Obadiah 19-21: The Kingdom will be Yahweh's

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Obadiah 1-4 - First Declaration

Obadiah 1 - Superscript
Obadiah 1 - Call to Battle
Obadiah 2-4 - Edom’s Pride

Obadiah 5-7 - Second Declaration

Obadiah 5-6 - Edom Plundered
Obadiah 7 - Edom Betrayed

Obadiah 8-14 - Third Declaration

Obadiah 8-10 - Edom’s Destruction
Obadiah 11-14 - Edom’s Crimes Against Judah
Obadiah 11 - Edom Guilty
Obadiah 12-14 - Day of Jacob

Obadiah 15-18 - The Day of the Lord

Obadiah 15-16 - The Day of the Lord
Obadiah 17-18 - The Future of the Houses of Jacob & Esau

Obadiah 19-21 - The Kingdom will be Yahweh’s

Obadiah 19-20 - Jacob’s Land Restored
Obadiah 21 - Yahweh’s Rule Restored

Purpose of Obadiah

Announce the destruction of Edom & encourage the Judahites

Obadiah 19-20 - Jacob’s Land Restored

**Reminder of the Conquest**

Genesis 12:1–3 ESV
1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Exodus 3:1–8 ESV
1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. 7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Numbers 33:50–56 ESV
50 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 51 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. 53 And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. 54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. 55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. 56 And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”
Why does this even matter for this passage?

The ultimate goal of the conquest had been to unite Israel with centralized worship in the temple (Dt 12:1–28) and centralized rule in a dynastic monarchy (Dt 17:14–20; 2 Sa 7).

Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,

Those of the Negeb

sn The Negev is a dry, hot, arid region in the southern portion of Judah.

Shall possess

2. to possess — to have ownership or possession of something, including future endowments by claim of right.

87 sn The verb יָרַשׁ (yarash, “to take possession of [something]”) which is repeated three times in vv. 19–20 for emphasis, often implies a violent means of acquisition, such as through military conquest. Obadiah here pictures a dramatic reversal: Judah’s enemies, who conquered them then looted all her valuable possessions, will soon be conquered by the Judeans who will in turn take possession of their valuables. The punishment will fit the crime.

Mount Esau

And those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;

And those of the Shephelah

sn The Shephelah as a region refers to the Palestinian foothills that rise from the coastal plain. In much of Old Testament times they served as a divide between the people of Judah and the Philistines.

Shall possess

2. to possess — to have ownership or possession of something, including future endowments by claim of right.

The land of the Philistines

They shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,

They shall possess

2. to possess — to have ownership or possession of something, including future endowments by claim of right.

The land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria

And Benjamin shall possess Gilead

And Benjamin
Shall possess

2. to possess — to have ownership or possession of something, including future endowments by claim of right.

Gilead

92 sn Gilead is a mountainous region on the eastern side of the Jordan River in what is today the country of Jordan.

The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

The exiles of this host of the people of Israel

1. exile (person) — a person who is expelled from home or country by an authority and dwells in a foreign land.

5. descendant — a person descended from some ancestor or race; sometimes referred to collectively as descendants.

Shall possess

2. to possess — to have ownership or possession of something, including future endowments by claim of right.

The land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath

95 sn Zarephath was a Phoenician coastal city located some ten miles south of Sidon.

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

1. exile (person) — a person who is expelled from home or country by an authority and dwells in a foreign land.

97 sn The exact location of Sepharad is uncertain. Suggestions include a location in Spain, or perhaps Sparta in Greece, or perhaps Sardis in Asia Minor.

Shall possess

2. to possess — to have ownership or possession of something, including future endowments by claim of right.

The cities of the Negeb

Obadiah 21 - Yahweh’s Rule Restored

**Reminder of the Judges**

Judges 2:11–3:6 ESV
11 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. 12 And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. 14 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. 15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress. 16 Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. 19 But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways. 20 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice, 21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.” 23 So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. 1 Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. 2 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. 3 These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. 4 They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5 So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 6 And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
Judges 3:9 ESV
9 But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
Judges 3:15 ESV
15 Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau,

Saviors
Victorious military leaders

1. deliverer — a person who delivers others from pain, suffering, hardship, or death.

Shall go up to
Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau

2. to govern ⇔ judge — to govern, understood in terms of the ruler’s role of judging his people.

Mount Zion is the place where the saviors/deliverers will rule over Mount Esau

And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

Marduk’s Celebration

Joel 3:16–21 ESV
16 The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel. 17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it. 18 “And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of Shittim. 19 “Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations. 21 I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”
And the kingdom

3. kingship — the dignity or rank or position of a king.

Shall be
The Lord’s

1. Yahweh — the name the God of Israel gives to the Israelites through Moses.

Theology in Action

God-followers will reign with Him as He reigns as King over His Kingdom

Daniel 7:15–28 ESV
15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me. 16 I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things. 17 ‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth. 18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’ 19 “Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet, 20 and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions. 21 As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them, 22 until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. 23 “Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces. 24 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. 25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. 26 But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end. 27 And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’ 28 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed, but I kept the matter in my heart.”
Revelation 22:1–7 ESV
1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever. 6 And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.” 7 “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
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