Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we read prophecies against lots of the enemies of God's people.

They're pagan nations who, like God's people, have also been acting wickedly.

First up, in Chapter 25, are the Ammonites, and God's main beef with them is their Schadenfreude.

If you're not familiar with that weird-sounding word, it just means they find pleasure in someone

else's struggle. If you really want to simplify it, Chadenfreude is the reason we laugh at videos

of people slipping on ice.

But for the Ammonites, it was far more sinister. They loved watching the temple be defiled,

the land be destroyed, and the people of Judah be killed and exiled. They literally celebrated

death and destruction. We know from yesterday that the exiles of Judah weren't allowed to mourn the destruction

of Jerusalem, since, after all, they were responsible for it, but that's a far cry from

celebrating it. God says he will send people from the East to destroy the Ammonites. And we already

know from prior prophecies in Chapter 21 that those people from the East are the Babylonians. This is

where the Babylonians take the

second fork in the road, after having destroyed Jerusalem first. Next up are Moab and Sear, but

probably just Moab. There might be a note in your Bible that the word Sear doesn't appear in a lot

of the ancient texts, so we'll just deal with Moab here. The Moabites are distant relatives of the

Israelites, but their sin is that they didn't acknowledge Israel's unique relationship with

Yahweh. They regarded them as indistinct from the pagan nations. Then God moves on to Edom.

They acted with vengeance and cruelty toward Judah. So in this particular oracle, God says

he will use Israel to punish

Edom in response. Israel will be the tool God uses to demonstrate his wrath and anger. Philistia

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