Jer 49:11-22  No Man Shall Abide In Edom

[Study Aired September 4, 2022]

Jer 49:11  Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Jer 49:12  For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
Jer 49:13  For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Jer 49:14  I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
Jer 49:15  For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
Jer 49:16  Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Jer 49:17  Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Jer 49:18  As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
Jer 49:19  Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Jer 49:20  Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
Jer 49:21  The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
Jer 49:22  Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

In our last study we saw how Esau’s close relationship to Jacob (‘Israel’) makes Esau the type of those who are the closest to the true “Israel of God”.

Gal 6:15  Certainly, it doesn’t matter whether a person is circumcised or not. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.
Gal 6:16  Peace and mercy will come to rest on all those who conform to this principle. They are the Israel of God. (GWV)

Esau is Jacob’s twin brother who at first had the birthright.

Heb 12:16  Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Heb 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

The natural mind does not connect Esau’s selling of his birthright for a bowl of pottage to assuage his hunger pangs worthy of calling him a “profane… fornicator”, but that is exactly how the Lord feels about us when we ignore and disobey Him for the purpose of avoiding the tribulation or persecution [which] arises because of the word:

Mat 13:20  But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
Mat 13:21  Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Mat 13:22  He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

Esau was not born of a bondwoman as Ishmael was, and he was circumcised in the flesh, along with Jacob and Ishmael. Esau then, and those he typifies today, have a lot in common with the Lord’s elect, yet it is the Lord’s preordained intention that Esau is to be rejected and supplanted by Jacob. This decision by the Lord had already been determined of God while Esau and Jacob were still in their mother’s womb having yet done “neither good nor evil… that the purpose of God should stand… not of works… but of election”:

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Rom 9:8  That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Rom 9:9  For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
Rom 9:10  And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
Rom 9:11  (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Rom 9:12  It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Rom 9:13  As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Those words are the ‘birthright’ of those to whom they apply. “The children of the promise” will endure hunger and discomfort and the rejection of this world and will never sell their birthright, not because of their own will or their own works, but because God has “before ordained that they should walk in [those good works]”:

Eph 2:5  Even when we [“the children of promise”] were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved; )
Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7  That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9  Not of [our own] works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Esau, and all those who are so close to the Lord’s people and yet are rejected of the Lord, hate these words and feel that the Lord’s ways are not right or fair. Esau feels that he has gotten cheated, and indeed, by the Lord’s own design, Esau, our rejected anointed, has been supplanted by Jacob:

Gen 27:41  And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Esau, who is Edom, is therefore the type and shadow of all those who are circumcised in letter but not “of the heart, in the spirit”:

Rom 2:28  For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29  But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Esau does “many wonderful works” in an effort to please his physical father, but our heavenly Father is not interested in our works:

Gen 27:1  And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Gen 27:2  And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Gen 27:3  Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
Gen 27:4  And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

A conniving Jacob, at his mother’s commandment, didn’t even have to prepare the “kids of the goats”, to lie to and deceive his father into blessing him while Esau was away doing all his father had asked of him.

Gen 27:8  Now therefore, my [Rebekah] son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Gen 27:9  Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

The Lord expects us to accept even the evil in this world as part of the “all things” which are His works for our good (Rom 8:28, Eph 1:11).

Edom, Moab and Ammon are the three adversary nations who were all physically related to Israel. Of these three family members who were related to Israel, Edom is the most closely related, and Edom is also by the Lord’s design, the most resentful of the Lord’s elect as the story of Jacob and Esau so graphically demonstrates. So also, it is with Christ. Christ came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

Joh 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

That statement is as true of the church today as it was of “[the Lord’s] own” when those words were first penned. It will always be those who want Christ’s name but refuse to wear His clothes or eat His bread who will most hate Him and want Him crucified. The closer to Christ they are, the more they hate Him, His ways, and those who are His. In plain English, Christians who know that Christ said “resist not evil… love thine enemy… he that lives by the sword will die by the sword” will hate those who live by those words more fiercely than a Hindu or even a Muslim. It is Christians who most hate the Lord’s faithful who teach His doctrines such as:

2Ti 2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2Ti 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

2Co 10:3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2Co 10:4  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

The answer of the ministers of Babylon to these words of Christ is, “All that is needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.” They are eating their own bread and wearing their own apparel, but they call themselves ‘Christians’ (Isa 4:1). We’ve all been there. None of us could at first believe that God creates and works in and through evil, wicked men to accomplish “His own” purposes (Isa 45:7).

Psa 17:13  Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

Lot, the father of Moab and Ammon, was the son of Abraham’s older brother, Haran. That makes Isaac and Lot first cousins. However, Jacob and Esau are not mere cousins – they are twin brothers. The Lord promises both Moab and Ammon, who are far more distant from Israel than Esau, that in the end He will “bring again [their] captivity”. Esau is given no such honor because Esau, Israel’s closest relative, his twin brother, typifies the Lord’s rejected anointed. The Lord’s rejected anointed king, King Saul, was David’s most fervent enemy and was constantly seeking to destroy David, who typifies the Lord’s ‘accepted in the beloved’ anointed. Abraham just naturally hated to have to drive Ishmael out of his house, and David also mourned the death of the Lord’s anointed, King Saul, showing us that we must never, ever rejoice when our enemy falls:

2Sa 1:21  Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

Pro 24:17  Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Pro 24:18  Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Esau leaped for joy at the judgment of Israel, and that is one of the reasons why the judgment pronounced upon Esau sounds so severe:

Jer 49:11  Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

This is a call for all of us as “fatherless children” to “come out of [Babylon the great]”:

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Jer 49:12  For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

We all, “every man in his own order” judged that we will “not drink of the cup… of the Lord’s wrath”. That is exactly what Jerusalem thinks:

Jer 25:4  And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
Jer 25:5  They [“His servants the prophets”] said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
Jer 25:6  And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Jer 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Jer 25:8  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
Jer 25:9  Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jer 25:10  Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

Jer 25:17  Then took I the cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Jer 25:18  To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

Jer 49:13  For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

Two of the prophets who speak of the utter destruction of Esau, Israel’s closest relative, are Jeremiah and Obadiah. The entire book of Obadiah concerns the judgment and destruction of Esau and his kingdom of Edom.

Oba 1:1  The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her [Edom] in battle.

Take note of the use of the feminine pronoun. This tells us we are speaking of an adulterous daughter, church, or religion. Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament consisting of a mere 21 verses.  Obadiah builds upon this part of Jeremiah concerning the judgment of Esau. Look at the similarities between these two prophets as they prophesy of the ultimate judgment of Esau:

Jer 49:9  If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

Oba 1:5  If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

This little book ends with these foreboding words concerning Esau, the type and shadow of those who are closest to Christ but will not do the things He says:

Oba 1:21  And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

Esau typifies all religions which claim to know God but are in rebellion against the doctrines of Christ. “The kingdom [which] shall be the Lord’s” at the time of the judgment of Esau, will be all religion which is in opposition to “our Lord and His Christ”. It will be the whole world which the Lord promised to ‘Abraham’ as the type and shadow of Christ and those who do the things He says:

Mat 25:34  Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Rom 4:13  For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

The message of both Jeremiah 49 and the book of Obadiah is that those who humble themselves and do the things Christ says to do, those who are willing to wear His clothing and eat His bread, will be the ultimate judges of those who are closest to Christ and who want His name but refuse to submit themselves to His doctrines:

Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Luk 6:46  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

It is for the Truth’s sake and for our own good that the Lord will play second fiddle to no one. He does not need us or our worship, but we surely need Him and His Truth to deliver us from this great deception to which He first commits every man.

2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

No one is above being deceived by “that wicked”. Even the Lord’s elect are first held in this deceitful bondage:

Rev 13:16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

The Lord is not impressed with the power of this “man of sin…second beast…false prophet…eagle, Esau”:

Jer 49:14  I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
Jer 49:15  For, lo, I will make thee [“her”] small among the heathen, and despised among men.

Jeremiah refers to Esau with the same feminine pronoun, ‘her’ that Obadiah uses in his opening words:

Oba 1:1  The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

This feminine pronoun signifies religion in rebellion against “our Lord and His Christ”. This is taking place before our very eyes. The religions of this world are being revealed to be the hypocrites they have always been, and their hold on mankind is diminishing every day as the religions of this world become “small among the heathen and despised among men”.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ [the “manchild” of the next chapter]; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Jews claim to be “God’s chosen people”. Christians and Muslims both claim Christ’s name, but the only thing these three religions have in common is their common disdain for the doctrines of Christ. Christianity is still the largest religion on earth. The Muslim religion is the second largest. Between these two religions, both claiming the name of Christ, more than two-thirds of the nations of this world have for thousands of years been in bondage to their false anti-Christ doctrines. Nevertheless, the Lord will judge the house of Esau and will make religion in opposition to Christ “small among the heathen, and despised among men”.

Jer 49:16  Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

Obadiah also refers to Edom in his pride against the Lord and His Christ “dwelling in the cleft of the rock… as high as the eagle”:

Oba 1:3  The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Oba 1:4  Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

Jer 49:17  Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

Edom is proud of heart, has exalted himself, and will be brought down, and everyone who passes by ‘shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof’. Where have we read this before?

Isa 14:13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isa 14:14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isa 14:15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isa 14:16  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

Jer 49:18  As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

This is exactly what the holy spirit says about the destruction of the great whore, Babylon the great:

Rev 18:1  And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Rev 18:8  Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her [Same feminine pronoun for ‘Edom’]
Rev 18:9  And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Rev 18:10  Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Rev 18:11  And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

The utter destruction and the “burning with fire” of Edom and Mystery Babylon are one and the same, and it is not bad news. Rather, it is good news. It is ‘the gospel of Jesus Christ’:

2Th 1:8  In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: [The kingdom of our old man]

Jer 49:19  Behold, he [Nebuchadnezzar, the destroyer of both Judah and Esau] shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong [It is Edom who thinks he is so strong]: but I will suddenly make him run away from her [Edom will flee from the Chaldeans who are also referred to with the feminine pronoun]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her [Edom]? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

The Lord is sovereign, and it is He who will appoint a governor over Esau. In that day He will appoint saviors over all of mankind:

Oba 1:21  And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Rev 11:16  And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 11:17  Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
Rev 11:18  And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

The destruction of Edom and Babylon within us is the best thing we will ever experience, because that destruction is the beginning of the birth of Christ within us.

Obadiah 1:21 and Revelation 11:15 are one and the same event which will culminate in the greatest work of grace by God which is known as “the great white throne… judgement/the lake of fire/the second death.” It is in the lake of fire that Esau will be destroyed and through that destruction become a new man “as seemed good to the Potter to make [him]”:

Jer 18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jer 18:5  Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jer 18:6  O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Jer 18:7  At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

Jer 49:20  Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
Jer 49:21  The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

The same words are used to describe the fall of Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth:

Jer 50:46  At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

This ‘woman’ is the mother of all harlots and every worldly religion, and every legal denomination within that religion is one of her daughters. As hard as it is to imagine at this time, this entire system of rebellion against the bread and apparel of Christ will be “made desolate [and will] be destroyed”:

Jer 49:22  Behold, he [Nebuchadnezzar in type, and “the Lord’s army… in that day”] shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

“The heart of a woman in her pangs” is the same as being brought to our wits’ end. It really is the end and the destruction of the kingdom of our old man, and it really is a painful and extremely trying time. However, let us not forget that birth pangs, like a seed that falls into the ground and dies, brings forth a new life, both in “this present time” and in the great white throne judgment.

Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 12:25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Joh 16:21  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

We quote many verses of Psalms 107, and some think we dwell much too much on the Lord’s judgments upon the kingdom of our old man. Nevertheless, let’s look at these verses together, and Lord willing, He will cause us to see the positive side of His judgments, the delivering of a child, and He will cause us to sacrifice to the Lord the sacrifice of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing and not with a heart that is ungrateful and unaware that His judgments are actually His “wonderful works” which drag us to repentance. It is only through the Lord’s judgments that He will bring us to “praise [Him] for His wonderful works to the children of men”:

Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

I will insert these words from Romans between verses 22 and 23 of Psalms 107.

Rom 2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

It is a very rare ‘lost sheep’ who is made to understand that the destruction of the kingdom of our old man is the first step to laying down the foundation of the kingdom of our new man, “the kingdom of God… within us” (Luk 17:20-21). It is a rare ‘prodigal son’ who is brought to see that Psalms 107 is all about “the goodness of God that brings [us] to repentance”

Continuing in:

Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:32  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

It is Christ and His elect who ‘go down to the sea in ships and who are doing His business in great waters’. They alone have eyes that can see and rejoice in His wonders in the deep. When Edom is in the pangs of the Lord’s judgments, Edom is just as much a son of Adam as Jacob is. The only reason we do not read the phrase “And in the latter day I will bring again the captivity of Edom” is that Edom is used of the Lord as a type and shadow of religion in rebellion against the Lord, a system of men which is also called “Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth”. Being used of the Lord to typify that doomed system does not mean that the great white throne judgment does not include all of Edom because:

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

These verses are also applicable to Edom as to anyone else who is “in Adam” and who is in the great white throne judgment:

1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Isa 26:8  Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

So much for the despicable and blasphemous false doctrine of an immortal soul burning in literal flames of fire for all eternity. The Father sent Christ to save the world, and as His Father has sent Him, He has sent us be “Saviors on mount Zion judging the house of Esau” so that they, too, will “learn righteousness”.

1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.