SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/5/2015
7:50 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: Divine
Judgment Declared PT-1
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Obadiah
1:2-6
Message of
the verses: We begin the next main section of the book of
Obadiah and it goes from verses 2-16.
Dr. Wiersbe entitles this section “God’s message to Edom.” We will see in this section two different
messages from the prophet. First we will look at why God will judge Edom and
find out that God would take away from them everything they felt would keep
them safe. Next we will look at Obadiah
explain why God was judging Edom and in this section he will name four ways in which
the Edomites had sinned against the Jews and the Lord.
I am not sure how far we will get in this SD, but we will
begin this first section in today’s SD.
We want to look at what kind of judgment that God
promised to send to Edom. In verses 2-4
God says that He will take them down because of their pride: “2 “Behold, I will make you small among the
nations; You are greatly despised. 3 “The arrogance of your heart has deceived
you, You who live in the
clefts of the rock, In the loftiness of your dwelling place, Who say in your heart, ’Who will
bring me down to earth?’ 4 “Though you build high like the eagle, Though
you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,"
declares the LORD.”
“2
"Listen to this, Edom: I’m turning you to a no-account, the runt of the
godless nations, despised. 3 You thought you were so great, perched high among
the rocks, king of the mountain, Thinking to yourself, ‘Nobody can get to me!
Nobody can touch me!’ 4 Think again. Even if, like an eagle, you hang out on a
high cliff-face, Even if you build your nest in the stars, I’ll bring you down
to earth." GOD’s sure Word (Message).”
Now
we can see why Edom was so arrogant, but that will do them no good when they
are dealing with the God of heaven who spoke and the earth came into existence. You can’t thumb your nose against God for
even though He does not always act in what we would call in a hurry, He will
act when it is time for Him to act. Now
we can see from these verses that the Edomites thought that they were a great
people, but God tells them that He will make them small among the nations. Proverbs 16:18 has much to say about Edom “Pride
goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Now
we will look at verses 5-6 as we will conclude this SD with those verses: “5 “If thieves came to you, If robbers by
night-O how you will be ruined!-Would they not steal only until they had
enough? If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave some gleanings? 6
“O how Esau will be ransacked, And his hidden treasures searched out!”
“5
“If thieves crept up on you, they’d rob you blind—isn’t that so? If they mugged
you on the streets at night, they’d pick you clean—isn’t that so? 6 Oh, they’ll
take Esau apart, piece by piece, empty his purse and pockets (Message).”
Edom
was in a really good position to accumulate much wealth, for they could did
copper in the mountains and sell it, and they were also on a major trade route
so they could tax people coming through their land. God says that their wealth will be no more as
we can see in these two verses, again I believe that pride has a lot to do with
this. After God’s judgment this will be
the end of Edom’s riches.
11/5/2015 8:13 PM
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