SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
11/14/2015 6:08 PM
My Worship Time Focus: God Will
Deliver You
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Obad.
1:17-18
Message of the
verses: We begin looking at the last
five verses in this shortest of the OT books, the book of Obadiah and Dr.
Warren Wiersbe entitles this last section “God’s message to the Jewish people,”
and we have mentioned in many of our SD’s on the OT prophets that the Lord
usually has some encouraging news for the nation of Israel during the writings
of these OT prophets. What Obadiah has
done is finished his message to the people of Edom and now will give three
promises to the Jewish people, his own people and we will begin to look at
these today, and maybe we will get to all of them and maybe we will only get to
one or two of them. The first one is
entitled “God will deliver you” and we shall look at verses 17-18 for this
promise: “17 "But on Mount Zion there will be
those who escape, And it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess
their possessions. 18 “Then the house of Jacob will be a fire And the house of
Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau will be as stubble. And they will set
them on fire and consume them, So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau,"
For the LORD has spoken.”
Some pretty harsh words for the nation of Edom as opposed
to some very good news for the nation of Israel in these verses. Now we have been through what is going to happen
to the nation of Israel once they were taken captive by the Babylonians, for
they will be there for seventy years according to Jeremiah 25:11 “’This whole
land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king
of Babylon seventy years.” Jer. 29:10
“For thus says the LORD, ’When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I
will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this
place.” Next we see that this prophecy
was fulfilled and then the Lord Jesus would come some 400 years after that and
would die for the sins of the world and then go back to heaven. In 70 AD the nation of Israel was defeated by
the Romans and were sent packing around the world. In May of 1948 God called Israel back to
their nation where they are at this time and the next thing that will happen to
them is that the Antichrist will make a seven year pact with them which he will
break half way through it and many of the children of Israel will die. This time period is called the Tribulation
Period and will last for seven years and this is what the Bible calls the Day
of the Lord, something we have mentioned many times before. At the end of the Tribulation Period the Lord
Jesus returns to stop the war of Armageddon and clean up the almost destroyed
earth and then He will rule and reign from Jerusalem for 1000 years on David’s
throne. That is the very short version
of what will happen to Israel.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “It appears from Isaiah 11:10-16, a
parallel passage, that Moab and Edom will be restored as nations in the last
days, but the Jews will burn them as stubble (see Ex. 15:7; Isaiah 10:17; Matt.
3:12 for parallels).” We will save the
last two promise for our next SD as that will complete our study of Obadiah and
then we will move on to a study from the book of Jonah. I’m looking forward to that one.
11/14/2015 6:28 PM
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