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WHY OBADIAH?

WHY OBADIAH?. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17. GOD’S JUDGMENT ON EDOM.

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WHY OBADIAH?

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  1. WHY OBADIAH? • All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

  2. GOD’S JUDGMENT ON EDOM • The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom— We have heard a report from the LORD, And an envoy has been sent among the nations saying, "Arise and let us go against her for battle”—"Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised. 1:1-2

  3. THE FOUNDATIONAL SIN: PRIDE! • The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?” Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD. 1:3-4

  4. THE FOUNDATIONAL SIN: PRIDE! • You said in your heart, ‘Iwill ascend to heaven; above the stars of God Iwill set my throne on high; Iwill sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; Iwill ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ Isaiah 14:13-14

  5. THE FOUNDATIONAL SIN: PRIDE! But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:4-5

  6. THE FOUNDATIONAL SIN: PRIDE! • Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 • Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 1 Peter 5:5-6

  7. GOD’S JUDGMENT • If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out! 1:5-6

  8. GOD’S JUDGMENT All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you— you have no understanding. Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau? And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter. 1:7-9

  9. PRIDE IN ACTION: VIOLENCE • Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 1:10

  10. GOD’S PEOPLE: ISRAEL Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Romans 11:25-29

  11. ON THE WRONG SIDE! On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them. 1:11

  12. DO NOT OPPOSE ISRAEL! But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress. Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity. Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress. 1:12-14

  13. THE DAY OF THE LORD • 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. 1:15

  14. JUDGMENT & RESTORATION 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. 1:16-18

  15. CHRIST’S MILLENNIAL KINGDOM 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. 1:19-21

  16. APPLICATIONS • What must change concerning your pride? • What must change concerning your attitude towards Israel? • What must change concerning your attitude towards people who irritate you? • What must change concerning your submission to God and His word?

  17. GOD’S COMMANDMENTS “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22: 36-40

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