Post by Lee on Oct 11, 2014 16:10:25 GMT
Ch.35: The judgment of Mt. Seir, or Edom. This seems out of place. Why is it not in the previous section: the prophecies against the heathen?
This is something different and deeper. This is the ancient enmity between flesh and spirit. Truly, the natural Edom is involved, but only as the foundation of the spiritual type and lesson that is carried thru into the Millennium, for it is millennial things that Ezekiel is dealing with now— "When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee (Edom) desolate" (v.14). Isaiah says the same thing (34:5-10)— "My sword shall come down upon Idumea .. The Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah .. It is the day of the Lord's vengeance .. The smoke thereof shall go up for ever .. none shall pass thru it FOR EVER "
It is from Bozrah in Edom that Christ comes with dyed garments. Here is the first encounter with the arch-enemy of the last days. It is very fitting, then, that as a solemn memorial for the instruction of mankind, that first battlefield should be preserved thru the Millennium in the state of desolation, like the memorial Gehenna of Isaiah's last verse.
1978 Berean p 383
This is something different and deeper. This is the ancient enmity between flesh and spirit. Truly, the natural Edom is involved, but only as the foundation of the spiritual type and lesson that is carried thru into the Millennium, for it is millennial things that Ezekiel is dealing with now— "When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee (Edom) desolate" (v.14). Isaiah says the same thing (34:5-10)— "My sword shall come down upon Idumea .. The Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah .. It is the day of the Lord's vengeance .. The smoke thereof shall go up for ever .. none shall pass thru it FOR EVER "
It is from Bozrah in Edom that Christ comes with dyed garments. Here is the first encounter with the arch-enemy of the last days. It is very fitting, then, that as a solemn memorial for the instruction of mankind, that first battlefield should be preserved thru the Millennium in the state of desolation, like the memorial Gehenna of Isaiah's last verse.
1978 Berean p 383