5. End Times Bible Prophecy: "Who Shall Bring Them Down" - Obadiah 1:1-21

In last week’s message, Pastor Bob taught the prophecy of Joel from chapter 2 in our end-times series. Today, we are taking a little bit of a detour to shortest book of the Old Testament, Obadiah, then we will come back to Joel chapter 3 next week. By studying Obadiah, Pastor Bob will help provide the context and the history about the enemies of God and Israel, and according to scripture these will be the same enemy nations who will be aligned against Israel and God in the end-times and the last days. The shortest book of the Old Testament, Obadiah’s words go out against Edom, blood relatives of Israel from Esau. The Edomites were a force to be reckoned with as they were rugged, fierce warriors who made their home in the cleft of the rocks. As they were relatives, they did not like Israel to which they never came to help them when they found themselves in wars with other nations. If anything they gloated over Judah’s problems. Spiritually, they were indifferent to God, full of pride because of their earthly wisdom, political alliances and even how their city was made of rock. All of these things were called out where judgment was promised to come. God rules in this world right now and turns the course of nations and history as he pleases. If this were not so, he could not promise Judah that he would cut off Edom and establish Jacob. No Christian should have the jitters that the world is careening out of control toward a meaningless catastrophe. We may feel like people tossed around in an old stagecoach pulled by six wild horses, but fear not, God sits serenely over our heads, and the hands that made the world, He hold the reins.