Posted on 03/11/2016 10:42:41 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
The verse in Genesis (25:30) informs us that Esau himself was called Edom: And Esau said to Jacob: Pour me some of that red stuff because Im tired therefore he called him Edom
Later in Genesis (36:9) the Torah tells us that Esau was the Father of the Nation of Edom: These are the generations of Esau, the Father of Edom
Now it is clear from the Talmud and other sources that the Romans are viewed as descendants of Esau; when Rebecca was informed that she would have twins, G-d says to her: There are two nations in your womb
The Medrash on this verse plays with the Hebrew word for nations (based on the strange way the word is written in the Torah Scroll): Read this as two aristocrats in your womb, Adrianus in Rome and Shlomo in Israel, Antoninus in Rome and Rebbi (Rabbi Judah HaNasi) in Israel
The Talmud shows that historically the Jews took the Romans connection to Esau very seriously: Once the Romans decreed that no Jew could study Torah, keep the Shabbat or circumcise a child the Jews organized a demonstration by night and shouted: BY GOD! ARE WE NOT CHILDREN OF ONE FATHER? ARE WE NOT THE CHILDREN OF ONE MOTHER? WHY ARE WE BEING SINGLED OUT FOR ILL-TREATMENT?
The Romans canceled the decree. (Rosh Hashana 19a)
What is essential to understand is that the World view of Esau has been passed down as a cultural inheritance throughout history from Edom, to the Roman Empire, to the Catholic Church, to Modern Europe and most recently to the United States and its empire in other words, Western Civilization as a whole.
The alliance is 100% in accordance with Torah/Talmud/Zohar and is easily provable by the nations, gathering of nations, and religion detailed above, not to mention daily news.
Absurdity, incorrect on so many levels, and a false dichotomy all in one sentence, congratulations.
In the Bible Edom is described as the eternal enemy of Israel (and Judah, Amos 1:11; Ezek. 35:5) who not only always oppressed Israel, but at the time of the destruction of the First Temple took advantage of the situation and seized control of parts of Judah (Ezek. 25:12; 35:5, 10, 2; Obad. 1116), and it is hinted that Edom also took part in the destruction of Jerusalem (Ps. 137:7; Obad. 11) and even in that of the Temple itself (Obad. 16). In consequence, during the Second Temple period there spread a belief that it was actually the Edomites who burned the First Temple (I Esdras 4:45; Ethiopian Enoch 89:66), and also interfered with the building of the Second Temple (ibid., 72). Hence the intense enmity toward Edom which grew stronger in the course of time (Ecclus. 50:2526), until the conquest of Edom and its conversion to Judaism in the time of John Hyrcanus a conquest which is the background to the descriptions of the wars of Jacob and his sons with Esau and his sons in the Book of Jubilees (3738) and in the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs (Judah 9).Edom is even compared to a black boar (I En. 89:12, 4243, 49, 66; Jub. 37:20, 24). The intense hatred of Rome after the cruel crushing of the revolt of the Diaspora in the time of Trajan and still more after the harsh suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt and the decrees of persecution in Hadrian's days; the fact that Rome, like Edom, had destroyed the Temple; the similarity of Edom, compared to a pig, with Rome, for whom the pig (or, more correctly, the sow) was a most important symbol; the allusions to Edom dwelling on high like an eagle and the fact that the eagle, too, was an important Roman symbol; and perhaps finally even the similarity to the name Rome and Romans in several verses that speak of Edom, Seir, and Esau all these apparently combined to cause the application to Rome of the biblical references to Edom, the eternal enemy of Israel.
Rome (the West, right down to the American Eagle) are all against Israel - BDS, trying to divide Eretz Yisrael, handing the Persians nuclear weapons technology and cash, promoting a fake people and fake land, overthrowing countries and assassinating their leaders so ISIS can thrive, etc.
Look again and the gathering of nations country list and their primary religion - Christianity.
Do some research on the Christian - Muslim alliance against Israel (this will help to explain why Islam is invading Europe with Europe's blessing and also the US).
You are up against Torah & Talmud truth AND modern day End-of-Years reality that is 100% consistent with that truth.
So Pompey, the Edomite, sacked Jerusalem in 63BCE? If Rome is Edom, who is Edom...Rome? Was Herod really Etruscan?
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