The Day of The LORD and the Kingdom of God (Obadiah 15-21)

  1. God judges the nations.
  1. God saves the remnant of Zion.
  • vv.17-18; see Ex.15:1, 7; Matt.3:11-12.
  • the land will be regained – vv.19-20 seems to refer to Israel’s regaining of the land that it lost in the Negev (the south).
  • Amos 9:12-14 is understood by James at the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 to be a prophecy of the calling in of the Gentiles into God’s kingdom without the need to be circumcised first.
  1. The kingdom of the Lord Messiah is coming.
  • v.21. Calvin says that this is ‘unquestionably’ Messianic.
  • Col.1:13-14. Obadiah simply speaks the truth of God. Be humble, be compassionate, be faithful.