CHAPTER 35 THE DENUNCIATION OF EDOM. The question must be asked as to why the denunciation of Mount Seir (Edom) is found in the midst of these Chapter s about deliverance? The answer must lie in the fact that it is in deliberate contrast with Israel's fate and restoration. Note how ‘Mount Seir' (the... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say to it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. I... [ Continue Reading ]
“Because you had a perpetual enmity, and have poured out the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the final iniquity (iniquity of the end).” This is the reason for their condemnation, their perpetual enmity towards the people of God, vividly agai... [ Continue Reading ]
“Therefore as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.” Edom have not hated the shedding of blood, but have delivered God's people to death. Therefore God will prepare blood for them, that... [ Continue Reading ]
“Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation, and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and the one who returns. And I will fill his mountains with his slain. In your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses they will fall who are slain with the sword. I wi... [ Continue Reading ]
“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it', whereas Yahweh was there. Therefore as I live says the Lord Yahweh, I will act in accordance with your anger, and in accordance with your envy which you have shown in your hatred against them, a... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “To the rejoicing of the whole earth, I will make you desolate. As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Yahweh... [ Continue Reading ]