Ezekiel 35 -Judgment Against Edom (Esau)

 

Ezekiel 35 – Judgment Against Edom (Esau)

 

God announced blessing for Jacob, but He pronounced judgment on Edom the descendants of Jacob’s brother Esau. The Edomites were guilty of sins that are still practiced today.

 

Their grudge went all the way back to Genesis 27, and they would not forgive and forget.

 

When you hate others, you are envious of their blessings and angry when they succeed. The Edomites revealed their anger when they helped the Babylonians ravage Jerusalem (Obad. 10-14). If you are envious of others when they succeed and glad when they fall, then you may be carrying a grudge. The judgment you want to fall on your enemy may come around and fall on you.

 

The Edomites boasted of their great security in the rocks (Obad. 1-4), but God would bring them down in humiliation (Jer. 49). God still resists the proud, whether in nations or individuals, but gives grace to the humble (I Pet. 5:5).

 

The final straw against Edom took place when these relatives of the Israelites not only approved of the desolation inflicted on Judah by the Babylonians but rejoiced over their kinsman’s destruction and plotted to take control of the land and the resources. But the Lord made it clear that the land of Israel would belong to His people forever; once He returned the people to their homeland, He would make sure that the Edomites troubled them no more.

 

Edom represents the enemy of God in this world today, that enemy is going to rise against God in the last days under the Antichrist. God will judge the enemy. The people will be back in their land worshiping God and living in peace and blessing. What a glorious future is ahead for them!

 

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