Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Today's July 1st, and tonight is the Pride in the Sky Event, and we would love to see you there if there's still opportunity. If the link is still on the website and I think it will be. Why don't you go ahead and sign up to help set up or tear down, that would be fantastic. Or join us and be part of the festivities. Help us enjoy some food. Last time that we were there, Kroger was there and they were giving out free food. You use an app, you order the food, and you go and pick it up. It was awesome. I didn't know that that was gonna be there, and I was stoked. I loved it. I went there multiple times. Everybody did. I think it was great. You should show up. Give it a shot. Alright. It's July 1st, as I mentioned, and today, let me think. Today is July. Yeah. Today Pastor PJ is back in the office, so welcome him back. Welcome back PPJ. Glad to have you. Sorry I'm not there to welcome you. But we're glad to have you back. He also, if you remember, celebrated his 41st birthday. So if you see him sometime soon, either in the office or at church, remember to wish him a happy birthday if you'd get a chance to do that, and let him know how much you appreciate having him back. I know I do. Welcome back PPJ. I am so, so grateful you're back. And by the way, I'm also grateful to be on vacation this week. Thank you for giving me some time off. I appreciate it. I needed it. Okay. I promised you yesterday that we were gonna cover Obadiah, and I told you why. In Second Chronicles 20, we see that there's an occasion where it looks like this could fit. And as I mentioned earlier, this could fit in multiple places. And so no one's exactly sure because there's no indication in the book, there's no internal evidence to say this is written during this particular kingship or this particular battle. And so it's a bit. Unclear to us who exactly the immediate audience is in terms of the timing. We know that it's obviously for the people of Judah, Judah's the one who suffers the humili humiliation here. But in terms of the timing, we don't know when the book was written or we're not entirely sure of the timing of the book even. So what we do see here is valuable and helpful for us. Obediah. This is the vision of Obadiah. We don't know which one this is. We talked about this earlier. There's another obadiah that we referenced early in book of Kings one, Kings 19. He's referenced as the household manager for Ahab, but this is likely not the same guy. We have reason to believe that. They're not the same person. But beyond that, we don't know. He doesn't give any lineage. He doesn't give any state that he comes from. He just says the vision of Obediah. So there's a lot more questions here than timing. It's also about who this guy is. We don't know, but here's what he says. In the shortest book of the Old Testament, he says, the pride of your heart has deceived you. The first thing he calls out Edem for is for pride. They think they're impervious to attack. They believe that they're not gonna be ever taken down because of where they're situated. They're literally in the rocks. They have a fortress made of rock that gives them this sense of invincibility. I. And yet God says You think that you are impervious to attack, but the reality is you're not. In fact, I'm going to take you down. I'm gonna be the one to bring you down. If the Lord's saying that to you, you're in a bad place. This is not a good situation for them. Remember Edem? It is from the people of Esau. Edem is all of Esau's offspring, so they're related to Judah through Jacob. Jacob and Esau are brothers. Remember, they're twin brothers. Jacob gets the blessing. Esau doesn't, he gets tricked out of it for a bowl of stew. Eden's upset about that. Esau's upset about that, and then eventually they shake hands in part ways. Esau becomes the people of Edem. And so there's always a connection there and an underlying assumption that there should be amicable relations here. But Edem tends to do things that are antagonistic toward Judah. And so here, God calls him out, he says in verses five and following, look, if these came to you. Would they not steal only enough? In other words, they would show mercy. You showed no mercy to the people of Judah. And so God threatens them in verses eight and nine. There's a day coming where he will destroy the wise men out of Edem and he will pull down their mighty men O Teman, which is a city in Edem. And he's saying, look, I'm going to make sure that every man from Mount Esau be cut off by slaughter. God is promising severe judgment here, I. And he tells them why in verse 10, because of the violence done to your brother, Jacob, shame shall cover you and you shall be cut off forever. On the day that you stood aloof on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them. In other words, you didn't protect your brother, you actually antagonized him. You went after the same goods that the enemies are going after, and you gloated and you entered the city gates in the day of calamity. You gloated over their disaster. You looted their wealth. You did everything you could to make it hard for them to have any chance of survival. In fact, verse 14 says, they stood at the crossroads that cut off the fugitives. They handed over the survivors to their enemies. They were actively working against Judah and Israel and supporting their enemies, whoever they were in this particular occasion. So God then forecast a future day. When God's gonna set the score, he's going to settle all the accounts that need to be settled. And this day clearly is not a day that was in Israel's or Judah's history. This is a day yet future. So he says this, for the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. This is a eschatological term. Typically, the day of the Lord is more than just a day as in a day on the calendar, Tuesday the fifth or whatever. It is a day as in a season of time wherein God judges the evil. He's going to take an account all the evil and destroy it for good. There's multiple days of the Lord that you could point to in the Old Covenant. And in the new covenant where God executes some form of justice. It's a preview of the ultimate day, a trailer to the movie, so to speak. The ultimate day of the Lord, though will be. Future, and that's what we're talking about here. He says, the day lord's coming, it's near. It's upon all the nations. Here the day of the Lord is going to be God's people used to destroy God's enemies and of those enemies, Esau is one of them. Jacob shall be a fire. Verse 18, the house of Joseph, A flame. This is the northern kingdom and the house of Esau stubble, and they will be consumed and there's gonna be no survivor. The last remaining verses of Obediah speak about the kingdom of the Lord, and this is about the millennial kingdom, the millennial reign of Christ. He talks about a future where. The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as the Zarephath. So he's saying the people of Israel, people of Judah will gather, they will possess all the land that they were promised, and they will execute justice. Verse 21, savior shall go up from Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. This is the future millennial reign of Christ. God's people are restored, the land is given. All the promises in the old covenant are now delivered full. And complete in the millennial reign of Christ. And this is why we are dispensationalist, in part because we see prophecies like this. And we don't think that the best answer to this is to say, oh, this is the church's inheritance. This is a spiritual promise of what the church would do. We think it's better to look at this. With a grammatical historical lens leaning on the literal nature of these prophecies and saying, this has to be something that God will eventually do, and we have reason to believe that because the other prophecies that were given to Israel were literally fulfilled. Why would this be spiritual? And so we look forward to the day when the Lord reigns in Jerusalem on Mount Zion. The Kingdom shall be the Lord's. This sounds a little bit to me, like Revelation 11, verse 15, the seventh angel blew his trumpet and there were loud voices in heaven saying The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. Come quickly. Lord Jesus, we want this and we should pray toward this end. Psalm 82, we have here God. Interacting with human judges. At least that's my best understanding of this passage. Verse one says, God has taken his place in the divine counsel or the divine assembly. That might be a better way to put it In the midst of the God's, lowercase G, he holds judgment. The word for gods is Elohim. The word Elohim can be legitimately applied to a lot of different kinds of people. It could be applied to kings, it was applied to Moses. It could be applied here to judges. Elohim is a. Is a way to talk about representatives of God. Now you can have lots of lowercase g gods Elohim, without talking about the one true God. The word Elohim can also be referred, can also be used to refer to uppercase, G God, the God of heaven and of earth. And so it's not inappropriate, it's just unusual to Aren ears when we read that. So he says to the divine counsel, in the midst of the gods, he holds judgment. And then he charges these judges, I think, with judging unjustly, showing partiality to the wicked. And so he says, give justice to the weak and the fatherless. This is biblical justice, by the way, and this is what it's meant to look like. The evil get punishment, the good, get protection and blessings. And that's what he's saying. Do that. Give punishment to the wicked. Give righteousness to the righteous rescue. The weak and needy. Verse four, deliver them from the hand of the wicked, which suggests suppression. There's a pursuit of the powerful and the mighty against the weak and the vulnerable, and he's saying, step inside, do something about that. And this is how biblical justice works. This is still us today. We can look at the nation of Israel and say, okay, we're not the nation. We don't have the same laws on the books, but we sh we should still look out for those who are weak and oppressed by the rich and the powerful. Although we don't want to make a broad brush conclusion that if you're rich, you're automatically oppressive, or if you're poor, you're automatically a victim of some circumstance. There's a lot of factors that are included in calculations like this, but Christians should be on the forefront of making wise just calculations according to the wisdom given to us by the Bible. And so he says in verse five, they have either knowledge nor understanding. They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. And he says, look, even though I called you Elohim, gods. Sons of the most high representatives of mine, like men, you're gonna die like a mere mortal. You will die. Verse eight is a call Maratha. Oh, arise. Arise. Oh god. Judge the earth for you shall inherit the nations. Ultimately the only king that we. Can find no fault with is King Jesus. The only judge who is perfect in justice is the just judge of all the Earth, our Lord and our God. And that's what we pray for. Psalm 83, Speaking of justice, this psalm is a call for justice against the enemies who conspire against God's people they're seeking to erase. Israel's name and they're united and they're planning against them. And the psalmist here ASAP is requesting divine protection and retribution. He looks at past victories and based on verses here, nine, 10, and 11, it looks like he was reading somewhere in the region of judges four through judges eight, because that's where all of these examples come from. He's asking God to make his enemies like dust and chaff and to consume them and to fill them with shame, and so he says. Do this in verse 16, that they may seek your name. Oh Lord, that's critical. Even as he's praying for God to deal with them and to judge them justly, he's saying in verse 16, the redemptive quality or the redemptive goal for this is that they may seek your name. God's justice is good because if it's done right, it points people to God himself. Only God can execute righteousness because only God gives us right laws. He himself is the source and standard of goodness. And therefore when justice is executed and there's a relief upon the soul of saying, ah, that's right, that's good. It points us to God himself. He says, let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Let them perish and disgrace. Verse 18, that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord whose name is Yahweh, are the most high over all the earth. And so not only does his justice point to his character, but the fact that he executes justice shows that he is the powerful one and only sovereign overall creation. And again, that's what we're looking for when we're looking for God's justice. Biblical justice will highlight God's character and God's power. And that's what we want, and that's what we should still pray for. And that's Psalm 83. Thank you so much for joining me today. I am honored to do it and I look forward to seeing you in about two weeks, give or take. Me and Pastor pge will be back on the microphones together working for you, and we love to do that. Thank you for giving us this privilege of serving you in this way. Let's pray. God, thank you for your word, how it feeds us and changes us, and challenges us to think in biblical categories. I love the fact, Lord, that we can read your word and constantly find ourselves challenged by the things that you say, either challenge in our understanding about you or challenged in the way that we're living for you. Lord, please continue to do that. I never wanna encounter your word without being changed or challenged in some way. I. Please do that for everybody listening. Help us to approach your word as men and women who are humble before it. We don't wanna be proud. We don't want to commit the sins of Edo and thinking that our lives are impenetrable, that we are impervious to destruction or impervious to some catastrophe. Lord, we are always vulnerable and therefore we should call out to you for protection and call out to you for direction. Help us to humbly walk with you this week and to do what your word says as your people. We ask all this in Jesus name, amen. Hey, thank you so much for joining me. I'll see you in a couple weeks. Have a great day.

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