About Edom

Subject:	About Edom
Date:	Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:16:39 -0500

Devotional Guide For the Week of January 31, 2010

JESUS SAW HIMSELF IN GENESIS

About Edom

To Know:

³Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his
household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the
goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his
brother Jacob. Their possessions were too great for them to remain together;
the land where they were staying could not support them both because of
their livestock. So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of
Seir.² (Gen. 36:6-8)

Genesis 36 may seem like a chapter that would only interest census taker
types. Three statements in the chapter alert us to a principle we must not
ignore. Verse 8 says, ³ŠEsau (that is Edom). Verse 9 states, ³Esau the
father of the EdomitesŠ² Verse 19 says, ³Esau (that is Edom) The chapter
concludes, ³This was Esau the father of the Edomites.² (36:43) By the
continual intention to draw attention to the fact that Edom began with Esau,
God shows the awful fruit reaped from the duplicity of Jacob in cheating his
brother Esau. Jacob may have escaped the wrath of Esau personally, but his
brothers¹ anger became a harvest of hate reaped by the Israelites throughout
their history.

Obadiah reported, ³The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign Lord
says about Edom .² Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you
will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.²(1:1,10) Herod
was an Edomite. There is a powerful lesson taught us in the history of Edom.
The ramifications of evil doing become a virus that infects a family line.
This is a lesson to fathers and mothers to do good as well as teach what is
good to the children.

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