Survey of the book of Obadiah

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Obadiah, it is one of the shortest, in fact, it is the shortest

Old Testament book with just 21 verses. The theme of Obadiah is the fact that what ended up happening in the time was about 580 to 586

BC, we end up seeing that this is after Babylon destroys

Jerusalem, that during the conquest, the Edomites are actually helping to capture fleeing

Israelites and turn them over to the Babylonians. What they end up doing is the

Edomites, and the Edomites, if you remember, are the descendants of Esau, and they end up taking up residence in the

Judean villages. That got the Lord pretty upset, and so this is where God is going to prophesy against the

Edomites, and this is what Obadiah's prophecy is, he is a prophet to the

Edomites that God would repay them for mistreating his children.

And so Obadiah is really going to insert and explain that God is sovereign even over the nation of Edom, that he was going to restore what they took, and that they would end up being judged for what they did against God's people.

And this is something we can look to, that God cares for his children and will restore them.