1 00:00:30,019 --> 00:00:30,419 Eagle. 2 00:00:30,579 --> 00:00:35,459 And though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring 3 00:00:35,459 --> 00:00:37,539 thee down, saith the Lord. 4 00:00:38,979 --> 00:00:40,499 Thence will I bring thee down. 5 00:00:40,899 --> 00:00:45,939 Now it's Obadiah prophesying concerning Edom. 6 00:00:46,259 --> 00:00:50,179 And he's saying to them, God is going to bring you down. 7 00:00:50,979 --> 00:00:52,259 God is going to bring you down. 8 00:00:52,819 --> 00:00:53,779 Look at verse 10. 9 00:00:55,949 --> 00:01:01,029 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover 10 00:01:01,029 --> 00:01:04,909 thee and thou shalt be cut off forever. 11 00:01:05,309 --> 00:01:07,869 That really describes the message of Obadiah. 12 00:01:08,829 --> 00:01:13,909 He's saying, because of what you did, because of your actions 13 00:01:13,909 --> 00:01:19,589 against your brother, which is the Jew, you are going to be cut 14 00:01:19,589 --> 00:01:19,949 off. 15 00:01:20,999 --> 00:01:24,359 You're going to be, as verse 4 said, you'll be brought down. 16 00:01:24,599 --> 00:01:26,359 The nation will be brought down. 17 00:01:26,839 --> 00:01:27,839 All right, so let's pray. 18 00:01:27,839 --> 00:01:30,359 Heavenly Father, again we ask you to be with us tonight. 19 00:01:30,439 --> 00:01:34,119 And Lord, just to bless your word as it's being spoken. 20 00:01:34,199 --> 00:01:40,599 And Lord, may we see again the importance of the nation of Israel 21 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:44,279 and Lord, the importance of our support of them in Jesus name. 22 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:45,239 Amen. 23 00:01:45,879 --> 00:01:49,879 The theme of the book of Obadiah is again the doom of Eden. 24 00:01:50,419 --> 00:01:52,579 It's the shortest book in the Old Testament. 25 00:01:53,379 --> 00:01:57,859 Again, Obadiah the prophet is prophesying to Edom. 26 00:01:58,579 --> 00:01:59,459 To Edom. 27 00:02:00,579 --> 00:02:01,619 Obadiah. 28 00:02:01,779 --> 00:02:03,459 It was a very common name. 29 00:02:04,179 --> 00:02:08,259 It's used at least 12 times in the Old Testament. 30 00:02:08,899 --> 00:02:13,939 And scholars do not know if one of those Obadiahs is the Obadiah 31 00:02:14,019 --> 00:02:14,899 who wrote the book. 32 00:02:15,379 --> 00:02:16,579 It doesn't tell us. 33 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:22,519 Nowhere in the book does it tell you of his father's name or 34 00:02:22,679 --> 00:02:23,639 where he's from. 35 00:02:24,279 --> 00:02:25,959 It doesn't give us that information. 36 00:02:26,359 --> 00:02:31,079 But his name does mean servant or worshiper of the Lord. 37 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:33,479 Servant or worshiper of the Lord. 38 00:02:33,479 --> 00:02:36,679 And we certainly see that by his prophecy. 39 00:02:37,079 --> 00:02:39,119 The day of the writing also is not certain. 40 00:02:39,119 --> 00:02:44,669 There are really two main beliefs as to when it's written. 41 00:02:45,149 --> 00:02:51,869 And that would be in 853, around that era BC before Christ. 42 00:02:51,869 --> 00:02:53,749 You know, that's what it used to mean. 43 00:02:53,749 --> 00:02:55,309 And anyway I won't go into that one. 44 00:02:56,029 --> 00:03:00,909 That is when Edom rebelled against Jerusalem. 45 00:03:00,909 --> 00:03:05,189 And so there is some indication that might be when this 46 00:03:05,189 --> 00:03:06,029 book was written. 47 00:03:07,069 --> 00:03:11,229 But the most likely time it was written would be during the Babylonian 48 00:03:11,229 --> 00:03:14,109 captivity from 606 to 586 BC. 49 00:03:14,729 --> 00:03:22,289 That is the most likely there because there's various reasons and 50 00:03:22,289 --> 00:03:23,129 it's very boring. 51 00:03:23,609 --> 00:03:26,569 So I'm not going to tell you what those various reasons are because 52 00:03:26,969 --> 00:03:28,129 go get you a commentary. 53 00:03:28,129 --> 00:03:28,809 Look it up. 54 00:03:28,809 --> 00:03:33,569 It's about three or four pages of what scholars think, but it doesn't 55 00:03:33,569 --> 00:03:38,169 really matter when it was Written in this case, now, Daniel, 56 00:03:38,169 --> 00:03:43,299 it does matter when it was written, because if you believe it's 57 00:03:43,299 --> 00:03:46,979 the second century, you're a liberal and you shouldn't be allowed 58 00:03:46,979 --> 00:03:48,419 to teach the Bible anymore. 59 00:03:48,819 --> 00:03:52,299 If it's the 6th century, you're right, because it matters 60 00:03:52,299 --> 00:03:52,899 a whole lot. 61 00:03:53,059 --> 00:03:54,739 But in this case, it doesn't matter. 62 00:03:55,459 --> 00:03:59,059 Both would work as far as the prophetical nature of the book. 63 00:03:59,059 --> 00:04:02,379 In other words, either one of them, it would still be prophesying 64 00:04:02,379 --> 00:04:06,059 because the event hasn't taken place yet and it's still out there 65 00:04:06,059 --> 00:04:06,579 in the future. 66 00:04:06,969 --> 00:04:07,369 All right? 67 00:04:07,529 --> 00:04:08,249 And so. 68 00:04:08,729 --> 00:04:11,849 But if it interests you, you can go look up that boring stuff 69 00:04:11,849 --> 00:04:12,809 and read it like I did. 70 00:04:15,769 --> 00:04:18,209 I've already bored you just by this stuff because you don't. 71 00:04:18,209 --> 00:04:19,209 Some of you don't care. 72 00:04:19,449 --> 00:04:21,289 But it is kind of interesting. 73 00:04:21,289 --> 00:04:24,169 You want to kind of be able to put it in the slot where it goes. 74 00:04:24,809 --> 00:04:25,529 Definitely. 75 00:04:26,089 --> 00:04:29,769 Scholars as well as I believe, because of things that this particular 76 00:04:30,249 --> 00:04:34,609 book speaks about and talks about, it probably did happen during 77 00:04:34,609 --> 00:04:35,889 the Babylonian captivity. 78 00:04:35,889 --> 00:04:37,409 So now we look at Daniel, right? 79 00:04:37,409 --> 00:04:40,889 So Daniel was carried away in 606 BC, he was carried away into 80 00:04:40,889 --> 00:04:41,529 captivity. 81 00:04:41,609 --> 00:04:44,409 And what we're saying is this was probably written around that 82 00:04:44,409 --> 00:04:50,249 same time, maybe a little bit before, because it alludes to the 83 00:04:50,329 --> 00:04:53,369 southern kingdom being carried away into captivity. 84 00:04:53,929 --> 00:04:56,169 All right, what was Obadiah's message? 85 00:04:56,169 --> 00:04:59,769 Well, Obadiah's message again was God's coming judgment on Edom 86 00:05:00,359 --> 00:05:01,799 for the way they treated Israel. 87 00:05:05,799 --> 00:05:10,919 Edom's destruction because of the way they treated their brother, 88 00:05:11,639 --> 00:05:12,839 the nation of Israel. 89 00:05:14,199 --> 00:05:15,479 And this was fulfilled. 90 00:05:15,479 --> 00:05:18,679 It was fulfilled by the Babylonians who came in and defeated 91 00:05:18,679 --> 00:05:18,999 them. 92 00:05:19,479 --> 00:05:23,559 And then the remnant that had dispersed, there was another set 93 00:05:23,559 --> 00:05:27,939 of people that came after them that also beset them. 94 00:05:28,179 --> 00:05:31,819 But the final destruction of the people of Edom really was by 95 00:05:31,819 --> 00:05:38,419 the Maccabeans because the Edomites had kind of moved up into 96 00:05:38,419 --> 00:05:41,059 southern Israel after they were defeated by the Babylonians 97 00:05:41,059 --> 00:05:42,019 and defeated by that. 98 00:05:42,339 --> 00:05:46,019 And right now, the name of the next people are not coming to me. 99 00:05:46,099 --> 00:05:50,139 And so they had moved up into the southern part of Israel and the 100 00:05:50,139 --> 00:05:52,179 Maccabeans just wiped out the rest of them. 101 00:05:52,809 --> 00:05:56,249 And so the prophecy absolutely was fulfilled. 102 00:05:58,329 --> 00:06:00,089 So much so I love this stat. 103 00:06:00,169 --> 00:06:02,569 Look, I said stat because I can't say the other word. 104 00:06:03,769 --> 00:06:05,249 I can't say the word statistic. 105 00:06:05,249 --> 00:06:07,129 I try, but it just doesn't. 106 00:06:07,209 --> 00:06:08,568 The stats are amazing. 107 00:06:09,129 --> 00:06:11,929 How many Jews you think there are in the world? 108 00:06:14,329 --> 00:06:15,129 Google it. 109 00:06:15,529 --> 00:06:16,809 I looked at some old information. 110 00:06:16,889 --> 00:06:18,329 I said, well, I wonder what it is now. 111 00:06:18,719 --> 00:06:19,599 And I looked it up. 112 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:21,599 15.8 million. 113 00:06:22,959 --> 00:06:25,999 Approximately 15.8 million Jews. 114 00:06:26,719 --> 00:06:31,319 The Jews have stayed such a distinct people, and God has blessed 115 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:34,678 them immensely, even though, again, they've been set aside for 116 00:06:34,678 --> 00:06:34,999 a time. 117 00:06:34,999 --> 00:06:35,839 It's amazing. 118 00:06:35,999 --> 00:06:37,199 God's chosen people. 119 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:39,199 Have you ever met an Edomite? 120 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:42,879 Google that one. 121 00:06:43,039 --> 00:06:43,559 I did. 122 00:06:43,559 --> 00:06:45,779 I just thought, man, I wonder what they would say. 123 00:06:46,259 --> 00:06:46,819 Nothing. 124 00:06:47,779 --> 00:06:49,059 Absolutely nothing. 125 00:06:49,059 --> 00:06:49,459 Why? 126 00:06:49,539 --> 00:06:53,459 Because the prophecy was fulfilled that there are no Edomites. 127 00:06:53,539 --> 00:06:54,259 They're gone. 128 00:06:55,539 --> 00:07:00,099 And the Edomites that were of any sort, who were truly Edomites, 129 00:07:00,259 --> 00:07:04,499 were melded into and became a part of the Jewish nation as such, 130 00:07:04,899 --> 00:07:09,779 way, way, way back again, just wiped off the face of the Earth. 131 00:07:15,549 --> 00:07:20,189 The Edomites were descendants of Esau. 132 00:07:21,309 --> 00:07:25,269 So most of you who are been around the Bible and have read your 133 00:07:25,269 --> 00:07:28,589 Bible and know what's going on, that'll immediately tell you 134 00:07:28,669 --> 00:07:29,869 who they are, right? 135 00:07:30,589 --> 00:07:31,949 And so you think about again. 136 00:07:31,949 --> 00:07:35,709 God called Abraham in Genesis 12 out of the Ur of Chaldees. 137 00:07:36,359 --> 00:07:40,319 He promised him a great blessing, that all the soil he walked 138 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:45,039 upon would be his, that his future generations, his descendants, 139 00:07:45,039 --> 00:07:48,839 would number as the stars of heaven, as the sand of the seashore. 140 00:07:48,999 --> 00:07:50,839 But God chose Abraham. 141 00:07:52,279 --> 00:07:55,239 And Abraham began a journey from the Ur of the Chaldees. 142 00:07:55,239 --> 00:07:59,559 He began a journey to a city, to a place he'd never seen, to a 143 00:07:59,559 --> 00:08:02,359 country he'd never been to because God told him to. 144 00:08:03,069 --> 00:08:06,229 And he began to walk, maybe ride a camel. 145 00:08:06,229 --> 00:08:06,749 I don't know. 146 00:08:08,189 --> 00:08:10,469 And Abraham had a boy. 147 00:08:10,469 --> 00:08:11,389 His name's Isaac. 148 00:08:11,389 --> 00:08:13,469 We don't have time to go through and talk about all of them. 149 00:08:14,269 --> 00:08:18,349 And Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. 150 00:08:19,789 --> 00:08:23,429 God had told Isaac, listen to this one. 151 00:08:23,429 --> 00:08:24,349 Now remember this. 152 00:08:24,669 --> 00:08:28,239 And again, I don't have time to go back and review it all, but 153 00:08:28,239 --> 00:08:36,999 God had told Isaac and his wife that Jacob would rule over Esau. 154 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:45,159 Isaac should have taken that for what God had promised and made 155 00:08:45,159 --> 00:08:46,359 that change on his own. 156 00:08:46,999 --> 00:08:49,959 There should have been leadership in that home to say, enough, 157 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:54,679 that, okay, Jacob's going to be the one who receives the promise. 158 00:08:55,449 --> 00:08:56,009 Esau. 159 00:08:56,009 --> 00:08:57,409 And there should have been some. 160 00:08:57,409 --> 00:08:58,329 I don't know how you would. 161 00:08:58,329 --> 00:08:59,009 He would have done it. 162 00:08:59,009 --> 00:09:00,969 But instead they ignored it. 163 00:09:02,009 --> 00:09:07,889 And so God providentially, it happened because God providentially 164 00:09:07,889 --> 00:09:08,569 intervened. 165 00:09:09,369 --> 00:09:12,649 Now, some of that was Jacob, which means. 166 00:09:13,129 --> 00:09:14,249 Remember what Jacob means. 167 00:09:15,209 --> 00:09:16,729 Trickster, supplanter. 168 00:09:17,689 --> 00:09:23,249 So Jacob was a conniver, and he stole his Esau, his brother's 169 00:09:23,249 --> 00:09:23,729 birthright. 170 00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:24,209 Remember that? 171 00:09:26,129 --> 00:09:29,849 So go back and read Genesis, chapter 25, read it up through chapter 172 00:09:29,849 --> 00:09:33,649 36 or so, and read the story once again. 173 00:09:34,769 --> 00:09:39,489 Not only did he steal his older brother's birthright, which 174 00:09:39,489 --> 00:09:44,529 meant he now gets all the inheritance, he gets all the things 175 00:09:44,529 --> 00:09:48,289 that the firstborn would get, but he also stole the blessing. 176 00:09:48,609 --> 00:09:51,249 As Isaac said, he was about to die. 177 00:09:51,249 --> 00:09:54,089 He lived like another, I don't know, 20 years or so. 178 00:09:54,089 --> 00:09:54,929 It's crazy. 179 00:09:55,409 --> 00:10:01,409 But Esau and then Jacob tricked him by putting, you know, 180 00:10:01,409 --> 00:10:07,409 hairy fur on and went into his dad and his dad gave him Esau's blessing. 181 00:10:07,409 --> 00:10:14,899 So again, Jacob stole Esau's blessing from his dad and then he 182 00:10:14,899 --> 00:10:15,259 fled. 183 00:10:15,659 --> 00:10:16,539 Jacob fled. 184 00:10:18,939 --> 00:10:27,179 What's remarkable is when they finally return after 20 years, it's 185 00:10:27,179 --> 00:10:33,299 very evident that Esau had, at least as it comes to the story, had 186 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:35,019 forgiven Jacob. 187 00:10:35,499 --> 00:10:38,739 Because Jacob, when he goes to meet him, he sends out presents for 188 00:10:38,739 --> 00:10:42,859 Esau and he puts his loved ones behind him to try to protect 189 00:10:42,859 --> 00:10:43,019 them. 190 00:10:43,019 --> 00:10:45,729 He thought, my older brother is going to wipe me out. 191 00:10:46,849 --> 00:10:47,729 But he didn't. 192 00:10:48,689 --> 00:10:50,849 They both greeted each other with kiss. 193 00:10:53,329 --> 00:10:57,969 So it's kind of as we get to the book of Obadiah and you learn 194 00:10:57,969 --> 00:11:02,409 about Edom, by the way, you learn about Edom also in Genesis. 195 00:11:02,409 --> 00:11:03,089 There's many others. 196 00:11:03,249 --> 00:11:04,129 We'll get to that. 197 00:11:04,369 --> 00:11:09,969 The moral of the story is Esau's descendants were not a fan 198 00:11:10,819 --> 00:11:11,699 the Israelites. 199 00:11:12,979 --> 00:11:16,099 In fact, there was a constant struggle between the two. 200 00:11:17,779 --> 00:11:18,419 Constant. 201 00:11:19,539 --> 00:11:23,899 And that's why you find that the edomites are mentioned 120 times 202 00:11:23,899 --> 00:11:24,899 in the Old Testament. 203 00:11:25,539 --> 00:11:28,179 And yet today they're wiped off the face of the earth. 204 00:11:34,259 --> 00:11:40,699 As Esau and Jacob split up, Esau settled just below the Dead 205 00:11:40,699 --> 00:11:41,099 Sea. 206 00:11:42,459 --> 00:11:45,579 So he's south of Israel. 207 00:11:45,579 --> 00:11:47,179 He's below the Dead Sea. 208 00:11:47,579 --> 00:11:50,939 Edom, of course, that province of there. 209 00:11:51,499 --> 00:11:55,939 What's interesting about that is that is the area where you find 210 00:11:55,939 --> 00:11:56,539 Petra. 211 00:11:57,659 --> 00:12:01,979 How many of y' all seen, you would testify to, say you've seen 212 00:12:03,829 --> 00:12:05,829 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 213 00:12:07,909 --> 00:12:12,309 Okay, us who from the 80s and 90s. 214 00:12:12,309 --> 00:12:14,709 Yeah, Indiana Jones and Last Crusade. 215 00:12:15,189 --> 00:12:20,789 That, that little canyon he rides the horse down through. 216 00:12:21,269 --> 00:12:25,709 That is the stretch between the entrance and there that you ride 217 00:12:25,709 --> 00:12:29,039 down through to get to that treasury, which is Petra, right? 218 00:12:29,439 --> 00:12:33,079 Which is part of Petra, the treasury that, that temple that's 219 00:12:33,079 --> 00:12:34,319 etched into the rock. 220 00:12:34,799 --> 00:12:38,039 Rock face, by the way, that that film does not do it justice. 221 00:12:38,039 --> 00:12:40,079 That thing is four stories tall. 222 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:42,639 Four stories tall. 223 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:44,479 And I don't remember how, how wide. 224 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:45,359 I think it's. 225 00:12:45,359 --> 00:12:47,119 It's 80 or 90ft wide. 226 00:12:47,119 --> 00:12:51,119 But there's even a bigger temple etched into the rock there. 227 00:12:51,199 --> 00:12:52,799 That's 10 stories high. 228 00:12:53,849 --> 00:12:57,689 And it's an amazing, amazing area when you come down through there, 229 00:12:57,689 --> 00:13:02,329 there are places as you try to get to Petra where that little canyon, 230 00:13:02,569 --> 00:13:04,729 you can touch both sides with your arms. 231 00:13:05,529 --> 00:13:07,689 That's how narrow it is in a couple of places. 232 00:13:08,809 --> 00:13:10,929 You got to remember, how do you get water to that? 233 00:13:10,929 --> 00:13:12,009 That's a desert area. 234 00:13:12,729 --> 00:13:15,329 So what, what you don't see, and you need to go look this up. 235 00:13:15,329 --> 00:13:21,179 It's so cool that the actual canyon, Petra, the canyon is a mile 236 00:13:21,179 --> 00:13:24,019 long and almost a mile wide. 237 00:13:24,819 --> 00:13:30,019 And there are hundreds, a little over a thousand different 238 00:13:30,739 --> 00:13:35,299 remnants of buildings and, you know, carved into the side of those 239 00:13:35,299 --> 00:13:35,859 walls. 240 00:13:36,659 --> 00:13:40,859 There are graves, of course, carved on the side of the walls of 241 00:13:40,859 --> 00:13:41,699 the canyon. 242 00:13:42,979 --> 00:13:49,439 But you could see how hard it would be for any kind of army. 243 00:13:50,079 --> 00:13:53,119 I mean, some of you would understand if you've only got this 244 00:13:53,119 --> 00:13:58,159 little canyon you can go through to get to your enemy, good 245 00:13:58,159 --> 00:13:58,559 luck. 246 00:14:02,639 --> 00:14:06,079 And so they were very proud, and that's what Obadiah says here. 247 00:14:06,319 --> 00:14:07,799 They were very proud of where they were. 248 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:12,499 The clefts of the rocks that they were in that they had etched 249 00:14:12,499 --> 00:14:15,379 all these buildings into, carved all these buildings into. 250 00:14:15,379 --> 00:14:19,899 They lived in the side of the canyon, they lived in the rocks. 251 00:14:21,739 --> 00:14:23,739 How do you defeat a people who live there? 252 00:14:24,219 --> 00:14:26,858 And it's an amazing, amazing thing. 253 00:14:26,858 --> 00:14:33,099 The beautiful, beautiful area again in that day, they had water 254 00:14:33,579 --> 00:14:39,019 system that brought water from a spring outside the canyon, outside 255 00:14:39,019 --> 00:14:40,619 of Petra, into the canyon. 256 00:14:41,329 --> 00:14:44,929 The very elaborate water system, had very elaborate gardens. 257 00:14:44,929 --> 00:14:48,609 Inside that area, Petra, it was a paradise. 258 00:14:48,849 --> 00:14:50,529 They had turned it into a paradise. 259 00:14:51,169 --> 00:14:55,489 All that water that came from above was all gravity fed. 260 00:14:55,889 --> 00:14:59,889 And it's an amazing, amazing place. 261 00:15:01,249 --> 00:15:02,849 Beautiful, beautiful place. 262 00:15:03,089 --> 00:15:05,249 All different sorts of red colors. 263 00:15:06,049 --> 00:15:08,259 And just an amazing thing. 264 00:15:08,579 --> 00:15:09,939 How much do I want to tell you? 265 00:15:10,179 --> 00:15:14,939 One of the things as I was studying and reading about the Edomites 266 00:15:14,939 --> 00:15:18,739 again, descendants of Esau, they settled again below the Dead 267 00:15:18,739 --> 00:15:21,939 Sea in the area around Petra. 268 00:15:21,939 --> 00:15:25,859 And there's other areas, of course, it was a larger area. 269 00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:28,339 In other words, the Edomites were not just in Petra. 270 00:15:28,739 --> 00:15:31,699 There was an Edomite kingdom because the Bible says there were 271 00:15:31,699 --> 00:15:32,419 eight kings. 272 00:15:33,949 --> 00:15:34,429 Edom. 273 00:15:34,749 --> 00:15:36,189 Eight kings in Edom. 274 00:15:36,189 --> 00:15:38,109 Well, that's way before Israel ever had a king. 275 00:15:38,509 --> 00:15:40,589 We're talking about the 12th, 13th century. 276 00:15:42,509 --> 00:15:51,229 Well, archaeologists up until the mid-1800s, there was no historical 277 00:15:52,189 --> 00:15:53,149 documentation. 278 00:15:53,309 --> 00:15:56,589 They could not find anything historically on the Edomites. 279 00:15:57,309 --> 00:16:00,519 And so until the middle of the 1800s, they did. 280 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:01,239 They couldn't. 281 00:16:01,559 --> 00:16:04,279 They thought, the Bible's lying, there is no such thing as 282 00:16:04,279 --> 00:16:05,159 the Edomites. 283 00:16:05,319 --> 00:16:07,799 There's nowhere to be found, no people to be found. 284 00:16:08,759 --> 00:16:16,639 And so again, as England began to branch out and explore other places, 285 00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:20,839 there was a man they sent to the palace, you know, the Israel 286 00:16:20,839 --> 00:16:23,799 area, where he learned and became. 287 00:16:24,359 --> 00:16:29,139 He learned and he hung out for three years, learned the language, 288 00:16:29,219 --> 00:16:30,499 learned everything so that he. 289 00:16:30,499 --> 00:16:31,939 And they even said he would. 290 00:16:31,939 --> 00:16:33,299 He looked like an Arab. 291 00:16:33,299 --> 00:16:34,539 He looked just like the Muslims. 292 00:16:34,539 --> 00:16:36,179 He went to church with them, with the. 293 00:16:36,179 --> 00:16:36,979 He went to their. 294 00:16:37,059 --> 00:16:41,379 Anyway, he became basically a Muslim, kind of infiltrated, if you 295 00:16:41,379 --> 00:16:41,619 would. 296 00:16:42,259 --> 00:16:44,499 As he did that, he began to make his way south. 297 00:16:44,819 --> 00:16:50,379 As he made his way south along the River Jordan and then down to 298 00:16:50,379 --> 00:16:51,139 the Dead Sea. 299 00:16:51,589 --> 00:16:55,749 As he made his way past the Dead Sea, his guide said, hey, there 300 00:16:55,749 --> 00:16:56,229 is a. 301 00:16:56,229 --> 00:16:59,829 There is an abandoned city, an ancient city over here. 302 00:17:00,309 --> 00:17:02,309 And he ended up taking him to the. 303 00:17:02,629 --> 00:17:03,429 To Petra. 304 00:17:03,829 --> 00:17:06,469 It was lost for a thousand years. 305 00:17:08,549 --> 00:17:13,509 Nobody from Europe, you know, nobody from that area didn't know 306 00:17:13,509 --> 00:17:14,229 it existed. 307 00:17:15,269 --> 00:17:21,199 And all of a sudden, there you go, the province, the land of Edom, 308 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,879 back on the map by one explorer. 309 00:17:25,999 --> 00:17:29,599 The Bible's true, absolutely true. 310 00:17:29,839 --> 00:17:31,119 And then it wasn't until. 311 00:17:31,439 --> 00:17:35,959 Listen to this, the year 2002, they still could not. 312 00:17:35,959 --> 00:17:39,679 They still said, well, yeah, it wasn't the land of Edom. 313 00:17:39,679 --> 00:17:43,289 It was just Edom, wasn't. 314 00:17:43,289 --> 00:17:44,729 It was the land of Edom, yes. 315 00:17:44,809 --> 00:17:48,009 And the Edomites lived there, but they were just Bedouins. 316 00:17:48,009 --> 00:17:50,089 You know, they just kind of hung out. 317 00:17:50,089 --> 00:17:50,729 They were. 318 00:17:51,049 --> 00:17:51,649 They weren't. 319 00:17:51,649 --> 00:17:55,689 There wasn't really an organized, you know, real country. 320 00:17:56,249 --> 00:17:57,609 There's certainly no kings. 321 00:17:58,889 --> 00:18:00,969 And the guy wrote the book in 2002. 322 00:18:00,969 --> 00:18:08,289 And in 2003, it's amazing, another explorer had went down to 323 00:18:08,289 --> 00:18:12,849 Petra, and down south of Petra are copper mines. 324 00:18:13,169 --> 00:18:15,449 And they began to excavate the copper mines. 325 00:18:15,449 --> 00:18:16,529 And guess what they found? 326 00:18:17,489 --> 00:18:21,569 They found a smelt, a smelter, you know, where they melted down 327 00:18:21,969 --> 00:18:25,808 the copper and they found an elaborate, elaborate city with a 328 00:18:25,808 --> 00:18:26,369 fortress. 329 00:18:26,369 --> 00:18:28,449 And again, just a huge. 330 00:18:28,929 --> 00:18:31,489 And then it was the Edomites. 331 00:18:31,969 --> 00:18:34,929 So the Edomites had taken the copper. 332 00:18:34,929 --> 00:18:37,839 They were making little ignates. 333 00:18:37,839 --> 00:18:40,799 I've been saying that a little bit wrong, but they would make molds 334 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:41,679 and they would pour the. 335 00:18:41,679 --> 00:18:44,479 After they smelted it, they would pour the copper into the little 336 00:18:47,999 --> 00:18:48,719 ingots. 337 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:50,439 There you go. 338 00:18:50,439 --> 00:18:50,879 Thank you. 339 00:18:51,279 --> 00:18:51,878 Ingots. 340 00:18:51,878 --> 00:18:53,359 And they would sell the ingots, right? 341 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,839 They would sell the copper all around the world, the then known 342 00:18:56,839 --> 00:18:57,199 world. 343 00:18:57,759 --> 00:19:05,129 It was an elaborate business, certainly controlled by the Edomites. 344 00:19:05,449 --> 00:19:08,729 And there they found out the Edomites had kings. 345 00:19:10,329 --> 00:19:13,169 And there they found out before that they said, well, the 346 00:19:13,169 --> 00:19:16,249 Edomites weren't around you know, past the 8th century. 347 00:19:16,409 --> 00:19:17,089 Oh, guess what? 348 00:19:17,089 --> 00:19:23,449 They found that just like The Bible says, 13th century, right, 349 00:19:23,849 --> 00:19:25,209 exactly what the Bible says. 350 00:19:25,209 --> 00:19:26,569 That was in 2003. 351 00:19:27,219 --> 00:19:27,539 That's. 352 00:19:27,539 --> 00:19:29,219 I mean, that's just a few days ago. 353 00:19:32,099 --> 00:19:34,739 It's amazing how more stuff comes to light. 354 00:19:35,539 --> 00:19:37,139 The Bible continues. 355 00:19:37,619 --> 00:19:39,379 You know, again, we don't have to defend the Bible. 356 00:19:39,379 --> 00:19:40,859 The Bible defend itself. 357 00:19:40,859 --> 00:19:42,899 You just got to let it out of its cage, right? 358 00:19:43,699 --> 00:19:45,299 And it will every time. 359 00:19:45,299 --> 00:19:49,939 And it has, over these many years, everything that's ever been 360 00:19:50,019 --> 00:19:51,139 found is. 361 00:19:51,219 --> 00:19:53,459 Has just gone on to prove that the Bible. 362 00:19:54,499 --> 00:19:54,819 True. 363 00:19:56,899 --> 00:19:59,459 So that's the Edomites, descendants of Esau. 364 00:20:00,579 --> 00:20:05,499 And if you'll look on the back page of the handout, you'll see it 365 00:20:05,499 --> 00:20:07,539 says, who and what is Edom? 366 00:20:08,099 --> 00:20:10,019 And on there, I've given you some of the stuff. 367 00:20:10,019 --> 00:20:12,259 I've already given you off just now. 368 00:20:12,339 --> 00:20:15,099 120 times in the Old Testament, they were going to be 369 00:20:15,099 --> 00:20:19,779 judged for their pride and of the destruction of Israel, of Jerusalem, 370 00:20:20,529 --> 00:20:21,569 Edomite, the Edom. 371 00:20:21,569 --> 00:20:23,569 The word, the name Edom means red. 372 00:20:24,209 --> 00:20:27,369 And it's in reference to Esau's reddish look at birth. 373 00:20:27,369 --> 00:20:30,169 Remember, he was reddish and hairy all over. 374 00:20:30,169 --> 00:20:35,009 The Bible says, all right, Edomites, Israelites, lived in almost 375 00:20:35,009 --> 00:20:36,168 perpetual conflict. 376 00:20:36,168 --> 00:20:37,169 I said that while ago. 377 00:20:38,369 --> 00:20:40,409 Another paragraph down there, it says the kingdom had developed 378 00:20:40,409 --> 00:20:43,569 a government led by kings long before the monarchy of Israel. 379 00:20:44,049 --> 00:20:45,329 And you can go through and read that. 380 00:20:47,259 --> 00:20:49,259 And I'm going to stop because I've pretty well given you all of 381 00:20:49,259 --> 00:20:49,499 this. 382 00:20:54,299 --> 00:20:58,459 All right, so you can go back through. 383 00:20:58,459 --> 00:21:00,259 That'll give you the information I just gave you. 384 00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:02,779 And you can read through that about the Edomites. 385 00:21:07,659 --> 00:21:09,259 So now we'll talk about the prophets. 386 00:21:10,299 --> 00:21:14,459 So we see again, the Obadiah is a minor prophet. 387 00:21:14,939 --> 00:21:16,579 Look at the chart on the front now. 388 00:21:16,579 --> 00:21:19,019 So go to the front, the minor prophet overview. 389 00:21:19,419 --> 00:21:20,939 And let's look at that for a few minutes. 390 00:21:21,979 --> 00:21:25,339 If you look at that chart, if you kind of go over to your right, 391 00:21:26,539 --> 00:21:29,419 it says minor prophets delivering major messages. 392 00:21:30,059 --> 00:21:33,299 So just because it's a minor prophet does not mean that the message 393 00:21:33,299 --> 00:21:35,419 is any less than the major prophets. 394 00:21:35,899 --> 00:21:37,619 It just means they're less in length. 395 00:21:37,619 --> 00:21:42,309 So minor is length, but not in depth, breadth or height. 396 00:21:42,309 --> 00:21:44,029 You see that there on the right top? 397 00:21:44,029 --> 00:21:45,949 The right at the top. 398 00:21:46,429 --> 00:21:49,429 All right, the next little line says, from the fading of the 399 00:21:49,429 --> 00:21:55,149 kingdom until it fall through the flow of the returning remnant. 400 00:21:55,149 --> 00:22:00,149 So again, what you have is again, under King David, the kingdoms 401 00:22:00,149 --> 00:22:00,669 were united. 402 00:22:01,469 --> 00:22:05,239 You had the federation of the kingdoms under a King David. 403 00:22:05,639 --> 00:22:05,999 Right? 404 00:22:05,999 --> 00:22:08,919 Because when King David first came to power, it was just two of 405 00:22:08,919 --> 00:22:09,439 the tribes. 406 00:22:09,439 --> 00:22:13,399 And then later, about seven years later, it became all the tribes. 407 00:22:13,559 --> 00:22:16,119 And then David was king over all 12 tribes. 408 00:22:17,079 --> 00:22:19,319 And under Solomon, you had them all federated. 409 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:21,799 All the tribes were together, the 12 tribes of Israel. 410 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:27,319 But then after Solomon dies, it splits into two kingdoms. 411 00:22:27,319 --> 00:22:30,199 The northern kingdom, which is referred to as Israel. 412 00:22:30,199 --> 00:22:32,839 The southern kingdom, which many times is referred to Judah. 413 00:22:33,469 --> 00:22:33,949 Judah. 414 00:22:34,509 --> 00:22:39,469 So you have the fading of the kingdoms as they're. 415 00:22:39,709 --> 00:22:41,669 As they're going into captivity. 416 00:22:41,669 --> 00:22:45,389 All right, so after they've split, then the northern kingdom 417 00:22:45,389 --> 00:22:47,709 is carried away into captivity by the Assyrians. 418 00:22:47,869 --> 00:22:51,629 The southern kingdom is carried into captivity by the Babylonians 419 00:22:51,629 --> 00:22:53,149 in 606 BC. 420 00:22:54,509 --> 00:22:58,509 Then King Cyrus, 70 years later, makes a decree, and the remnant 421 00:22:58,509 --> 00:23:03,169 begins to flow back into Israel. 422 00:23:03,729 --> 00:23:04,769 Everybody kind of get the. 423 00:23:04,769 --> 00:23:08,529 I've handed out that chart before with all the Fs on it, but 424 00:23:09,089 --> 00:23:12,449 the flow back into Jerusalem. 425 00:23:12,609 --> 00:23:14,449 So that's why he's saying, if you look there. 426 00:23:14,929 --> 00:23:19,809 So the prophet wrote about sin and warned of judgment. 427 00:23:19,809 --> 00:23:21,009 So all the prophets do this. 428 00:23:21,009 --> 00:23:22,049 Every prophet does it. 429 00:23:22,049 --> 00:23:25,209 Every prophet, when they're prophesying, especially the minor 430 00:23:25,209 --> 00:23:26,289 prophets, it's very evident. 431 00:23:26,999 --> 00:23:28,519 They prophesy against sin. 432 00:23:29,719 --> 00:23:34,199 They preach against the sin of Israel or the sin of Edom or the 433 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,999 sin of Nineveh or whatever it is. 434 00:23:37,399 --> 00:23:40,639 And they preach and they prophesy against them. 435 00:23:40,639 --> 00:23:42,999 Then they prophesy of judgment for that sin. 436 00:23:43,319 --> 00:23:46,319 Because of what you did, God is going to judge you. 437 00:23:46,319 --> 00:23:48,279 God is going to do this, this, this and this. 438 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:49,719 And man, I mean, it's. 439 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:51,559 Yeah, it's pretty rough. 440 00:23:53,169 --> 00:23:55,409 Like he says he's going to wipe them off the face of the earth 441 00:23:55,729 --> 00:23:56,609 for their sin. 442 00:23:57,489 --> 00:23:58,049 And then. 443 00:23:58,049 --> 00:24:02,529 But all the prophets, including Obadiah, then they step 444 00:24:02,529 --> 00:24:08,328 in and speak about the mercy of God and the restoration and the 445 00:24:08,328 --> 00:24:09,249 coming Messiah. 446 00:24:09,969 --> 00:24:12,689 So you see them talk about, hey, you're sinning. 447 00:24:13,089 --> 00:24:14,609 Hey, God's going to judge you. 448 00:24:14,929 --> 00:24:20,529 But God is a merciful God and a God of second chances, and he's 449 00:24:20,529 --> 00:24:23,409 coming back and he's a wonderful, gracious God. 450 00:24:23,569 --> 00:24:24,209 And he is. 451 00:24:24,209 --> 00:24:24,769 Amen. 452 00:24:25,329 --> 00:24:26,929 I'm glad he's the God of second chances. 453 00:24:28,289 --> 00:24:28,929 Amen. 454 00:24:29,809 --> 00:24:31,889 God will restore anyone. 455 00:24:34,129 --> 00:24:36,929 And of course, touching on the coming Messiah. 456 00:24:37,889 --> 00:24:40,729 So as you read the prophets, when you're reading through your 457 00:24:40,729 --> 00:24:43,729 Bible, which you should be doing, be reminded of that again, 458 00:24:44,859 --> 00:24:49,539 what sin is going on, the judgment for that sin, but then the 459 00:24:49,539 --> 00:24:50,619 promise of mercy. 460 00:24:50,699 --> 00:24:51,299 I'm glad. 461 00:24:51,299 --> 00:24:52,539 God always gives us hope. 462 00:24:53,659 --> 00:24:54,859 He always gives us hope. 463 00:24:55,979 --> 00:24:56,659 I'm thankful. 464 00:24:56,659 --> 00:24:59,899 I know today that he is going to return I'm looking forward to 465 00:24:59,899 --> 00:25:02,939 the blessed hope and it could be today. 466 00:25:03,739 --> 00:25:08,259 If you look down again at the chart, the next little line down 467 00:25:08,259 --> 00:25:11,169 says pre exilic and post exilic. 468 00:25:11,399 --> 00:25:13,399 So pre exilic means before the exile. 469 00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:18,599 Alright, so before they were carried into Babylon, exilic means 470 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:22,119 during the 70 years of exile. 471 00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:26,159 So Daniel and Ezekiel prophesying to the Babylonians and 472 00:25:26,159 --> 00:25:27,719 the Jews in exile. 473 00:25:27,959 --> 00:25:31,879 Then post exilic, after they return to Jerusalem, you have Haggai, 474 00:25:31,879 --> 00:25:32,959 Zechariah and Malachi. 475 00:25:32,959 --> 00:25:36,159 What I love about this little chart is it gives you not only the 476 00:25:36,159 --> 00:25:39,159 time frame in which they were prophesying, but but who they prophesied 477 00:25:39,159 --> 00:25:39,439 to. 478 00:25:39,439 --> 00:25:43,879 So look there below there Obadiah is prophesying to Edom, Joel 479 00:25:43,879 --> 00:25:47,599 is prophesying to Judah, Jonah to Nineveh, Amos to northern kingdom, 480 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:50,479 Hosea to the northern kingdom, Micah to the southern kingdom, Nahum 481 00:25:50,479 --> 00:25:55,319 to Nineveh, Zephaniah to the southern kingdom, Habakkuk to the 482 00:25:55,319 --> 00:25:55,959 southern kingdom. 483 00:25:55,959 --> 00:25:56,879 Everybody kind of see that. 484 00:25:57,439 --> 00:26:01,719 So these prophets were going to, you know, primarily to these 485 00:26:01,719 --> 00:26:03,359 nations when they were prophesying. 486 00:26:04,809 --> 00:26:07,729 And then the post exilic ones is Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, of 487 00:26:07,729 --> 00:26:08,969 course they're there with the. 488 00:26:09,049 --> 00:26:14,169 They're there in Jerusalem prophesying to the returning remnant 489 00:26:14,169 --> 00:26:16,569 of the children of Israel who returned. 490 00:26:16,649 --> 00:26:19,689 First time was under Zerubbabel in the book of Ezra. 491 00:26:19,849 --> 00:26:22,449 And then the middle of the book of Ezra you have Ezra return 492 00:26:22,449 --> 00:26:23,929 as well with a group of people. 493 00:26:24,169 --> 00:26:29,209 And then in Nehemiah you have Nehemiah return with a group of people 494 00:26:29,209 --> 00:26:29,974 to Jerusalem. 495 00:26:29,974 --> 00:26:36,089 And it's Zerubbabel and Ezra who eventually we see the temple 496 00:26:36,729 --> 00:26:37,449 rebuilt. 497 00:26:37,769 --> 00:26:41,769 And then under Nehemiah you see the walls of Jerusalem rebuilt. 498 00:26:42,889 --> 00:26:44,489 How many of y' all followed all that? 499 00:26:44,729 --> 00:26:46,569 It's a good little chart, really is good. 500 00:26:48,969 --> 00:26:51,449 We don't have time to do the chronological one on the inside, 501 00:26:51,449 --> 00:26:52,729 but go to the inside. 502 00:26:53,529 --> 00:26:55,129 There are two charts on the inside. 503 00:26:55,289 --> 00:26:57,609 One of them is the chronological order of the Old Testament. 504 00:26:58,009 --> 00:26:59,529 This is an amazing chart, this chart. 505 00:26:59,529 --> 00:27:03,649 When I went to Norris, I was 18 and I had been raised in an independent 506 00:27:03,649 --> 00:27:04,889 fundamental red letter edition. 507 00:27:04,889 --> 00:27:08,809 King James preaching pre millennial, pre trib. 508 00:27:09,209 --> 00:27:10,089 I mean everything. 509 00:27:10,169 --> 00:27:11,849 And I had never been taught this. 510 00:27:12,889 --> 00:27:15,929 And this chronological order of the Bible will help you if you 511 00:27:15,929 --> 00:27:19,849 kind of just look through there and see not only the dates 512 00:27:19,849 --> 00:27:23,769 in which these were written, the time frame, like, well, how long, 513 00:27:24,249 --> 00:27:25,649 how many years does numbers cover? 514 00:27:25,649 --> 00:27:26,969 Well, it covers 39 years. 515 00:27:27,689 --> 00:27:29,089 How many years does Joshua cover? 516 00:27:29,089 --> 00:27:29,849 25 years. 517 00:27:30,089 --> 00:27:31,409 Where's Leviticus fit in? 518 00:27:31,409 --> 00:27:33,529 Well, Leviticus fits in the book of Exodus. 519 00:27:33,769 --> 00:27:36,769 God gave Moses the plans for the tabernacles. 520 00:27:36,769 --> 00:27:37,609 That's where it fits in. 521 00:27:37,609 --> 00:27:38,929 Where does Deuteronomy fit in? 522 00:27:38,929 --> 00:27:42,169 Well, we've been studying that a little bit because of Joshua. 523 00:27:42,169 --> 00:27:46,209 It fits in right before or right at the end of numbers as they 524 00:27:46,209 --> 00:27:48,729 go before they go in to the promised land. 525 00:27:48,729 --> 00:27:52,649 Deuteronomy is remember how many y' all remember is Moses sermons 526 00:27:53,089 --> 00:27:55,369 to the children of Israel before they go into the promised 527 00:27:55,369 --> 00:27:55,729 land. 528 00:27:56,289 --> 00:27:59,489 And Joshua, Judges, the book of Ruth fits in the time of Judges 529 00:27:59,489 --> 00:28:00,649 and on and on and on. 530 00:28:00,649 --> 00:28:05,409 But at the top it again gives you the prophets and when they were 531 00:28:05,409 --> 00:28:06,049 prophesying. 532 00:28:06,369 --> 00:28:09,449 So at the top you can go through, you can see the numbers 533 00:28:09,449 --> 00:28:11,849 in which and the times in which they were prophesying. 534 00:28:11,849 --> 00:28:13,009 It's just a great chart. 535 00:28:16,289 --> 00:28:19,299 I will move on because we have just a few minutes. 536 00:28:19,299 --> 00:28:22,379 The other chart I gave you, just because we're in the book of 537 00:28:22,379 --> 00:28:24,139 Daniel on Sunday night, it's an amazing chart. 538 00:28:24,139 --> 00:28:27,979 We're going to use this chart on a Sunday night at some point and 539 00:28:28,779 --> 00:28:29,459 it's tremendous. 540 00:28:29,459 --> 00:28:30,619 You can take it home and look at it. 541 00:28:30,779 --> 00:28:32,259 Alright, now everybody put that stuff up. 542 00:28:32,259 --> 00:28:32,659 You ready? 543 00:28:32,659 --> 00:28:33,419 Put it in your Bible. 544 00:28:34,619 --> 00:28:35,379 Good, good. 545 00:28:35,379 --> 00:28:35,979 Thank you. 546 00:28:38,379 --> 00:28:39,659 Take it home, look at it. 547 00:28:39,739 --> 00:28:41,339 If you have any questions, let me know. 548 00:28:42,459 --> 00:28:49,629 The prophets, we're prophetically living in the last 549 00:28:49,629 --> 00:28:49,989 days. 550 00:28:51,829 --> 00:28:57,069 And I believe we're living in the last of the last days as we go 551 00:28:57,069 --> 00:28:58,109 through the book of Obadiah. 552 00:28:58,109 --> 00:29:01,909 There's several lessons we can learn from this wonderful book. 553 00:29:03,269 --> 00:29:06,869 The primary of that of course, is going to be about the relationship 554 00:29:06,869 --> 00:29:12,439 we should have with the nation of Israel and also to understand 555 00:29:12,439 --> 00:29:17,079 and know God's love for the Jews. 556 00:29:18,439 --> 00:29:25,399 He called them the apple of Zai Edom was judged for their treatment 557 00:29:25,399 --> 00:29:26,199 of Israel. 558 00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:27,959 Think about that for a moment. 559 00:29:28,119 --> 00:29:29,239 How does that apply today? 560 00:29:30,199 --> 00:29:31,719 Well, it's very evident, isn't it? 561 00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:35,879 I mean, when Hamas went into Israel and did what they did, and 562 00:29:35,879 --> 00:29:41,039 you had people on two sides of that, people who wouldn't condemn 563 00:29:41,039 --> 00:29:44,959 that, people who said, well, they deserved it. 564 00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:52,039 If that would have been Americans who were killed and then 565 00:29:52,039 --> 00:29:58,799 many taken as hostages, what would the outcry have been? 566 00:30:00,239 --> 00:30:06,789 By the way, there's still, I think 50, almost 50 hostages in my 567 00:30:06,789 --> 00:30:09,549 opinion, and it's on the Internet and everything, they should 568 00:30:09,549 --> 00:30:10,229 wipe them out. 569 00:30:11,829 --> 00:30:15,269 You don't take somebody's citizens, just go, I don't get it. 570 00:30:15,749 --> 00:30:18,869 It's hard for me to process how someone, especially a lot of 571 00:30:18,869 --> 00:30:22,069 the Hollywood crowd, a Lot of that group. 572 00:30:22,629 --> 00:30:25,429 Even today there was a particular actor. 573 00:30:26,789 --> 00:30:28,069 It's crazy, isn't it? 574 00:30:30,719 --> 00:30:31,759 Genesis, chapter 12. 575 00:30:32,639 --> 00:30:37,359 God's promised Abraham, I will bless them that bless thee and curse 576 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:38,479 them that curseth thee. 577 00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:42,319 And the book of Obadiah is just an example of that. 578 00:30:47,439 --> 00:30:55,439 Edomites constantly conflict with them in Israel. 579 00:30:56,759 --> 00:31:02,159 As the Israelites were coming out of Egypt and coming to the promised 580 00:31:02,159 --> 00:31:06,079 land, they asked the king of Edom, can we come across your province? 581 00:31:06,079 --> 00:31:06,839 He said, no. 582 00:31:09,159 --> 00:31:12,039 I mean, it was a constant conflict there. 583 00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:15,399 And today we see the same thing. 584 00:31:15,399 --> 00:31:19,399 We continue to see anti Semitic people around the world. 585 00:31:20,679 --> 00:31:23,709 And this has been true since God chose Abraham. 586 00:31:24,749 --> 00:31:27,389 And I said it right, God chose Abraham. 587 00:31:27,869 --> 00:31:30,989 By the way, he's God, he can do anything he wants. 588 00:31:31,629 --> 00:31:33,069 But why did he choose Abraham? 589 00:31:33,069 --> 00:31:36,789 I believe I could give you a few things of why, but I can just 590 00:31:36,789 --> 00:31:38,109 tell you the sovereignty of God. 591 00:31:39,229 --> 00:31:40,029 He's in control. 592 00:31:41,789 --> 00:31:44,669 And we'll talk about that as we go through this study. 593 00:31:45,389 --> 00:31:49,519 It's important, though, we understand that we, the United States, 594 00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:51,559 must stay vigilant in our support of Israel. 595 00:31:56,599 --> 00:31:58,199 By the way, Israel's not perfect. 596 00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:03,479 I'm not saying that we, that we condone everything they do. 597 00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:06,919 And I don't believe that God's asking that at all. 598 00:32:07,399 --> 00:32:13,079 But he is saying, you better support my people, and as a nation, 599 00:32:13,079 --> 00:32:15,439 we better continue to support Israel. 600 00:32:15,679 --> 00:32:19,439 Or what happened to Edom will be our lot as well. 601 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:26,959 Again, I look forward to combating the replacement theology 602 00:32:27,679 --> 00:32:31,719 that has been very popular, has become very popular in the last 603 00:32:31,719 --> 00:32:33,839 few years or last, really last 20 years. 604 00:32:33,839 --> 00:32:42,249 And that is those who believe that the church replaced Israel and 605 00:32:42,249 --> 00:32:45,769 those that don't see the Jews as still being God's chosen people. 606 00:32:46,249 --> 00:32:51,449 I'm telling you, be very wary of that because, boy, Genesis 12:3. 607 00:32:52,889 --> 00:32:56,969 I don't want to be in the way of what God has said when it comes 608 00:32:56,969 --> 00:32:57,849 to that curse. 609 00:32:58,969 --> 00:33:00,729 God is not done with his people. 610 00:33:01,529 --> 00:33:04,169 Israel, the Jew is still God's chosen people. 611 00:33:05,129 --> 00:33:09,609 And surely they've been set aside as the churches as God has 612 00:33:09,609 --> 00:33:15,849 called out his, you know, again, the saved to bear the good 613 00:33:15,849 --> 00:33:17,129 news around the world. 614 00:33:18,329 --> 00:33:22,969 But one day the rapture will take place and the Jews will once 615 00:33:22,969 --> 00:33:30,409 again be at the very heart of what God's plan and purpose is for 616 00:33:30,409 --> 00:33:30,889 the world. 617 00:33:33,379 --> 00:33:35,219 By the way, it'll be a Jew that sits on the throne. 618 00:33:37,859 --> 00:33:38,979 Jesus is a Jew. 619 00:33:39,619 --> 00:33:42,459 And if King David is the one sitting on the throne in Jerusalem, 620 00:33:42,459 --> 00:33:43,379 that'll be interesting. 621 00:33:44,819 --> 00:33:45,459 A Jew. 622 00:33:48,339 --> 00:33:51,059 May we continue to love and support the nation of Israel. 623 00:33:51,219 --> 00:33:55,459 I'm thankful we have a president who does again. 624 00:33:55,619 --> 00:33:58,659 And I very rarely get political, do I? 625 00:33:58,819 --> 00:34:01,379 Think around here we do a decent job of not being political 626 00:34:02,109 --> 00:34:04,629 all the time, but it's important every once in a while to 627 00:34:04,629 --> 00:34:08,669 say that other crowd, if they'd have been in, what a mess 628 00:34:08,669 --> 00:34:09,469 we would have been in. 629 00:34:11,389 --> 00:34:14,749 No backbone, by the way. 630 00:34:14,749 --> 00:34:18,669 Didn't even, I think he had to be told his name every morning when 631 00:34:18,669 --> 00:34:19,229 he got up. 632 00:34:19,389 --> 00:34:20,749 Hey, your name is Joe Biden. 633 00:34:21,469 --> 00:34:22,829 You're the President of the United States. 634 00:34:25,629 --> 00:34:27,149 It's crazy, isn't it? 635 00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:30,359 It's crazy the world we live in. 636 00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:32,519 Say, preacher, you shouldn't do that from the pulpit. 637 00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:34,759 Well, yeah, I should. 638 00:34:37,319 --> 00:34:37,999 God is good. 639 00:34:37,999 --> 00:34:41,239 And remembering that God is on the throne, God will never forget 640 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:41,719 his own. 641 00:34:42,359 --> 00:34:44,279 He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. 642 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,679 And God rules in the affairs of man. 643 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:48,359 And he's coming again. 644 00:34:48,359 --> 00:34:52,159 And at the end of the book of Obadiah, just like all the other 645 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,779 prophets, he speaks about that coming kingdom, the one that will 646 00:34:55,779 --> 00:35:00,259 never end, the one who will sit on the throne forever and ever 647 00:35:00,259 --> 00:35:01,499 and ever and ever. 648 00:35:02,139 --> 00:35:05,739 It's going to be an amazing, amazing, amazing time. 649 00:35:05,899 --> 00:35:06,619 Let's all stand. 650 00:35:06,619 --> 00:35:07,819 We'll have a verse invitation. 651 00:35:08,938 --> 00:35:10,779 Wherever he leads, I'll go. 652 00:35:10,859 --> 00:35:12,379 I hope that was helpful tonight. 653 00:35:12,539 --> 00:35:14,429 And then there are prayers.