Esau is Edom (Genesis 36) - Pastor Bruce Mejia

You try reading through that chapter out loud.

It's pretty hard, huh?

What to teach on from Genesis 36?

So many names here, of course, but there is a lot that we

are going to glean from this evening.

And chapter 36 is essentially referred to as the Tolodoth

because of the fact that it's essentially talking about

the descendants of Esau whose name is also Edom.

Now before we get into 36, let's go back

to 35 because on Sunday night I was trying to catch up

from last week and I'm just going to briefly give you

a recap and just share with you some of the other things

that we see in chapter 35 leading into 36.

In chapter 35, we have Jacob and his family going back

to Bethel.

Of course, we know that Jacob said to his household

to put away the strange gods that are among them,

to be clean, and to change their garments.

And really when you look at chapter 35,

you kind of come to the conclusion

that it's just the chapter of death.

All you have throughout the chapter

is these prominent people within the family

of Jacob just dying.

And in fact, the first one that we see in verse eight

is Deborah.

It says, but Deborah, Rebecca's nurse died

and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak

and the name of it was called Alon Bakuth.

So we have here the first death

that's really mentioned in chapter 35.

Later on we have another prominent death

which is Rachel, okay?

And she actually ends up dying, giving birth to Benjamin.

If you look over at verse number 18,

it says, and it came to pass,

as her soul was in departing,

for she died, that she called his name Ben and I,

but his father called him Benjamin.

And Rachel died and was buried in the way of Ephrath,

which is Bethlehem.

So we have the return to Bethel, Deborah dies.

The promise is once again reinstated

and reapplied to Jacob.

We have Rachel dying.

And then we have this really weird situation

where Reuben lays with his father's concubine.

It says in verse number 22,

and it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land

that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah

his father's concubine.

And Israel heard it, now the sons of Jacob were 12.

Now this is really random, right?

You have him laying with Bilhah

and it's just kind of inserting that information

into the chapter.

And there's two things that we see here.

Number one is the fact that this is the reason why,

even though Reuben is the first born,

even though he's supposed to receive,

you know, Jacob's strength and the blessings,

you know, we see in chapter 49,

when Jacob is blessing his sons,

that he basically, to a certain degree,

curses Reuben, right?

He says, unstable as water,

thou shalt not excel.

And he says, why?

It's because he essentially committed

this grievous sin with Bilhah.

And we have here a statement that's made

that says that Israel heard it.

And it kind of helps us to realize that, you know,

Israel to a certain degree was a very passive person,

or at least lenient in these areas.

When you heard, for example,

that Dinah had committed fortification,

he heard about it,

but didn't really do anything about it.

We see him hearing about Reuben

committing this grievous sin with Bilhah

and he just hears about it,

but he doesn't really do anything about it.

It's not until later, when he's on his deathbed,

that he pronounces the curse upon Reuben.

And that's a significant story there

because of the fact that he doesn't receive the blessing,

but the younger, younger brother does,

which is Joseph, right?

And so Joseph ends up being blessed of his father

instead of the firstborn, which is Reuben.

So we have the return to Bethel,

we have the death of Deborah,

unfortunately we have the death of Rachel as well,

Reuben lain with Bilhah.

And then the last person that dies in chapter 35 is Isaac.

It says in verse 28,

in the days of Isaac,

we're in 104 score years.

And Isaac gave up the ghost

and died and was gathered into his people,

being old and full of days,

and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

So that is a recap for chapter 35.

Chapter 36, we're gonna mainly focus

on the biblical character known as Esau,

also known as Edom.

Now it's important to know

that both of these names refer to the same person,

but it's essentially describing

different aspects of who he is.

He's called Esau because he's just hairy,

but he's also called Edom because Edom means red,

which is the color of the potage

that he sold to his brother, Jacob, okay?

And when he sold that to Jacob,

or excuse me, when he,

I'm sorry, when he despised his birthright

for a bowl of red potage,

it essentially describes the character of Esau

that he doesn't really value spiritual things, right?

He was supposed to get that birthright.

It was designated for him,

but he despised it, he gave it up for a bowl,

a bowl of potage, red potage and so forth.

And so that ultimately ends up characterizing who he is.

He's referred to as Edom, which means red,

and that's a callback to the bad decision that he made

to give up his birthright for something temporal.

Now later on, we're gonna see that Edom

is the name that is used to describe the descendants of Esau,

which ends up becoming a nation known as Edom,

a nation that God hates.

Now it's important to also understand

that just because God hates that particular nation,

he ends up judging that nation,

it doesn't mean he hates Esau, okay?

Esau is simply the guy who started off the lineage.

He is their ancestor, so to speak,

but we actually see that God does bless Esau.

He even said that he was gonna be a great nation.

He blesses his possessions.

His hand is upon him to a certain degree.

He's not the son of promise,

but that doesn't mean that God isn't blessing him also.

However, his descendants end up being really wicked people.

They end up becoming adversarial towards Israel,

and we're gonna visit that in just a bit.

So verses one through eight,

we have a separation between Esau and Jacob

because of their possessions.

Their possessions are too great.

They can't dwell in the same land,

so they end up going their separate ways.

Verses nine through 14 is the description

of Esau's descendants,

and I want you to notice verse 12, it says,

"'And Timna was concubine to a life as Esau's son,

and she bared to a life as Amalek."

These were the sons of Adol, Esau's wife.

Now Amalek is a significant character here

because he ends up being the person

who becomes a nation that fights against Israel

when they come out of Egypt going into the wilderness.

And in fact, they're the first people

that Israel as a nation fights against

and they try to impede Israel and so forth.

So we already see the beginnings

of the descendants of Esau troubling Israel,

being adversarial towards Israel,

trying to hinder Israel,

just when they're trying to serve the Lord,

they're trying to go to the Mount to worship God

and be a covenant people and so forth,

yet Amalek, who are the descendants of Esau,

are seeking to hinder them

and we'll see the role that that plays in just a bit.

Verses 15 through 19 is the list of Dukes, okay?

What is a duke?

A duke is simply a chief or a ruler.

And we have this list being given here.

And in fact, in verses 31 to 43,

we see that Edom had these kings, these rulers,

before Israel ever did.

So you had established kings by Esau

before Israel ever had Saul,

before Israel had David,

before he had Solomon,

before any of the kings, Esau already had his kings, okay?

And the biblical principle that we can learn there

is that just because someone succeeds before you

doesn't necessarily mean, don't become discouraged, right?

You can see how Israel, though he's the promised child,

though he's the one that God is with

and the lineage is gonna come through him.

And he can obviously look at Esau and say,

man, Esau's already,

the promise is already being fulfilled to him.

He's getting all these kings,

he's becoming a great nation,

all these Dukes are coming from him.

And what is Israel doing?

Just wandering in the wilderness for how many years?

They're just going into slavery into Egypt

and their kingship doesn't come until way later.

And what this shows us is that just because

someone is wicked and they're succeeding now,

doesn't really mean anything

when it comes to eternal things, right?

When it comes to God's perspective,

don't become envious of sinners and of the wicked

because they're succeeding more than you at this time.

Because they're gonna be like the shaft

which the wind drive it the way the Bible says.

So even though Esau succeeded,

they had a bunch of kings or a bunch of nations,

we're gonna read in Obadiah

that ultimately they get wiped out, you understand?

And so the success of this world,

though it may seem prominent, prosperous,

they may seem like they have the upper hand.

Let me just tell you now, it's but for a little moment.

Don't think to yourself, oh man, I'm over here

suffering as a Christian, I'm over here failing,

I'm not succeeding, I'm not prospering,

I'm not necessarily getting all the promises

found in the Bible and I see eat them over here

and they're over here succeeding,

prospering, getting rich in possessions.

They're marrying, giving in marriage

and here I am suffering.

What's up with that?

Well, you know what, that's not a proper assessment

of your situation, okay?

Not a proper assessment of the will of God.

It's not a proper assessment of the promises of God, okay?

The Bible tells us that ye shall weep

and the world shall rejoice

and ye shall be sorrowful

but your sorrow shall be turned into joy,

the Bible tells us, that's what Jesus said.

So there's times when we have to suffer

and you know what?

Sometimes you have to suffer as long as Israel did

so that you appreciate what you have later on, understand?

And before you can really enjoy the blessings of God

sometimes God has to make you hit spiritual rock bottom, okay?

Why?

So that you're not proud, so you're not arrogant

when you do get the blessings of God

so you don't become just an arrogant, prideful person

just puffed up thinking that it's by your might

and your strength that you got these things

and your talents and your gifts.

You know sometimes God has to humble us

and in fact when you look at the children of Israel

in the wilderness, God specifically told them

I allowed you to do that, I suffered you to hunger,

to try you, to see if you would keep my commandments

or no, all right?

And you know sometimes Christians will go

through a wilderness situation

and the reason God allows that is

because he's like all right, so what are you gonna do now?

You gonna murmur?

You gonna complain?

Are you gonna quit?

Are you gonna stop going to church?

Are you gonna stop winning souls to Christ?

Or what are you gonna do?

Are you gonna be ungrateful for the things that you have?

He's trying you through the wilderness

because it's humbling you, it's preparing you

because once you get the blessing

if you don't experience hardship

it could just easily make you prideful and arrogant

because you might think well it's because of me.

It's because I'm just all that.

It's because I'm just naturally talented.

I'm just naturally gifted.

It's my abilities that got me to this point.

We all need to be humbled folks, okay?

And everyone has the potential

to become a prideful, arrogant person

with the blessings of God, all right?

The blessings of God can make us think like oh man

maybe there is something special about me.

Maybe I am pretty talented,

maybe I am pretty gifted, God is with me

and these things may be true

but we need to remember that we have to deflect the praise

and the credit to God

and part of doing that is allowing yourself to suffer

when you go through a hard time.

And so just because you're looking at Edom and Esau

bearing all these dukes and rulers

and their nation is prospering

they're already established, they're going forward

doesn't mean that the Lord is slack

concerning his promises towards you, okay?

And a lot of times people have a tendency

to want like a timeline of when we get these blessings.

It should be now, you know?

You promised us that it should come now, you know?

We're in October 1st, what's going on here?

But that's not the way it works, okay?

And if you feel that way

then there's a virtue that you have to learn

and it's called what?

Patience.

You're like yeah, I need patience, you know?

I've been praying God to give me patience.

Well the way he kind of helps you with that

is by making you wait.

You know, because you can't really teach anyone patience,

right?

It's hard for someone to learn patience.

The way you basically get patience

is by being forced to wait.

So the more you wait for the thing that you want

for the thing that you've prayed for

for that particular blessing

the more you endure

and the more you're able to just wait upon the Lord

and heal renew your strength

he'll bless you in the long run for it.

The point being here is that chapter 36

seems to exalt the success of Esau and Edom

but as we're gonna see later on

it's really short lived, okay?

It's like the we,

it's like the chaff which the wind drive it the way.

Don't compare yourself to some unsafe person

who seems to be succeeding out there

and they're getting the girls,

they're getting the possessions,

they're getting all the things that

you know I deserve to have

because I'm serving God

and woe is me and all these things.

No, just wait it out,

rely upon the Lord,

pray unto God,

keep serving the Lord,

be patient, endure

and you know your time will come.

So from verses 15 through 19

you have these dukes,

these rulers being mentioned.

And then of course as I mentioned 31 through 43

Edom has these kings and so forth.

Now a significant aspect about this chapter

is that it really

you know highlights some of the main characters

that later on become nations

that become adversarial towards Esau.

Not everyone on this list is bad.

Esau isn't necessarily bad.

He kind of started off bad.

He was adversarial towards his brother

but then he got it right.

But you know Edom as a nation

essentially retained those bad characteristics

of Esau the individual

and then some of his descendants

essentially kind of retained some of that violent rage,

envy and adversarial attitude towards their brother.

So we're going to look at Edom as a nation.

Now go to Numbers chapter 20

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if you would Numbers chapter 20.

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Let's go to Numbers chapter 20

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because if you know anything about the story of Esau

Edom as a nation,

you know that they were essentially

a really wicked people

that ended up getting destroyed.

Now the first thing we're going to look at here

is that Edom mistreated Israel.

Mistreated that.

You know we see that Esau

to a certain degree sought to mistreat his brother Israel

but then later on of course repented

but his descendants did not.

So very early on in the history of Israel

as it's a nation trying to get right with God

trying to serve the Lord and seek out God

Edom was there to kind of hinder them

in their service for the Lord.

Look at Numbers chapter 20 and verse 14

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it says in Moses sent messengers

Moses sent messengers from Catech unto the king of Edom

Thus saith thy brother Israel

Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us.

So what is he saying?

When he says brother,

obviously it's a call back to Jacob and Esau being brothers

but now as nations they're neighboring brothers, right?

That's what you would call a neighbor of yours.

So this can be applied to like you and your neighbor, right?

This is how you should treat those

that dwell by you,

that are near you,

this is you should treat them with kindness and so forth.

And Moses is saying hey,

you heard about everything that we've gone through

with Egypt we were enslaved for 430 years

mistreated by Pharaoh and we are your neighbors.

We are your brothers.

You know all the travail that hath been fallen us

verse 15 how our fathers went down into Egypt

and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time

and the Egyptians vexed us and our fathers

and when we cried unto the Lord

he heard our voice and sent an angel

and it brought us forth out of Egypt

and behold we are in Tadish

a city in the animals of thy border.

So he's saying look God ended up delivering us

and so he's kind of telling us a story to testify

that God is with them.

He says in verse 17 let us pass.

I pray thee through thy country

we will not pass through the fields

or through the vineyards

neither will we drink of the water of the wells.

We will go by the king's highway

we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left

until we have passed thy borders.

So Moses is being very modest in his request

to be able to pass through Edom.

And what should be the answer of Edom to Israel?

Hey what do you mean?

Come through the vineyards.

Are you guys hungry?

Are you guys thirsty?

What do you mean the king's,

the king's highway was referring to

like the public highway so to speak.

You're not gonna go to the public.

You're like our neighbors.

Come get some food.

I heard about what happened over there.

Come tell us the stories.

Come rest a while, sit down, drink out of the wells,

eat from the vineyard.

Just be, they should have been hospitable

is what I'm saying, right?

Especially considering everything

that they've gone through.

They've gone through so much.

The least that they can do as their brothers

because they go way back is offer some assistance.

And it's not like Moses is asking for anything crazy.

He's just saying can we just pass through?

We're on a mission, trying to go serve the Lord.

All we wanna do is go through.

What do we even wanna disturb you guys, okay?

And so this seems legit.

And even if Edom didn't wanna be hospitable

he could have just let them go through

the king's highway.

Verse 18, and Edom said unto him,

thou shalt not pass by me,

lest I come out against thee with the sword.

What?

So aside from the fact that he's not being

hospitable towards his brother,

he's not letting them pass through the vineyards,

the wells and so forth.

Not even through the king's highway.

He's like if you even step foot in our country

we're gonna slay you.

We're gonna fight against you, okay?

Now Edom is an idiot.

Because he just got finished hearing like everyone else

what God did for Israel, right?

The fact that he delivered Israel out of the hand of Egypt

through the 10 plagues.

I mean all the surrounding nations

are fearing Israel at this time.

And in fact many of the nations

even prior to this were fearing Israel.

You remember a couple chapters back

when Dina committed fornication

and her brothers ended up slaying the entire city.

Even after that when Israel would travel

all the cities were like in great fear of Israel.

So the surrounding nations have always feared Israel, okay?

But even more so now

because of all these supernatural occurrences

where God is showing himself strong on their behalf.

But he's like I'm not gonna let you pass, if you do

you know I'm gonna come out to you with a sword.

Verse 19 in the children of Israel said unto him

we will go by the highway.

And if I and my cattle drink of thy water

then I will pay for it.

I will only without doing anything else

go through on my feet.

So he's like look we don't want any problems.

And if we, you know if some dumb animal

that we got ends up drinking from your well

you know bring the receipts and we'll pay for it.

I mean he's being reasonable here right?

Verse 20 said Hashanah go through

and Edom came out against him with much people

and with a strong hand.

Thus Edom refused to give Israel

passage through his border

where for Israel turned away from him.

The Bible says sad.

This is really sad.

It's a neighbor, okay?

Now on a large scale

nations should be hospitable with other nations.

Especially the nations that are surrounding you.

Okay, you know in a perfect world

we should be hospitable towards Mexico

and Canadians and whoever else.

Why?

Because they are surrounding nations

according to biblical principles

we should be hospitable towards them.

We should love them

and if they're in need of something

we should provide sustenance or whatever it is

because that's the biblical thing to do.

Yet what we have here is

Edom just refusing.

Why?

Just for no reason.

Just because he's just a jerk.

Just because he just doesn't wanna help

he wants to fight against Israel.

He essentially retained that same

adversarial envious attitude

that their ancestor Esau had long ago.

So he's like,

we're gonna kill you with a sword if you do this.

And then just to make sure that Israel understood

that they weren't playing around.

Edom as a nation just came out with a bunch of people

just to make sure that it didn't go through, okay?

Now what can we learn from this?

Well, we'll see later on

that God holds this against Edom, okay?

And let me just tell you something.

If you're wicked towards your neighbor

God will remember that.

God will remember that.

We should with our neighbors

or our brothers and sisters in Christ.

People just in general,

we should be gracious with people.

And obviously, when I say a neighbor

I'm not referring to the crack head

on the corner or whatever, you know?

Okay, I'm not referring to the guy who just wants drugs.

He just wants to drink alcohol.

He's just a derelict.

We're talking about people

who are desperately in need of sustenance

or they come to us in need.

If it's within your power

to provide for your brother and sister

you should.

You know, that's what the Bible tells us to do

in James chapter two, right?

If thy brother or sister be naked

in destitute of daily food

and one of you saying to them be warmed and filled

not with standing to give them

not those things which are needful for the body

what does it profit even so faith

that the path not works is dead being alone?

Now, you know, Edom should have been like

be warmed and filled.

But they didn't do that.

They just said like, we'll kill you

if you come near us for no reason.

Just literally listen to this.

Hating them without a cause.

Okay.

Remember that for later on.

So you have here Edom just behaving absolutely wicked

for no apparent reason.

And it's sad.

It's causing them to go the long way.

But you know what?

Just remember this.

When people wrong you,

when other Christians wrong you

when whoever it is wrongs you,

you know, God takes note of that.

Benjans is my state the Lord

I will repay the Bible says.

And in, you know,

Hebrews chapter 10 it says

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I will repay and the Lord shall judge his people.

So God strikes vengeance on the unsafe

for their mistreatment of God's people.

But in like manner,

he also strikes vengeance upon say people

for their unrighteousness

and for behaving wickedly against their brother

for hating their brother, whatever it may be.

He will strike vengeance upon both parties.

And he's not partial about that

because he's a God of justice.

Now usually you're like, yeah, amen.

Well that applies to you too though.

So you better make sure

that you are a righteous brother,

that you are a hospitable person

and you don't just go around hating people

without a cause.

Don't be a hater, right?

Don't be just some hater

just hating on people

and envying their success

and mistreating them

just because maybe they're ahead,

more ahead than you or whatever it may be

or maybe you just have some resentment

and bitterness towards them.

Be a gracious Christian with others

and if you don't want to be,

well, you know, God will remember that

for the sake of others.

So Edom mistreats Israel right off the bat

and we see this here.

Go to Exodus chapter 17, Exodus 17.

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Exodus chapter 17.

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Esau was a good guy, you know,

a good guy, but his descendants were bad.

Not all of them,

but it only takes like two or three bad nations

to just mess up the entire thing.

To be characterized,

to characterize the entire nation, right?

And think about this, you know,

not everyone of Esau's descendants were bad,

but just a few that were were enough

to just destroy the entire nation, okay?

Four by one man, right?

Send Kim into the world.

And so don't underestimate

the ripple effects of your bad decision.

You know, your bad decision as a father

could affect your whole family.

Your bad decision as a son

can affect your whole family and so forth.

It has a ripple effect.

So Edom mistreated Israel.

We see that in a number, chapter 20.

He was also just violent against Israel.

So aside from the fact that he's threatening Israel,

he's not letting them pass.

He's not allowing him to go into the mountain

and pass through to worship God.

On top of that,

he's also being violent towards them.

Look at Exodus chapter 17

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and verse number eight here.

It says then came Amalek.

I'm sorry, this is not referring to Edom,

but it is referring to Amalek, okay?

And Amalek is still a descendant of Esau.

So it's not directly referring to Edom,

but it's Edom at large, so to speak,

because of the fact that they're descendants of Esau.

We see in verse number nine,

excuse me, verse 10.

So Joshua did as Moses had said

to him and fought with Amalek.

And Moses, Aaron and her went up to the top of the hill.

And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand

that Israel prevailed.

And when he had let down his hand,

Amalek prevailed and so forth.

And we know the story.

You have Amalek coming up against Israel

to fight against them, to hinder them.

And of course they get shellacked, they get whooped,

but they're being violent towards Israel.

Go to Obadiah, if you would.

Obadiah chapter one, there's only one chapter.

Obadiah, if you would.

So Edom mistreats Israel, they threaten them.

We see that Amalek is violent against Edom.

They're seeking to hinder them and war against them.

They're making war with the saints, right?

And of course, as long as Moses' hands were up,

they would be victorious over Edom and over Esau.

When his hands went down, they would be defeated.

But luckily at the end of the battle,

they ended up destroying them.

But look at Obadiah in verse number 10 here.

It says, for thy violence.

Now, let me just tell you,

Obadiah is a chapter.

It's a book all about the destruction of Edom, okay?

It's just God's pronouncement of judgment

upon the nation of Edom.

And he says in verse 10, for thy violence

against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee

and thou shall be cut off forever.

So he's saying, you're a violent towards Jacob.

You're a violent, you know,

Amalek was violent towards them.

You threatened them, you mistreated them.

And for this reason, you're gonna be ashamed

and you're gonna be cut off from this earth forever.

Okay, you're not gonna be a nation anymore.

And so this is a major pronounced judgment on them.

It's a threat from God.

And of course, he does do that.

Look at verse 11.

We see that Edom rejoiced.

And of course, as we saw,

betrayed Jacob.

Verse 11 here says, 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 wasst as one of them.

So this is referring to the fact that when Israel

and Judah went into Babylonian captivity,

which is a judgment from God,

Edom kind of rejoiced at that.

And they aided that enemy in fighting against Edom.

All right, fighting against Jacob, fighting against Israel.

So in a time when their neighbor was in need,

they didn't help them,

they kind of kicked them when they were down, okay?

And it specifically says here

that they stood on the other side,

they saw their brothers being taken captive,

they saw them in anguish,

being dismayed, being killed.

He says carried away captive his forces,

the foreigners entered into his gates,

cast lots upon Jerusalem,

even thou wasst as one of them.

He's like, but you're like basically like one of them.

You're like the Babylonians.

You're like the Assyrians.

You might as well just been an enemy from the start

because you behaved just like them, okay?

And the way I can relate this in modern terms

is just like if I ever get jumped

and you guys are there and you guys don't help me,

you're like Edom, okay?

If we're going soul in here or something

and all of a sudden just a band of Jews,

some Hasidic Jews, they just start jumping me or whatever

and you're there and I look

and I just see you hitting the corner

or just watching me get jumped, you're a buster, okay?

You're Edom and you're a buster

and I'm gonna whoop you after they're done whooping me.

Because I rather have you just jump in and get with me.

You're like, well, I can't fight, I know,

but I rather just have you come in and take a couple licks

off of the ones that I'm getting, right?

It's the least you could do

and make no mistake about it.

If you're getting jumped, I'm jumping in, okay?

And I'm not stepping down because I'm not a brawler,

okay, it's just me defending a brother.

But if you're getting jumped by a bunch of people,

I'm not just gonna stand there and watch you get jumped.

I'm throwing hands, I'm throwing knees and bows

and you know what, if I get knocked out,

at least you know I tried my best

to deliver you from your enemies.

Now if you're sitting there thinking like,

oh, I don't know if I can do that.

Yeah, yeah, okay, Edom, you know, just unwilling,

just seeing people just take advantage of your friends,

take advantage of your neighbors

and you don't do anything about it, you're a coward.

But Edom is just even worse

because the reason they didn't help

is because they hated Israel.

They hated Jacob, okay?

They wanted them to be destroyed.

Verse 12 says,

So on top of the fact that they didn't help them,

they rejoiced.

You know what they were doing?

They were just like recording the beating.

They're just like, dude, you got knocked out.

Yeah, world stars, if that's even a thing anymore.

They're looking to make content out of you.

They're hoping to go viral because of your whooping, right?

They're rejoicing like, ah, you got knocked out.

It's horrific.

So Edom is like standing there watching them

and just think about this,

you have all these people being taken captive, right?

You have the dad being taken captive.

His family was slain.

He has a yoke of bondage upon him.

He's being taken into captivity

and then you look and you see Edom

and they're just laughing at you, just mocking you, right?

Mocking and ridiculing you

and just rejoicing over the fact

that you are being destroyed for no good reason

just because they just hate you, okay?

It's evil.

It says rejoiced over the children of Judah

in the day of their destruction,

neither should his style have spoken proudly

in the day of distress.

What is proudly?

Yeah, that's what he gets.

That's why we don't, that's why nothing happened to us.

Nothing happened to me.

That's what they get.

That's what they deserve.

That's someone who's speaking proudly, right?

They're presumptuous,

thinking that somehow they're just righteous people

when they're really not.

He says,

thou should not have entered into the gate of my people

in the day of their calamity,

yea, thou should not have looked on their affliction

in the day of their calamity,

nor have laid hands on their substance

in the day of their calamity.

So man, this is, it gets worse.

So they're watching them be destroyed.

They're watching them get killed.

They're watching them being taken into captivity.

One, that's bad and they're not helping them.

Number two, they're rejoicing in it

and then once they're taken,

they go into their neighbor's house

and they take their Xbox.

They start, they're taking their possessions.

They're taking and he's like,

oh man, finally I get to have this guy's stuff

and they're just robbing them.

They're spoiling them, taking their riches,

taking their stuff.

I mean, eat them as super evil and wicked.

It's godless, right?

Verse 14, neither shouldest thou have stood

in the cross way to cut off those of his,

of his that did escape.

Neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his

that did remain in the day of distress.

Oh man.

So what does that mean?

It means that after they were taken captive,

destroyed, taken captive, one of the captives escaped

and as he's escaping, running for dear life.

You know what he's doing?

He's just like, he's right there.

It's like some of you when you played hide and go seek

and you were caught and you just ratted on your friend

who was hiding somewhere else.

Hey, the goddess bro, come out there,

you're just ratting on your friend or something like that.

So what are they doing?

They're enabling evil doers.

They're yoking up with the wicked people

against the people of God.

Now look folks, hating on the people of God,

okay, super evil, rejoicing when they fall,

super evil, spoiling their house, super evil

but then assisting the wicked

and the reprobates of this world

to fight against the people of God?

Godless.

He cut off those of his that did escape.

I mean, just imagine that.

A guy gets out and he's going back to Judah

and he sees an Edomite, which by the way,

they're not white people, okay?

Just want to, he sees an Edomite

and he's like, oh man, I need your help.

He's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got you, come on, come on in, come on in.

He brings him in, calls the authorities,

he's like, right here, the betrayal

from his neighbor to do such a thing, right?

He says, for the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen

as thou has done, it shall be done unto thee.

Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

So he's saying, okay, you did all these things

but God hasn't forgotten, I'm going to destroy you

and I'm going to wipe you out

because you're such a wicked people,

you're godless, you're horrible neighbors,

you're rejoiced, you're betrayed, you're stole from them,

you join hands with wicked people.

And look, you know, on this point

of just joining the wicked against the people of God,

you know, this is possible, like Christians do this.

I think even like safe Christians do this as well, okay?

You know, you have people in the Bible

who did stuff like this

and it's just extremely evil, it's extremely wicked.

And look, if you don't agree with someone, you know,

like for example, there's a lot of old IFP preachers

that I don't necessarily approve of, right?

Don't like their doctrine, think they're arrogant.

But you know what?

If some fag starts attacking an old IFP pastor

and he's in need, even though we disagree

on a lot of things, if he's a safe man,

I'll defend that man.

Or, better yet, if he's just a super evil person,

not evil, but he's just like,

he's just really bad doctrinally or something

or he's criticized me in times past,

I'm not gonna join the homo against him.

That's the least you can do, right?

You don't join the reprobates

to fight against the people of God, okay?

You don't become unequally yoked together

with unbelievers.

What concord has Christ with Belial?

What part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

So you're like, oh man, you know,

there's a guy I don't get along with,

so I'm just gonna join their enemies

because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, wrong, wrong.

And this is one of the reasons why

I don't sympathize with Muslims.

You know, I'm not a big fan of Jews,

not sure if you know that.

You know, I'm not a big fan of Jews,

they're super wicked.

You know, the synagogue of Satan,

children of the devil, you know all the labels, okay?

But, and you know what, a lot of the content's gone out

and so you have these Muslims who think,

oh, whatever, he's on our side.

No, I'm not, you're gonna split hell wide open too.

You're gonna split hell wide open

and you know what, I've had good conversations

with Muslims, they try to be,

they try to tread lightly,

whereas Zionists are just like,

they're just insufferable, I'll just be honest with you.

Zionists are really insufferable.

So yeah, if I had to choose who to talk to,

I would want to talk to the Muslim, probably,

because Zionists are extremely prideful, arrogant,

they're insufferable, and in a lot of ways

they're just kind of dumb, okay?

They're just delusional, that's just a fact.

And so you know, yeah, sometimes it's easier

to have a conversation with the Muslim,

but you know, sometimes they may stake that

for me just approving of their godlessness.

And once you start calling out some of the things

that they believe, then the mass comes off.

And they want to jihad you like right through the screen.

They want to just cut your head off.

You know, and Islam is a wicked religion,

and it's just like, and I've had Christians

literally contact me and say, hey,

you know, I know it's a false religion,

but we really do need to join forces

with the Muslims to fight against Jews.

It's like, what the heck?

What are you talking about?

Join forces with Goders who worship a false god,

who if they could, would absolutely chop your head off

once they outnumber you.

And you're like, yeah, but they respect Jesus.

You know, saying that he's a prophet

isn't a respectable thing.

It would be a respectable thing if you understood

and already believed that he was God, right?

Because we can say that he's a prophet,

because he preached like a prophet.

But that's because we already have

the foundational belief that he's God, okay?

And you know, they give them,

they don't believe that he's God,

so they disparage him, and he's like,

well, that's not bad.

Yes, it is.

Yes, it absolutely is.

And it's even more disrespectful

to claim that he is the Christ,

but deny that he is God.

So it's just like, your hell's going to be even hotter.

So I'm not interested in joining the Babylonians.

I'm not interested in joining the Assyrians.

I'm not interested in joining Muslims to fight against Jews.

I don't need Muslim help to fight against Jews.

I do it, find them all by myself, okay?

Christians do find all by themselves fighting against Jews.

We don't need Godars to help us and aid us

in our spiritual war against Jews, understand?

And again, a lot of these replacement theology people

within mainstream Christians,

you know, they're dumb,

because they think that that's like a noble thing

to like invite Muslims into their battle against Jews,

and it's just the worst idea ever,

because Muslims just use Christians.

They're just using them to defeat Jews,

and then they turn on you after that, okay?

And look, Jews and Muslims are basically

like the same thing in a lot of ways, okay?

Because both believe in a Christ,

but both deny that Jesus is God, okay?

And so, you know, Muslims are all gonna be like,

yeah, they're so blasphemous and all these things,

like, well, you share the same beliefs that they do,

they don't believe that Jesus is God,

and you don't believe that either.

You believe that Christ is just a man.

You believe Jesus is just a man.

So you have a lot, you know,

you're both of you are just these pagans,

according to biblical standards,

you're heathen, you're godless, you're worshiping devils,

and so if you don't get saved, you will go to hell.

And then, you know, as soon as you actually give

the right gospel to them,

as soon as you tell them that Jesus is God,

then they start mocking that.

Then their true colors come out.

How could God die?

It's like the stupidest question ever.

You know, then their real colors come out.

Oh, yeah, yeah, God died.

Yeah, keep saying that over and over again,

until you die,

and you let me know how that goes for you in hell.

You know, and so,

Edom is super evil, he's super wicked,

because he's joining forces with the enemies of God

to fight against God's people.

It should never be a thing,

but we see that taking place here.

And so it's not surprising

why God ended up destroying them.

Go a chapter back, a book back to Amos, if you would.

Go to Amos chapter one,

and look at verse 11, it says,

Thus saith the Lord for three transgressions of Edom,

and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof.

Because he did pursue his brother with the sword,

and did cast off all pity,

and his anger did tear perpetually,

and he kept his wrath for ever.

So we see Edom here is just antagonistic towards Israel,

towards the people of God, he has no pity for them.

And so, you know, stay away from Christians

who just wanna attack other Christians, okay?

Knowing that they are saved.

And I don't know, you know, for me it's like,

if you have a Christian constantly

attacking another Christian,

constantly attacking another Christian,

it's like, all right, this guy might have beef

or whatever with this person.

But if it's just like a perpetual thing,

that makes me wonder like,

is this guy even saved or not?

Because he's kinda acting like the Babylonians.

He's kinda acting like the Assyrians, right?

Because let's just be honest,

we're not always gonna like everyone around us, right?

We're not gonna like every single pastor,

every single church,

even if they believe in the right gospel.

But you know what, we don't spend our entire ministry

just trying to tear them down and destroy them,

because it's just such a wicked attitude to have.

And we know that that's not pleasing to God.

You're like, yeah, but what if God

hasn't punished them for that?

Yeah, what if?

Then are you bastards and no sons?

I don't know, you just never know.

You know, the point being here is that

you don't wanna be characterized by attacking one person.

And if you have some sort of dislike

for a pastor or a church, you know,

just move on with your life.

Why just constantly harp on that

for the rest of your ministry?

It might be that you're just an extremely wicked person.

And you know what happens to people like that?

It's just what happens to eat them.

I like that God says, you know,

for three transgressions of eat them and for four.

So it's just like, there's three reasons I'm gonna get up,

but really there's four reasons

I'm gonna just completely destroy them.

You know, go back to Obadiah.

Look at chapter one, or excuse me, verse three.

It says, the pride of thine heart

hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest

in the cleft of the rock whose habitation is high,

that saith in his heart, who shall bring me down

to the ground, though thou exalt thyself as the eagle,

thou and thou, excuse me, and though thou set thy nest

among the stars, thence will I bring thee down,

saith the Lord, if these came to thee,

if robbers by night, how art thou cut off?

Would they not have stolen till they have had enough?

If the great gatherers came to thee,

would they not leave some grapes?

How are the things that he saw searched out?

How are his hidden things sought up?

So what does God say?

You're so prideful and arrogant that when I judge you,

you know, you're gonna be like, all right, that's enough,

and it's not gonna be enough.

This is what he says, like, when robbers come,

they take until their hearts full.

God's saying, I'm gonna destroy you

and then I'm gonna keep destroying you.

And when you feel like I've taken enough,

when you feel like I've done enough,

when you feel like you've been punished enough,

God's like, I'm gonna do it even more.

I mean, sounds like God really just kinda hates Edom, right?

Leading me through my next one,

go to Malachi if you would, Malachi.

Like, I thought we were in Genesis 36.

Well, Genesis 36 is about Edom and Esau.

And I'm explaining to you because Genesis 36

is gonna be the last time that we hear about Esau,

the individual.

Well, here's name mentioned

in the context of the nation of Edom, though.

So it's not the last time you hear about Edom per se,

but as far as Esau's concerned,

he's just kind of, he, you know,

and credits for him, you know what I mean?

He's out of the story.

But Edom as a nation does play a significant role

throughout Israel's history.

Look at Malachi chapter one in verse number four.

Actually, let's read in verse one.

It says, the burden of the word of the Lord

to Israel by Malachi.

I have loved you say it the Lord,

yet you say wherein hast thou loved us

was not Esau Jacob's brother, sayeth the Lord,

yet I love Jacob and I hated Esau

and laid his mountains and his heritage waste

for the dragons of the wilderness.

Whereas Edom sayeth we are impoverished

but we will return and build the desolate places.

Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts,

they shall build but I will throw down

and they shall call them the borders of wickedness

and the people against whom the Lord

hath indignation forever.

So this is strong words here.

These are some strong words to say,

look I love Jacob but I hated Esau.

How do we know that he hated Esau?

Cause he just destroyed them.

Just wiped him out.

How do we know that God hates people?

Because hell exists.

Right?

Oh man, I don't know if God hates people.

Do you believe in hell?

You notice people in hell, right?

Yeah, but that's more like a separation from God.

No it's not.

Nope.

The people who are currently in hell right now

are hated of the Lord.

Because that's what you do to people that you hate.

You allow them to burn forever.

If you don't think that that's a proper description

of hatred, then I don't know what kind of hatred

you believe in.

Cause the hatred according to the,

according to God is that God hates you

and then he does something bad to you.

You know?

And as noted with Edom, he's like Esau have I hated.

He says, and laid his mountains and his heritage

waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

He's like I hate you so much.

I'm just gonna just destroy you like an atom bomb.

Just lay you waste.

And it's gonna be so desolate.

Your land is gonna be so destroyed that the dragons,

the animals, the reptiles are just gonna inhabit

everything that you own there.

Cause I hate you that much.

Pretty powerful.

Now with that in mind, go to Romans chapter nine.

Romans chapter nine.

No, it's Old Testament.

Yeah, I hate people.

That's Old Testament.

God hates people in the New Testament too.

In fact, this is quoted.

Malachi chapter one is quoted in Romans chapter nine.

Romans can be found in the New Testament.

Now look at Romans nine and let's first read verse six.

Not as though the word of God has taken none effect.

For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel.

Neither because they are of the seed of Abraham

or they are all children,

but in Isaac's shall thy seed be called.

So this chapter initially begins with explaining the fact

that within the physical nation of Israel,

not everyone was classified as a true Israel in God's eyes.

So within the physical nation,

you had a remnant, a small group of people

who believed on the Lord.

And that is what the Bible classifies

as the Israel of God.

So when he says they are not all of Israel,

which are of Israel.

He's saying, I know they all call themselves Israel,

but there's only those who believe

in the Lord are real Israel.

Here's another way of saying it.

You know, mainstream Christianity.

A lot of people call themselves Christians, right?

But only those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ

are true Christians though.

So you have people that believe in works,

baptismal regeneration, you have to repent of your sins,

all this heresy and they call themselves Christians.

However, the real Christians are those

who believe in the right salvation.

That's a good comparison there.

So within the physical nation,

you have this nation called Israel,

but the real Israel are those who believe on the Lord.

Okay, now let's keep reading here.

It says in verse eight, that is,

they which are the children of the flesh,

these are not the children of God,

but the children of the promise

are counted for the seed.

What does it mean by children of the flesh?

He means those who are physically Israel,

physical Israelites, Jews according to the flesh,

he's like, they're not the children of God.

And let me just tell you,

children of God, people of God,

chosen of God, all used interchangeably, okay?

He says in verse nine,

for this is the word of promise,

at this time will I come and Sarah shall have a son,

and not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived

by one, even by her father Isaac,

for the children being not yet born,

neither having done any good or evil,

that the purpose of God according to the election

might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.

So let's stop there.

So he's saying here, he's making this distinction,

he's using these Old Testament figures

to picture Israel and Israel.

Israel that's unsaved, Israel that is saved.

Israel according to the flesh, Israel of God.

He's using various people to do it,

and he does this throughout the New Testament.

We see this in Galatians chapter four, right?

But he's doing that here.

It says in verse 12, it was said unto her,

the elder shall serve the younger.

Verse 13, as it is written, Jacob have I loved,

but Esau have I hated.

Now that's from Malachi chapter one, right?

Malachi chapter one deals specifically with the nation,

the physical nation of Edom that was destroyed

because of their persecution of Israel.

You understand?

The New Testament now transitions that

into the spiritual truth that God hates Esau,

not necessarily Esau the individual,

but he hates the spiritual Esau.

And who's the spiritual Esau according to the New Testament,

according to this context?

Unsaved Jews, he hates them.

And we're talking about unsaved Jews who,

are we talking about just like anybody

from the descendants of Esau's descendants

that were wicked?

No, we're talking about specifically like Amalek and Edom, right?

Talk about those who actually persecuted

the people of God, you know?

And you know who God hates?

You said, does God hate Jews?

He hates a lot of them, for sure.

Not because of their weird haircuts,

the funny skull cap, because they're physically deformed

because they're so inbred.

Because they're just, you know,

because they clip coins and they're involved with pornography,

you know, not just because of that,

but because of their persecution of the Son of God,

because of their blasphemy against Jesus Christ.

Verse 13 is not there on accident.

Verse 13 is intentionally placed there,

you know, is Paul being anti-Semitic

or what's going on here?

He's explaining, he's like, how can I explain?

They're not all of Israel.

Oh, Jacob have I love, but Esau have I hated?

And everyone's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So Esau, the Jews are Esau, the unregenerated ones.

And so the interesting thing here

is that Jacob represents Israel, Jacob is Israel.

Israel's the physical nation, but now it's flipped

because now Gentile Jews and, excuse me,

believing Jews and Gentiles now are Israel

and the physical Jews are considered Esau.

And when you compare the actions of Jews

and their persecution of believers

to what Edom did in the Old Testament,

it's very similar, right?

Didn't mean mistreat.

Didn't Jews mistreat Christians, right?

Weren't Jews violent against Christians

in the New Testament?

Just as Edom was violent against Israel,

just as Edom mistreated Israel,

they rejoiced and they betrayed them,

they persecuted them, they beat them,

they sought to kill them, and for what?

For no reason at all.

You know what Jesus said about the Jews

that they hated me?

Without a cause.

There's no reason.

It's like, why, hey, Jesus, he's coming to save you.

And then he resurrects and it's just like,

let's pay someone off, let's just pay someone off

so that we'll just pay you guys off

and then we'll just come up with a story

that someone stole his body or something like that.

It's just for no reason.

Now you and I can't understand it because we're saved.

We can't fathom how it is to hate someone

without a cause, but there's people out there like that.

You know what, Jews are one of them.

And so we see here that the purpose of Edom

in the Old Testament and why God allowed Edom

to behave in such a wicked manner

was to represent what physical Jews

would do in the New Testament towards the spiritual Jacob,

towards the spiritual Israel, which are believers.

Understand?

And this is a good text verse to show,

God doesn't hate Jews.

Yes, he does, he hates a lot of them.

I wanna see the Zionist interpretation of verse 13.

You think he just like put it there?

He's just like, I'm out of content.

I'm always courting the Old Testament.

They just stole something in there from Malachi.

Jacob, I love you, Saul, I hate it.

Who's gonna notice?

No one's gonna even catch it.

It's their own purpose

because he's using these Old Testament figures

to essentially describe a New Testament truth

of the persecution of Jews towards Christians.

And so keep in mind, Esau, the man, good.

His descendants, bad, okay?

And here's the thing, you know,

what did God do to eat them as a nation?

Wipe them out, wipe them out, just destroy them.

And you know what God's gonna do to Jews

is gonna destroy them.

I mean, obviously they've gotten persecuted

over the last 1500 years, since 78 year or whatever,

and to all nations, but the Bible specifically says

that you will see Gentiles come

from the south, from the east and west,

and they're gonna sit with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

and the kingdom of God, and the children of the kingdom,

referring to the Jews, shall be cast out

into outer darkness, there shall be weeping

and gnashing of teeth.

Why?

Because according to the Bible, they have the greater sin.

And look, nations that are not of Israel,

you know, well that's a fake nation out there.

That's a fake Israel.

I agree, but if they want the title,

they can have it though.

People are always trying to make this thing like,

oh yeah, but those are, why are you calling them Israel for?

Well, if they want that title, they can have it.

But obviously they don't understand what comes with,

okay, do you want, so you wanna be Israel?

You wanna call yourself a Jew?

You wanna call yourself Israel?

All right, then you get all the punishments

that Israel gets, if that's what you want.

Just like a Christian, you know,

if a person calls himself a Christian,

and they're not saved, they're gonna be judged harsher.

Than others.

Why?

Because they're in close proximity to the truth.

So I have no beef with fake Jews calling themselves Jews.

Cause they're gonna get a harsher punishment because of it.

Cause they're essentially ascribing

a biblical term to themselves.

And they're saying like, oh, weird, this people is like,

okay, then you're gonna get what this people deserve

for disobeying the covenant.

Plain and simple.

And so, I hope you learned something tonight.

Let's pray.

Father, we thank you so much for Genesis 36

and for teaching us, Lord,

the significance of Esau and Edom.

And I pray, Lord, that you'd help us to appreciate

the fact that you love us.

And you love us because we are Christians

because of Christ.

It's not because of our own merit, Lord.

It's because of the Lord.

We are accepted in the beloved,

is what the Bible tells us.

And so we're very thankful for that.

And I pray that, Lord, you bless us as we go on our way.

Give us a great weekend in Jesus' name.