Sermons on Violence
The Sin of Edom (Amos 1:11-12)
As we have looked at the sins of the surrounding nations Edom has kept surfacing. The Philistines sold Jews to the Edomites as slaves. The people of Tyre sold runaway slaves back to Edom. Edom was the central figure in this horrid slave trade that God repeatedly condemned. You would expect God to address the slave trade when He rebukes Edom, but He does not. Pursuit with the sword When the Israelites were coming out of Egypt the most direct…