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Pamphlet #6318
Seir actually means shaggy like a goat or even hairy, just like Esau, and refers to his people in the land of Edom (which means red).The Lord cares about all His children and He knows that judgment and chastisement and tough love are required to let them know that He is the LORD.Ezekiel 35:1
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,[2]Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
God tells Ezekiel to get in Mt. Seir's face and give him a message directly from Him:
This is not good news if you are Mt. Seir. However, always remember that if the Lord GOD is going to make someone or something desolate, you can be assured there is a valid reason![3] And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
The "reason" is the same reason as all the other judgments our Father delivers.It is because He cares about all His children and He knows that judgment and chastisement and tough love are required to let them know that He is the LORD. Hopefully "in that day" they will begin to turn to Him.[4] I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Did you know that the entire short Book of Obadiah (servant of Yah) in the minor prophets concerns the "vision" of the land of Edom, the home of Esau, and gives us further details into his offences and the reason for his desolation. Read it all, all 20 verses. (Should take you all of 3 or 4 minutes.)Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
This is exactly the same offence we just read of in Ezk. 35:5, violence and blood shed against his brother Jacob.Obadiah 1:1
The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom;...Obadiah 1:10
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Note: The Hebrew word for "violence" is "chamac" and means "cruelty, injustice, unrighteousness". It this same "violence" that filled the midst of the king of Tyre (Satan) in Ezk. 28:16. You know the judgment he got!
Imagine that! Esau jumped right in there and helped bring down and make desolate his very own brother. What a guy! Sure would make a father proud of a child like that, wouldn't it? Not![11]In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
He should not have reveled over his brother's downfall and destruction and scattering and said "Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!" and then tried to take over his property, his land! What is he nuts... even like the false shepherds who think God doesn't see? Woe Esau! Will you ever learn?[12] But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
Hey, you like the sword, Esau? You like to see the bloodshed of others, even your own brother's? "Sith", i.e. since, you hate not blood, we'll soon see how you like your own shed, pal!Ezekiel 35:6
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
[7]Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
We will read about how God will bring about this "slaying" in the 39th chapter.[8] And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Remember in verse 5 we read that Esau had a perpetual hatred for his brother Jacob and even his birthright, even from before his birth into this flesh age? Therefore he will not be among the blessed nations, which he could have been, but he will be among the desolate nations because of his long standing ways.[9]I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
This is in reference to the two nations of Judah and Israel, which means both houses of Esau's brother Jacob, which are called the mountains (nations) of Israel in vs. 12. The opportunist Edomites, seeing the territory of the nation of Judah desolated and depopulated, like that of her sister Israel nearly 200 years prior, planned to move right in and take vacant possession. It might have worked except that the LORD was watching and He was there to stop that greedy little maneuver.Ezekiel 35:10
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
This is the way God exercises justice and judgment with complete fairness. Should one not be willing to receive the same thing he or she "dishes out" to others. We have a proverb that says, "He can dish it out, but he can't take it". Well pal, if you can't take it then you BETTER NOT "dish it out", because you're "gonna get it comin' right back at you"![11]Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
Esau and all the other nations who have "dished it out" are going to get the same thing back in their faces, "in that day"!
When will Mt. Seir and all of Edom be made desolate? We just read it in Obadiah... in the Day of the LORD, the return of Jesus Christ.Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
So the question is, "Why should you do unto others what you would like them to do unto you?"Because it works in reverse too!In other words "It shall be done unto you what you do unto others!"
Want to hear it right from the mouth of Him who is the Supreme Judge over all?
So Esau is simply going to GET IT "according to his anger, and according to his envy which he has used out of his hatred against his brother Jacob", just as God so stated in verse 11. You cannot say that is unfair!Matthew 7:1
Judge not, that ye be not judged.[2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
You were overjoyed and boastful at your brother's chastisement and wanted to take the land of your brother after his desolation and scattering, even though it did not belong to you.So for that reason I will make desolate your land and consume you accordingly. Thus shall you know that the I AM is the LORD, and He judges in righteousness, which is fairly and justly to all.Ezekiel 35:12
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
Never make the mistake of thinking our Father doesn't know or hear your boasting and see your own judgments with which you judge.[13] Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
When will Mt. Seir be made totally desolate? When the whole earth rejoices and every knee bows because the King of Righteouness has come to execute justice.[14]Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
Yep, you thought it was a wonderful thing that your brother was made desolate, didn't you, oh Esau? You have shown once again even in this present earth age that you really do despise your birthright and your heritage and your own kin, oh selfish Esau.Ezekiel 35:15
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
You'll soon find out what fairness is all about and who it is that is LORD over all!
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