Journey of the Sons
of God to the Promised Land
Today’s Focus: Spirit
of Edom: Edomites in Scripture
Scripture: 1 Samuel
22:16-19; Ester 3; Matthew 2; Acts 12
Greetings Sons of
God:
This spirit is
prevalent in Scriptures and you would be surprised who were Edomites so let’s
examine this and you will see why this spirit is characterized by pride,
perpetual hatred for Israel. For the
sake of time, I will give the Scriptures for you to go read.
Edomites and King
Saul (1 Samuel 22:16-19)
In Saul’s attempt
to try to hunt and kill David, he used Edomites (Doeg) to kill the priests of
the Lord because they knew where David fled and he view them as being on
David’s side. Doeg the Edomite killed 85
priests of the Lord. Isn’t it scary that
Saul who is Israeli would use an Edomite to kill his fellow blood brothers all
for the sake to accomplish his devious and selfish plans.
Edomites and Queen
Esther (Esther 3)
It would be Haman,
the Agagite, which is another name for Edomite who would set the plot to kill
the Jews. Ultimately Haman would be
executed for his evil plot.
The Herods (Matthew
2, Acts 12)
The family of the
Herods were all Edomites. Now if we know
anything about the Herods, we know that they were set over the children of
Israel by the Roman Government. In
Matthew 2 it would be Herod that would go throughout Bethlehem (House of Bread)
and kill all the children 2 years and younger to search out the baby Jesus in
the attempt to kill him because of the prophecy of Him being a King. In Acts 12, Herod would stretch forth his
hand to persecute the church. Ultimately
the Lord will kill Herod and the Scriptures say he was eaten of worms.
So even in
Scriptures we see the murderous spirit of the Edomite. We see how it has no respect for the things
nor the children of the Lord. It seeks
to destroy the children of God in their maturity to their inheritance.
Peace, Love and
Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
