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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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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
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- 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
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- BC, we end up seeing that this is after Babylon destroys
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- Jerusalem, that during the conquest, the Edomites are actually helping to capture fleeing
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- Israelites and turn them over to the Babylonians. What they end up doing is the
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- Edomites, and the Edomites, if you remember, are the descendants of Esau, and they end up taking up residence in the
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- Judean villages. That got the Lord pretty upset, and so this is where God is going to prophesy against the
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- Edomites, and this is what Obadiah's prophecy is, he is a prophet to the
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- Edomites that God would repay them for mistreating his children.
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- 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.
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- And this is something we can look to, that God cares for his children and will restore them.
