Charges Against the Edomites

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The last chapter ended with the promise of the coming of the Messiah who would destroy the enemies of the church and set up His blessings, which would abound. In this chapter, he enlarges upon this theme. Edom is the enemy spoken of in this chapter, as in the prophesy of the Prophet Obadiah, and is symbolic of all the enemies of the church, for as those who "walked in the way of cane", hated Abel, so those who walked in the way of Esau hated Jacob. But Jacob, by way of a particular blessing, had dominion over Esau. The Edomites were the descendants of Esau. Here we have:

1. The sin that was charged against the Edomites, that of malice toward Israel.
2. The ruin that would come upon them for this sin. God would be against them and their country would be laid to waste. Their people would be destroyed and the land made desolate.

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