The Edomites

• The Edomites were descendants of Esau
• but they were always bitter enemies of the Jews, all coming from the original conflict between Esau and Jacob
• Obadiah 1:10
• Genesis 25:23; 27:41.
• One example of their bitterness; they refused passage to Moses
• Numbers 20:14–21

• There are various opinions as to which of these four raids was the reason for Obadiah's prophecy
• Obadiah's prophecy was occasioned by four plundering of Jerusalem in which the Edomites participated.
• 1. In the reign of Jehoram, 853–841 b.c.
• II Chronicles 21:8, 16–17; Amos 1:6
• 2. In the reign of Amaziah, 806–767 b.c.
• II Chronicles 25:11–12, 23–24
• 3. In the reign of Ahaz, 735–716 b.c.
• II Chronicles 28:16–21
• 4. In the reign of Zedekiah, 597–586 b.c.
• II Chronicles 36:11–21; Psalm 137:7
• Inasmuch as the destruction of Judah is mentioned (Obadiah 11–12), the prophecy is generally assigned to the reign of Zedekiah, when Jerusalem was burnt by the Babylonians (586 b.c.).

• Isaiah 34:5–15; Jeremiah 19:7–22; Ezekiel 25:12–14; 35:1–15; Amos 1:11–12.

• Obadiah predicted
• that the Edomites would be destroyed forever and be as if they had never been
• Obadiah 10, 16, 18
• that a remnant of Judah would be saved - the kingdom of Judah's God would yet prevail
• vv.17, 19, 21
• The end of the Edomite kingdom may have come as a result of the campaigns of the Neo-Babylonian ruler Nabonidus, sometime after 552 b.c.
• The few Edomites that were left were confined to a region in south Judea, where for four centuries they continued to exist as active enemies of the Jews.
• In 126 b.c. they were subdued by John Hyrcanus, one of the Maccabean rulers, and were absorbed into the Jewish state.
• When Palestine was conquered by the Romans in 63 b.c., the Herods, an Edomite (Idumean) family, were placed in charge of Judah.
• This was the last hurrah of the Edomites.
• With the destruction of Jerusalem in  a.d. 70, they disappeared from history.

• These 'general comments and quotes are from an internet article from The Jewish Encyclopedia that tells us that "Edom is in Modern Jewry."

This witness from the 1905 edition records the connection between modern day Jews and the race of Edom: "Some anthropologists are inclined to associate the racial origins of the Jews, not with the Semites, whose language they adopted, but with the Armenians and Hittites of Mesopotamia, whose broad skulls and curved noses they appear to have inherited (Vol. X, p. 284). Thus Esau/Edom was now absorbed into the Canaanite people by means of his Hittite and Hivite wives.

According to Strong's Concordance, the word Canaan means "trader or merchant" and the Phoenicians, as Canaanites, are derived from Ham's incestuous relationship with Naamah the sister of Tubalcain, the wife Noah took with him in the Ark (Genesis 9:18-27; 10:6, 15-19).

Owing to the intermarriage of their forefathers with Canaanites, there were probably few Israelites without Phoenician, that is, Serpent's seed blood in their veins. Judges 3:5-6,"The children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods". The Jews claimed to be the children of Abraham however that they were not true children of Abraham is certain when they say that they were never in bondage (John 8:32-33).

• Canaanite, Khazar and Edomite are all names that accurately refer to the majority of people who call themselves "Jews."
• Many were called 'black faces' in contrast to the 'white race' of Semetic descent.
• They lived in southern Mesopotamia (Iraq) and worshipped the Trinity as El (or ilu, the father god), Ea (god of the earth and creator of man) and Enlil (the god of the air).
• The Canaanites originated the practices of demon-worship, occult rites, child sacrifice and cannibalism.
• .Eustace Mullins, "The Curse of Canaan" p. 8 (1987).
• They sacrificed children to Molech (a Semitic god).
• Mike Warnke, "Schemes of Satan" (1991).
• In Palestine numerous bodies of children were discovered in the foundations of buildings proving without doubt that oblations of this character were common among Canaanites to strengthen the walls of homes and cities. Edwin O. James,
• "Sacrifice and Sacrament," p. 94 (1962).
• The priests of the Canaanites, to control the populace, claimed that the first-born children were to be sacrificed to their demon gods
• (Isaiah 57:3-5).
• They practiced their horrible rites in "groves" or "shrines" where they could "murder children without being seen and punished by the descendants of Shem."
• Eustace Mullins, "The Curse of Canaan," p. 24 (1987)
• Reminds us of Genesis 9:25 -  And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

• The name Jew originally meant a resident of Judea regardless of religion or race, and has long since lost any association with a true Judahite.
• This possibly helps explain:
• Revelation 2:9 - I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not but are a synagogue of Satan.
• Revelation 3:9 - I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie; indeed I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
• If you stick with a rightly divided KJB and continue to throw out your own personal or denominational religion, God will show us more and more from within those pages - even from the Minor Prophets.  I had always wondered about what that all meant in Revelation.  Now I know!  Great!

• We have heard a rumour from the LORD...
• vs 1
• ...an ambassador is sent among the heathen
• heathen - Edomites - not true Jews, eh!
• Pride!
• vs 2-5
• Peace talkers!
• vs 7
• Also see Jude 12
• Wise men destroyed; mighty men dismayed!
• vs 8,9
• See I Corinthians 1:21, 27, 28
• People today still don't think it can or will happen
• no more guns - 2nd amendment
• no more homeschool, etc.
• perverted lifestyles forced onto our kids...
• Will have to fight someday, but too late.
• Already should have fought -
• Thou shouldest not...
• vs 11-14
• list of 9 things
• As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee:
• vs 15,16
• They shall be as though they had not been.
• vs 17
• Deliverance
• vs 18-20
• The Kingdom shall be the LORDS's.
• vs 21