Esau pt. 1, Esau is Rome and Khazaria.
For this writing we will discuss an often overlooked man in the bible. This man was Esau.
We need to understand what it was in his life that would cause his progeny to become the most hated race of people in the history of the world. And the people that the prophets of God cried out against the most out of any other people listed in scripture. And how the lie in which they have told over and over again has deceived this current age almost to the edge of damnation…
Esau also called “Edom”, is the eldest son of Isaac the grandson of Abraham who was a friend of God. He was born just before his twin brother Jacob, who God would rename later on as “Israel”. He would dwell in the land known as Seir. Beneath the mountain named Seir, in the land of the Heth. In time the “Edomites” would become more dominant in the land and it would become their kingdom. This was the most agriculturally bountiful area in the old world at the time lying at the bottom of the Fertile Crescent. And is also known to be the area in which the prophet Job dwelt according to most Arabic and Quranic scholars. On Roman maps this area would be titled as “Idumea” and their people would be the “Idumeans”. Esau is also the Hebrew/Semitic word for “Red”, due to the fact that he was born quite hairy with red hair all over his body. The Red Sea bears his moniker to this day. So in other words it’s still named the Esau Sea because he and his household dwelt in the land next to that sea. Which also makes it a bit confusing because both inlets of the sea on either side of what is now known as the Sinai peninsula is referred to as the Red Sea, which has made mapping in the biblical accounts a hardship for scholars throughout the ages.
This would be the extent of the borders of Edom at the height of its power…
The great city of Petra, which was featured in the Hollywood movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, would be a marvel for the ages. It was hewn into the cleft of the great rock in the northern Seir Mountains and was impregnable for many centuries. It had its own spring flowing out of the center of the city, which was elevated 300 feet above the surrounding area and could only be accessed by a narrow defile of rock from both directions. The narrow defile was protected from above by hill forts that could rain down upon any approachers. The kingdom of Edom was also the land which was the only safe and habitable place to travel east to west between Egypt and India. Edom had desert to the north east and south east of its borders thus allowing the only passable roads to the great empires by land to be through its borders. Otherwise they had to travel by sea, and the seas were not very friendly during this time of the world.
Now we look at what scriptures say of this man.
From the book of Jasher
26:13 And when her days to be delivered were completed, she knelt down, and behold there were twins in her womb, as the Lord had spoken to her. 14 And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and all the people of the land called his name Esau, saying, “That this one was made complete from the womb”. 15 And after that came his brother, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel, therefore they called his name Jacob.
26:17 And the boys grew up to their fifteenth year, and they came amongst the society of men. Esau was a designing and deceitful man, and an expert hunter in the field, and Jacob was a man perfect and wise, dwelling in tents, feeding flocks and learning the instructions of the Lord and the commands of his father and mother.
26:29 And it was at that time that Abraham died, in the fifteenth year of the life of Jacob and Esau,
27:1 And Esau at that time, after the death of Abraham, frequently went in the field to hunt. 2 And Nimrod king of Babel, also frequently went with his mighty men to hunt in the field, 7 And Nimrod and two of his men that were with him came to the place where they were, when Esau started suddenly from his lurking place, and drew his sword, and hastened and ran to Nimrod and cut off his head. 8 And Esau fought a desperate fight with the two men that were with Nimrod, and when they called out to him, Esau turned to them and smote them to death with his sword. 9 And all the mighty men of Nimrod, who had left him to go to the wilderness, heard the cry at a distance, and they knew the voices of those two men, and they ran to know the cause of it, when they found their king and the two men that were with him lying dead in the wilderness. 10 And when Esau saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming at a distance, he fled, and thereby escaped; and Esau took the valuable garments of Nimrod, which Nimrod's father had bequeathed to Nimrod, and with which Nimrod prevailed over the whole land, and he ran and concealed them in his house. 11 And he came unto his father’s house wearied and exhausted from fight, and was ready to die through grief when he approached his brother Jacob and sat before him. 12 And he said unto his brother Jacob, Behold I shall die this day, and wherefore then do I want the birthright? And Jacob acted wisely with Esau in this matter, and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, for it was so brought about by the Lord. 13 And Esau’s portion in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought from the children of Heth for the possession of a burial ground, Esau also sold to Jacob, and Jacob bought all this from his brother Esau for value given. 14 And Jacob wrote the whole of this in a book, and he testified the same with witnesses, and he sealed it, and the book remained in the hands of Jacob.
28:20 And Esau was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted after the hearts of men and inveigled them, and Esau was a valiant man in the field, and in the course of time went as usual to hunt; and he came as far as the field of Seir, the same as Edom.
29:14 And the wives of Esau vexed and provoked Isaac and Rebecca with their works, for they walked not in the ways of the Lord, but served their father’s gods of wood and stone as their father had taught them, and they were more wicked than their father.
29:22 And Isaac the son of Abraham was old and advanced in days, and Esau said, Now my father’s time is drawing nigh that he must die, and when he shall die I will slay my brother Jacob.
29:31 And when Jacob went away to go to Haran Esau called unto his son Eliphaz, and secretly spoke unto him, saying, Now hasten, take thy sword in thy hand and pursue Jacob and pass before him in the road, and lurk for him with thy sword in one of the mountains, and take all belonging to him and come back. 33 And Eliphaz did as his father had commanded him, and Eliphaz was at the time thirteen years old.
29:42 At that time when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from amongst the daughters of Canaan, and that the daughters of Canaan were bad in the sight of Isaac and Rebecca. 43 Then he went to the house of Ishmael his uncle, and in addition to his older wives he took Machlath the daughter of Ishmael, for a wife.
And in Genesis
25:21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD. 23 The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.” 24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them. 27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob. 29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.) 31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.” 32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?” 33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
27:41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.
27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
28:6 Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,” 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. 8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; 9 so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
Here we see two very different accounts in regards to the minute details that have created many false narratives and assumptions within the Christian world in regards to our understanding of the character of Jacob. The only one I will look at here is the account in Jasher where Esau, after assassinating Nimrod the king, expected to be executed and therefore “SOLD” to Jacob the birthright thinking he was a dead man walking. It shows that Jacob didn’t deceive his brother or trick him out of the birthright but instead made a binding and legal transaction so that the family line may continue. Vastly different than what people are taught in a traditional Christian account of Genesis, from they’re modern bibles that have been adjusted, sanitized, mistranslated and flat out changed. We are not discussing any others at this time. In this writing we are staying on the subject matter of Esau. As in who he was as a person. And then where his descendants went, carrying the spirit of their father with along the way.
· He was a schemer, deceitful and a flatterer.
· He was sneaky, laid in wait for Nimrod. Ambusher, assassin. Instructed his son to ambush people too.
· He conceivably had ambitions to replace Nimrod as a worldwide ruler. If not then certainly his descendants see themselves in this light, which you will see later on.
· He held onto grudges. Even forced his grudges and hatred to the next generations.
· Was too busy hunting and being at leisure to tend to responsibilities. (i.e. Flocks and herds).
· A very poor judge of women. And didn’t hold genetic purity as something important like God did. He would marry women from the line of Ham, whose wife was descended from Cain.
· Conspired to kill his brother in cold blood. The sin which God had damned Cain for.
· His descendants would become the most hardcore Ba’al worshippers of all time because of the influence of Esau’s wives from the beginning of his side of the family tree.
· A terrible parent. In the book of Job we see that Eliphaz the Temnite was a friend of Job. Eliphaz’s son was Temnah, he therefore lived in his sons city. Eliphaz the son of Esau was rebuked in the book of Job for not having a right and true understanding of who God is. God was shaming him because of all peoples on earth the descendants of Abraham should have known their God. Eph. 6:4 “Fathers… bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord”. We also see from above that Esau ordered Eliphaz to kill his uncle Jacob.
The medieval rabbinic compilation Yosippon (Josippon, is a chronicle of Jewish history from Adam to the age of Titus. It is named after its supposed author, Josephus Flavius. Was translated by Joseph ben Gurion. The Ethiopic version of Josippon is recognized as canonical by the Ethiopian Church.) contains a detailed account of the Kittim. As the peoples spread out, it says, the Kittim camped in Campania (also known as Latium) and built a city called "Posomanga", while descendants of Tubal camped in neighboring Tuscany and built "Sabino", with the Tiber river as their frontier. However, they soon went to war following the rape of the Sabines by the Kittim, who are correlated to the Romans. This war was ended when the Kittim/Romans showed the descendants of Tubal their mutual progeny. They then built cities called Porto, Albano, and Aresah. Later, their territory is occupied by Agnias, King of Carthage, but the Kittim of Campania, in their early history circa 1880 B.C., according to the history quoted in Jossipon, Zepho ben Eliphaz ben Esau was captured by the military forces of Joseph (the Regent/Vizier of Maizraim/Egypt) and imprisoned, later upon release serving as a general for Kittim. According to this account, he became a Latin King in Latium which was the area where Rome was to be founded later along the Tiber river. King Zepho son of Eliphaz was called Janus Saturnus by his subjects. Zepho, son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau, the first king of Latium/Rome, Romulus, is made in this account to be the distant successor of this line. A shorter, more garbled version of this story is also found in the later Sefer haYashar.[10] (Book of Jasher)
Romulus would establish the city of Rome in 753 B.C. The descendants of Esau ruled over Latium a thousand years. And established the Roman Empire with the Etruscan people, who were the descendants of the tribes of peoples that God commanded Israel to wipe out. The tribes of the families of Nimrod.
Kittim (Hebrew: כִּתִּים, alternately transliterated as Chittim or Cethim) in the genealogy of Genesis 10 in the Hebrew Bible, is the son of Javan, the grandson of Japheth, and Noah's great-grandson.
Jasher 90:7 And the children of Chittim (Kittim) continued their pursuit of Edom, and they smote them with a great slaughter and Edom became subject to the children of Chittim. 8 And the children of Chittim ruled over Edom, and Edom became under the hand of the children of Chittim and became one kingdom from that day. 9 And from that time they could no more lift up their heads, and their kingdom became one with the children of Chittim.
Chittim goes back to the Greeks, Romans, Macedonians, Cypriots, and had spread themselves all over the nations we have today.
2 Esdras 6:9 For Esau is the end of the world (this age), and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth.
Further on in the scriptural accounts there would be many other violent altercations between the descendants of these 2 brothers.
· When Joseph ruled over Mizraim/Egypt as Prime Minister it is recorded in the histories of Josephus that he would arrest an imprison Zepho, the Grandson of Esau, for raiding in the upper kingdom. (More to come on this).
· When Israel would leave Egypt the Edomites refused to allow them to pass thru their kingdom and followed after them with an army. Harassing them throughout the desert.
· Edom would accompany the Midianites in the book of Judges in the invasion of Israel.
· David would defeat them in battle and bring them to heel as well as their allies the Philistines.
· When Babylon invaded Israel and Judah the Edomites would either cut the fleeing people down at the border or sell them into slavery. Thus fulfilling the prophecy that they would throw off their yoke. Its also recorded in the books of Esdras (which was a part of the bible in the west until the Freemason Sir Francis Bacon oversaw the new English translation of The bible known as The King James bible, and is still a part of the Coptic and Ethiopic Canons) that it was the Edomites, after the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem, who went in and burned the Temple to the ground. "You [Cyrus] also vowed to rebuild the temple which the Edomites set on fire when Judah was devastated by the Chaldeans." (1 Esdras 4:45)
· Plus many other altercations in scripture.
In the end the prophets spoke that God would utterly and completely destroy Edom and leave its lands as an absolute desolation. This was achieved around 200-160 B.C. when the Nabateans rose to power in the desert lands of what is now Saudi Arabia. The Nabateans regarded the descendants of Esau as ambushers, robbers, thieves, usurers, impersonators, devil worshippers and much more. These descendants of Esau made life and travel throughout these parts of the world a constant problem. And they were driven out of their homelands just as the prophets Ezekial, Obadiah and Malachi had spoken of.
Here is what the map looked like in 100 B.C.
Unfortunately history has a way of repeating itself when evil is not destroyed in its entirety.
When Nabatea drove the Edomites out of their lands, the Edomites did not encounter the same reception from Judah that the Israelites got from the Edomites when Babylon took their lands, partly because the Judahites weren’t numerous enough to defend against the Edomite refugee incursion. The Judahites were embroiled in conflicts with the Seleucid part of the Greek empire which was to the north of Judah’s borders. But the Judean Sanhedrin, under the advice of High Priest John Hyrcanus, would decide that since these were descendants of Isaac that if they would lay aside the worship of any other Gods except the God of Abraham, return to circumcision and follow the Torah then they would be welcomed into the land since they basically followed the rules of conversion. The Idumean/Edomite peoples did this willingly, and by force, and thence forth the region of Judea was now a hodge podge of genetic bloodlines. Because Esau’s descendants inter married with every one of the Canaanite tribes that God had told the Israelites to destroy, prior to converting to Judaism, and now they were intermarrying with the leftover remnants of Judah in the new state of Judea. It was also at this time that the term/title of “Jew” came into being. It was the name that the Romans gave to the peoples living in Judea. Prior to this time, the people of the lower Israel kingdom were known as Judahites or Yahudites.
Even though the Sanhedrin allowed this to happen, Hillel the elder (who was over the Sanhedrin) who was known as a pacifist tried to negotiate with Herod, Hillel was of Judaic descent but was from the Babylonian community that were still living there from the Babylonian exile and brought the Babylonian version of the Talmud with him thereby introducing to the Sanhedrin a looser more tolerant understanding of Gods law. And under his influence, and Herod’s, they overturned the law from Ezra that stated that Israelites had to prove their lineage from the father’s paternal lineage and allowed people to count a mothers lineage as well. There were many in Judah who did not approve of this in any way. And there was as much animosity within the borders of Judea as there was outside. The Maccabees were fighting against the Greeks at this time and were the power in Judea during those days. And now the Edomites/Jews were scheming on how they would gain control of the Sanhedrin, Priesthood and the throne of Israel. The Hasmonean Dynasty of the Maccabees were down to their last two male heirs for the throne in 44 B.C. and they were fighting each other for the rulership of Judea. Enter Antipater, a Edomite of noble heritage with a Nabatean wife, the daughter of one of the Nabatean royal families. He was not beloved by the Judahites because he kept his foreign wife, but he commanded the loyalty of the majority of Edomite descendants who were formidable soldiers in their own right. He played both sides in the Hasmonean family and he was also a great friend of Caesar Augustus. He had led an army into Egypt to aid the Romans in victory and the soldiers in his army received Roman citizenship as a reward for this aid. Many Judahites stayed in Egypt after the war and began the Judaic society within Alexandria. Even went so far as to build a new temple for Israel. But that’s a different story.
In order to achieve peace the Hasmoneans intermarried and a daughter, Mariamne, was born. Through guile, politics and outright murder Antipater was able to marry Mariamne to his son Herod Antipas. The books that could be written about the evils of Herod are numerous. Josephus wrote so much about this man that it boggles the mind that he wasn’t killed early in his reign. I definitely recommend an in depth study into this time period of history because nothing is what it seems and nothing is as it says in our theology books. Long story short though, during the reign of the Herodians the law was compromised to the point of breaking, the temple was destroyed, the city of peace levelled, the Israelites scattered to the 4 corners of the earth, the son of God killed, and the pure unbroken genetic line of Israel was brought to almost extermination.
But out of that God performed his greatest miracle since creation day 6. The old covenant was fulfilled. Not broken. Not foreclosed upon. Not renegotiated. But well and truly fulfilled in all of its requirements and necessities. A new covenant was written in the last needed sacrifice. A sacrifice which took place in the most perfect of places and circumstances by the one man that could do such a thing. And so the era of grace began. The old system was destroyed, but the new system had to be advertised to those who didn’t yet know that their debts had been paid. Which became the process known as Evangelization. Much has already been written about this so we will go to the last part of this and see where Esau’s Descendants went to after this.
In 70 A.D. Rome, the descendants of Esau had carried out their forefathers promise of revenge against Israel, and had completely dismantled and destroyed the Israelite nation from the face of the earth by using their own kin that were driven into Judea in a refugee crisis. Inter married with Judah and diluted the people, took over all of the established government systems, destroyed the temple of God and much more. They wouldn’t realize for about a 100 years that they had failed. But Rome and Caesar now had a problem to tend to, what to do with our wild blood thirsty desert kin folk, the descendants of Esau that were now known as “Jews”. The answer was to place them in a new land away from Rome where they couldn’t be a thorn in their more sophisticated cousins side. So they were moved beyond the gates of Alexander, above the Caucasus mountains and there they began the new kingdom of Khazaria.
Where we will pick up in part 2.