EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY- FIVE JUDGMENT ON EDOM & MOUNT SEIR SEE ISAIAH 21:11,12 THE EDOMITES WILL CONTINUE IN BONDAGE BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID TO ISRAEL IN THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY

READ: EZEKIEL 35:1-3 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, 3 and say to it, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate; 4 I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:1-3 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, 3 and say to it, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate; 4 I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? WHERE WAS MOUNT SIER? IN EDOM? WHO WERE THE EDOMITES? WHY PROPHESY AGAINST MOUNT SEIR? EDOM?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:2 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 2 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, WHO WERE THE EDOMITES? DESCENDENTS OF ESAU? READ: GENESIS 25:25 25 And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau. NKJV READ: GENESIS 27:11-12 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing. NKJV

WHERE WAS MOUNT SIER? IN EDOM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:2 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 2 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, WHERE WAS MOUNT SIER? IN EDOM? READ: GENESIS 32:3-4 3 Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 He commanded them, saying, "Speak thus to my lord Esau, 'Thus your servant Jacob says: "I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:2 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 2 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, WHO WERE THE EDOMITES? READ: GENESIS 36:8-9 8 So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom. 9 This is the genealogy of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir. NKJV

WHY DID THE ISRAELITES BYPASS EDOM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:2 WHY DID THE ISRAELITES BYPASS EDOM? MOUNT SEIR? READ: DEUTERONOMY 2:1-5 1 We turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days. 2 And the LORD spoke to me, saying: 3 'You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward. 4 And command the people, saying, ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully. 5 Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. NKJV

WHY PROPHESY AGAINST MOUNT SEIR? EDOM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:3-4 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 3 and say to it, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate; 4 I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. WHY PROPHESY AGAINST MOUNT SEIR? EDOM? READ: ISAIAH 34:8-10 8 It is the day of the LORD‘S vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9 Its streams shall be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone; Its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forever and ever. NKJV

WHY PROPHESY AGAINST MOUNT SEIR? EDOM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:3-4 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR WHY PROPHESY AGAINST MOUNT SEIR? EDOM? READ: EZEKIEL 25:12-14 12 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because of what Edom did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended by avenging itself on them,’ 13 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV

WHY PROPHESY AGAINST MOUNT SEIR? EDOM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:3-4 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR WHY PROPHESY AGAINST MOUNT SEIR? EDOM? READ: ISAIAH 63:1-4 1 Who is this who comes from Edom, With dyed garments from Bozrah, This One who is glorious in His apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength? — ‘I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.’ 2 Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? 3 ‘I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes. 4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And the year of My redeemed has come. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 35:5-6 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 5 "Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6 therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5-6 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM 5 ‘Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6 therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will prepare you for blood and blood shall pursue you’

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: NUMBERS 20:14-21 14 Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. Thus says your brother Israel: 'You know all the hardship that has befallen us, 15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. 16 When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: NUMBERS 20:14-21 17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King's Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’ 18 Then Edom said to him, ‘You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.’

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: NUMBERS 20:14-21 19 So the children of Israel said to him, ‘We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.’ 20 Then he said, ‘You shall not pass through.’ So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him. NKJV

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: 2 SAMUEL 8:13-14 13 David made himself a name when he returned from killing eighteen thousand Syrians in the Valley of Salt. 14 He also put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David wherever he went. NKJV

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: 1 KINGS 9:26-28 26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 Then Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they went to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon. NKJV

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 20:10-11 10 And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir - whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them — 11 here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit. NKJV

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 20:22-23 22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated. 23 For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: PSALMS 137:7 7 Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it, To its very foundation!" NKJV

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ WHY? READ: AMOS 1:11 11 Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity; His anger tore perpetually, And he kept his wrath forever. NKJV

WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? EDOM MISTREATED HIS BROTHER QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? EDOM MISTREATED HIS BROTHER READ: OBADIAH 10-16 10 ‘For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side: In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem - Even you were as one of them. 12 ‘But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.

EDOM MISTREATED HIS BROTHER QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 EDOM MISTREATED HIS BROTHER READ: OBADIAH 10-16 13 You should not have entered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity. 14 You should not have stood at the crossroads To cut off those among them who escaped; Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained In the day of distress. 15 ‘For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head. 16 For as you drank on My holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had never been. NKJV

JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM 5 ‘Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ READ: JEREMIAH 18:21 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle. NKJV

JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM 5 ‘Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? ‘you have had an ancient hatred’ WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? ‘shed the blood of the children of Israel’ READ: EZEKIEL 21:28 28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach,' and say: 'A sword, a sword is drawn, Polished for slaughter, For consuming, for flashing’ NKJV

JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:5 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM 5 ‘Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, WHY IS THE LORD PASSING JUDGMENT ON THEM? WHAT HAD THE PEOPLE OF MOUNT SEIR DONE? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? ‘when their iniquity came to an end’ WHY? READ: AMOS 9:12 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,’ Says the LORD who does this thing. NKJV

JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:6 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM 6 therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will prepare you for blood and blood shall pursue you’ READ: ISAIAH 34:3 3 Their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood. NKJV

JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:6 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM READ: ISAIAH 63:2-6 2 Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? 3 ‘I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes. 4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And the year of My redeemed has come. 5 I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me. 6 I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth.’ NKJV

JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:6 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR - EDOM WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will prepare you for blood and blood shall pursue you’ WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO HIS DISCIPLES? READ: MATTHEW 7:2 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. NKJV READ: MATTHEW 26:52 52 But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 35:7-9 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. 8 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. 9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will make Mount Seir most desolate’ QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:7-9 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. 8 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. 9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will make Mount Seir most desolate’ ‘I will fill its mountains with the slain’ ‘I will make you perpetually desolate’

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will make Mount Seir most desolate’ QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:7 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will make Mount Seir most desolate’ READ: JEREMIAH 49:17-18 17 ‘Edom also shall be an astonishment; Everyone who goes by it will be astonished And will hiss at all its plagues. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors,’ says the LORD, ‘No one shall remain there, Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.’ NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will make Mount Seir most desolate’ QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:7 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will make Mount Seir most desolate’ READ: EZEKIEL 29:11 11 Neither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years. NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:8-9 8 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. 9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? ‘I will fill its mountains with the slain’ ‘I will make you perpetually desolate’ READ: JEREMIAH 49:13 13 ‘I have sworn by Myself,’ says the LORD, ‘that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.’

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:8-9 8 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. 9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: ISAIAH 34:5-6 5 ‘My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed it shall come down on Edom, And on the people of My curse, for judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:8-9 8 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. 9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: EZEKIEL 26:20-21 20 I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living. 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more; though you are sought for, you will never be found again,' says the Lord GOD. NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:8-9 8 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. 9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: MALACHI 1:3-4 3 ‘Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.’ 4 Even though Edom has said, ‘We have been impoverished, But we will return and build the desolate places,’ Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever.’ NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 35:10-11 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 10 "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there, 11 therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

'These two nations and these two countries QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:10-11 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 10 Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there, 11 therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you. WHAT DID THEY SAY? 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine and we will possess them‘ WHAT DID THEY NOT KNOW? ‘the LORD was there’ HOW WILL THE LORD RESPOND? ‘I will do according to your anger & your envy’

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:10 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 10 "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there, WHAT DID THEY SAY? READ: PSALMS 83:4 &12 4 They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.’ 12 ‘Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.’ NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:10 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 10 "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there, WHAT DID THEY SAY? READ: PSALMS 83:4 &12 4 They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.’ 12 ‘Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.’ NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:10 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 10 "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there, WHAT DID THEY NOT KNOW? ‘the LORD was there’ READ: PSALMS 48:1-3 1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain. 2 Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King. 3 God is in her palaces; He is known as her refuge.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:10 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 10 "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there, WHAT DID THEY NOT KNOW? ‘the LORD was there’ READ: PSALMS 132:13-14 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: 14 ‘This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.’ NKJV

HOW WILL THE LORD RESPOND? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:11 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 11 therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.’ HOW WILL THE LORD RESPOND? ‘I will do according to your anger & your envy’ READ: PSALMS 9:16 16 The LORD is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. NKJV

HOW WILL THE LORD RESPOND? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:11 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 11 therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.’ HOW WILL THE LORD RESPOND? ‘I will do according to your anger & your envy’ READ: EZEKIEL 25:14 14 ‘I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV

HOW WILL THE LORD RESPOND? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:11 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR HOW WILL THE LORD RESPOND? ‘I will do according to your anger & your envy’ READ: MATTHEW 7:2 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. NKJV READ: JAMES 2:13 13 Judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 35:12-13 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 12 Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.' 13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them."

‘I have heard all your blasphemies’ WHAT DID THEY SAY? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:12-13 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 12 Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.' 13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.’ WHAT DID THE LORD HEAR? ‘I have heard all your blasphemies’ WHAT DID THEY SAY? 'They are desolate; they are given to us to consume‘ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? ‘with your mouth you have boasted against Me’

‘I have heard all your blasphemies’ WHAT DID THEY SAY? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:12 12 Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.' WHAT DID THE LORD HEAR? ‘I have heard all your blasphemies’ WHAT DID THEY SAY? 'They are desolate; they are given to us to consume‘ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING ISRAEL? READ: JEREMIAH 50:7 7 All who found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said, 'We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, The LORD, the hope of their fathers.' NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:13 13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.’ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? ‘with your mouth you have boasted against Me’ WHAT DID THE WISEMAN SAY ABOUT BOASTING? READ: PROVERBS 10:19 19 In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his lips is wise. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:13 13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.’ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? ‘with your mouth you have boasted against Me’ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EDOM? READ: JEREMIAH 49:16 16 ‘Your fierceness has deceived you, The pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Who hold the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,’ says the LORD. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:13 13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.’ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? ‘with your mouth you have boasted against Me’ WHAT DID DANIEL SAY TO ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES? READ: DANIEL 11:36 36 The king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:13 13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.’ WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? ‘with your mouth you have boasted against Me’ WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO HIS DISCIPLES? READ: MATTHEW 25:45 45 He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 35:14-15 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 14 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. 15 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."' NKJV

WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:14-15 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 14 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. 15 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."' NKJV WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ WHY DID SEIR (EDOM) REJOICE? ‘the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate’

WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:14 JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR 14 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ READ: ISAIAH 65:13-14 13 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, My servants shall eat, But you shall be hungry; Behold, My servants shall drink, But you shall be thirsty; Behold, My servants shall rejoice, But you shall be ashamed; 14 Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, But you shall cry for sorrow of heart, And wail for grief of spirit. NKJV

WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:14 14 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ READ: ISAIAH 65:17-19 17 Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, And her people a joy. 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, And joy in My people; The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, Nor the voice of crying. NKJV

WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:14 14 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? ‘when I make you desolate’ READ: JEREMIAH 51:48 48 ‘The heavens and the earth and all that is in them Shall sing joyously over Babylon; For the plunderers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD. NKJV

WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO HIS DISCIPLES? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:14 14 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. WHY WILL THE WHOLE EARTH REJOICE? WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO HIS DISCIPLES? READ: MATTHEW 5:4 4 Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. NKJV READ: LUKE 6:25-26 25 Woe to you who are full, For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, For you shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fathers to the false prophets. NKJV

WHEN DID SEIR (EDOM) REJOICE? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:15 15 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."' NKJV WHEN DID SEIR (EDOM) REJOICE? ‘when the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate’ WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MOUNT SEIR & EDOM? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 50:11 11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls, 12 Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; She who bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness, A dry land and a desert.

WHEN DID SEIR (EDOM) REJOICE? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:15 15 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."' NKJV WHEN DID SEIR (EDOM) REJOICE? ‘when the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate’ WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MOUNT SEIR & EDOM? WHY? READ: LAMENTATIONS 4:21 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, You who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup shall also pass over to you And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked. NKJV

WHEN DID SEIR (EDOM) REJOICE? QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 35:15 15 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."' NKJV WHEN DID SEIR (EDOM) REJOICE? ‘when the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate’ WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MOUNT SEIR & EDOM? READ: EZEKIEL 32:29 29 There is Edom, Her kings and all her princes, Who despite their might Are laid beside those slain by the sword; They shall lie with the uncircumcised, And with those who go down to the Pit. NKJV