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"I will make you perpetually desolate"

Text: Ezekiel 35:9

DESOLATION OF EDOM

This was a solemn and frightening word of warning to Edom. Esau had done well for himself and his tribe. He had many mighty descendants (Genesis 36). But the descendants had chosen the path of war rather than peace.

“Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate,
and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
And I will fill its mountains with the slain;
on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines
those who are slain by the sword shall fall.
I will make you perpetually desolate,
and your cities shall be uninhabited;
then you shall know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 35:7-9

1. The animosity towards Israel.

a) Edom had refused Israel to pass through their land to Canaan.

b) Edom warned Israel that they would be attacked if they stepped into Edomite territory.

c) Israel was commanded not to battle Edom (Numbers 20:14-21).

2. Escalation of animosity

a) Edom stood against Israel with other nations.

b) They shouted in glee when the Babylonians attacked Israel (Psalm 137:7).

c) The Book of Obadiah lists some of the cruel things done by Edom when Israel was reeling under the attack of Babylon.

3. The Judgment of the Lord pronounced.

a) Mount Seir would become desolate.

b) Many would be slain by the sword.

c) The mountains of Seir would be littered with the slain.

d) The ravines would also be filled with corpses.

e) Mount Seir would become “perpetually desolate”.

f) Their cities would become uninhabited.

g) Then would Edom know that the Lord is indeed God!