Genesis 36 Sins’ “Fruits”
“Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom”. (v.1)
We have here two important thoughts: 1.) The fulfillment of God’s promise; where we see the promise of God in particular. Not only that Esau would be the progenitor of twelve nations, but that God blesses His “peculiar people,” and that the righteous’ seed is blessed for the sake of the righteous one. Though these thoughts have been prominent throughout these writings, one cannot get enough of the joy of fulfilled promises. If God kept His promise to Abraham, (which He did) and even blessed the son of the flesh, He will assuredly bless us too, for the sake of our Lord. What a wonderful thought!
2.) The second thing we see here is that the birth of some of the most fierce enemies of Israel came about because of sin! The foolishness of man always brings trouble to him and his family, and carries reproach with it. The “pleasures of sin” are costly. We saw that the result of Lot’s wickedness led to incest, and to the birth of the two worst enemies of Israel, perpetually. Sin is always our greatest enemy, though it often appears as a “friend.”
Israel has paid for Lot’s foolishness for centuries, the Ammonites, and the Moabites have become a thorn in the flesh of Israel ever since Lot messed up, and it is true also with the Edomites, which are Esau’s line. Esau married wrong, and out of spite to his father, and Israel is still paying for his sin. Don’t think you sin alone, that your sin doesn’t hurt others, because it does my friend, it does. Sin always affects those we love; it always brings with it destruction, damnation, and a myriad of other evils. Sin wears a “coat of many colors;” Dr Bob Jones Sr. said “When you play with sin, you cannot win” and truer words were never spoken. It will get you, and me, and every man that has ever lived save Christ, and the only remedy for it is Calvary.
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