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806. Bible Study: Obadiah 1 (Southwestern Jordan Prophecy) · Faith by annm2705

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Today we're starting and ending with the book of Obadiah because
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it's only 1 chapter long. So I will read the introduction
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to this and the commentary and talk about some things as that
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come to mind as we read this. So let's start with a prayer.
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Dear Lord, please be with us as we read through this chapter and
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let the Holy Spirit give us wisdom and insight.
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We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So the introduction to this
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book, it says why read this book?
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Has anyone ever taken advantage of you and gotten away with it?
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Perhaps a friend or maybe even a family member turned on you when
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you needed help. Obadiah tells us that God will
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deal with such injustices. So who wrote the book Obadiah?
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An otherwise unknown prophet whose name means servant or
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worshipper of the Lord. When was it written?
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The date is disputed. Some think Obadiah prophesied
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and wrote between 8:50 and 7:32 BC, but it's more likely that he
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prophesied and wrote between six O 5 and 585 BC.
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What was happening in the world at this time?
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God's people have had a long standing feud with Edom.
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Today that would be southwestern Jordan, that area at least a
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neighboring nation of distant blood relatives through Jacob's
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brother Esau. If you remember, Esau was the
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one who gave up his right as the first born, and he did it
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because he wanted some Stew that Jacob had made.
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And so he gave up his first right, his, I guess, his right
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of being the first born. And that traditionally,
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culturally meant the first born were given a lot more than the
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next child. And he gave that up because of
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his desire for something immediate.
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And we can learn a lot from that in our own lives where we don't
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want to give up things that are really important just for short
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term satisfaction. So this is a good reminder of
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that. The story between Jacob and
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Esau, they were brothers, but it's kind of interesting because
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God, I believe, just knew what Esau would be like because their
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birth, their whole story was very interesting.
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So anyway, going back to this, when Babylon invaded and
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conquered Judah, the Edomites not only cheered and gloated but
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also looted Judah in the aftermath.
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They even can't captured those who tried to escape and turned
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them over to the enemy. So why was it written to condemn
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the treachery and arrogance of the Edomites and declare God's
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inevitable punishment for their crimes against His people?
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What to look for in Obadiah? Watch for God's loyalty to His
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people, which is evidenced by the judgment he pronounced
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against those who defied him by opposing His people.
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That's something else that we can learn about today because
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there is this growing anti-Semitism against Jewish
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people in the world, actually, not just in the Middle East, but
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in the world that's happening in the US, in Europe, all over the
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place. And we really need to watch out
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for that. People can spin things to make
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people. It's like, it's like gossip.
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The the gossip that destroys people.
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You can either build them up or tear them down.
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And one thing to keep in mind is that all humans are rebellious
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toward God. So just because God chose Israel
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doesn't mean that Israel is all good by any means.
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But God chose Israel. He made his promises to Israel
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and he will fulfill those promises.
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And it there is something in Scripture that says, you know,
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whoever blesses Israel will be blessed and whoever curses will
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be cursed. The things that we do to other
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people will come back to us. So when I see these things
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happening, and just as a whole people talking negatively about
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Jewish people in public forums, there's a word of warning that
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the Bible tells us against that. Don't do that because you are
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setting yourself up to receive justice from God.
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Because the things that we do to others that are not right will
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be done back to us. Like if we if we repent and go
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to God with us, it says he forgets our sins no more.
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But if we are unrepentant and we are doing things, when judgement
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time comes, all we can expect is the things we do to others will
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be done to us. And if you start paying
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attention to what the Bible says about what God does as
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punishment to people who do bad things to other people, that
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happens to them. And that's a part of justice.
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And God is the one who's going to have justice.
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We as people don't need to take justice on other people.
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This is God's. He says, leave it to me.
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The vengeance is mine. So when that comes, when the
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time comes where someone offends you, the best thing you can do
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is pray for them that their eyes be opened to the truth about
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life, about the world, about God, and then that God.
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And just know that God said the vengeance is mine.
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Whatever needs to be done with that offensive person, if they
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don't change their ways, God will deal with it.
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It may he's very, he is very slow.
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Sometimes he's swift with it, but most of the time he's very
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slow and taking action because he wants everyone to come to
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repentance. And we have to remember too that
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we are not all good and we did bad things against God and God
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was patient with us and gave us time to repent and change our
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ways. So why should we expect that
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others would not be given that the same thing?
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So anyway, let's get into this chapter and read about Obadiah's
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vision now. It says it was a vision that
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Obadiah had, which is interesting.
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And this is what the sovereign Lord says about Edom and that
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southwestern Jordan. We have heard a message from the
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Lord. An envoy was sent to the nations
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to say rise, let us go against her for battle.
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See, I will make you small among the nations.
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You will be utterly despised. The pride of your heart has
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deceived you. We have to be careful about that
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too, thinking we're better than somebody else.
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And it says the pride of your heart has deceived you.
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So I think that could that could be applicable to all of us too,
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says you who live in the clefts of the rocks.
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The study Bible says that this could possibly be Patra in
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Jordan. That's where people did live at
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that time and make your home on the heights.
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You who say to yourself, who can bring me down to the ground
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though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the
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stars. From there I will bring you
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down, declares the Lord. And I don't know if I had just
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read this recently or if this was actually in Jeremiah as
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well, but that that sentiment about, you know, the pride of
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the people that live in the clefts of the rock and on the
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hills, and that though you soar like an eagle, I will bring you
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down. God hates pride.
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And when we are boastful or think we are better than other
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people, that's something God is going to deal with with us.
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So it, you know, some of these things apply to us as well as
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these nations that God is talking about.
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I mean, because God doesn't change and he doesn't have
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favorites. So that if he's done it to
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certain people, he will do it to other people too.
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I mean, this is what we can expect.
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This is what we can anticipate when we read the Bible.
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We, we get to know God better. We get to know what he does.
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He's a God of justice. Yes, he loves, but he brings
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justice too. So he says our the vision
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continues. If thieves came to you, if
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robbers in the night, oh what a disaster awaits you, would they
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not only as much would they not steal only as much as they
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wanted? If grape pickers came to you,
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would they not leave a few grapes?
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But how? Esau will be ransacked, his
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hidden treasures pillaged. That's really interesting too.
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Like I wonder if if the southwestern Jordan area still
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has hidden treasures from any of the temples that were destroyed.
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I know everything went to Babylon, but did they take some
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things and put it into southern Jordan too?
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Because I do think that this vision or this prophecy, and
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it's supported by the study Bible as well, It probably is a
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double fulfillment type prophecy where some of it was fulfilled
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long ago, but some of it yet remains to be fulfilled.
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And when we see things like the thief in the night, that makes
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me think about Jesus saying how he will come like a thief in the
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night, especially to those who are not watching for it and who
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are unprepared. And then there is talk about the
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grape pickers in the harvest. There is this final wrath of God
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that Jesus will actually do when he come, when he returns, he
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comes back for wrath this time. And it's all those who are
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unrepentant. And it talks about essentially a
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grape harvest and it's a pretty bloody battle is it's a
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figurative way of describing what will happen.
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So when I see things like this about the thief in the night and
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the great pickers, these seem to be like end timed connotations
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that could be also applicable in this.
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So in verse 7, it says all your allies will force you to the
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border. Your friends will deceive you
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and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will
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set a trap for you, but you will not detect it.
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I think about when I read that I think about some things in in
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the Bible about these where in Daniel.
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OK, there's another prophecy that talks about the the king of
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the north and the king of the South, and this is what Daniel
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talks about. But here's this just came to
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mind when I was reading it, that those sentences about all your
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allies will force you to the borders.
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Your friends will deceive you and overpower you.
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Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will
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not detect it. In Daniel 1127 it says the 2
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kings with their hearts best bent on evil will sit at the
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same table and lie to each other, but to no avail because
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an end will still come at the appointed time.
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So when I see that, I know this, that the part that Daniel's
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talking about is the end times and he's talking about the king
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of the North and the king of the South.
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And sitting at the same table is something like, you know,
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friends sit at the same table and there's a deception here and
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it says and they lie to each other.
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And that's kind of the same thing that's happening in Daniel
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11/27. And, and I just, I wonder, you
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know, like if this has any kind of like Muslim Brotherhood kind
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of connotation. Because if you look at the
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nations that surround Israel, that's the majority of what they
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are in terms of beliefs and the alliances.
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You know, I think back on October 7th of 2023 and what
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happened with that and who the allies are.
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And I know that God is a God of justice and he talks about these
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things so that what happened on October 7th, 2023 is not going
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to go unpunished. In fact, that could be why
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Israel has been successful in destroying many of the leaders
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who were behind organizing that event.
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And it remains to be seen. But if this is something that
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will, you know, this is a, a skirmish, wars and rumors of
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wars continue until the end. You know, is this something that
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we will see for many, many years that the end will be slow to
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come, or is this something that's accelerating?
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We will only know in hindsight, but I would say that our
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generation will probably, I mean, my belief is that we will
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probably see the return of Jesus.
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I anticipate it. I somewhat expect it and we'll
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just see what happens. Obviously, I don't know for
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sure, but this is the time where I think all of us really need to
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be seriously focused on our relationship with God and
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whether or not we've repented of it and we've been born again
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because God's Jesus said that you must be born again to enter
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the Kingdom of God. And if Jesus does return in our
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lifetime, then whoever wants to be in God's Kingdom needs to be
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born again by that time. And that's a spiritual thing.
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It's when the Holy Spirit resides in US and it's after
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we've repented, when we are sincerely wanting to be close to
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God and get rid of our sinfulness and ask Jesus.
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We have to believe about Jesus. And if we ask Jesus for the Holy
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Spirit, he will send the Holy Spirit to us and our life will
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begin to change. And it a real, real life change
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that really does happen. That's through the power of God,
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not our own power. So we have to quit trying to
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just do it all on our own and be, you know, quote, be a better
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person. Just surrender it all to God and
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say, God, help me. Help me be the person you
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created me to be and when we're when when we are sincere about
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that God will be there. So verse 8 says in that day.
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That's why again I think about this as an end times related in
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that day declares the Lord, will I not destroy the wise men of
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Edom, those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
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Your warriors Teeman will be terrified, and everyone in
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Esau's mountains will be cut down in the slaughter.
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Now God never does these things without telling us why He does
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it. So verse 10 tells us why because
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of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be
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covered with shame. You will be destroyed forever.
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So this doesn't look really good for the people that he's
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referring to. And notice that these people are
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against Jacob. Jacob is another name for
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Israel. So the Jewish people, we again
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need to be careful about what side of this battle we are on,
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because if we are against Israel, we are essentially
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against God, because God's going to deal with people who are.
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So be careful. On that day you stood aloof
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while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered
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his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem.
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You were like one of them. You should not gloat over your
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brother in the day of his misfortune.
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So that's interesting too. And again, there's a time where
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people or Bible scholars talk about the time of Jacob's
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trouble, when everybody turns against Israel.
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And so on the day of his misfortune makes me think about
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Jacob's trouble not. And so it says, you should not
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gloat over your brother in the day of his misfortune, not
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rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction,
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not boast so much in the day of their trouble.
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And so you think about these kinds of things, like these are
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brothers. These were brothers, Isaac and
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Rebecca's children, Jacob and Esau.
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And so these two were siblings, but they had this long time
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rivalry that is recorded throughout the the Bible.
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I mean, there's hostility between them because of the
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decisions that were made and what Esau gave up on his own.
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But then he was mad at his brother.
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And then Jacob became successful and, you know, crossed paths
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with Esau and they were somewhat OK with one another.
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But there was this just unresolved issue between the two
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of them. And I think that's what else
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what God talks about also with us and especially in our
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families, we can't let unresolved issues keep ruing
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because they can pass on for generations.
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Just think about it like the things that you say.
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If you have children and you had a rivalry and you start telling
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your children about your sibling that you don't get along with
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and all these bad things about them, that'll pass down
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generation after generation where there won't want to be any
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friendship between families. As a result of this.
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And this is what happened between Jacob and Isa.
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They were brothers and because of things that happened between
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them, they became separated. Now, I guess you, we all have to
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pray about it and there can be very, there could be boundaries
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that are necessary because of someone else's actions and the
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type of person they are. But you should never, you know,
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the best thing that you can do is forgive someone for what
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they've done and pray that God opens their eyes and pray that
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they come to repentance with God.
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And that's how we should deal with people who have offended us
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and are not who are unapologetic for it.
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So verse 13 says, you should not March through the gates of my
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people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over them in
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their calamity in the day of their disaster, nor seize their
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wealth in the day of their disaster.
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You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their
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fugitives nor hand over their survivors in the day of their
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trouble. The Day of the Lord is near for
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all nations. So again, This is why I think
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this has a double prophetic significance where it did occur
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in the BC time frame, but it has an application to the future of
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what we've not yet experienced. The day of the Lord.
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We have not experienced that. So it says, and I think this is
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something we should pay attention to, as you have done,
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it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your
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own head. So if we've gone to in
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repentance to God, it says He will remember our sins no more.
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So I don't believe this is applicable to anyone who's
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repented of the bad things that they've done.
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But those who are unrepentant, this is what they can expect.
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So he says verse 16, just as you drank on my holy hill, so all
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the nations will drink continually.
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They will drink and drink as if they had never, as if they had
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never been. This is God's wrath.
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He talks about the cup of wrath. They must drink the cup of
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wrath. So again, this is another end of
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the age kind of references to me, but on Mount Zion, that's
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Jerusalem will be deliverance, it will be holy, and Jacob will
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possess his inheritance. Israel does not have the land
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that God promised them today. And so again, this is another
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reason why I think this is a future prophecy.
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And I believe this is the return of Jesus because he will, his
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feet will come down in Jerusalem and that's where he's going to
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reign from. And is Jerusalem holy right now?
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No, but it's Jesus who's going to make things holy after his
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return, after the wrath, things will become holy.
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So this is to me seems like it's very probable that this is a
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double prophets prophetic or doubled prophecy.
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If you want to say that or foreshadowing of a future event.
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Jacob will be a fire and Joseph aflame.
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ESA will be stubble. So I was and and they will set
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him on fire and destroy him. So from this passage at first I
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was like Jacob will be a fire and Joseph aflame.
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I'm just kind of wasn't quite sure what that meant.
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And ESA will be a stubble. So just now as I'm reading it,
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it seems like to me this is what it says is that Israel is
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actually going to be the one that comes back against Esau.
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You know, that I guess that area or that the, the people that he
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will maybe use them fire and flame because these are Jacob
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and Joseph, you know, just different tribes, different
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descendants of them. And maybe the names signify a
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certain area that will be like Jacob would be all of Israel.
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Joseph would be a specific tribe.
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So just, I'm not quite sure, but it certainly says that there's a
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fire coming from there. And and Jesus, Jesus was a
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descendant of Judah. So maybe that just could be that
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Jesus will be doing this too. So Esau will be stubble, though
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that sounds like that's burnt up stubble.
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There's like nothing left of it. And they will set him on fire
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and destroy him. There will be no survivors.
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So this is really interesting. I guess the hatred and there
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will be no survivors from Esau is what it says there.
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This reminded me of another passage, a couple more passages
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in Isaiah 1 in chapter 34 and one in chapter 63.
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So in chapter 63, verse one from Isaiah the prophet, it says, who
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is this coming from? Edom.
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OK, so that's what we're talking about right now.
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Southwestern Jordan from Basra with his garments stained
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Crimson. So I read, who is this robed in
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splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength.
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It is I proclaiming victory, mighty to save.
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Well, this is about Jesus. And when he returns, so
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apparently there's going to be something significant that
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happens in Basra. And when we read, there will be
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no survivors. And his his clothes are stained
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red. So he's been in a battle and it
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also says like, no one was with me.
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I alone did this. So there's a battle forthcoming
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in this southern part near Basra.
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And there's something else about setting captives free too.
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So I don't, you know, who knows what all of that will mean.
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But again, this is, you know, a lot of prophets are hearing the
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same things and it's documented in the Bible.
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So in Isaiah chapter 34, verse 6, it says the sword of the Lord
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is bathed in blood. It is covered with fat, the
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blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of Rams.
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For the Lord has a sacrifice in Basra and a great slaughter in
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the land of Edom. So that's twice now where Basra
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is mentioned and this slaughter. And then we hear in Obadiah that
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there will be no survivors from Esau.
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So again, this is, you know, I don't know if anybody in Esau is
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repentant or if no one ever repents.
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But if someone repents, God forgets.
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So anyone who is from that area or a descendant of Esau, if you
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happen to hear this podcast, repent so that you don't have
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this happen to you. So continuing on verse 19,
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people from the Negev will occupy the mountains of Esau and
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people from the foothills will possess the land of the
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Philistines. That's modern day Gaza.
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So it's really interesting now with what's happened and what's
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being discussed about Gaza, who is going to end up controlling
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Gaza after this event? Because this Bible prophecies
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that people from the Negev will occupy the mountains of Isa and
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people from the foothills will possess the land of the
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Philistines. They will occupy the fields of
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Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
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This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess
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the land as far as Zerfath. And I had to look up Zerfath,
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where that is, and it's South of Sidon, north of Tyre, and it's
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in Lebanon. So all the way up to Lebanon.
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The company of Israelite exiles will possess that land all the
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way up to Lebanon. So that's not today. the Exiles
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from Jerusalem who are in Chef, Chef Sephoraid, and I had to
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look that one up too. That's modern Spain and
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Portugal. So the Iberian Peninsula, which
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is really interesting, the Exiles from Jerusalem who are
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all the way in Spain. So I guess that happened.
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I, that did happen historically because I did look it up, but I
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wonder if that's only an historical fact or if there is
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something in the future that will be relative to Spain as
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well. the Exiles from Jerusalem who are in Spain will possess
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the towns of Negev. So this is after the fact.
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I guess they'll come in from there.
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Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of
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Esau, and the Kingdom will be the Lord's.
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So this to me is the Millennium reign, the 1000 years that
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Christ reigns. The Kingdom will be the Lord's.
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So this is all future prophetic fulfillment.
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Now I'll just read the questions and answers and we will wrap up
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this chapter. So who was Edom?
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The Edomites were descendants of Esau, the twin brother of Jacob.
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Esau and Jacob, the ancestor of the the ancestor of the
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Israelites, were rivals, and their descendants continued to
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compete as nations. Edom occupied the mountainous
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region southeast of the Dead Sea.
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What kind of envoy would God send to recruit armies against
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Edom? It is unclear whether this
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special special messenger was human or angelic.
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The result, however, was the same.
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Edom became involved in a major war.
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Why would people live among the rocks?
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Edom was famous for its capital Petra, a city of caves high in
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solid rock Cliff. Though living among the rocks
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had its disadvantages, it also had its benefits.
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The rocks were considered a place of safety from attack.
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Why mention Esau and Teeman? Esau was the father of the
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nation of Edom. Teeman was an Edomite city
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famous for its wise men who ate Edom's bread.
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Edom's unnamed allies in a culture in which hospitality and
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eating together were considered basic virtues, to have those who
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eat your bread turn against you was a graphic picture of the
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worst kind of betrayal. God said so-called friends of
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the Edomites would turn on them and exploit them, just as the
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Edomites had done to the people of Judah.
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Again, I just wonder, could this be Muslim Brotherhood related?
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Why was God so angry with Edom? The Edomites were guilty of
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gross cruelty against God's people.
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They didn't just stand passively as Judah was conquered, they
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looted the Kingdom and even captured Judah fleeing citizens
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and returned them to the Babylonian army.
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In addition to these crimes, Edom was guilty of arrogance,
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boasting against God himself. God's wrath came as a righteous
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response to the nation's blatant defiance.
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Why was Edom so cruel to Israel? The enmity between Edom and
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Israel went all the way back to Jacob's relationship with his
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twin brother Esau. Again, that's why forgiveness is
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so important. What is the day of the Lord?
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This refers to the time of God's judgement.
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What does it mean that Edomites drank on God's holy hill?
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The Edomites had apparently joined the drunken orgies of the
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Babylonians as they celebrated the destruction of the temple on
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Mount Zion. Now the Edomites and others have
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desecrated God's holy place. OK, now.
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Now the Edomites and others that had desecrated God's holy place
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would have to drink a very different beverage, the full cup
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of God's wrath. In fact, they would drink
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themselves into oblivion and disappear as a nation.
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It was be. It would be as if they had never
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existed. When were these prophecies
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against Edom fulfilled? Arab invaders began driving the
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Edomites from their mountain strongholds as early as 500 BC.
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By the 1st century AD, Edom no longer existed as a nation.
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In Jesus's day, the family of King Herod was recognized as
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being of Edomite descent. But following the fall of
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Jerusalem in AD 70, Edomites totally disappeared from
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history. Who are the deliverers?
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They represent future leaders who would restore God's people
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as a nation. Edom would vanish and Judah
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would rise from the ashes, demonstrating God's faithfulness
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to His people, something this may allude to the Messiah who
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one day would deliver his people from sin.
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So that concludes chapter the only the book of Obadiah.
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