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"You shall be desolate, O Mount Seir"

Text: Ezekiel 35:15

BOASTING AGAINST THE LORD

Edom was not just angry and bitter. It was also guilty of blasphemy as it boasted against the Lord!

“Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me
and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.
‘Thus says the Lord God:
‘The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate.
As you rejoiced because the inheritance
of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you;
you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir,
as well as all of Edom—all of it!
Then they shall know that I am the Lord.””
Ezekiel 35:13-15

1. What were the things Edom boasted about?

a) That Israel and Judah would become the possession of Edom.

b) That they would be consumed by Edom.

c) That not even God can stop Edom from fulfilling their ambition.

d) These were empty boasts and blasphemous.

2. The rejoicing of Edom:

a) When Assyria conquered Israel.

b) When Babylon conquered Judah.

c) Edom rejoiced in the defeat of these two nations.

3. God’s judgment on Edom.

a) Edom would become desolate.

b) The many cities would become uninhabited.

4. The world would rejoice:

a) When Edom is destroyed.

i) Mount Seir.

ii) The cities of Edom.

iii) The earth would rejoice when arrogant Edom becomes desolate.

iv) It would no longer belittle other nations.

v) It would no longer threaten and attack surrounding weaker nations.

b) The enemies who destroyed Edom.

i) The Nabateans (Nomadic Arabs).

ii) Greece when it became the nation that conquered the Medes and Persians under Alexander the Great.