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Jan. 19, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
06:24
The Idumea Mystery - Rabbi Jonathan Cahn
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The Edomian Mystery 00:05:56
This is something that you would never think, and when you think about the story you've heard all your life, you would never think of this thing, this ancient thing that's behind it.
I called it the Edemian Mystery.
It begins in the tents of Isaac, but it stretches on.
And that happens when Isaac is going to bless his children.
What happens?
His two sons, Jacob gets in there, and he pretends to be Esau, gets Esau's blessing, the firstborn.
And the blessing of it is, basically, he says, may God bless you and give you the dew of heaven.
And it says, may people bow down to you.
May your brothers will bow down to you.
You will have dominion.
You will be Lord over them.
So it goes this whole thing.
And those who curse you will be cursed.
So now Esau comes in.
Jacob takes off.
Esau comes in and he says, okay, where's my blessing?
He says, I thought I just gave it to you.
And he says, what do you mean?
And then he's furious with his brother.
He says, he did it again.
My brother took my blessing.
He says, give me, don't you have another blessing?
So he blesses Esau.
But the blessing of Esau is a little bit different.
It says, you'll live by the sword.
You will serve your brother.
You know, you will bow.
Basically, you will be under his dominion until you one day will break his yoke off.
And it goes on.
Well, Esau had a grudge now, and he wanted to kill Jacob.
And Jacob fled.
But now they reconciled at the end of their life.
But the war between Esau and Jacob's children never ended.
It went on and went on.
Esau was a rough man.
It says you'll live by the sword.
He's a rough, rough man there.
It says you'll live away from the dew of heaven.
His children ended up living in the desert.
They were desert people, right according to the prophecy.
And from Esau, the Bible says, come princes, princes, a nation.
And Esau was linked to red.
He was called red.
It was red.
Well, his children were called the Edomites.
That means red, the red people.
So there was this nation.
It was all the children of Esau who means red.
When the Israelites came out of Egypt, when they came out of Egypt, they were attacked.
The first attack Jewish people ever had by another nation.
Who were they?
The Amalekites.
Amalek was a descendant of Esau.
It was Esau, the war of Esau hunting down Jacob again.
And actually, he was the grandson, he was grandson of Esau.
So yeah, I'm the Amalekites.
Later on, King David defeated the children of Esau, and he ruled over them.
So the prophecy came true.
They were subject under Israel.
There.
When Babylon came in and destroyed Jerusalem, judgment, the Edomites joined in to attack the Jewish people.
So again, Esau, Jacob goes on and on.
When the Jewish people are in Persia and Haman rises up and he says, I'm going to destroy the Jewish people.
Haman is a descendant of Esau.
Oh, my God.
And notice something.
Notice something.
Why did it all start?
Because Haman, notice what, you know, the blessing of the curse was that you will bow down to, he would bow down to Jacob.
Esau will bow down.
But Haman's the one who wants everybody to bow down to him.
And when Mordecai, who's the son of Jacob, won't bow down to Esau, son of Haman, son of Esau, he says, I'm going to destroy all of them.
So it's again Esau and Jacob, and that's the whole story of Porah.
But then now it goes on.
Now it goes on.
Now you have, I mean, you have the Maccabees, you know, Hanukkah Maccabees.
When the Maccabees gained the power, they subdued again the Edomites, and they actually had them convert to the God of Israel, the God of Jacob.
They converted them.
So they started, now the Edomites started following Judaism.
Okay, so that's there.
Now, by the time of the Greeks, it was called Idomea.
That's why I called it the Edomean mystery.
Now, listen here.
Now, one of the princes of the Edomites, he lived in the desert, and he was forced to do Judaism.
He became that.
He took the crown.
He used violence and intrigue and power, and he ended up taking the dynasty away from the Maccabees.
You know, it says in the prophecy that you will throw off his yoke.
So he actually used violence and actually he took the crown from the Maccabees.
This is a son of Esau.
And he became king.
And now, and we know his name was Herodes.
We know him as King Herod.
Oh my goodness.
Herod is a son of Esau.
Oh, wow.
So when I don't know, but it's there.
It's there.
Wow.
Oh, my.
So we find behind one of the most famous stories, the Magi come to Herod, but he's a son of Esau, and they say, we hear there's a king of the Jews.
Well, now this is Esau and Jacob.
Remember, the blessing was that Jacob would be Lord over his brothers, over Esau.
So now what does he do?
He said, he's a usurper.
He's saying, I want everybody to bow.
He says, go and find him.
And so I could worship him too.
But the interesting, what he says in the Greek, it says that I might bow down to him, which is actually in the blessing or the curse that Esau and Jacob bowing down, bowing down.
But he's not going to bow down.
So he sends them there, and then they take off.
And then he, what does he do?
He seeks to kill.
He's seeking to kill the child.
It's Esau in Herod, trying to kill Jacob in Jesus.
Jacob is the child.
Messiah is the child of promise.
He's the child of Jacob.
He's the true.
He's going to have the true.
He's going to be the true Lord.
He's the true king of Israel.
And it's the war of the kings.
It's the war of the brothers.
And again, like, you know, he's hunting down.
It's Esau hunting.
Herod hunts him down.
But again, Jacob flees.
You know, the angel comes and they flee off.
And in the end, you know, here, Herod with all his power and all that versus a little baby from Jacob.
Child of Blessing 00:00:43
And it's the baby who prevails.
It's Messiah who prevails because he's the child of promise.
So that's a little bit of the Idamean mystery that's in there.
And the thing is that God is so amazing.
I mean, that's just one of the Christmas mysteries.
But the thing is that to say something, just one little note.
If you, maybe you're watching, you're listening, and you consider yourself, I'm not a blessed person.
I never got the blessing from my parents.
I've had a messed up life.
I'm a cursed person.
Listen, if you're born again, you are born again through Jesus, Messiah.
He is the child of blessing.
He is of Jacob, and therefore you are a child of blessing.
So it doesn't matter what you are.
It doesn't matter what you've been.
It doesn't matter what it is.
You're a child of blessing.
And the child of blessing always prevails with God.
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