Chapter 35

A new prophecy, this one against Mt. Seir.  This seems an odd place for such a thing, right after the prophecy of the restoration of Israel. 

Seir to be made a desolation and a waste.  Because they gloated over the final judgement of Israel/Judah, and nursed perpetual enmity against Israel, Seir will be wiped out.  They will die by the sword, cities laid waste.  They will be a perpetual desolation as their hatred of Israel was also perpetual.  It goes on to say that Seir planned to go in and "possess" the land of Israel - both Israel and Judah - once those two had fallen.  They were envious of that land and its blessings.  This would likely go all the way back to Esau, and his jealousy toward Jacob, though it was his own shallowness that led to Jacob's blessing.  God has no pity for Mt. Seir, for Edom, because He heard the things they said about Israel and Judah when they fell.  They were overjoyed by the downfall of God's chosen.

2024 - Edom, today, would be south and east of the Dead Sea.  That places it in Jordan.  The city of Bosra, Jordan is there.  They call it Basira now.  Petra is in this part of Jordan.  Most of Jordan's 11.6 million people are in the northwest - NOT a part of old Moab.  92% of the population is urban.  That, to me, makes this prophecy true:

4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD. [Eze 35:4 ESV].

2026 - Repetition in Ezekiel, this time on a very small scale, just one verse:

6 therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you. [Eze 35:6 ESV]...or in NASB95:

6 therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you. [Eze 35:6 NASB95].

This repetition would lead one to believe that the conquest of Moab was quite violent and bloody even by the standards of that time.

2026 - This is an intriguing verse:

14 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation. [Eze 35:14 NASB95].

To what time period would this apply?  What a humiliating thing to be downtrodden by the world as the whole world rejoices.  To be alone in anguish as the only desolation left on the planet.  That would have to be way way out there in the end times or even post Millennial.