Obadiah 1:12-21 commentary


12: But you [Edom/Esau] should not have looked on The Day yom of Thy Brother in the day yom that he became a stranger neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day yom of their destruction neither should you have spoken proudly in the day yom of distress 13: You should not have entered into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity Yes you should not have looked on their affliction in the yom of their calamity nor have laid hands on their substance looted their stuff in the yom of their calamity 14: Neither should you have stood in the crossway to cut off those of his that did escape neither should you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the yom Day of distress

15: [Armageddon] For Yom YHWH The Day of the LORD is near upon all the nations As you [Edom/Esau] have done it shall be done unto you Your reward shall return upon your own head 16: For as you have drunk upon My Holy Mountain so shall all the nations [that have done as you have done] drink continually Yes they shall drink and they shall swallow down and they shall be as though they had not been All surviving nations will be judged at the Judgement of the Nations: Matthew 25:31-32

Comments: The Day of the LORD encompasses the Battle of Armageddon and the entire epoch following. In Obadiah 1:15-16, the term specifically speaks to the Battle of Armageddon.

17: But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance and there shall be holiness and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions 18: And the house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame Zechariah 10:3-7 and the house of Esau for stubble and they shall kindle in them, and devour them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau for YHWH He speaks!

Comments: Obadiah 1:17-18 In these two verses, God tells us how He will use the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Joseph (specifically the half-tribe of Ephraim) at the Battle of Armageddon, which will be a prolonged battle on the Day Christ Returns. Jesus will return at twilight Jerusalem time Zechariah 14:5-7, and the battle will last all night Isaiah 17:14-a.  

19: And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau and they of the plain the Philistines and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead 20: And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites even unto Zarephath And the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south 21: And the ones saving shall come up on mount Zion Zechariah 10:3-7  to judge the mount of Esau and the kingdom shall be to YHWH

Comments: Obadiah 1:21 Zechariah is shown who the mortal saviors will be, who will ascend Mount Zion to judge [defeat] Esau on the DayChrist Returns. They will be those of Judah and Ephraim (Joseph) Zechariah 10:3-7.  


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