The Edomites

[The God Pill]

This is a thread for any discussion relating to Esau's descendants I'm starting the thread because there's a story that explains why the Amalekites (subset of the edomites) had the hostile attitude they had to the Israelites during the Exodus.

 

[LuisMerino9412]

They represent Christendom nowadays. They will have the same fate when Babylon the Great is destroyed. Just like they have spilt a lot of blood over centuries... "Jehovah has a sword; it will be covered with blood. It will be covered with the fat, With the blood of young rams and goats, With the kidney fat of rams. For Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozʹrah, A great slaughter in the land of Eʹdom." — Isaiah 34:6
And just like them and the rest of Babylon the Great, they will disappear forever: "Her streams will be changed into pitch, And her dust into sulfur, And her land will become like burning pitch. By night or by day it will not be extinguished; Its smoke will keep ascending forever. From generation to generation she will remain devastated; No one will pass through her forever and ever." — Isaiah 34:9, 10.
Compare with:" And right away for the second time they said: “Praise Jah! And the smoke from her goes on ascending forever and ever.” — Revelation 19:3

 

[LuisMerino9412]

Another similarity is that Christendom originally had the right to inherit God's Kingdom and blessings in some way, but just like Esau they sold their right for a "dish of lentils" at an early age, for something insignificant and temporary like fame and power... Very sad, indeed!

 

[LuisMerino9412]

And so... They have persecuted those who occupied their place, the real inheritors of the Kingdom... Just like Edom was an enemy of Israel.

 

[StillA_WorshiperOfJah]

I wonder why Moses never mentioned this in his writings.

 

[The God Pill]

I wonder why Moses never mentioned this in his writings.

Jubilees is allegedly part of the Torah the story was Moses was given the data by an angel on the mountain many copies were among the dead sea scrolls the pharisees and saducees didn't like it though for there own reasons so it didn't make it into the post 1st century canons with the exception of the Ethiopian orthodox church's. Some content in it is referenced in the bible as it was essentially a supplementary book to almost another half (parallel roughly same length) of genesis in a sense. It's likely went by several names including the actual book of "Jasher" (the upright) the book of Joshua references not those forgeries that started circulating a couple centuries ago.

Personally I think the it was removed it from the mainstream Jewish canon for the same reason the masoretic version of Job is heavily censored compared to the septuagint.