OUR FATHER WHO RISES TO THE DEFENSE OF HIS PEOPLE

Ezekiel chapter 35 verse 9 says this;

I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

The word of the Lord came through the prophet Ezekiel to the kingdom of Edom.

Edom, Israel's neighbouring country, had undertaken to invade the kingdom of Israel at a time when  Israel was suffering a great calamity.

Because the kingdom of Edom had mired themselves in the hatred of Israel and had spoken contemptible things about her  and had boasted against the Lord and had chosen a course of bloodshed and violence to gain possesion of Israel,  Edom would be visited with judgement which would be so severe that the whole kingdom would be left  in a state of uninhabitable desolation.

The bellicose attitude of Edom towards Israel while Israel was undergoing  her own tribulations earned Edom the disfavour of the Lord.

Amen.