It ties in to Esau
The progenitor of the Edomites
We all know how we should deal with them
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept when we remembered Zion.
Remember, O lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem who said, "Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation."
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed. Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones- Psalm 137
Sometimes I have to wonder if the Bible is more of a book of cautionary tales of an ice age civilization that once aspired for perfection but like Daedalus burned up in the sun of reality when it vain-fully tried to reach some sort of utopia it could never reach as the hubris of reaching beyond god leads to such fleeting sorrow.
Garden Story: Cautionary Tale about being kicked out of the house when children learn to take care of themselves. Imagine Adam and Eve being children and god being the parent, when you are young life truly is paradise, your parents take care of every need and you are pretty much a blank slate. When they grow old and become adolescents they rebel as they are old enough to start learning (the forbidden fruit of knowledge) when they learned enough the parents kick them out for their own good as they can now take care of themselves and will eventually make their own version of paradise for their own children.
Tower of Babel: The Perils of Multiculturalism and the Hubris of man, the tower could be a metaphor for a nation and balkanisation.
Noah’s Flood: Pretty much a prepper’s tale of people who are grounded preparing for the worst while people laugh at them and then later are proven correct while the fools who made fun of them are swept away by the flood.
Esau and Jacob: Selling your Birthright (freedom) for security and welfare (Porridge) leads to nothing but sorrow.
Ezekiel and the Chariot: (Ancient Aliens Guy) ALIENS :)
Too many people just read the bible and memorize it, but don’t think about the stories and the multiple ways they can be thought of and the multiple lessons that can be learned from them. Too many people who consider themselves agnostic or atheist write off the bible itself as a book of fairy tales without realizing that even fairy tales contain many important life lessons, they by forsaking their birthright (past knowledge of the bible) for some Porridge (smugness that makes them feel good) they lead lives of sorrow... Dang I am doing it again...