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Obadiah 1:1-14
Edom’s pride and punishment
Obadiah 1:15-21
Israel’s final triumph
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Obadiah 1:1-14
Edom’s pride and punishment
Obadiah 1:15-21
Israel’s final triumph
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Israel’s final triumph
Obadiah 1:15–21
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The great Christian reformer, Martin Luther, in fact, once spent three days in a black depression over something that had gone wrong. On the third day his wife came downstairs dressed in mourning clothes. “Who’s dead?” he asked her. “God,” she replied. Luther … More
At this point in the book we find a change of emphasis. There is an extension of the theme of divine judgment from one specific enemy nation, Edom, to all the nations. A description is given of how all foreign nations hostile to the Lord’s people, will be consumed. Judgment is first portrayed through the imagery of drunkenness. The army after a victory would often have much rich spoil, including food and drink from the defeated enemy. However their carousing would soon be turned into drunkenness and the cup of wrath (Psalm 75:8) would be poured out upon them by the Lord.
Israel itself is pictured as the avenging fire by which God’s judgment is brought down upon his enemies. The survivors of Judah will become the instruments of God’s action to bring complete destruction upon Edom.
Despite the destruction of Jerusalem, the divine favor has not been totally removed from the Holy City. Even though a great reverence for Jerusalem is found here, there is also a note of warning against a false trust in any kind of holy place (Jer. 7). This is a continuing problem for many Christians in many places today.
Three points are made in closing (v. 17). First there is the conviction that someone who saves from danger or destruction will be raised up. Second that victory will be over all who oppose God’s will. Third, all this will show how God is in control.
Application
I must realize that I can never place a false trust in some holy place? When it comes to worship it is not the place but the person that counts.
Obadiah 1:15-21 (English Standard Version)
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head. For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been. But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions. The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken. Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb. Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
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