{"id":748,"date":"2009-01-19T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/obadiah\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T05:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:08:51","slug":"obadiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/obadiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Obadiah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obadiah<\/a> is the shortest book of the entire Old Testament. At a brief 21 verses, his prophecy is beat out by only 2 John<\/a> (13 verses) and 3 John<\/a> (15 verses) in the whole Bible.<\/p>\n

It is essentially a prophecy of doom for the nation of Edom (Esau’s descendants<\/a>). In the first nine verses God starts by railing against them for their pride and arrogance. \u0631\u0628\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0646\u062a\u0631\u0646\u062a \u0645\u062c\u0627\u0646\u0627<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you \u2013
\nyou who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs,
\nwhose home is high in the mountains.
\nYou think to yourself,
\n\u2018No one can bring me down to the ground!\u2019 (verse 3<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He follows that with a litany of the destruction that he would bring against them. He promises things like this and more:<\/p>\n

\n

“You will be totally destroyed!” (verse 5<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Esau will be thoroughly plundered!” (verse 6<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you that will take you by surprise!” (verse 7<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain!” (verse 9<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now this seems like a harsh punishment for anyone, but especially Esau’s descendants. Remember that Esau was Abraham’s grandson, Isaac’s son, and Jacob’s twin brother. Shouldn’t that give them some leverage with God?<\/p>\n

What could possibly have happened that would cause God to promise this destruction when they had someone like Abraham in their family tree?<\/strong> Here it is:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cBecause you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob,
\nshame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.” (verse 10<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Verses 10-14<\/a> reminds them that they stood by and watched Israel be attacked and didn’t lift one finger to help. Instead, the Edomites actually helped Israel’s enemies! While this almost certainly refers back to the incident when the Israelites were marching toward Canaan after leaving Egypt<\/a>, it appears that Edom was constantly a pain in Israel’s back side.<\/p>\n

The final result, according to God, will be the complete elimination of Edom – “There will not be a single survivor of the descendants of Esau!”<\/strong> (verse 18<\/a>)<\/p>\n

OK, what does this mean for today?<\/strong> Honestly, I don’t know if Esau has any descendants alive today. If so, well, their herd is going to become extinct by the end of the great Judgment Day. Regardless, this isn’t for them.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking of the great war that is happening in the Middle East right now. OK, yeah, there’s supposed to be a cease-fire. Big deal – there’s always a cease-fire over there, but people don’t cease firing, so I don’t think one more is going to make a difference.<\/p>\n

God has promised that one day – regardless of how big or strong their enemy is – Israel will come out victorious. And the nastier the enemy fought, and the worse they hurt Israel, the harder they will one day fall.<\/p>\n

\n

“For the day of the LORD is approaching for all the nations!
\nJust as you have done, so it will be done to you.
\nYou will get exactly what your deeds deserve.
\nFor just as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
\nso all the nations will drink continually.
\nThey will drink, and they will gulp down;
\nthey will be as though they had never been.
\nBut on Mount Zion there will be a remnant of those who escape,
\nand it will be a holy place once again.
\nThe descendants of Jacob will conquer
\nthose who had conquered them.” (verses 15-17<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m not worried about whether Israel makes it out intact. That’s already been confirmed.<\/strong> I just hope that the American government chooses to remain on the side of Israel and not become one of “the nations” that commits suicide by standing against God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obadiah is the shortest book of the entire Old Testament. At a brief 21 verses, his prophecy is beat out by only 2 John (13 verses) and 3 John (15 verses) in the whole Bible. It is essentially a prophecy of doom for the nation of Edom (Esau’s descendants). In the first nine verses God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-studies","tag-obadiah"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"widget-thumbnail":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Goepfrich","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/author\/dgoepfrich\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Obadiah is the shortest book of the entire Old Testament. At a brief 21 verses, his prophecy is beat out by only 2 John (13 verses) and 3 John (15 verses) in the whole Bible. It is essentially a prophecy of doom for the nation of Edom (Esau’s descendants). In the first nine verses God…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}