Obadiah 1:15(NKJV) For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near, As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
Author
- The Prophet Obadiah
Date
- 588-583 B.C.
“Servant/Worshiper of Yahweh
Theme
- God’s judgment on Edom
Purpose
- Obadiah is the shortest book of the Old Testament (21 verses).
- The prophet Obadiah prophesies against the nation of Edom.
- The Edomites are descendants of Esau.
- There has always been hostility between the descendants of Jacob and the descendants of Esau.
- During the Babylonian invasions and eventual captivity, the Edomites joined in to bring destruction and desecration to the land of Judah and the city of Jerusalem.
- This book is about God’s promise of judgment on the Edomites for their treatment of the Israelites and His promise of deliverance and prosperity of His people.
Content
- The judgment of Edom: Obediah1:1-16
- Obadiah 1:1, 2(NKJV) The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the LORD, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”): Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You shall be greatly despised.
- Victory for God’s people: Obediah 1:17-21
- Obadiah 1:17-21 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it. And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Christ in the Book of Obadiah
- Type of Christ as the deliverer, and final Judge
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