Genesis 36 because a lot of this is basically just a genealogy
And so we're here in Genesis chapter 36 and the name of the sermon is the legacy of the Edomites where you can also say
the legacy of Esau and so basically starting in chapter 37
All the way into the end of the book of Genesis
Chapter 50 which is 14 chapters. You're looking at the descendants of
Jacob and his sons writing it starts with Joseph in chapter 37 going all the way
To chapter 50 so 14 chapters that talk about the sons of Jacob. Whereas with Esau we've got one chapter
We're basically it's a genealogy
This is kind of covering basically all of his lineage because it's just not as significant as Jacob
And so Jacob gets renamed Israel. We're aware of that
Well with Esau there's also a name given to him in the Bible Edom and so in the Bible when you're seeing Edom
It could be referring to Esau when you see Esau
It could be referring to his lineage and not necessarily himself and sometimes in the Bible you see that because he basically
The area that he founded is Edom so the Edomites are the lineage of Esau
We see that very clearly here in Genesis 36 notice what it says in verse 1
Now these are the generations of Esau who is Edom
verse 8 thus swelled Esau and Mount Seir, Esau is Edom
Verse 9 and these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir verse 19
These are the sons of Esau who is Edom and these are their dukes verse 43
Duke Magdiel, Duke Irem these be the dukes of Edom according to their habitations in the land of the possession
He is Esau the father of the Edomites and so you say brother 2nd why do you keep repeating verses that say this?
Well, obviously God wants us to be aware of this because he's being very repetitive
Esau is Edom right the Edomites are Esau says this five times in this chapter is very repetitive about this
So when you're seeing Edom mentioned in other parts of the Bible
What you should be thinking is the lineage of Esau even though Esau is passed away
You're gonna see later on the Bible the Edomites are a wicked people
It's coming from the offspring of Esau now
Here's the thing Isaac was given a promise and it passed through Jacob
But his other son you have Esau and this route goes very wicked
Whereas the route of Jacob is righteous at least for a time
Obviously, they become wicked the twelve tribes are split up and the two kingdoms and we're aware of that
But when you're seeing Edom, this is basically the offspring of Esau and the result of what he did
So what is the legacy of the Edomites or the legacy of Esau because I would think that all of us want to have
a good legacy
Right, you know we talked about at the anniversary
You want to have a good story of your life when I have a good legacy a good reputation where people can remember you
Right. Well, what's the legacy that the Esau left in this world?
Well, one thing is marrying unsafe people go to Genesis 26. Yes 26. That's a bad start right marrying unsafe people
You
Genesis 26 verse 34 Genesis 26 verse 34 and
Esau was 40 years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Biri the Hittite and
Bashemin the daughter of Elon the Hittite which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah now
Why are these two wives a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah?
Okay, it's not because you know what they had a different sense of humor
It's not because they had different interests than his wife's half
Reason why is because they're unsaved
Reason why is because they're Hittites the reason why is because they don't believe in the Lord
It's a grief of mind to them because who they married when it comes to my children, you know, honestly
I don't really care who my son Zeph marries or Esra or Christ about as long as they love the Lord
That's what I care about
Right now I think that if you're individually marrying someone, you know, there's more than just someone loves award
you should enjoy spending time and you know, obviously there's various things to consider but as a parent the only thing I really care about is
they marry someone who loves God and
If they enjoy being with that person and that person loves God praise the Lord
You say well brother second. What if Zeph one day meets this girl and their family is really rich
Right really rich he's got the greatest job in the world. Just one problem. She's not saved. Yeah, that's one problem
That's a big problem
It's gonna be a grief of mind to me
That he marries that woman
Well, what if she's what if she's saved?
She just doesn't love God as long as she saved right, you know
To be honest as a parent
I want a little bit more
My children and just the fact they marry somebody who's saying I want them to marry somebody who loves God
now the worst-case scenario is they marry someone who's unsaved and
I see him Rebecca that's a grief of mine because let's let's be honest if your child grows up and they marry an unbeliever as
A parent you probably did something wrong raising them, right?
I would think that if one of my kids marries an unbeliever
I messed up because the Bible promises if you raise your kids correctly when they grow up, you know
They're going to serve the Lord
They will not forsake the way that you taught them if my son grows up and then you just marry someone because he finds her
Attractive I'm gonna think I screwed up
Right you say well what if your daughter Christabel she grows up and she marries some guy who's unsafe and you think no women
Oftentimes they might marry someone they say why you know, it's very funny
Yeah, but how funny is he gonna be?
When all the sudden the stresses of life come in these glass paintings award
That can be so funny anymore, isn't it?
What I care about as a parent and I'm sure all of the parents in this room would say the same thing is I want
My kids number one to marry someone who's safe and number two someone who really loves the world
That is my goal as a parent for who they married. They marry someone who loves God, but that's not what he said
He saw married unbelievers go to Genesis 28
Just 28 and
You know to make it worse. He didn't just marry one same person
Right. He was in the polygamy married multiple people now obviously, obviously especially in our culture today
without be considered so backward that would be a grief of mine to me if
You know
You've got Christmas and you're like inviting over the family and then your son's married December one thing, you know
That would be weird, right?
That would also be a grief of mine. And what you're seeing is it's not a good start to the legacy
Obvious are right marrying unsaved people and being in the polygamy
Genesis 28 verse 8 and he saw seemed that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father
So basically his father's not pleased with his wives
Then when he saw the issue we all took under the wives had
male left the daughter of Ishmael Abraham son sister of neighbor job to be his wife as
If that's going to fix the problem now, you're going to marry another person
You're just adding the sin on the sin because now you've got three wives, right?
It's not going to make your parents happy
It was a grief of mine when you married the first two
Marrying an extra wife is not going to fix any problem that you cause you're married to multiple women and you're married to
unbelievers go to Genesis 36 now
Genesis 36
And starting verse 1 now these are the generations of Esau who is he if Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan
Ada the daughter of Elon the Hittite and
Holly Bama the daughter Ada the daughter of Zebi and the Hittite and
Bashameth Ishmael's daughter sister of Negevah job now
Let me say this when you're looking at the beginning of the legacy of Esau it starts off with who he marries
You say why because that's kind of the foundational thing when you become an adult
Right, you know, you're going to get a job but eventually probably, you know, Lord willing you're going to end up getting married and
Really the start of that new family is going to be very dependent on who you marry, right?
That's what we see with the start because here's the thing. Let's say Esau married someone who loved God
His legacy would probably be very different, right?
Versus to be married someone who doesn't love God
Look if a person grows up and they love God and then they marry someone who doesn't love God
It's going to destroy the legacy that they create
You say why good luck raising your kids
Right you imagine and you see this all the time in today's world Baptist marry Catholics
Hey, that seems cool and all but what about once you have the baby born and then you're getting into an argument
Are we going to baptize our baby or not?
It's like why would you baptize the baby because that's what our family tradition is
It's like maybe you have to talk about things like that before
You say I do and promise and they can bow I'm gonna be married so that was part no matter what maybe better
Make sure they love God first. This is the start of the legacy of Esau now
Let me say this keep your finger in Genesis 36
And go back to Genesis 26
This is very confusing. I believe Esau after studying this out has three wives
But the names mentioned in 36 are different than the ones in 26 and 28
So I believe that basically as I've said before it would be a lot easier if people had a first name and a last name
in the Bible
Because then it wouldn't be so confusing because sometimes people have a name and then they get named something else, right?
So it gets kind of confusing
but in Genesis
36 verse 2
Notice it says Ada the daughter of Elon the Hittite you see that Ada the daughter of Elon the Hittite
Then when you look in Genesis 26 verse 34, it mentions at the end of the verse
Bashamoth the daughter of Elon the Hittite
I believe this is the same person
It's obviously possible that it's a different person
The reason why I believe that it's three is because there's three wives mentioned in 26 and 28 and then in 36
There's three wives mentioned. So it seems to be like he married three women as opposed to four five or six
But you know, I could be wrong. I'm assuming that Ada and Bashamoth. That's another name for Ada is Bashamoth
Okay
now
Go to Genesis 36 keep your finger in 26 again
but notice how it says in Genesis 36 verse 3 and
Bashamoth
Ishmael's daughter sister of Nabajah
I believe the Bashamoth in verse 3 is a different Bashamoth than the Bashamoth that we just looked at
Okay, which is it's pretty confusing. You're welcome to study this out. Honestly, I didn't come to a dogmatic opinion
but it mentions Bashamoth in
36 verse 3 and then if you look at
Go to chapter 28
verse 9
Chapter 28 verse 39 you got your finger in chapter 26
28 36 we're gonna run out of fingers. You're gonna start using your toes to keep these, you know spots in the Bible, right and
Chapter 28 verse 9 notice how it said
Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael
Abraham's son, so it mentions the daughter of Ishmael again
So I'm assuming that this Bashamoth is the same as Mahalath
Okay, I could be wrong right we could be at four wives at this point two three four, you know
I think it's it's two. Let's look at the last one and then in chapter 36 verse 2
In chapter 36 verse 2 it mentions at
The end of verse 2 it mentions Ahalabamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zippi on the Hittite and
Then if you go to chapter 26 verse 34
It mentions the first one
Judith the daughter of Biri the Hittite now
I believe this would also be the same person whereas one
It says the daughter of mentioning the father versus the daughter of mentioning the mother but once again
It's got it has a different name
main reason why I think it's he has three wives is because in chapters 26 and 28, you've got three wives mentioned and
Then it doesn't mention anything else about wives and when it mentions his legacy
Mentions of being married to three women and yet they all have different names
Some of them seem to line up because the daughter of Ishmael the daughter of Ishmael
The daughter of Elon the daughter of Elon go with different names than the last one
It seems to trace the lineage from the father versus the mother. I could be wrong, right?
There doesn't seem to be you know more information to know than that
But I would assume these are the same three women. It's just they have different names, which is kind of common in the Bible
But regardless when we're seeing marriage, we're seeing that he married unsaved people
That's the legacy regardless of whether you think he's married to three four five six or more
Right. He married unsaved women, which is obviously a bad start to your legacy
first work and
Ada bear to Esau a life as investment bear real and a holly mama bear Jewish
geosh in jail them and Korah, these are the sons of
Esau which were born on them in the land of
Aiden and so point number one we see marrying unsafe people and marrying multiple wives
It's a bad start the next thing we see with the legacy of the device
Is having kings rolling over them. That's what it says in verse 29
Exodus 36, you're gonna want you don't be in 26 anymore 28. We're done with that. Just Genesis 36
Genesis 36 verse 29. These are the dukes that came out of the horites to blow ton duke showball duke zivian duke aina
Do you Sean do easier to teach on?
Duke, these are the dukes that came before a among their dukes the land of seer and these are the kings that reigned in the
land of Eden
That's this before their reign any king over the children of Israel, you know
when you're looking at chapters that are
just giving you a bunch of names and
Not really giving you a lot of information or stories when there's a statement like this
It ought to stand out right when I'm reading my Bible and I'm looking at a chapter
That's maybe a bit of a dry chapter because I would say chapter 36 is a bit of a dry chapter as you're reading it
It's like the son of this the son of this the son of this
They also makes a statement and these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom
before their reign any king over the children of Israel and it's trying to indicate to you that the children of Israel learn this
practice of having a king
from other nations
Right now go to Exodus 2 Exodus 2. Let's see what the Bible says about having a king Exodus 2
See for a second what's wrong with having a king I mean throughout, you know the reign of the Israelites they have kings
That's not the way God intended it
That's what took place. That is not the way that God originally intended it
Exodus 2 verse 13 and when he went out the second day behold two men of the Hebrew strove together and he said to him that did
The wrong wherefore smite us thou thy fellow and he said who may be a prince and a judge over us now
It's interesting because somebody says this about Moses
but
Moses is the first judge
That you see mentioned in the Bible and it mentions later on of judging goods go to chapter 18
chapter 18
Because I say it's actually accurate. He's the first judge that there is
chapter 18 verse 13 and it came to pass on the morrow that Moses sat to
Judge the people and the people stood by Moses from the morning on to the evening now
Of course when you get to the book of Judges
It's you know more pronounced and more obvious because it's the book of Judges this judge this judge and this judge and then this judge
But it starts with Moses and Moses is basically
You know the right-hand man of the Lord or the person underneath the Lord that is basically sitting to judge the people
And what he's going to do is have other people that are appointed and have some sort of authority
But this is basically the start of the political
Empire of Israel as he's going to lead them through the promised land. God is actually setting up a system of government
He's going to have the laws given
No
We made the Ten Commandments in Exodus chapter 20
He's going to have all these laws that are going to come and he's setting up his form of a nation his rules his laws
And how it's meant to be governed as well go to 1st Samuel 8 1st Samuel 8
1st Samuel chapter 8
So they have judges for a while
but eventually this ends when you get to the book of 1st Samuel 1st Samuel 8 verse 1 and
It came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his son's judges over Israel
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel the name of his second Amaya
They were judges in Beersheba and his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after Lucre and his bribes of perverted judgment
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Rhema and said on them behold thou art old
And my sons walk not in my ways and notice this now make us a king to judge us like all the nations
Make us a king to judge us like the Edomites
Why couldn't we go the route of the other brother?
Right because they did this after the Edomites did this
They did this after other nations and God's people are envying wicked nations now
This is hard for us to understand because there is no nation in
Today's world that is being governed like the way that God would want but imagine if the Philippines
Their law book was you know
Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy and our system of government was exactly like God said and
throughout the nation
Half the people are saved. I don't know what percentage of Israel was saved, but obviously a high percentage
Who knows what the real percentage is obviously higher than any other nation
Right and then imagine if the people said, you know what? Why can't we be like Egypt?
Why can't we be like North Korea?
Right. Why can't we be like all the other nations? I mean you guys how wicked of an attitude that is
You're the one nation that's different made different by God set up differently, but we want to be like all the nations
Talk about being an insult to God when he set up this system of government
right
Now good for save a 12 verse a month. Well, we're seeing as well
Now here's the thing I'm not saying that a king couldn't be a godly person I mean
Even King Saul when he starts is very humble. He's actually pretty godly person
Then he becomes wicked
King David we would look at as a righteous person and yet he makes some pretty terrible with sex
In Solomon, I mean in some ways very righteous and then he goes down a pretty dark path
And you know what? I think one thing we can learn from this is none of us are designed to have this much power
It's not good for us
No accountability. If you're the king you can literally do whatever you want
That's not actually a good situation to be in
Right. See the situation of the judges. They didn't have this unlimited power like a king has
Even a godly person
I mean that would be literally the worst job to have to be the king because you know
You probably end up getting into sin because when you don't have any accountability
You can easily lose your fear of God because you get very powerful
You see very godly kings throughout the books of 1st Samuel through 2nd Kings and yet they get into some major sin
They get into some major problems you say why probably all of us work
It's not a good position to be in to have that much authority
Which is the reason why God did not put people into having that much authority
Friday it just ends up getting your head and you get into trouble even in our modern day a
President is not the same as me
Okay
It's also not the form of government that God said
Now I do believe that a president in our modern day could do a good job in my opinion our current president so far
I am very happy with what's going on because we're getting a lot more freedom in our country
Which to me is the biggest thing that I was looking for so far. I am pleased with how things are going
Obviously, who knows what a day will break forth, but I'm saying so far
I think he's doing a very good job president of our right whether you agree or disagree
My point is the president can actually do a good job
Whether they're saved or unsaved they can still do a good job
But it's still not the form of government that God set up. God's system is
perfect
Man's system is not perfect in America. There's this big thing about we got to have democracy and it's like the perfect form of government
That's not actually the form of government God set up
So it's not a perfect form of government
Right, and so I don't want to get too much into politics
I'm not really that into politics, but my point is it mentions kings and they're learning that from other countries
1st Samuel 12 notice this
Say where the second what's wrong with having a king?
well
Let's see what it says in 1st Samuel 12 verse 10
They cried unto the Lord and said we have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord and have served Balaam and Ashtoreth
But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies and we will serve thee and the Lord sent Jerubal and Bedan and Jephthah
and Samuel to lift you out of the hand of your enemies and every side be well saved
He saw the Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you
He said unto me, yea, but a king shall reign over us when the Lord your God was your king
You see when they say let a king reign over us like all the nations. They're rejecting God for being their king
Right. They're not they're not, you know, allowing God to rule and reign and just let his laws come in
And look when you're rejecting God
To set up a man
You're obviously doing something wrong
They already had a king. It's just their king was God and by using a man as their king
they're rejecting God and
Rejecting his authority and rejecting his system and they're appointing a man to rule over them
And what you see is this they immediately start losing their freedoms
Right, you know the famous chapter chapter 17 when David fights Goliath
They say hey the person who does this his family's gonna be free
it's like you have freedom before you make King Saul your king and
You gave away all your freedom
You're seeing there that all these promises these things you can have if you win this battle and it's like wait a minute
We already lost all those things in just a couple chapters and they did
because they rejected God's form of government winning a perfect system and then all of a sudden you see this downward trajectory
From first Samuel gets worse and worse not that every king gets worse because I think David's a step up from Saul
But you're seeing that their standard of living is going down and down and down and it started with
Rejecting God as the king everything gets messed up now turn your Bible to Genesis 36
Genesis 36
We
See marrying the unsaved and marrying multiple women
We see the system of Kings which is rejecting
You know God as your king
but basically Esau is one of the groups the Edomites that taught this to Israel and
We see that the Edomites are enemies of Israel the Edomites become enemies of Israel
and
It says in in chapter 36 verse 6 and Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons of his
House and his cattle and all his peace and all substance
Which he had got in the land of Canaan and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob
For the riches were more than that they might dwell together and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their
Cattle thus called Esau at Mount Seir and Esau as Edom
It says in verse 7 their riches were more than they might dwell together and then after this point in history
Jacob and Esau get very divided
Once they pass away they get more divided than Israelites
Versus the Edomites and it went from Jacob and Esau had a battle when they were younger
But they didn't really hate each other when they get older and they're just not exactly, you know meeting for every Christmas to fellowship
But then with generations passing all of a sudden they become enemies
So, I mean just imagine try to try to think of this logically I mean with with me
I have two sons
So imagine if Zeph and Ezra not the best of friends and then basically 50 years after they pass away
Their lineage are like mortal enemies. They hate each other
Right, they get Daniel and Dave, you know 50 years after they're gone. They just hate each other their lineage, right?
Look, here's the thing. Obviously that the parents of Jacob and Israel are already or Jacob and Esau
I should say already passed away
But I can say this if I were to look into the future and see that my son's
Lineage would hate each other. That would also be a grief of mine. That'd be horrible
Right. I have a dream. I have a vision of the fact that when my kids are adults
Even when my wife and I passed away that they love each other
They talk to each other they hear about each other because they love the Lord
Right, they might be in different locations, but they can still talk and say hey, you know
What our church is doing, you know going soul-winning and they're raising kids to serve God last thing
I would want is for them to grow up and hate each other
It's a sad thing you see oftentimes in this world where kids grow up and they don't love each other
Right, and this is certainly what you see here in this story
We're basically their lineage they end up becoming enemies. Go to Exodus 15 Exodus 15
Exodus 15
And I'm going to show you a few verses on this in the Bible basically
the Edomites become
enemies of
Israel you would never guess that they basically originally came from same parents of Isaac and Rebecca
But it says in Exodus 15 verse 14
The people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestine
Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take hold upon them
All the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away
Mentions the dukes of Edom and it talks about the fear of being upon these people. These are the enemies of God
Right Exodus 15 they've left Egypt and now they're trying to go to the promised land and one of their big enemies are the Edomites
Right. I mean
It didn't take that long and all of a sudden the Edomites are the enemies of God's people the Hebrews
Right. It also mentions Moab which is interesting if you trace that back that comes from Abraham's relative
Lot right and his daughters you remember the story from Genesis we looked at
But the Edomites in chapter 15 are the enemies of God's people go to number 20
Number 20
Number 20 verse 14 and
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh on to the king of Eden right which Moses is coming from this lineage
of Jacob
right
Of Israel and then you see that he sends messengers on to Kadesh under the king of Edom thus saith notice this
Thy brother Israel and he kind of makes a reference back to the fact that hey, you know, you're the king of Edom
Right. Let's go back in history a little bit. You trace your roots your brother Israel
I
Mean, it's smart. He was putting out that olive branch saying hey, you know, you don't have to be enemies, right?
Now notice all it died the trail travail that hath befallen us and he's saying hey, you know
We have the same original roots, you know all the problems that we've had
Right and then he's going to go into detail about all these problems in Egypt that took place and how the Egyptians
Bex them they were their enemies, you know all the problems that we had but we if we go back in time
We actually have the same blood right when we trace our lineage back to Isaac and Rebecca
All right, then it says verse 21
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border
Wherefore Israel turned away from it and yeah, you know what they traced their roots back to the same place
But their enemies Edom and Israel, I mean, I mean just think about this just imagine if this sentence
Thus, you know Ezra refused to give Zephaniah a passage or thus Zephaniah refused to give Ezra passage
As a parent that'd be horrible to realize that your lineage ended up just eating each other
But that's what you see. I mean Moses. I mean he mentions it died brother Israel, right?
He has something that you don't necessarily know. I didn't never really paid attention to that until I was studying for the sermon
It's like he makes this reference back to the fact that hey, you know what Esau
Jacob
Right Edom Israel. Esau Jenga is what that's referring to that brother Israel
But he refused to give them passage. They're enemies
Go to 1st Samuel 22
1st Samuel 22
1st Samuel 22 verse 17
In the king's town of the footman that stood about him, turned and slayed the priest of the Lord because their hand also was with David because they knew when he fled and did not show to me. The servants of the king went off before their hand to fall upon the priest of the Lord. The king said to Doak, turn thou and fall upon the priest and doeth the Edomites.
Right, I mean, you know, I'm sure you're probably familiar with this character
I got Doak the Edomite turned and he fell upon the priest and slew on that day, forced four and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. I mean, Doak murders
85 people that have priesthood the Lord and
not the city of the priest, smote with the edge of the sword both men and women children and suckings and oxen and asses and sheep with the
Edge of the sword and I'm sure you're familiar with this character. Doak, maybe you never thought about this. Maybe you did, Doak the Edomite
This is someone who's tracing his roots back to Esau
Esau is
Edom
This is the offspring of Esau and you know what when when when King Saul
rebels against God and he's looking
For someone who's going to be an enemy of David with him. He finds an Edomites, right?
Doak, there's a reason why the Bible specifically tells you Doak the Edomite is trying to trace these roots back in your head and think
about this. Really interesting. These are coming both from Isaac and Rebecca
This is the lineage of Esau and you've got Doak the Edomite. Very wicked person. 1 Kings 11, 1 Kings 11
1 Kings 11
I
Mean it's not hard to see why God chose Jacob and not Esau
I mean the reason why I chose him is because he knew that
Jacob's lineage would be godly and Esau's would be ungodly. Now in process of time
The whole world is ungodly
We understand that but it's just a couple generations after Esau
They are very wicked immediately and you know, it starts with marrying the wrong person
Because you know what? I don't believe that Esau set off to be like a horrible human being like, you know
I don't know. I mean he talks about Esau is you know, God hates Esau but is referring to Eden
He's referring to his offspring
I don't think that necessarily means that he hates Esau because I don't necessarily see anything about Esau that would say he's such a wicked person
I can't be wrong. I think Esau is probably in heaven
But his offspring was incredibly wicked
Right regardless of what your opinion is on Esau the person is not like Esau when you're reading about him
He's like the worst person in the world. He makes some mistakes growing up and obviously God protects him, but you know
Him rejecting his birthright was not the same thing as being like this really wicked person
First Kings 11 verse 1
The King Solomon loved many strange women together with the daughter of Pharaoh women of the Moabites Ammonites
Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites when you get to first Kings
It refers to women that Solomon married as strange women that are with the Edomites. It links them with all these wicked
locations and just as the Moabites and Ammonites because the thing is with the Moabites and Ammonites
They do come back from Lot which is the relative of Abraham
But the story of how Moabites and Ammon, you know come to be with his daughters getting him drunk
It's like okay, you can obviously see that's pretty wicked and Lot was saved but you know, not much more than that
Whereas with Esau, I mean his parents are Isaac and Rebecca, right? It's not like he has a bad start in life
I mean, he's there his parents are Isaac and Rebecca, but then you have just this terrible
Lineage that comes forth of Esau. Now go to Obadiah 1, Obadiah 1
Point number one, what's the legacy of the Edomites? Well marrying unsaved people. Legacy of Esau are the Edomites marrying unsaved and marrying multiple women
Point two, having a system of kings
And obviously this is not God's system and here's the thing obviously once
You know Moses came it's it's kind of more pronounced the exact ruling of what sort of nation God wants
But I'm sure that Esau was raised with the idea that
God is God Almighty and he's the ruler of everything
So that would teach you that there is no concept of a king. Point number three
We see that the Edomites have become enemies of Israel and point four
You see the destruction of Edom. Now, I
Want you to understand something when we see Edom getting completely destroyed by God
that means they're incredibly wicked because there's a lot of wicked societies that have come and
They lost power
But they weren't completely destroyed. For example
Egypt
Egypt's still around today. I mean even the time of Christ they were one of the powers in the world
They were not the head power anymore, but they're still very powerful. You know the story of Mark Antony
There's this power struggle with Cleopatra and you know Rome wins out
But what I'm saying is it's not like Egypt got completely destroyed and we would look at Egypt and say Egypt was very good
This is the reason why you ask people in the street. Have you ever heard of the country of Egypt? Of course
Right in the pyramids and everything, right? They know I mean they know some values
They know about you know, how they kind of weird things with
Preserving their you know
Possessions for the afterlife people know some things about each right ask people in the street
You know who Edom is the country of Edom
What?
Edom, I mean is that is that in Africa? Is that I mean, nobody knows if you say what it was destroyed by God
Everybody knows Egypt. They don't know Edom right? Obadiah 1
Verse 1
The vision of Obadiah thus saith the Lord God concerning Eden
We have heard a rumor from the Lord and an ambassador of sin among the heat and a rising lettuce rise up against her in
Battle behold I have made these small among the heat and now are greatly despised
greatly hated
The pride of thine heart hath deceived me now that dwells in the clefts of the rock whose habitation is high
That sayeth in his heart who shall bring me down to the ground
This is basically referring to and this is referring to a nation
Well, you can make the application to a very arrogant person who's lifted up who's gonna bring me down
Right, though thou exalt thyself as the eagle
That's been symbolic
but imagine lifting yourself up to the level of an eagle in the air and
An eagle is about the safest bird in the air and they can travel and just glide effortlessly with no problems
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, though thou set thy nest among the stars
Right, you're all the way up there
Then will I bring thee down?
say
It doesn't matter how powerful you are in this world. You could be King Nebuchadnezzar
Filled with pride you are going to be brought down
The other thing to think of is this and you know, I've actually preached on Obadiah before in passage when you think of the symbolism
because
The higher you lift yourself up
The further you're going to fall
Right all of us get lifted up to some level degree with some pride in our lives from time to time
but how do you lift yourself up where you fall and
Here's the thing when you think about falling the higher you fall from the faster you go when you actually hit the ground
Until you reach the point of terminal velocity, right? And so basically you accelerate so if I were to fall from like this far
And then just hit the ground. I mean, well that would hurt especially hit your head or you know
Your elbow or something like that you fall from higher. It's gonna hurt more you fall from high enough. You're gonna die
right and
What the Bible saying is and here's the thing
I mean people get lift up full of pride and then they fall flat on your face and then you read about Egypt is my
Black wow, that's embarrassing
See even lifted themselves up with more pride than Egypt
They didn't just fall and get embarrassed and get hurt they fell and died because they lifted themselves up
higher than Egypt did
higher than Rome did
Higher than Greece did I mean Greece is not a power today
Why do you think of Alexander the Great his offspring has no power Rome's not a power Egypt's not a power
But they're not completely destroyed either
Eat him on the other hand lifted themselves up higher than the pride of Egypt
And they're completely is right
Says in verse 5 if these came to the if robbers by night, how art thou cut off cut off this destroy
Would they not have stolen so they had enough
And you say what is this referring to? Well, it's referring to a physical application
imagine a robber
robs your house
They're gonna still steal till they have enough. What does that mean?
It means that if a robber robbed your house they don't take everything
They don't take
napkins in your house
They don't take a plastic plate
They take things of value, right? I mean somebody robbed your house. They're not going to take something that has no value
They're gonna take something has a lot of money. They're gonna look for money. They're gonna look for computers
Whatever it may be something and it has value they're not going to waste their time with things that don't matter
What you're seeing here in a second in the next verse the application he's making is this is like a robber robbing you
But taking everything
Every single thing the things that had no value even the napkins even the broken chairs. I mean everything
There's not even a pillow left. They take everything
Indicating that there's nothing remaining from eating
Anymore if it's it says here in verse 5
If the great gatherers came to thee would they not leave some grapes?
Because the great gatherers come when you look at the Bible where it's basically they're allowed to
Clean the graves and they don't take everything. I mean if you're going to gather the grapes for the fruit
You take the good fruits. You don't take the bad because some of the fruits gonna be bad
Right now if you buy grapes in store
You're gonna have some grapes in there that are not a good quality you don't need those you throw those away
It tastes disgusting right? They're probably not healthy for you if they've gotten spoiled, right?
But what the Bible is saying here in verse 6 is how are the things that Esau searched out?
How are his hidden things sought up? And what it's saying is you know what with with with Edom is Esau is Edom
It's like everything's taking even the spoiled grapes meaning there's nothing remaining and isn't this true of Eden today?
Completely destroyed
Nothing remaining. It's not like with Egypt. We're basically they lose all the power. What remains is just like
Nothing impressive in
2022 no, no, no
Everything was taken for me. It was just completely destroyed
All the men of thy confederacy have brought the eve of the border the men that were at peace with thee have deceived me and
Prevailed against thee they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee
There's none understanding and what it's telling you in verse 7 is that Eden was actually
Powerful at one time and the men that they were joined together with the other nations that they had an agreement with
They basically turned on them and they basically backstabbed them verse 8
Shall I not in that day say the Lord even destroy the wise men out of Edom and
Understanding out of the Mount of Esau and I might even know a demon should be dismayed to the end that everyone in the Mount
Of Esau every one of the Mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter
Why for thy violence against thy brother Jacob?
Shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off
forever
Isn't this true of Eden?
Why is it I don't really know anything about the history of Eden because they were destroyed
God wiped out their memory another one to look at when you look at powerful kingdoms that are ruled
got Babylon
Ask people about Babylon people listen to stuff about Babylon
Ask people about Egypt people know about Egypt ask about Greece out into the graves
Ask about Rome people know about Rome all of these powers people were Persia, you know, maybe not as much
But I mean Cyrus is famous. I mean Darius is famous. I mean Xerxes
They move everyone ask people about Assyria Syria
They know nothing about Assyria
Nobody knows the name of any king from Assyria except someone who reads the Bible
Right, but people can tell you Nebuchadnezzar
People could tell you Alexander the Great
People could tell you various leaders in Rome. I mean, they might not know
I mean, well, they probably know a few the Pharaohs right King Todd, you know a few the other ones they know
They don't know anything about Assyria
Why because Assyria also was very wicked and they got cut off and it was prophesied that it was going to happen and their memories
Just cut off. So very little remains. I mean the Egyptian culture everybody knows about the pyramids
But the Assyrian culture which was so famous I said you're so wicked I'm gonna wipe out
Nobody knows anything about Syria. Egypt was powerful at one time
Not as powerful as Assyria
Which is what makes it so foolish when you're not as powerful as Egypt or Assyria or Rome and yet you lifted yourself up with
So much pride. We're the greatest nation and then God said you're so wicked. I'm going to just destroy you
Completely
Go to Malachi 1 that's why it's using the analogy of a robber coming you in taking everything
Right or a grave gatherer taking every single break
Now if I want to close up now, how long?
I mean the only the only thing the only memory we have really a beat him is what the Bible says
Nothing outside the Bible really just what the Bible says and it's pretty bad
marrying unsaved people setting of assistant kings, which God doesn't have becoming the enemies of God's people and
Then just the ultimate
Destruction where they're permanently destroyed
Malachi 1 verse 1 the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you said the Lord
yet he say wherein has that loved us and
This is basically in Malachi 1
God's rebuking Israel because they're basically, you know
Turning on God which obviously God's people end up turning on him. Israel becomes wicked also, but says where it has to loved us and
Was not Esau Jacob's brother sayeth the Lord?
Yeah, I love Jacob
He's like, what do you mean? Where have I loved you? It's like there are two brothers
Coming from Isaac and Rebecca and I love Jacob I love Israel
Not Esau, right? I mean he used Jacob. So why would you say well, you know, how are we love?
Where did you love us? Right? Well, obviously God's love was upon Jacob and not Esau right in the lineage
Verse 3 and I hated Esau
Now I'd say brother second, you know, he hates Esau
Well, I don't think this is in reference to the first thing
He's noticed the first and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the Lord's now
Maybe it could refer to the person as well. I could be wrong about that
I'm not dogmatic
But it's referring to the destruction of Eden here in verse 3 because then in verse 4 whereas Eden saying so it's using
the person Esau within his lineage because it's comparing
Israel not Israel the person and
then
Edom not referring to Esau it references back to those people but then it's going to the present time or basically he's saying
That he laid the mountains and the heritage
You know
basically the offspring the generations to come waste for the dragons of the wilderness and the idea is that
The dragons are basically dwelling in this wilderness where nobody else is around
Right animals tend to be in areas where people are not
I
Mean all the animals have a fear put into them of humans
I mean you you walk into a room, you know, and all of a sudden you see a mouse just scurry away
I just run away right because they're pretty humans
Right and the dragons are dwelling in the wilderness because there's no people anymore because it's been destroyed by God
first war
Whereas Eden said we are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places
So basically Edom's destroyed but the tiny little offspring left says we're going to return and we're going to build up the desolate
Places and we will be a power again one day
It's kind of like we were talking about before the sermon with Babylon
we're basically Saddam Hussein wanted to rebuild Babylon and
basically, they get a power because
Babylon was destroyed and it's away from where I rackies live
It's like 45 miles away if I'm remembering correctly from where and he tried to rebuild it
And God says can be destroyed forever and he failed it wasn't you know
He he built up a building and spent a lot of money and nobody lived because it's just in the wilderness
Never was built up again where people actually well in it. Well, even saying the same thing. We are going to rebuild
We're gonna be in power. We're going to come back
Thus say the Lord of hosts they shall go
But I will throw down he's saying yeah, you know, you're gonna try to build and I'm gonna throw it down
I'm gonna straight. I mean imagine building a big brother read, you know
Building a house imagine you're building a house and then every day is like torn down
I thought we built this right you're building and all of a sudden earthquakes coming or whatever just keeps getting destroyed
That's what the Bible saying is that you're gonna put all your energy and time and effort and I'll send whatever I need to
Whether it be earthquake and natural disaster or whatever you are not going to build it back up
Why as I said you're gonna be destroyed, right?
He says and
They shall call them the border of wickedness and the people against whom the Lord hath
Indignation forever. He said I want you to be remembered as people that I think
that I'm angry at
Forever why because of the violence against God's people because it's not referred to well violence against Israel violence is just
violence against God's people
It would be like there are people today that just hated solar
God would hate those people right? I mean, there's people that just try to destroy what we're you're doing
I mean imagine we go to Napa Park to go soul winning and
There's this group of people that just hate us as soul winners and they try to prevent us from preaching the gospel
God would hate those people in the curse of God would be upon their lives
even hated God's people and
They
Were destroyed by God and they were known as a people during that time as they try to rebuild
Hey, those are the people that God eats
That's what I was saying. They were known their reputation around the world. It was that that group of people God hates
Right. It's kind of like you look at certain countries that have a lot of natural disasters that come because the world used to look
At natural disasters as the curse of God, they would look at countries that had a lot of natural disasters. God really hates that country
That's the way Edom was known and the people that the Lord had
Indignation forever and your eyes shall see it. He shall say the Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel
So and and he's warning his people here. Hey if I destroyed your brother
Same thing is going to happen to you when you become wicked because they go down the same road and of course
That's you know what you see with Israel. They go down the same route road eventually as
the lineage of
Esau so
What do we see with the legacy of the Edomites because here's the thing
I mean not much is known about the Edomites outside the Bible. So what can't we remember about them?
What does God want us to remember about them?
Because I mean every culture creates certain things that are unique and interesting
God says I don't want anything of that to remain of the knowledge of Edom. What's the legacy God wants us to remember?
Well, why did God destroy these people? Well, they married unsaved people
And multiple wives if you think about what caused the flood I mean that kind of really starts with save people marrying unsaved doesn't it?
Everybody becomes wicked. They set up the system of kings which is rejecting God as a king
they become the enemies of God's people because Israel were God's people during that time period and
Then we see just the ultimate destruction of
Edom so that's why you know, you have Genesis 36 you have it all packed into one chapter
Why because they became wicked it's just God's like, you know, I'm done with you and they become the enemy of God's people
But then you see chapters 37 through 50 because I think all of us have been waiting for Joseph. The stories of Joseph are very interesting
Starts in chapter 37. I love the stories of Joseph, right?
But with Esau it's all packed in there in one chapter. Why? Because God doesn't want us to really remember that much about them
Understand why they got destroyed and that they're wicked and that's it. Let's go to the Lord our Father
Heavenly Father
thank you for allowing us to be here today and help us to learn this example of a
people and a nation and a group that were built against you became wicked and help us as individual people and as
parents and safe people and to
create, you know