Edom: Missing From the End-Time Drama?
A related prophecy concerning end-time Edom is found in the book of Obadiah 1:18, 21: “The house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau shall be stubble;
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A related prophecy concerning end-time Edom is found in the book of Obadiah 1:18, 21: “The house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau shall be stubble;
Solomon’s composition provides no basis for a teaching that Israel has been set aside in favor of any other nation or people.
To correctly answer this we need to examine four key questions if we are to understand the fulfillment of Jeremiah’s enigmatic prophecy of the manner of Israel’s return.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary explains, “The setting of the psalm is identified as Saul’s siege of David’s house.” Yet David’s struggle was not with Saul alone. Lutheran scholar E.W. Hengstenberg [1802-1869] says,
The respected ancient Egyptian historian, Manetho, who lived in the third century, B.C., confirmed that the Hebrews had lived in Egypt. His book, Aegyptiaca, linked the Hebrews with the Hyksos “Shepherd Kings” who ruled Lower Egypt
The book is full of many pithy and farsighted remarks, of which we can only provide a sample. It is however, odd that the most popular quote attributed to de Tocqueville is a misattribution and was never made by him!
An immensely important historical source document from the Khazar era answers this question, and was written sometime between the years 954 and 961 A.D. Jewish leader Hasdai ibn Shaprut wrote a letter to Khazar King Joseph inquiring of his kingdom’s Israelite roots.
There is no question that Israel’s lost tribes, even in their paganized state, had a definite form of religion with an earnest attitude of worship and endurance. Yet in their Gentilized condition they still retained vestiges of their Old Testament religion and culture, as is made abundantly clear in our studies, “The Old Testament Roots of Norse, Greek and Celtic Mythology” published in three parts.
The New Bible Dictionary says, “Shela, son of Arpahchshad of the family of Shem, and father of Eber (Gen. 10:24; 11:12-15; 1 Chron. 1:18-24).
Psalm 97 belongs to the circle of millennial psalms referring to our Lord’s Second Coming to reign. According to Reformation leader, Theodore Beza (1519–1605), this psalm is “the most highly prized of all that prefigure Christ’s return, as containing a most divine epitome of all gospel mysteries.” Beza was a French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer…