00:00 Introduction

00:41 Welcome Back, Pastor PJ!

01:15 Introduction to the Book of Obadiah

02:27 Judgment on Edom

05:00 The Day of the Lord and Future Prophecies

07:47 Psalm 82: God's Justice

10:23 Psalm 83: A Call for Divine Justice

12:09 Conclusion and Prayer

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Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Today's July 1st, and tonight is the Pride

in the Sky Event, and we would love to see

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you there if there's still opportunity.

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Alright.

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It's July 1st, as I mentioned,

and today, let me think.

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Today is July.

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Yeah.

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Today Pastor PJ is back in the

office, so welcome him back.

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Welcome back PPJ.

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Glad to have you.

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Sorry I'm not there to welcome you.

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But we're glad to have you back.

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He also, if you remember,

celebrated his 41st birthday.

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in the office or at church, remember to

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wish him a happy birthday if you'd get

a chance to do that, and let him know

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how much you appreciate having him back.

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I know I do.

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Welcome back PPJ.

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I am so, so grateful you're back.

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And by the way, I'm also grateful

to be on vacation this week.

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Thank you for giving me some time off.

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I appreciate it.

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I needed it.

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Okay.

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I promised you yesterday that we were

gonna cover Obadiah, and I told you why.

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In Second Chronicles 20, we see

that there's an occasion where

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it looks like this could fit.

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And as I mentioned earlier, this

could fit in multiple places.

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And so no one's exactly sure because

there's no indication in the book,

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there's no internal evidence to say

this is written during this particular

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kingship or this particular battle.

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And so it's a bit.

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Unclear to us who exactly the immediate

audience is in terms of the timing.

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We know that it's obviously for the

people of Judah, Judah's the one who

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suffers the humili humiliation here.

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But in terms of the timing, we

don't know when the book was

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written or we're not entirely sure

of the timing of the book even.

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So what we do see here is

valuable and helpful for us.

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Obediah.

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This is the vision of Obadiah.

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We don't know which one this is.

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We talked about this earlier.

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There's another obadiah that we referenced

early in book of Kings one, Kings 19.

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He's referenced as the household

manager for Ahab, but this

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is likely not the same guy.

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We have reason to believe that.

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They're not the same person.

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But beyond that, we don't know.

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He doesn't give any lineage.

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He doesn't give any

state that he comes from.

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He just says the vision of Obediah.

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So there's a lot more

questions here than timing.

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It's also about who this guy is.

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We don't know, but here's what he says.

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In the shortest book of the Old

Testament, he says, the pride

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of your heart has deceived you.

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The first thing he calls

out Edem for is for pride.

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They think they're impervious to attack.

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They believe that they're not

gonna be ever taken down because

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of where they're situated.

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They're literally in the rocks.

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They have , a fortress made of rock that

gives them this sense of invincibility.

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I.

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And yet God says You think that

you are impervious to attack,

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but the reality is you're not.

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In fact, I'm going to take you down.

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I'm gonna be the one to bring you down.

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If the Lord's saying that to

you, you're in a bad place.

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This is not a good situation for them.

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Remember Edem?

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It is from the people of Esau.

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Edem is all of Esau's offspring, so

they're related to Judah through Jacob.

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Jacob and Esau are brothers.

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Remember, they're twin brothers.

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Jacob gets the blessing.

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Esau doesn't, he gets tricked

out of it for a bowl of stew.

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Eden's upset about that.

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Esau's upset about that, and then

eventually they shake hands in part ways.

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Esau becomes the people of Edem.

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And so there's always a connection

there and an underlying assumption that

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there should be amicable relations here.

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But Edem tends to do things that

are antagonistic toward Judah.

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And so here, God calls him out, he

says in verses five and following,

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look, if these came to you.

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Would they not steal only enough?

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In other words, they would show mercy.

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You showed no mercy to

the people of Judah.

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And so God threatens them

in verses eight and nine.

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There's a day coming where he will

destroy the wise men out of Edem and

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he will pull down their mighty men

O Teman, which is a city in Edem.

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And he's saying, look, I'm going

to make sure that every man from

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Mount Esau be cut off by slaughter.

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God is promising severe judgment here, I.

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And he tells them why in verse 10,

because of the violence done to your

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brother, Jacob, shame shall cover

you and you shall be cut off forever.

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On the day that you stood aloof on the day

that strangers carried off his wealth and

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foreigners entered his gates and cast lots

for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

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In other words, you didn't protect your

brother, you actually antagonized him.

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You went after the same goods that

the enemies are going after, and

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you gloated and you entered the

city gates in the day of calamity.

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You gloated over their disaster.

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You looted their wealth.

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You did everything you could

to make it hard for them to

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have any chance of survival.

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In fact, verse 14 says, they stood at the

crossroads that cut off the fugitives.

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They handed over the

survivors to their enemies.

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They were actively working against

Judah and Israel and supporting

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their enemies, whoever they were

in this particular occasion.

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So God then forecast a future day.

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When God's gonna set the score,

he's going to settle all the

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accounts that need to be settled.

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And this day clearly is not a day that

was in Israel's or Judah's history.

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This is a day yet future.

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So he says this, for the day of the

Lord is near upon all the nations.

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This is a eschatological term.

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Typically, the day of the Lord is more

than just a day as in a day on the

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calendar, Tuesday the fifth or whatever.

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It is a day as in a season of

time wherein God judges the evil.

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He's going to take an account all

the evil and destroy it for good.

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There's multiple days of the Lord that

you could point to in the Old Covenant.

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And in the new covenant where God

executes some form of justice.

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It's a preview of the ultimate day,

a trailer to the movie, so to speak.

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The ultimate day of the

Lord, though will be.

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Future, and that's what

we're talking about here.

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He says, the day lord's coming, it's near.

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It's upon all the nations.

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Here the day of the Lord is going

to be God's people used to destroy

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God's enemies and of those

enemies, Esau is one of them.

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Jacob shall be a fire.

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Verse 18, the house of Joseph, A flame.

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This is the northern kingdom and the

house of Esau stubble, and they will be

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consumed and there's gonna be no survivor.

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The last remaining verses of Obediah

speak about the kingdom of the Lord,

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and this is about the millennial

kingdom, the millennial reign of Christ.

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He talks about a future where.

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The exiles of this host of the people

of Israel shall possess the land of

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the Canaanites as far as the Zarephath.

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So he's saying the people of Israel,

people of Judah will gather, they will

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possess all the land that they were

promised, and they will execute justice.

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Verse 21, savior shall go up from

Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and

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the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

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This is the future

millennial reign of Christ.

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God's people are restored,

the land is given.

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All the promises in the old

covenant are now delivered full.

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And complete in the

millennial reign of Christ.

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And this is why we are

dispensationalist, in part because

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we see prophecies like this.

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And we don't think that the best

answer to this is to say, oh,

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this is the church's inheritance.

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This is a spiritual promise

of what the church would do.

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We think it's better to look at this.

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With a grammatical historical lens

leaning on the literal nature of these

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prophecies and saying, this has to

be something that God will eventually

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do, and we have reason to believe that

because the other prophecies that were

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given to Israel were literally fulfilled.

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Why would this be spiritual?

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And so we look forward to the day when the

Lord reigns in Jerusalem on Mount Zion.

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The Kingdom shall be the Lord's.

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This sounds a little bit to me, like

Revelation 11, verse 15, the seventh

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angel blew his trumpet and there

were loud voices in heaven saying The

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kingdom of the world has become the

kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,

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and he shall reign forever and ever.

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Come quickly.

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Lord Jesus, we want this and

we should pray toward this end.

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Psalm 82, we have here God.

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Interacting with human judges.

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At least that's my best

understanding of this passage.

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Verse one says, God has taken his place in

the divine counsel or the divine assembly.

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That might be a better way to

put it In the midst of the God's,

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lowercase G, he holds judgment.

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The word for gods is Elohim.

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The word Elohim can be

legitimately applied to a lot

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of different kinds of people.

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It could be applied to kings,

it was applied to Moses.

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It could be applied here to judges.

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Elohim is a.

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Is a way to talk about

representatives of God.

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Now you can have lots of

lowercase g gods Elohim, without

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talking about the one true God.

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The word Elohim can also be referred,

can also be used to refer to uppercase,

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G God, the God of heaven and of earth.

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And so it's not inappropriate, it's just

unusual to Aren ears when we read that.

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So he says to the divine counsel, in the

midst of the gods, he holds judgment.

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And then he charges these judges,

I think, with judging unjustly,

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showing partiality to the wicked.

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And so he says, give justice

to the weak and the fatherless.

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This is biblical justice, by the way,

and this is what it's meant to look like.

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The evil get punishment, the good,

get protection and blessings.

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And that's what he's saying.

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Do that.

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Give punishment to the wicked.

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Give righteousness to

the righteous rescue.

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The weak and needy.

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Verse four, deliver them from the hand of

the wicked, which suggests suppression.

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There's a pursuit of the powerful

and the mighty against the weak and

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the vulnerable, and he's saying,

step inside, do something about that.

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And this is how biblical justice works.

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This is still us today.

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We can look at the nation of Israel

and say, okay, we're not the nation.

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We don't have the same laws on the

books, but we sh we should still

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look out for those who are weak and

oppressed by the rich and the powerful.

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Although we don't want to make a broad

brush conclusion that if you're rich,

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you're automatically oppressive, or

if you're poor, you're automatically

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a victim of some circumstance.

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There's a lot of factors that are

included in calculations like this, but

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Christians should be on the forefront of

making wise just calculations according

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to the wisdom given to us by the Bible.

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And so he says in verse five, they have

either knowledge nor understanding.

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They walk about in darkness.

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All the foundations of

the earth are shaken.

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And he says, look, even though

I called you Elohim, gods.

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Sons of the most high representatives

of mine, like men, you're

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gonna die like a mere mortal.

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You will die.

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Verse eight is a call Maratha.

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Oh, arise.

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Arise.

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Oh god.

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Judge the earth for you

shall inherit the nations.

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Ultimately the only king that we.

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Can find no fault with is King Jesus.

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The only judge who is perfect in

justice is the just judge of all

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the Earth, our Lord and our God.

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And that's what we pray for.

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Psalm 83,

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Speaking of justice, this psalm

is a call for justice against the

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enemies who conspire against God's

people they're seeking to erase.

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Israel's name and they're united

and they're planning against them.

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And the psalmist here ASAP is requesting

divine protection and retribution.

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He looks at past victories and based

on verses here, nine, 10, and 11, it

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looks like he was reading somewhere

in the region of judges four through

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judges eight, because that's where

all of these examples come from.

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He's asking God to make his enemies like

dust and chaff and to consume them and

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to fill them with shame, and so he says.

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Do this in verse 16, that

they may seek your name.

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Oh Lord, that's critical.

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Even as he's praying for God to deal

with them and to judge them justly,

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he's saying in verse 16, the redemptive

quality or the redemptive goal for

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this is that they may seek your name.

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God's justice is good because if it's done

right, it points people to God himself.

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Only God can execute righteousness

because only God gives us right laws.

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He himself is the source

and standard of goodness.

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And therefore when justice is executed

and there's a relief upon the soul of

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saying, ah, that's right, that's good.

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It points us to God himself.

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He says, let them be put to

shame and dismayed forever.

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Let them perish and disgrace.

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Verse 18, that they may know that

you alone, whose name is the Lord

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whose name is Yahweh, are the

most high over all the earth.

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And so not only does his justice

point to his character, but the

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fact that he executes justice shows

that he is the powerful one and

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only sovereign overall creation.

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And again, that's what we're looking for

when we're looking for God's justice.

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Biblical justice will highlight

God's character and God's power.

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And that's what we want, and that's

what we should still pray for.

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And that's Psalm 83.

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Thank you so much for joining me today.

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I am honored to do it and I

look forward to seeing you in

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about two weeks, give or take.

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Me and Pastor pge will be back on

the microphones together working

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for you, and we love to do that.

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Thank you for giving us this

privilege of serving you in this way.

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Let's pray.

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God, thank you for your word, how it

feeds us and changes us, and challenges

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us to think in biblical categories.

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I love the fact, Lord, that we can

read your word and constantly find

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ourselves challenged by the things

that you say, either challenge in our

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understanding about you or challenged

in the way that we're living for you.

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Lord, please continue to do that.

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I never wanna encounter your word without

being changed or challenged in some way.

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I.

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Please do that for everybody listening.

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Help us to approach your word as men

and women who are humble before it.

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We don't wanna be proud.

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We don't want to commit the sins

of Edo and thinking that our

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lives are impenetrable, that we

are impervious to destruction or

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impervious to some catastrophe.

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Lord, we are always vulnerable

and therefore we should call

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out to you for protection and

call out to you for direction.

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Help us to humbly walk with

you this week and to do what

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your word says as your people.

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We ask all this in Jesus name, amen.

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Hey, thank you so much for joining me.

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I'll see you in a couple weeks.

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