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| 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom: We have heard a report from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations. Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. |
Concerning Edom – Christendom. D15
In battle – The time of trouble. D527
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| 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the nations; thou art greatly despised. |
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| 3 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; --he that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? |
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| 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah. |
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| 5 If thieves had come to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left some gleanings? |
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| 6 How is Esau searched! his hidden things sought out!
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| 7 All the men of thy confederacy have pushed thee to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, they have prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a snare under thee. There is no understanding in him. |
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| 8 Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? |
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| 9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter. |
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| 10 Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. |
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| 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. |
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| 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress. |
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| 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither shouldest thou have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; |
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| 14 and thou shouldest not have stood on the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape, nor have delivered up those remaining of him in the day of distress. |
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| 15 For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy recompence shall return upon thine own head. |
Day of the LORD – Approaching time of trouble. R2338:5
Heathen – Nations. R2338:5
Done unto thee – Shall come into judgment. R2338:5
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| 16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. |
Ye have drunk – Of the confused doctrine of Babylon. R3999:3*
They – The nations, not the people. R2338:5
Certain systems of the present time which shall utterly fall, shall go down completely. R5327:4
Shall drink – Drink of the cup of the Lord's anger. R2338:5
They had not been – They will be utterly destroyed as nations in the time of trouble. R2338:5
Although the nations shall never rise again, the people who composed the various nations shall come forth from the grave. R2338:5
Death everlasting will be the penalty inflicted upon all who do not eventually come into the fullest heart-harmony with the Lord. SM766:2; R4553:1, R5327:4
Those who refuse to profit by the glorious opportunities of the Millennium. R4553:1; Q763:2
Used in connection with certain systems of the present time which shall utterly fall, go down completely; might also apply to those who sin wilfully in the Millennium an die the Second Death. R5327:5
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| 17 But upon mount Zion shall there be deliverance, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. |
But upon mount Zion – The spiritual phase of the Kingdom of God. A297; T33
Shall be deliverance – In the Times of Restitution. D558; F355; R2503:6, R2504:1,2,5
The sight of the drunkard of verse 16 is a good token to show that the deliverance is even now on Mount Zion. R3999:3*
The house of Jacob – Natural Israel. C278; A300
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| 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble; and they shall kindle in them and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau: for Jehovah hath spoken it2. |
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| 19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the lowland the Philistines; yea, they shall possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead; |
They of the south – Those restored to perfect humanity. D653
The mount of Esau – Christendom. D15
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| 20 and the captives of this host of the children of Israel shall possess what belonged to the Canaanites, unto Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who were in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. |
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| 21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion, to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's. |
And saviours – Christ Jesus and his Bride. R238:2*
Leaders guides, kings and priests, typified by those who judged Israel. R528:1*
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