God Loves You as He Loved Jacob

1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
(King James Bible, Malachi)

Karl saying this to Sawyer, who I feel represents Jacob. Remember, Locke is Esau.