So, I have a lot of ideas. Some have been addressed, some may be new.
First, I believe the writers have a lot of religious/biblical underlyings in LOST. Many agree because they are saying the guy in the beginning is Esau, the biblical brother of Jacob. Where I might be able to agree to some extent, I think he might be more or less like Satan, and Jacob, a patriarch, is more or less like Jesus. Jesus became a sacrifice for our sins. And he freely died for us (kind of like what Jacob did. After all, why would he not put up a fight if he didn't have some plan to be killed. I think Jacob will come back to life. We know that Jesus came back to life after 3 days. Maybe this "Esau" guy thinks he has won the battle by finding the loophole, but in actuality, Jacob has won. If you are familiar with the Bible,the supposedely Jesus, after his death, went and got the keys to hell and death. So as Satan believed he had won, he actually lost! ( And no, Satan wanted to kill Jesus, but he couldn't. Rather, he influenced the religious leaders and Roman official! s and Jesus' own people to kill him. Satan, in essence, found his loophole.)
Jacob says that everything up until the end was just progress. Jacob is trying to prove something to "Esau" (Satan).
I agree with some of the other theories about "Esau": that he is the smoke monster and that he can take the form of those who had died on the island. I think he took the form of Ben's daughter and told him to follow Locke. Perhaps he does go around judging people and seeing who is worthy to fulfill his deepest desire-- to kill Jacob. That is why he did not kill Locke (because he judged him and saw that Locke was good enough to carry out his plans). Perhaps this was the reason that Christian told Locke that the only way to get the others back to the island was to die. ("Esau" needed Locke dead in order to impersonate him)
What else? Oh, yes. My theory on what happens after Juliett strikes the bomb. I don't believe that the whole island blows up. Instead, I think they travel forward in time to what should be "the present." My reasoning: the flash that we see at the end is the same flash that we see when they travel back and forth through time. Also, right before Jacob dies, he says,"they're coming." I think he's talking about the rest of the Oceanic 815 survivors. And their presence will change the destiny of the island, or they will be a part of the "war" in which Widmore was talking about. Somehow, they will prove Jacob was right and that "Esau" was wrong.
First, I believe the writers have a lot of religious/biblical underlyings in LOST. Many agree because they are saying the guy in the beginning is Esau, the biblical brother of Jacob. Where I might be able to agree to some extent, I think he might be more or less like Satan, and Jacob, a patriarch, is more or less like Jesus. Jesus became a sacrifice for our sins. And he freely died for us (kind of like what Jacob did. After all, why would he not put up a fight if he didn't have some plan to be killed. I think Jacob will come back to life. We know that Jesus came back to life after 3 days. Maybe this "Esau" guy thinks he has won the battle by finding the loophole, but in actuality, Jacob has won. If you are familiar with the Bible,the supposedely Jesus, after his death, went and got the keys to hell and death. So as Satan believed he had won, he actually lost! ( And no, Satan wanted to kill Jesus, but he couldn't. Rather, he influenced the religious leaders and Roman official! s and Jesus' own people to kill him. Satan, in essence, found his loophole.)
Jacob says that everything up until the end was just progress. Jacob is trying to prove something to "Esau" (Satan).
I agree with some of the other theories about "Esau": that he is the smoke monster and that he can take the form of those who had died on the island. I think he took the form of Ben's daughter and told him to follow Locke. Perhaps he does go around judging people and seeing who is worthy to fulfill his deepest desire-- to kill Jacob. That is why he did not kill Locke (because he judged him and saw that Locke was good enough to carry out his plans). Perhaps this was the reason that Christian told Locke that the only way to get the others back to the island was to die. ("Esau" needed Locke dead in order to impersonate him)
What else? Oh, yes. My theory on what happens after Juliett strikes the bomb. I don't believe that the whole island blows up. Instead, I think they travel forward in time to what should be "the present." My reasoning: the flash that we see at the end is the same flash that we see when they travel back and forth through time. Also, right before Jacob dies, he says,"they're coming." I think he's talking about the rest of the Oceanic 815 survivors. And their presence will change the destiny of the island, or they will be a part of the "war" in which Widmore was talking about. Somehow, they will prove Jacob was right and that "Esau" was wrong.
