1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,560 Season two of Love in Context podcast welcomes you. Get ready for engaging unscripted conversations 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:14,240 with your hosts, Ben and Spencer. Our mission remains unchanged to explore the Bible through 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:19,880 the powerful lens of love. In this new season, we'll embark on a journey together, unearthing 4 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,000 fresh insights and gaining deeper understanding of how we can love God and live out our faith 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,360 in practical ways. So let's dive into this season of Love in Context, where love in the 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,560 context of the Bible intersect to transform our lives. 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:43,560 New series, new series, new series. Little book, big message. I like it. It kind of reminds 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:49,400 me so people who listen and go to our church or in town probably know that we had a summer 9 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:56,200 series called Minor Prophets Major Implications. So immediately when our church secretary saw 10 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:02,400 that title, she's like, you came up with that, didn't you? And I was like, yes, yes, I did. 11 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:08,140 She's like, because we love Pastor Nick, but he doesn't come up with quirky titles. No, 12 00:01:08,140 --> 00:01:16,400 that is definitely a Ben thing. So we are going to jump in. So the idea of little book, 13 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:21,220 big message is we're going to over the next I think it's five weeks, tackling the single 14 00:01:21,220 --> 00:01:28,320 chapter books. Yeah. So today, we're in Obadiah, which is really cool because you actually 15 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,840 just preached on this not in like just a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. So it's all really fresh 16 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,080 in your head. So for those that are listening, that was a long time ago, two weeks, man, 17 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:42,160 two weeks. Listen, when you have kids and people who are listening who have kids will 18 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:48,040 come 100% agree. You have kids two weeks is a very long time. Sorry, I should specify 19 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:53,760 when you have kids that are under seven, seven, right? When they require just a ton of attention. 20 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,880 Yeah. Just a like, probably to help people because I mean, I don't think Obadiah is necessarily 21 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,600 like the first book that rolls off people's lips when they're thinking about which book 22 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:06,400 to read in the Bible. I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe for you it is just to 23 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:12,960 get some context on the book of Obadiah. So it it falls in. It's a prophecy against the 24 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:20,760 the country of Edom. And so if you know Edom, it's actually that a sentence of Esau. So 25 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,480 if you go back to our first season where we were talking about Jacob and Esau and this 26 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,960 this conflict that is going on between them. Well, it turns out that those those things 27 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,360 tend not to go away. Yeah, they if you have conflict in your family, it tends to follow 28 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,480 you generationally. Yeah. And so now we actually have this prophecy coming against the the 29 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,640 country of Edom. And what has happened to Israel at this point is God has warned him. 30 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:46,720 He's like, hey, come back to your covenant, come back to your covenant, come back to your 31 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,040 covenant. And then they just kept ignoring him. He's like, OK, well, I'm going to put 32 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,640 you in captivity so you learn your lesson. And then I'm going to have you come back and 33 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:59,400 put the covenant on display. Yeah. And so the so the prophecy to Edom is coming as the 34 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,320 Israelites are being invaded by Babylon and they're being carted off into captivity. This 35 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:09,560 prophecy is coming against Edom because Edom was doing some stuff during this time. A little 36 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,880 bit, a little bit like they were coming in and they were actually looting the areas, 37 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,720 which is what Obadiah is going to get into a little bit here. Yeah. And and taking things. 38 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,600 And it's actually interesting. I was listening to the Baymaw podcast where they had the episode 39 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:28,560 and they're actually talking about how you know that scene in Raiders of Lost Ark where 40 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:33,640 they go and there's like the they find the grail. But the city carved into a mountain 41 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:38,080 that's actually in the area that is Edom. And they have like these fortresses and stuff. 42 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:43,240 But I mean, obviously, the Holy Grail is not there. Yeah. But but like that was actually 43 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,640 the thing of the Edomites is they actually would carve their cities into the hills. Yeah. 44 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,920 And it's just really interesting. That's not really pertinent to what we're talking about, 45 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,720 except they do talk about retreating to your hills. It is pertinent. It is pertinent. Yeah. 46 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,640 No, it's 100 percent pertinent because like a lot of it is talking about how Edom is looking 47 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,760 down on how they were looking down on Israel and is referring to that through the Book 48 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:11,680 of Obadiah. And that is both a metaphorical reference and a physical reference of their 49 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:16,920 cities were carved in the hillsides. And so like to conquer their cities was a monumentous 50 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:22,240 task because they didn't have artillery or airstrikes or stuff like that. So it was a 51 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,120 monumentous task. And so they had kind of this chip on their shoulder being like they 52 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:31,480 can't take us. Yeah. They can't beat us because of where we're at. And they had this mindset 53 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:38,680 of we're looking down on our brother, both physically and metaphorically. Got flies in 54 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:43,400 our face. Yeah. So summer in Alaska is really fun. Flies in your face. That's the downside 55 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,840 to it. Now the Nats. Keto. The no CMs because again on your skin, you can't see them. And 56 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:51,320 then you're like, oh, look at all those bite marks. And then you're like, oh, I just got 57 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:57,240 20 bites. Yeah. Yeah. And so so that's how I kind of described eating a couple of weeks 58 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,800 ago. Jacob and he saw his relationship. I was like, whenever Jacob and he saw got in 59 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:06,000 the same room, you didn't know if they were going to hug or try to kill each other. That 60 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,440 was that was kind of a relationship. It was like it was like, what's going to happen next? 61 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:16,040 And and that relationship continued on through their descendants. Yeah. And it doesn't actually 62 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:21,480 even stop in the Book of Obadiah, because if you actually look further, the country 63 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:26,240 of Edom actually ends up being smacked out in the middle of spice trade. Yeah. Eventually, 64 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:32,360 there is a guy that rises up to incredible wealth and is given dominion over Israel in 65 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:37,120 the time of Jesus. His name is Herod the Great. And if you don't know him, he is actually 66 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,120 an Edomite that is trying to be the king of the Jewish people. Right. So you actually 67 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:47,640 and he's not accepted by the Jewish people. Surprise, surprise. Yeah. But he is actually 68 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:52,320 an Edomite wanting to actually be king of the Jews. Yeah. So that is that's some interesting 69 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,920 like history stuff that actually connects even into the New Testament. Yeah. So I was 70 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,840 thinking because these books are short, we should just read portions of them and just 71 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:06,680 talk about it a little bit. Read the Bible. I know, right. It's a boring concept. Yes, 72 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,440 we should. Sorry about that. I can't wait to clip that out and just like be like the 73 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:21,000 context. Yeah. I'm going to love and out of context. Yeah. So getting into the first few 74 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,800 verses that we want and just let's look at verses one through four to start with. And 75 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,320 it says this is the this is the vision of the sovereign Lord revealed to Obadiah concerning 76 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:39,240 the land of Edom. We've heard a message from the Lord the that the we heard a message from 77 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,720 the Lord that ambassador who was sent to the nations to say get ready everyone. Let's assemble 78 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:49,360 our armies and attack Edom. The Lord said to Edom, I will cut you down to size amongst 79 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,520 the nations. You'll be greatly despised. You have been deceived by your own pride because 80 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,800 you live in a rock fortress and make your homes high in the mountains. Who can ever 81 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:06,320 reach us way up here? You ask mostfully. But even if you soar as high as the Eagles and 82 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:12,200 build your nest amongst the stars, I will bring you crashing down says the Lord. So 83 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,440 that is that is by the way, one of the things I love about the prophets and one of the things 84 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,980 you should always know when you're reading prophets is poetic prose. Uh huh. Right. They're 85 00:07:18,980 --> 00:07:24,240 using a lot of word pictures, but this one is like especially like potent because it's 86 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,760 taking something literally that's going on with them. And then it's speaking metaphorically. 87 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,360 Yeah. Yeah. And I just love that. Yeah. And like jumping on the literal side, the Lord's 88 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,040 literally saying we're going to cut you down to size. Yeah. Like we're going to you think 89 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:42,080 you're higher than everybody else. We're going to humble you. Yeah. And this also has like 90 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:47,200 some great callbacks to like the whole idea of the Tower of Babel. Yeah. Right. Because 91 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,000 like you're going to build our stuff all the way to the heavens. Right. We're going to 92 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,400 be high above everybody else. We're going to be like, yeah. Yeah. That's like turns 93 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,320 out I got a couple thousand feet on you. Yeah. And then you get to verse four and the Lord 94 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:03,200 basically saying it doesn't like this is a Spencer translation. It doesn't matter how 95 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:09,400 untouchable you think you are. Yeah. Right. We're like, he's like, I'm the Lord. You're 96 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,760 not. Yeah. Watch me do what I need to do. Well, I mean, and I mean, how true is that 97 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:19,280 for? I mean, I think always we need to be careful when we hear prophecies against Edom. 98 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,280 We're like, oh, well, those are some other people. They can very easily be us. Oh yeah. 99 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,560 Because how often are we like building our towers or insulating and we're like, we're 100 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:33,520 like, oh, I'm above the nonsense. Right. And or you look down on people because of their 101 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,760 socioeconomic status or because of where they are. And I was like, you could lose your job. 102 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:41,840 You could lose your house. You could lose like things so quickly. Uh huh. And and it's 103 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,840 one of the calls to actually live with a generous heart, which is actually the combination on 104 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,120 on the people who eat them is that instead of looking to Judah and being like, how do 105 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:55,360 we help them? Uh huh. They're like, what can we take from them for ourselves? Yeah. And 106 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:00,360 that gets into the next few verses. Yeah. Or says, if thieves come at the night and 107 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:07,480 rob you, what disaster awaits you? They would not take everything. Those who harvest grapes 108 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:13,600 always leave a few for the poor, but your enemies will wipe you out completely. Every 109 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:18,880 nook and cranny of Eden will be scorched and looted or will be searched and looted. Every 110 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:26,080 treasure will be found and taken. Right. So the Lord's going on being like, here's, here's 111 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,100 some of the traditions. Like you look at the tradition of gleaning, gleaning in the fields. 112 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:35,760 Like you see this in Ruth where, where she was, where Ruth went and she was working the 113 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:41,200 outskirts of the fields and gleaning the leftovers because Israel was called to leave a portion 114 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:47,400 in their fields for those who can't afford food to go glean for themselves. Right. And 115 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:53,360 so you have, this is something by the way, Eden, the Edomites know Torah. We need to 116 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,120 preface that too. Yeah. Like they know Torah. Well, they're not going to be that familiar 117 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:01,760 because it's the text of the people around you. It's like literally your extended family. 118 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:07,160 Exactly. So they, they know, they know the bullet points of it. Right. And so here they 119 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,640 probably know this idea of gleaning and the Lord says, yeah, that's not going to happen 120 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:16,760 for you. Yeah. Like you're not going to have that opportunity. Right. And then the Lord 121 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,720 starts going, uh, goes into a little bit more, but then you jumped down to verse 10 and it 122 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,880 goes into why Eden was being punished. Yeah. I'm going to read that here. Uh, so Spencer 123 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,040 and I are using different translations. So if you're following along, just know we're 124 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,760 using different translations, but they're going to be pretty, pretty close. You will 125 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,160 be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of the violence done to your brother 126 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:42,240 Jacob on the day you stood aloof on the day strangers captured his wealth while foreigners 127 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:48,360 entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem. You were just like one of them. Do not gloat 128 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,160 over your brother in the day of his calamity. Do not rejoice over the people of Judah in 129 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:57,120 the day of their destruction. Do not boastfully mock in the day of distress. Do not enter 130 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,320 the gate of my people in the day of their disaster. Yes, you do not clothe over their 131 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:06,960 misery in the day of their disaster and do not appropriate their possessions in the day 132 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:11,720 of their disaster. Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives and do not hand 133 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:16,960 over their survivors and the day of distress. Now I've also, uh, just coming back to this 134 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:22,080 idea like handing over to the, the implication of a, of a, of a teacher, uh, in a little 135 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:26,200 testament, um, I forget where he, where he teaches that, but he was saying the, the implication 136 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,000 the picture you should get for what Edom was doing is essentially, uh, Israel's running 137 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:36,360 away and they're up in their, up in their stone fortress and Babylon comes and they're 138 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,720 like that way, that way. Yeah. You know, they're like, Hey, they went that way, you know, like 139 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:45,360 they're not even providing refuge for the people who are running. Well, and there's, 140 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:50,840 there's two different types of evil that's going on. So one, which is actually mentioned 141 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,480 in the first couple of verses is the evil of not doing anything. Correct. Right. Like 142 00:11:55,480 --> 00:12:00,280 look at verse 11, uh, when they were invaded, you stood aloof, refusing to help foreign 143 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,880 invaders carried off their wealth, gassed lots of divide up Jerusalem and you acted 144 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,960 like one of Israel's enemy. Why they act like one of Israel's enemy because they still 145 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:15,040 were the roof. Right. Cause they sat back. Right. Right. So that's one, that's one accusation. 146 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,720 Then you get onto the next verses and then that's where they joined in the fun. Yeah. 147 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,800 Where they're like, Oh wait, they're doing that and they're succeeding. So why don't 148 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,680 I join in? So you didn't just do nothing. You actually became part of the problem. Yeah. 149 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:30,680 Which comes with, which leads to a personal application for us. Yeah. Like when we see 150 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:35,360 someone, when we see someone suffering, like if we don't do anything about that or try 151 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:44,080 to do anything about that, that's just as bad as adding to their suffering. Yeah. Well, 152 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:50,160 and I think, Oh man, I think when you actually have a heart that never does anything, you 153 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:55,400 eventually become the very person that is now oppressing. Yeah. Like it goes, it's, 154 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:01,920 it's a subtle shift, but it happens over time. Yeah. And I think the caveat here is you can't 155 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,600 do everything. No, Edom couldn't stand against Babylon. Like that's for sure. They could 156 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:11,640 not do that. Right. But you can do something. And I think the, the call to like the, the 157 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:18,280 believer, the follower of Torah, the follower of Jesus is when you see injustice and you 158 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:25,440 do nothing. I mean, coming back to James, do you actually care about justice? When you 159 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,840 see these, these things happening? Can we put that phrase injustice in this context? 160 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,760 Yeah. Okay. Cause a lot of times we have people nowadays who will see what they perceive as 161 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:38,360 an injustice and they'll go blasting all over social media or something like that. Right. 162 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,440 That's not what we're talking about. Like we're talking about physically helping somebody 163 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:49,440 in need. Yeah. Right. Um, we had, we had a situation in our town where a, where there 164 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,340 was this person who got stuck in our town, no place to stay. They were going to be out 165 00:13:53,340 --> 00:13:58,920 on the streets and we were able to offer a couch for them to sleep on. Right. Right. 166 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:08,200 That was like serving a physical need. Right. Um, and, uh, and so like that's a way that 167 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,720 you can serve injustice. Right. Was it fair that that person's flights got canceled and 168 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:18,640 they were stuck here? I mean, no, I mean, there's there, but we could fill the need 169 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,240 and it doesn't really matter why that injustice happened. If we can actually provide a place 170 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,700 of respite. If you have somebody who, uh, let's say found themselves in jail and they come 171 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:29,520 out, but they're having a really hard time finding work, but they're dedicated to putting 172 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:37,200 their life back together and you don't do anything to help. Yeah. Nothing. You know, 173 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:43,600 it's hard. Yeah. You know, and, uh, like you, we can't do everything. No, but we should 174 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:49,140 do something. Eat them, commit defeat battle on them, but they could have welcomed those 175 00:14:49,140 --> 00:14:53,560 who were defeated. Right. And at the very least they could have not plundered their 176 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:59,240 cities. Moving on to the next part, right? Right. Right. Where like you get into like, 177 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,120 what was some of the implications? Verse 13, you should not have plundered the land of 178 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:08,960 easier Israel, why they were suffering in such command, Clement, blah. Yeah. So I'm 179 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:13,240 tired. Now going back to your, uh, we're going to read the Bible. That doesn't sound so silly. 180 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:18,080 That doesn't, you should not have gloated in their destruction when they were suffering 181 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,520 such calamity. You should not have seized their wealth when they were suffering in such 182 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:28,540 calamity. You should not have stood in the crossroads killing those who tried to escape. 183 00:15:28,540 --> 00:15:34,200 You should not have captured the survivors and handed them over in their time of terrible 184 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:39,200 and a terrible time of trouble. Yeah. Right. Like, so then they went from this, like, oh, 185 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:44,820 you still aloof to like, wait, we can get something for ourselves. So at this point, 186 00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:48,800 when they're coming into verse 15, uh, Tim Mackie was talking about on the Bible project, 187 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,960 um, he was talking about how the, the authors use this word Edom and it's very close to 188 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,560 Adam, which is more about humanity. And like, there's this play on words here because on 189 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:03,880 15 it shifts and, and up to this point, it's been addressing a literal thing that happened. 190 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:10,680 Uh huh. Right. But then it uses Edom as a typecast for all the injustice that's being 191 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:16,080 done in the nation. Yeah. And then how God is going to address that. Yeah. Yeah. And 192 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:21,160 so then you get to verse 15 and on, and that talks about restoring Israel and destroying 193 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:29,040 Edom. Yeah. Right. And you get into this imagery of destroying what is wicked, what is evil. 194 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:33,520 And uh, and we gotta be very careful with this too, because a lot of times we can take 195 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:38,280 this and go into like militant Christianity mode. Correct. Which is not what we're supposed 196 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,200 to do here. What we're really supposed to do here is because you have to tie this whole 197 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:49,480 thing together and the verses before Obadiah is calling out Edom and then the next verses 198 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:56,640 it's calling Edom to in, in where retrospect to retrospect what they've done. Yeah. And 199 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:02,160 once again, we are, this is, this is prophetic literature means that it's supposed to evoke 200 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,720 pictures. Yeah. And so they're trying to evoke pictures that make sense to the people of 201 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:11,840 that time. Yeah. And so if you take the pictures from people of that time and you immediately 202 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:16,600 make them the exact same pictures for us today, you're gonna get the wrong conclusions because 203 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,760 they don't mean the same things to us. We have to understand what they meant to them 204 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:26,120 and then take that and say, as followers Jesus, what do we do with that? Yeah. Right. Yeah. 205 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:33,320 So in verse 15, the day of the Lord, the day is near where I, the Lord will judge all godless 206 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:39,000 nations. Yes. You have, as you have done to Israel, so it'll be done to you. Your evil 207 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:45,120 deeds will fall back on your own heads. Just as you swallowed up my people on the Holy 208 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:51,600 mountain. So you, so you and the surrounding nations will swallow the punishment I pour 209 00:17:51,600 --> 00:18:01,040 out on you. Yes. You, all you nations will drink in stagger and despair from history. 210 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:07,000 Yeah. Very encouraging section. Well, it's been, it's this, I, it is an encouraging section 211 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:12,480 if you're Israel. Yeah. Because what God is saying is that he's like, Hey, this injustice 212 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,760 that is going around in all of these nations, because you were supposed to be the typecast 213 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:20,300 Israel. You're supposed to show people a different way. You're supposed to put my kingdom on 214 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:26,040 display to change the entire world. But injustice won't last forever. I will turn it on. Is 215 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:32,080 it. And one thing you need to know in this section is who is a judge. God. Yeah. Not 216 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:39,640 us. Right. We need to be really clear on that. Like, like, Oh, but I was levied the complaints 217 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,520 against Edom and then overdive delivering a message from the Lord saying that the Lord 218 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:51,340 is the judge. The day is near when I, the Lord will judge all nations. Yeah. Not the 219 00:18:51,340 --> 00:18:57,400 day is near where you then will judge all nations. I, I'm okay with not being the guy 220 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:03,640 to judge. Oh, me too. Me too. God can have that responsibility. Right. The judgment is 221 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:10,520 for the Lord. Right. We are called to be conduits of his love, right? Conduits of his redemption. 222 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:15,320 And so you, so you can take that and you can actually put us in Obadiah's place where Obadiah 223 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:20,620 is being a conduit for Israel's redemption in this moment. Right. He's delivering a hard, 224 00:19:20,620 --> 00:19:25,520 a hard message. Sometimes we have to do that, but it's not Obadiah being the judge. Obadiah 225 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,720 is not leaving an army to take over Edom. Right. The Lord's taking care of that. He's 226 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:37,160 declaring some move that is happening from God. Yeah. Right. Yeah. You want to take verse 227 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:42,240 17? Yeah. All right. I'm going to take 17 to the end here. Yeah. So continuing on in 228 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,320 17, but there will be deliverance on Mount Zion and it will be holy, which by the way 229 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,620 should indicate to you that it's not them. It's God doing it. Right. Yeah. The house 230 00:19:51,620 --> 00:19:56,400 of Jacob will dispossess those who dispossess them. Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing 231 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:01,640 fire and the house of Joseph, a burning flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble. Now 232 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,880 hold on real quick here. There may be a blazing fire. So throughout the old Testament, who's 233 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:11,080 been the blazing fire? Then God. So they're saying the house of Jacob and the house of 234 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:17,680 Joseph are actually going to be representative of representing God. Okay. The house of Esau 235 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:22,280 will be stubble and they will be set on fire and consume them. Therefore, no survivor will 236 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,400 remain of the house of Esau for the Lord has spoken. People from the Negev will possess 237 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,160 the hill country of Esau. Those from the Judean foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. 238 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:35,560 They will possess the territories of Ephraim and Samaria. While Benjamin, that's not me, 239 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:41,220 will possess Gilead. The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah, who are among the Canaanites 240 00:20:41,220 --> 00:20:47,520 as far as Zarephath and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sarif, Sappharad will possess the 241 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:52,600 cities of the Negev. Saviors will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the hill country of Esau, 242 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,680 but the kingdom will be the Lord's. That's a lot of names. 243 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:02,840 Well, but here's the deal. Like you have this moment where the day of judgment is the Lord. 244 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:07,240 The Lord's going to restore Israel. The Lord lays out a plan of who's going to be where. 245 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,920 Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like the Lord, like here you have Obadiah declaring that the Lord has 246 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:16,040 this all under control. Like this is very encouraging if you're Israel because you're 247 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:21,480 like, our troubles are going to be over. They're going to cease. We're going to be restored 248 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:27,360 under God. Right. And we are going to be placed in the spots that he wants us. 249 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:34,240 So I think I hear two different things here. Yeah. One is this word to to the people. If 250 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:41,680 you are in a safe place and other people are not, is to have compassion, to reach out, 251 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,400 to take care of your brothers and sisters and to definitely not not participate in the 252 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:52,680 abuse. Yeah. Right. That is a good message for us to take that our call and it resonates 253 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,800 with the teachings of Jesus, with the apostles, with everything that we find in the rest of 254 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:03,560 the Bible. The other thing is. Yes, you're going into captivity. Yes, you're being displaced 255 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,760 because you screwed up. And I don't know a single Christian who hasn't screwed up and 256 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:13,680 been in this place. Yeah. Where they're like, I am reaping the reward for what I sowed. 257 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:21,440 Uh huh. Right. God still says, I've got a plan. I'm going to restore. I'm in charge. 258 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:27,240 I'll take care of it. I'll bring you back. Yeah. That's a that's a really good word of 259 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,120 encouragement when you feel like you're in the middle of chaos. Yes. As of your own actions. 260 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:44,320 Really good word of encouragement. And so, yeah. So when we are following Christ as a 261 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:49,560 household, right, like my my wife and I, like when we together as a household following 262 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:54,520 Christ, one of the things that we've recognized is that the culture of Christ in our household 263 00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:01,880 is stronger than anything that he can throw at us. Yeah. And so so we recognize when those 264 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,960 quote unquote inconveniences come our way where we have to step outside of our comfort zone 265 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,880 and welcome someone into our house or take care of something that's an inconvenience 266 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:17,840 or doesn't fit into our time schedule for the day, right? That our culture in Christ 267 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,720 is stronger than whatever the world can throw at us. And sometimes there's going to be 268 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,600 struggles. Sometimes it's going to be really tough, right? Following Jesus isn't easy, 269 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:35,240 right? And sometimes there's tribulation. Sometimes there's persecution. Other times, 270 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:41,640 it's easy. There's things that are easy, right? Like it's both and. Yeah. And but we as believers, 271 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:46,760 we need to be willing to say, you know what, that is a difficult situation that I need 272 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:54,280 to step into. I think also this whole idea of interruptions, stepping out into places 273 00:23:54,280 --> 00:24:00,040 maybe where we don't have a hundred percent footing and all. Yeah. Is also this invitation 274 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,960 to engage the spirit where he's working. Yeah. And they're actually some of the most profound 275 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:10,320 life altering life shaking moments. Yeah. When you're willing to get a little uncomfortable. 276 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:15,880 Yeah. For the sake of the gospel. Absolutely. By the way, the gospel, not just like declaring 277 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:24,920 the life, death, burial, resurrection of Jesus by the way that we live. Yeah. Right. Right. 278 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:31,280 Absolutely. That there's something different about us. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. There we 279 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:37,440 go. Little book, big message. By the way, like spend some time in the minor prophets 280 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,080 and spend some time in the prophets. It's difficult sometimes with the language, but 281 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,680 there is some really cool stuff that's going on in there. Yeah. There's always this massive 282 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:50,760 message of hope in the middle of chaos that God is bringing his people through. Yeah. 283 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:57,880 Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, till next time. And that's a wrap for today's episode 284 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,000 of Love and Context. 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