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  • Why did God hate Esau?

    Why did God hate Esau?

    Genesis 25:30

    And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

    Malachi 1

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    1 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

    The Lord’s Love for Israel

    2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord.

    But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord.

    “Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated.

    I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” 4 If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”

    5 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!”

    Great is the Lord beyond all borders and barriers of time and circumstance.

    Oh how those faithful to the Lord God of Israel have been to speak of the glory of the Lord even beyond the border of Israel. Take Paul’s letter to the Romans, for example:

    God’s Sovereign Choice

    I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

    Why did God hate Esau? Esau rejected his blessing in favor of his desires of the flesh (a single meal). Later, Israel rejected God. Jacob denied Christ Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Savior of the world.

    Is the Lord not a God of love? Has he not adopted even the descendants of the nations into the family of Christ Jesus? How could a God of love hate a man? Why?

    Do you also, in your own desires to feed your worldly flesh reject Christ Jesus your Savior?

    6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”

    8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring… 3 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

    14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

    16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

     Are you a child of the flesh, like Esau? Or are you a child of the promise, adopted through Christ’s grace into the mercy, compassion and love of God our Heavenly Father?

    The world continues to hate Israel.  The world continues to reject God. The world hates Christians and the world still hates Jesus Christ.

    God IS love. God rejects those who will not bow down to Christ Jesus. He IS and was and will return!

    Jesus encouraged us with the knowledge that those who oppose Christians oppose God:

    Matthew 10:22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

    Endure to the end, beloved of God, for the sake of Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

    Why did God hate Esau?

    Esau rejected God’s blessing. Do you?

     

  • “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom

    “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom

    Disclaimer: Before you move on, this message is NOT about the US (only). It is about the Christian CHURCH: Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox throughout the world of these last days of the 21st century. It is about governments “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” It is about Nations once “under God.”

    Specifically, this is a warning to the Nations and to the Churches from history. The Prophesy still rings true from the Book of Hosea.

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    God spoke to a man. God’s message was to take a fallen woman as his wife.

    If God has spoken something so unlikely, He will use His spoken Command as warning, prophesy, and an opportunity for repentance.  God will accomplish His purpose of saving the souls of His beloved.

    The earlier scene (the Nations would do well not to repeat) takes place in the eighth century Before Christ. Hosea’s ministry paralleled in part the ministries of the Prophets: Amos, Jonah, Isaiah and Micah.

    Introduction to Hosea: Historical Context

    * Hosea was God’s man for a difficult era spiritually. “Prosperity had brought an unprecedented degree of cultural corruption. The much-sought-after political power had opened Israel to foreign cultural influence…

    * https://bible.org/seriespage/introduction-hosea-historical-context

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    Hosea

    1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

    Hosea’s Wife and Children

    2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea,

    “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 

    The Lord’s prophesy though Hosea continues:

    • 9 And the Lord said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”
    • 10b And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

     

    Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished

    2:1 Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”

    2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
    that she put away her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
    3 lest I strip her naked
    and make her as in the day she was born…

    • 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness
      in the sight of her lovers,
      and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

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    The Nations are adulterers, forsaking the Lord their God, our Creator.  
    The Nations who have claimed:
    • God as Father,
    • Jesus Christ as Redeemer,
    • and the Holy Spirit as Counselor.

    These many nations have rejected God and Christ as LORD.

    These many nations will be rejected and shamed for our whoredom.
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    Yet the Lord speaks hope to the one who will return:
    • 14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
      and bring her into the wilderness,
      and speak tenderly to her.
    • 16 “And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband’…
    •  And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. 19 And I will betroth you to me forever.

    I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

    20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

    Hosea 3

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Hosea Redeems His Wife

    3 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

    2 So I bought her …

    3 And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days.

    You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”

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    IF God IS, IF Christ Jesus IS; should the Nations NOT play the whore or belong to other gods and false prophets?

    Is sin to be tolerated, without repentance and return to purity?

    Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. – Leviticus 20:7 KJV

     

    Deary beloved wife of the Lord,

    Will you return to the Lord?  Will you accept His love?

    Or will you continue in your whoredom?

     

    We long for your repentance and return to faithfulness.  [To be continued…]

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