OBADIAH 1 – 21
Sometimes
in life’s journey as Christians people steps on our toes and deprive us of our
human right. Even when we cannot fight back, God knows about this and he is
keeping records of every event in heaven; even the actions a man takes against
another has consequence, it might not be immediately. But it must surely come.
That is why God said that the wicked has an end.
PSALM
73:17
(17) “Until I entered the grand sanctuary of
God,
And discerned their future
(18) Surely you place them on slippery ground
You make them fall to their ruins
(19) How suddenly they are devasted
How sudden their finish as they came
to a terrible and:
(20) like a dream when one wakes up, o God
when you rouse yourself, you will
dismiss
their image.”
Every
wicked personality has a chance to repent from his wicked ways because God has
set aside a day to end his/her wickedness by force and by fire. We are not
talking of eternal death now. We are talking of physical calamity on planet
earth that will bring the wicked to an end. This is why we call God: “a God of Vengeance.” He must avenge for
his people; especially those the wicked has terminated their lives untimely.
PSALM
94:1
(1)
“O God of
Vengeance, Jehovah; O God of Vengeance,
Shine forth
(2)
Rise up, O
Judge of the earth; Repay to the haughty what
they deserve
(3)
How long will
the wicked, O Jehovah, How long will the
wicked continue to exult?
(4)
They babble
and speak arrogantly; All wrong doers brag
about themselves
(5)
They crush
your people, O Jehovah, And oppress your
Inheritance.
(6)
They kill the
widows and foreign resident
And they murder the fatherless children”
You
can see the act of the wicked, but in today’s content God is about to avenge
for Jacob over calamity Esau his elder brother has caused him. Someone can be
Jacob and another Esau, depending as the Holy Ghost grants and guide you to
understand the message.
OBADIAH
6-10
(6) “O how Esau has been searched out! How
his hidden
treasures have been sought after!
(7) They have driven you to the border; all
allies have
deceived you
The men at peace with you have
prevailed against you.
Those eating bread with you will
place a net under you
but you will not discern it.
(8) In that day, “declares Jehovah, “will I
not destroy the
wise ones out of Edom
And discernment out of the
mountainous region of Esau?
(9) And your warriors will become terrified,
O Teman
because each one in the mountainous
region of
Esau will be destroyed in the
Slaughter
(10) Because of the violence done to your
brother,
Jacob, shame will cover you, and you
will perish
forever”
Now
what had Esau done wrong against Jacob His Junior brother that warrant these punishments?
Let’s proceed with the answers.
OBADIAH
11-13
(11) “On the day when You stood off to the side
On the day when strangers took his
army into
captivity.
When foreigners entered his state and cast lots
over Jerusalem.
(12) You should not gloat over your brother’s
day on the
Day of his misfortune. You should
not rejoice over
The people of Judah on the day of
their perishing.
And you should not speak so
arrogantly on the day
Of their distress
(13) You should not come into the gate of my
people in the
day of their disaster, you should
not gloat over his
calamity in the day of his disaster;
And you should
not lay hands on his wealth in the
day of his disaster
(14) You should not stand at the crossroad to
slaughter
his escapees. And you should not hand over his
survivors in the day of distress
(15) For the day of Jehovah against all nations
is
near. As you have done, so it will
be done to you.
The way you treated others will come
back on
Your own head”
Whatever
your enemies has done against you in the past, God is about to avenge from
today. In Jesus Name. Amen.
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