestinians" (anti-Zionists) for peace at the behest of Oslo-Accorded Iran, Saudis, or Syria by demand of Obomination? ]

[ So Jacob was not afraid [ or strangely forgetful ] of the army of heavenly angels who he had previously seen, only half-heartedly believed the promise of his own God-promised geneological perpetuity, and was even not so much afraid of God, but instead scared silly about his previously-murder-intended weakling-brother Esau. So, God was then ready to teach Jacob a lesson on who to really be afraid of! ]

Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
25 When the Man saw that He did not prevail against Jacob, He touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as He wrestled with him.
26 Then He said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless You bless me."
27 And He said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
28 Then He said, "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."
29 Then Jacob asked him, "Tell me, I pray, your Name." But He said, "Why is it that you ask my Name?" And there He blessed him.
30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."

I honestly do not - contrary to what the AM1030 preacher blattered - that Jacob was maliciously and adversarially "angry against God" by wrestling God (His sent angel, or a Son-of-God theophany manifestation of the Lord in similar examples stated below:)

Numbers 7:89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard The Voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and It spoke to him.

Numbers 22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

Joshua 5:13 When Joshua (who would successfully command "the Sun" to "stand still" during battle) was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and hey, a Man stood before him with his drawn sword in His hand; and Joshua went to Him and said to Him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
14 And He said, "No; but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to Him, "What does my Lord bid his servant?"
15 And the Commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.

Joshua 10:12 Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, you stand still at Gibeon, and you Moon in the valley of Aijalon."
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not proceed to go down for about a whole day.
14 There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD complied with the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel. [ No wonder Jews have survived! ]

Second Kings 6:17 Then Elisha prayed, and said, "Oh LORD, I pray you, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD "opened the eyes" of the young man, and he saw; and hey, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. [ Ditto of the previous comment! ]

Second Kings 19:35 And that night the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, hey, these were all dead bodies.

First Chronicles 21:16 And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

Isaiah 37:36 And the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, hey, these were all dead bodies.

Daniel 3:24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in a hurry. He said to his counselors, "Did we not throw three men bound into the fire?" They answered the king, "True, king."
Daniel 3:25 He answered, "But I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God."

Of course, Jacob probably was quite frustrated - even understandably angry - that He [ NON-selfishly ] could not conquer that threatening anonymous person of the night who was first and foremost a security threat against his wives and children, then his financial-flock resources, and even against his own life . . . of whom the LORD had promised Jacob that Jacob would be preserved and perpetuated in progeny.

Perhaps Jacob was also sort of proud that he himself was a pretty good wrestler (which he of course was), and eagerly ambitious to self-defensively prove it against the suspicious stranger of the night who maybe had aggressively advanced toward him for apparent non-solicited confrontational and even lethal combat.

But Jacob's frustration simultaneously turned into mercy with fear when the Strange Wrestler, who Jacob realized had supernaturally put Jacob's thigh out of joint, petitioned feisty-but-now-partially-lame-opponent Jacob to "let Him go" because of the breaking-dawn sunlight. Instead of disobeying this Stranger having such not-of-this-world power by continuing to hold onto Him, Jacob realized Who he was dealing with, and begged (but did not demand) a blessing from Him (not simply for himself and his own family and possessions, but much more relating to a heavenly-association realm).

Adversarially and maliciously "angry against God?" Sounds instead like a display of non-reviling/non-cursing fear and desire by Jacob to be accepted into the approval and companionship of that Superior-Status Stranger who Jacob could not protect himself against!

[ Some background to the story of Jacob involves Jacob's non-identical twin-brother Esau, which Esau plainly was a non-religious person who had little or no appreciation nor respect for the Hebrew God himself, nor the importance or relevance of the laws and custom of God's Hebrews, though he shrewdly had demonic fear pertaining to Jacob, how God had provided wealth and territory and bodyguards and miraculous-rescue-reputation to, for, and of Jacob: ]

Esau's lack of spirituality is clearly indicated by such passages as:

Genesis 25:32 Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"

Genesis 27:41 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
42 But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Hey, your brother Esau comforts himself by planning to kill you.
Genesis 28:1 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.
6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddanaram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women,"
8 So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,
9 Esau went to Ishmael (the non-Jewish ousted Arab/Canaanite son of Abram's and Sarai's faithlessness -- see the Hagar-slave verses of Galatians 4:24-25) and took to wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.

Does THAT sound like Esau was indeed an obedient servant of the Lord and righteous conveyer of God's grace? It sure does NOT sound like that to me!

Does that not prove that Rebekkah had (bear with me) "good cause to lie" (as the temporarily-lying harlot Rahab had "good cause" to misinform murder-intending hitmen of Jericho where the Hebrew spies were not) in conspiring to [albeit-deceitfully] have Hebrew-minded Jacob and not anti-Hebrew irreligious Esau acquire and retain the blessing of God -- which blessing non-first-born Jacob deserved?

Psalm 89:10 You did crush Rahab like a carcass, you did scatter your enemies with your mighty arm.
Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who did cut Rahab in pieces, you did pierce the dragon?

Those were not the only Hebrew/Jewish women in Christ's geneology to lie (for a good purpose - and bear with me):

Genesis 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?" [ and what kind(s) of "pleasure" were you referring to, Sarah? ]
13 The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'
14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall have a son."
15 But Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

And:

Genesis 31:30 And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my idols?"
31 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
32 Any one with whom you find your idols shall not live. In the presence of our relatives point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered Rachel's.
34 Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
35 And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched, but did not find the household idols.
Genesis 35:19 So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)

Perhaps the baptist minister would fraudulently misrepresent the intention of the prophet Jonah also - who ran away at first because He had "basic moral defects?" WHAT "defects?" Because Jonah [ supposedly ] was angry against God and had a malicious mindset to defiantly disobey the Lord? Because Jonah [ allegedly ] was afraid of the Ninevites with wimpish cowardly fear? Because Jonah prejudicially presumed that only the children of Abraham, who talked-to stones (see Matthew 3:9 and Luke 3:8) could become according to Jesus, were the only ones deserving to be eternally redeemed and atoned for without copious and repeated animal sacrifices and without knowing the details of the complete Torah?

Or because He knew that the God who accepted foreign-woman-Moabitess Ruth into the geneology of Christ as a grafted-in true-Jew wild-olive-branch partaker of the faith of Abraham would save a foreign nation of penitent people humbling themselves?

Jonah 4:2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray you, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I hurried to run away to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in continuous love, and change your mind about inflicting evil against those who repent and turn away from evil.

I hope that it does not get to the point when the baptist minister considers confessing sin a "basic moral defect" and even helplessly accepting redemption from the benevolent God a "basic moral defect."

Getting back to Esau . . .

Hebrews 12:16 that no one be immoral or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

I recollect two other instances of "good cause to lie" (bear with me) in the Old Testament:

First Kings 13:14 And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am."
15 Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread."
16 And he said, "I may not return with you, or go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place;
17 for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'"
18 And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.
19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
20 And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back;
21 and he shouted out to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
22 but have come back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water"; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'"
23 And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
24 And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.
25 And hey, men passed by, and saw the body thrown in the road, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
26 And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and slain him, according to the word which the LORD spoke to him."
27 And he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." And they saddled it.
28 And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the ass and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey.
29 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it upon the donkey, and brought it back to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
30 And he laid the body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!"
31 And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
32 For the saying which he proclaimed by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass."

[ NOTE: Moral of the story: God's does NOT change His immutable Word. He will NOT retract anything He says. He will NOT change His mind. ]

And another example:

First Kings 22:1 For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.
2 But in the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramothgilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramothgilead?" And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."
5 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the LORD."
6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men [ what ecumenical "Church Council" or Accredited Seminary, Divinity School, or Denominational Synod or Convention did they belong to? ], and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramothgilead, or shall I forbear?" And they said, "Go up; for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."
7 But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?"
8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."
9 Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah."
10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'"
12 And all the prophets prophesied so, and said, "Go up to Ramothgilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."
13 And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, "Hey, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably."
14 But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak."
15 And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear?" And he [ playing a don't-rock-the-boat no-disruptive-controversy-please Yes-man ] answered him, "Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."
16 But the king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"
17 And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said, 'These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'"
18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"
19 And Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside Him on his right hand and on his left;
20 and the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?' And one said one thing, and another said another.
21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, 'I will entice him.'
22 And the LORD said to him, 'By what means?' And he said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And He said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go forth and do so.'
23 Now therefore, hey, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has spoken evil concerning you."

Comforting, isn't it, that the LORD at times puts a lying spirit into the mouth of His ecumenical "Church Council" or Accredited Seminary, Divinity School, or Denominational Synod or Convention bishops, pastors, teachers, professors, and clergy . . . while revealing such shenanigans to his genuine choice messengers.

Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God; who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Maybe the aforementioned baptist preacher would satanically misconsider both the lying old prophet of First Kings 13 and lying Micaiah of First Kings 22 also having "basic moral defects?"

The point-by-point-intellectual-outline baptist preacher [blasphemously] continued during his sermon that "Esau showed the tolerant love and forgiving grace of God" by not murdering "demonically-conniving and damnably-accursed-liar-and-cheater Jacob" when Esau met fearful and attempting-to-reconcile-minded Jacob.

Really?

That does not jive with what the prophet Obadiah said about the descendants of Esau:

Obadiah 1:8 "Will I not on that day," says the LORD, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
9 And your mighty men shall be dismayed, Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
11 On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
12 But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
17 But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.
19 Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zarephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
21 Rescuers shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's."

A "word" of advice to certain baptist preachers and other religious or non-religious revilers:

Matthew 12:7 And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

John 7:24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.

Romans 14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.