6th Zerah: Edom Destroyed?

1:1  From the other books/chapters of Zerah I have written, it should be known that first in Genesis, Zerah is mentioned as a part of Edom.

1:2  Edom is a clan usually considered to be wicked that descended from Isaac the son of Abraham, where Esau is the Patriarch of the clan Edom.  Jacob/Israel’s brother is Esau/Edom.

1:3  Some of the Rabbinical literature predicts the destruction of Edom.  However, with respect to ethics Deuteronomy the corrected 1917 JPS edition says, “23:(8) Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. (9) The children of the third generation that are born unto them may enter into the assembly of YHWH.”

1:4  Then, you may wonder what of this verse, “1 Kings 11: (15) For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom -- (16) for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom –.”

1:5  In fact, there are lots of verses in the Bible that speak of the destructions of Edom, such that this can not mean that all Edom had perished.  Rabbinical Judaism counted the Kings of Europe as Edom, especially when Jews were mistreated, such that we know Edom is still alive and probably not well!  In fact, USA presidents can often trace their lineage to Edom.  From these verses it is very possible for one to take the leap that Edom will at sometime no longer be Edom, but that certain Edomites will convert is a part of the cycle of the life of Zerahites, where Zerah is the son of Reuel, who in turn is the son of Esau.

1:6  The canon that would be called Tanach, which Christians refer to as Old Testament had been long closed, and thought impossible to improve, when the Jews of Europe were counting European kings as Edom.  These Jews were most certainly correct.  However, it is impossible for the Jews to proclaim all the kings of Edom were evil.  Thus, when a Zerahite is of the tribe of Judah and Edom, he is probably righteous for in the book of Numbers among post Sinai Jews Zerahites where counted as being among the righteous of Israel.

1:7 “2^nd Chronicles 21(10) So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day; then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand; because he had forsaken YHWH, the God of his fathers.”  Here there is a prediction, that there will come a day when Edom no longer rebels, but that some Edomites are righteous.  This is the end of that cycle I wrote of in 1:5, where in Numbers Zerah retains his former Edomite nature, but also is counted as a Judahite.  For me, hopefully, that is now.  The day that I rebel against Judah is hopefully no more, but that doesn’t mean that this day doesn’t come for every Zerahite.

1:8 Yet Obadiah predicts that Edom will be completely wiped out of the book of life, “1 (8) Shall I not in that day, saith YHWH, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and discernment out of the mount of Esau?” (9) And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.”  I see a way that this verse from Obadiah can be reconciled with truth.  This is that the clan of Edom becomes fractured and no longer ceases to operate as a unit.  It is said, that the king is to study Torah all the days of his life, and thus as a result of that there is a certain amount of seclusion associated with kingship.  I do believe that the Bible accounts for the eventual dissipation of Edom as a collective via conversions, as it is said that a person’s name in Hebrew is a chemical formula for the way one is.  Thus, the clan Edom is destroyed, and yet some of the descendants of Esau live on in seclusion, in this case some especially as Zerahites.

1:9  In earlier books of Zerah, I have showed that the name Zerah was prolific, and though there is a Edomite Zerah, there is also a son of Judah named Zerah.  Thus, we should not expect Judah’s sons or Simeon’s sons will be wiped out because Zerah is mentioned as a part of Edom.

1:10  The destruction of Edom may come when Zerah is counted in the book of Numbers as a part of the tribe of Simeon and a part of the tribe Judah.  This is because some people say that before Exodus 20, something almost magical had yet to happen to the Hebrews, the reception of the Torah at Mt. Sinai.  Yet, with this enlightenment what seems to be conferred to the  Zerahites is actually more of a multiculturalism.

1:11  Yet, because we see Zerahites in post Sinai activity with the Israelites, we can know that these Zerahites have not been blotted from the book of life, and that according to 1 Maccabees 12 the Darius was considered the brethren of the Jews, where I count Darius as a Zerahite, especially because Darius is said to have Zeus in his ancestry (discussed in other texts I have written in fuller detail).

1:12  Zerahites must be included with with this group of Torah Jews post Moses’ receiving of the Torah because Zerah is a clan of converts to the Tribe of Simeon, “Numbers 26:(12) The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; (13) of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.”  This Simeonite heritage should be counted as that a Zerahite has a certain amount of anarchistic tendencies.  Notice what Genesis 49 has to say of the tribe of Simeon and Levi, “(5) Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship. (6) Let my soul not come into their council; unto their assembly let my glory not be united; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they houghed oxen.”

1:13  Then, Zerah is secondly counted post Mt. Sinai as a clan of converts to the tribe of Judah, “Numbers26:(20) And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.”  Thus, Zerahites are associated with the scepter, and with the anarchistic tendencies of Simeon.

1:14  Thus, with respect to Obadiah, we see the destruction of the clan of Edom, but that some of Esau’s children live on, converted to righteous ways.