The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.-Malachi 1:1-5***Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) were the fraternal twin sons and only children born to Isaac and Rebekah. Isaac was the only child born to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai). Abraham and Sarah were born to Terah. Terah was the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Arphaxad. Arphaxad was born to Shem. Shem was born to Noah the ark builder. Noah was the great-grandson of Enoch. Enoch was the great-great-great-grandson of Seth. Seth was born to Adam, the 1st man, and his wife Eve, the mother of all living. The Lord God created Adam. The Lord God formed Adam from the dust of the ground, and the Lord God made Eve after taking a part out of Adam. When Abraham was living in Ur in southern Mesopotamia, the Lord God told Abraham to go out from his country, kin and father's house and come into the land he would be shown. The promises that the Lord God spoke to Abraham were similar to the promises that the Lord God spoke to Isaac and Jacob. The Lord God promised to give Canaan to Abraham's descendants and Abraham, and Isaac and Isaac's descendants, and Jacob and Jacob's descendants. The Lord God caused Esau's descendants the Edomites to dispossess the Horim from Mount Seir and gave Mount Seir to the Edomites. Teman and Bozrah were principal cities among the Edomites. Abraham was wealthy, Isaac was wealthy, Jacob was wealthy, and Esau was wealthy. Years before Jacob and Esau were wealthy, Jacob deceived Isaac and cheated Esau. Saul was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin, descended from Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel, and Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. Before Saul was anointed and became the 1st king to rule over the Israelites in the Promised Land, the idol worshiping Edomites were living under the rulership of kings. David, the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites, was from the tribe of Judah, descended from Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah. David's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Jehoiakim (Eliakim) was the 17th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land. During Jehoiakim's reign, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) invaded Judah and Jerusalem, the royal city, and King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon, began looting the temple of the Lord. During the reign of Jehoiakim's son King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah/Coniah), the 18th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians took more prominent Israelites, including Jehoiachin and his family, to Babylon. During the reign of Jehoiakim's brother King Zedekiah (Mattaniah), the 19th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. The Babylonians looted and burned the temple and took a final group of Israelites, including Zedekiah, to Babylon. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that amid the destruction, the Edomites were watching, rejoicing, speaking boastfully, looting, cutting off Israelites trying to escape, and capturing and turning in Israelite survivors. Over 120 years earlier, the Assyrians invaded the northern nation of Israel in the Promised Land and conquered the royal city, Samaria, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Malachi was an Israelite and a prophet of the Lord God. Sometime after Israelites began returning to Judah and Jerusalem, Malachi proclaimed the words of the Lord God to the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. Over 500 years after the Israelites built another temple in Jerusalem, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the birth tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:23, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:55, 3:1-24, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Jeremiah 49:7-22, Obadiah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, Romans 9:1-33
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