Fri.’s Devo - Esau’s Descendents

Fri.’s Devo - Esau’s Descendents  6-8-12

Read Gen. 36:1-43

Names, then and now, are so significant of what is going on.  Esau’s wives had sons whose names meant: “god of gold”, 

“friend of God”,  “hasty”, “occult”, and “ice”.  His son’s went from gold to ice and from a friend of God to the occult.  He went the opposite direction from Jacob in every way.  He dwelt in Seir which means “rough” instead of “the house of God” where Jacob chose to live.  Esau is synonymous with Edom.  His offspring had many famous people like Amelek and Korah - who both brought woe to the children of Israel in later times.  I do not have the discernment to understand what all the names mean and what they mean to us now, but I know it is significant.  I did find verse 24 interesting because it makes you pause and wonder what it is doing in the Bible… seems to be so out-of-place.   Right in the middle of the genealogy of Esau it tells us a fact about one of them.  They found some mules while watching their father’s asses.  The only mules I know that got lost were the ones that Saul had lost when Samuel met him and anointed him king of Israel in (1 Sam. 9, 20) but that was many years later.  One day I'm going to ask God about all these seemingly out-of-place verses.  I'm sure there is a reason.  Esau became a mighty nation just like Israel did.  They had kings and dukes and did not follow God.   One day Israel would look at them and say they wanted a king like they had - and God would give it to them.  God chose Israel’s descendants to be a people set apart for him.  He was to be their king and through them he would show how he loved, protected, provided for, and disciplined his children.  

Lord, we have taken your name and you are our father and our king.  May we walk complete in that truth.