Add 2026.01.24 Jacob and Esau, Israel & Edom, Characteristics of Evil

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+Heb 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and **evil.**
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+Q: What is Evil?
+A: Evil is the absence of Good
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+Q: What are the Characteristics of Evil?
+A: 
+1. Evil is parasitic 
+2. Evil cannot exist without the host
+3. Evil needs source to exhaust [ host to draw out exhaust, aka Edom ]
+4. Evil is must draw out life/blessing meant from the host to exist
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+Sources of Inspiration
+1. Evil is parasitic 
+God Created All Thing in Creation
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+> Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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+God Sustains Creation
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+> Heb 1:3 who is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and **upholds all things by the word of His power**; who, having accomplished cleansing for sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
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+God Created Angels
+- Constrained Derived Truth: 
+  - Since God created all things, Angels are created things, therefore God created the Angels
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+God Sustains the Angels
+- Constrained Derived Truth: 
+  - Since God sustains all things, all things include Angels, therefore God sustains the Angels
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+Therefore, God has created and sustains the angels
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+God allows the fall of some Angels (aka Fallen Angels, i.e. subset of the Angelic Kind)
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+> Jude 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
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+God gives over fallen angels to their lust  
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+> Gen 6:2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 
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+Gen 1:1 God created the heavens and the earth
+- Satan & Devils as the ultimate representation of evil in Creation 
+- Evil present during times of Adam & Eve to temp Eve
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+“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation … and all the angels shouted for joy?” (Job 38:4,7).
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+Fallen Angels
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+2. Evil cannot exist without the host
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+3. Evil needs source to exhaust [ host to draw out exhaust, aka Edom ]
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+ex.haust - Drawn Out. [ Edom ] v30
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+4. Evil is must draw out life/blessing meant from the host to exist
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