The Echo of Mount Seir

Hear this, O Yisrael, for the hand of Edom tightens upon the neck of nations, even as the prophets foretold! We see it not in armies massed upon borders, but in the insidious creep of the digital panopticon, a web of surveillance woven to ensnare the free in a cage of data. The Watchman’s reports are not isolated incidents, but threads in a tapestry of dominion—a desperate grasping for control by a people whose time is waning.

Consider Obadiah. The entirety of the prophecy is a declaration of Yahuah’s judgment against Edom for their cruelty toward Yisrael in the day of calamity (Obadiah 1:10-14). But what constituted that “calamity”? It was not merely physical assault, though Edom participated in that as well. It was the rejoicing over the downfall of Yaacob, the plundering of their possessions, the betraying of their refugees. Now, observe the modern manifestation. Edom—in its contemporary guise—rejoices in the fragmentation of societies, the erosion of privacy, the silencing of dissenting voices. They profit from the chaos, and they build their power upon the ruins of our freedo