CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 34
All the earth is called to hear (verse 1); it is very far now from being willing to answer such an appeal.
The nations will be assembled in Idumea, and there will be judged. (Obadiah 13-15; Psalm 137:7; Isaiah 63:1-4) The sword of Jehovah shall come down on Idumea, and on the people of His curse to judgment (verse 5). Edom is marked out as a centre of judgment for the quick. He has chastened His people to sanctify them; but He will judge the nations. His indignation against idolatrous and apostate Jerusalem closes with the judgment of the Assyrian, and the destruction of the nations in the land of Edom. In chapter 63 we see what will happen to them at this time; Jesus will judge and trample them down in His fury: a scene which has no reference to the cross where Jesus was Himself trampled down.
[p. 232] The rest of the chapter is the detail of the judgment in Edom.