SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
11/13/2015 4:53 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Edom’s 4th
Sin
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Obadiah 1:15-16
Message of the
verses: “15 “For the day of the LORD
draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your
dealings will return on your own head. 16 “Because just as you drank on My holy
mountain, All the nations will drink continually. They will drink and swallow
And become as if they had never existed.”
We come to a familiar statement in verse fifteen “The Day
of the LORD,” something we have been looking at in our study of the other OT
prophets we have been studying, along with our study in the book of Revelation
which spells out what will happen during the Day of the Lord, and then when we
were studying the letters to the Thessalonians, as there was much to say about
the Day of the Lord in those letters.
Edom’s fourth sin was ignoring the impending wrath of God, which will
come in the Day of the Lord. Now
remember when the OT prophets spoke of the Day of the Lord they sometimes were
speaking of impending judgment on whom they were writing to or about and then
there was the future Day of the Lord too, the one we see play out in chapters
6-19 of the book of Revelation.
Verse fifteen speaks of the Day of the Lord drawing near
on all of the nations, and this included Edom who is the specific one that
Obadiah is writing about in his letter.
We have seen the fact that Edom was very proud, proud of their army,
proud also of where they lived believing that they could not be successfully
attacked where they were living in the hills.
We probably heard of the “Golden Rule” found in Matthew
7:12 “"In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them
to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” Edom was seeing the down side of this verse
for they were going to be judged by what they were doing to Judah. “As you have done, it will be done to you
(Obadiah 1:15b).” Paul wrote the
following in Gal. 6:7 “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a
man sows, this he will also reap.”
Dr. Wiersbe concludes “Now matter how discouraging the
day may be for God’s people, there is a just God in heaven who pays sinners
back in kind: what they did to others is
ultimately done to them. Since Pharaoh
ordered all the Jewish boy babies drowned, God drowned the Egyptian army (Ex.
14:26-32). The men who lied about Daniel
in order to have Daniel thrown to the lions were themselves thrown to the lions
(Dan. 6). The unbelievers on earth who
shed the blood of God’s servants will one day drink water turned into blood
(Rev. 16:5-6). ‘The righteous is
delivered from trouble, and it comes to the wicked instead’ (Proverbs 11:8
KJV). Indeed. God’s judgments are true and righteous (Rev.
16:7).”
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