Do the Bible Book Bop!

00:00 Introduction and Event Announcement

00:09 Details of the Prosper Pride Event

00:42 Personal Experiences and Testimonials

01:29 Introduction to the Book of Obadiah

02:04 Historical Context of Obadiah

03:57 Judgment Against Edom

04:26 Lessons from Obadiah

08:52 Psalm 82: Divine Judgment

12:27 Psalm 83: A Call for God's Action

15:10 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

July 1st, 2024.

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And it's another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hate today.

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We've got the prosper pride.

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Event happening at frontier park.

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And we would love to see you there.

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Compass Bible church, north

Texas will have a presence.

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The event is free.

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There will be food trucks and all

sorts of things being handed out.

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If you're in our area.

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It would be great for you

to come drop by our tent.

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Say hello.

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I get a free goodie.

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We would love to see you there.

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And if perhaps you have some neighbors

who are not having any plans yet,

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maybe invite them and bring them

along to, we would love to see you.

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I'll be there.

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Pastor PG we'll be there.

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Our families will have several

volunteers they're serving.

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It would be a great way to

spend your July 1st end.

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This was an actual quote, said

multiple times less last year.

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Quote.

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This was the best firework

show I've ever seen.

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I mean, I know that sing a lot.

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In fact, I probably should

lower the bar for you.

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So whatever in your mind,

you're conjuring up.

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It's probably not that great,

but it was really good.

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I'm not going to lie.

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We really did enjoy the show.

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You know, we've seen a million

shows by this point, I guess, a

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millions of slight exaggeration,

but we've seen several shows.

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We're expecting anything

amazing, but these shows.

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I don't know if it's a Texas thing or

if it's a prosper thing in particular.

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But I really enjoyed the show

and I really did appreciate it.

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So if you have nothing to do on a July

1st, Monday, summer night, this would be a

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good thing for you and your family to do.

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And we'd love to see

you there at our booth.

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Okay.

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That's all I have.

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Let's jump on it to the shortest book.

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In the old Testament.

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Obadiah.

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Now, let me tell you all that we know

about Obadiah before we jumped up.

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Hey, here's all that I knew about Obadiah.

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You ready?

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His name is Obadiah.

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There you go.

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That's all I got for you.

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There's not a lot on this guy.

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There's not a lot to say about him,

except for the fact that maybe the

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dating of this book is a bit unclear.

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You're reading it right now, but most

commentators think that this is probably

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closer to the Babylonian campaign.

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against Judah and then eat

them participates in this.

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So we're talking a couple

hundred years from where we are.

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Remember the kingdom

divides at about 9 31 BC.

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Uh, the Northern kingdom is sacked

by the Assyrians in 7 21 7 22 BC.

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And then in 5 86, BC is when the

Judean kingdom falls prey to Babylon.

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Well, Obadiah probably writes to

the Southern kingdom, uh, in no,

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he definitely right to the Southern

kingdom, but he's probably writing.

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Around that timeframe

after the Babylonian exile.

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So we're reading it today because the

editors of our Bible reading plan think.

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It could have happened earlier, and

that's certainly a possibility it's

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plausible, but the weight seems to err,

on the side of the Babylonian exile.

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So as you read this or reading this from

the prophet Obadiah who we know nothing

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about, except for the fact that he wrote

this great book, And that this book is

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directed to Judah, the Southern kingdom.

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Now important to know here

is that this book is directed

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to Judah's neighbor actually.

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And that would be Eden.

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Eden is not only their closest

neighbor, but they are, again,

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some of their closest family.

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Eat them.

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Is a nickname for Esau

as Esau's relatives.

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And if you're a member.

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Esau from Genesis.

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This is Jacob's twin brother.

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And remember Jacob and Esau

had, uh, some pretty difficult

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relational status between the two.

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Esau despised his birthright.

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Jacob's swoops in takes the birthright.

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And takes all that goes along with it.

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The blessing included and Jacob becomes

the patriarch for Israel, right?

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Israel, him, Jacob was renamed in Israel.

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It's got 12 tribes.

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And so you have from him, the entirety

of Israel, as you know it, and

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this particular period in history.

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Edam Esau's relatives are probably

still not happy about this.

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They know their history, they

know Israel, they know Judah.

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And so this is where we're landed here.

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Edam in this particular instance

does not respond well when the

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Babylonian exile takes place.

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In fact, that's where we begin.

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Uh, they are charged by

God with being proud.

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With being lofty.

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In fact, in verse three, it says the

pride of your heart has deceived.

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You eat them.

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You who live in the clefts of

the rocks in your lofty dwelling.

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So they have some kind of

Eden might fortress that is

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powerful and strong it's high.

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And so they have a false

confidence in their dwellings.

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They have a false assurance.

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In their protections or what

they think are their protections.

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And the same thing can happen to you.

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And I may not look like a, a

dwelling, although it might, if you

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have a large property, you have.

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You know, alarm systems and you have

firearms to protect your family.

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You might accidentally put your trust

in those things, as opposed to putting

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your trust in the Lord of the things.

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That would be a good thing

for you to keep in mind here.

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He continues on in verses

five through seven.

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He says, look, if these came to

you, if plunders came by night, how,

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how you would have been destroyed.

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Would they not steal only

enough for themselves?

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So he's charging them with being worse

than some of these midnight thieves.

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In verses eight and nine, he says,

will I not on that day, declares the

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Lord destroy the Wiseman out of veto.

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So he's threatening their destruction

and he's saying it's coming.

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It's coming in fact, we'll get

there in a few moments here.

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But before that, he says, here's

why you're going to suffer this

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consequence in verses 10 through 14.

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He details a list of how Edam

offended gods at sensibilities.

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He said you did violence

to your brother, Jacob.

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There's the family relationship.

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Shame shall cover you.

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You shall be cut off for ever, because

here's why verse 11, you did not.

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Uh, you did not help your brother Esau.

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You did not help your brother, Jacob.

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You stood aloof.

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On the day that stranger's

carried off as well.

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If you were like one of them

in some way, they participated.

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In the ransacking of Judah.

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And in fact, in verse 12, it says

that they gloated over their brother.

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They were happy about their misfortune.

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They rejoiced over them.

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They boasted.

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And God says, Hey, don't do that.

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No, don't steal his money.

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Don't rejoice over him.

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'cause I promise you verses 15 through 18.

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There is a day coming where I will.

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Enact vengeance.

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That day is called the day of the Lord.

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And you've heard this terminology before.

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You're gonna hear it a lot more throughout

our scripture reading, but the day of

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the Lord has both a near and a far term.

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Application.

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There is a near term application

where God deals with Eden, but

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he's also, uh, using this term too.

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To conjure up in your mind,

a far term application.

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And as Christians, we know that they're

the, the ultimate far term application

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will happen when Jesus establishes his

millennial reign and then, uh, issues

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his judgment for all times, all places,

all peoples at the great white throne

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judgment, there's multiple judgements.

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But the day of the Lord is a season

of God's judgment and justice.

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And that season has near

application and far applications.

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So just keep that in mind here.

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And God's saying to eat them.

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Uh, I'm going to give you the

cup of my wrath and you're going

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to drink it down to the dregs.

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And you're going to suffer the

righteous wrath that you deserve.

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But in Mount Zion, there shall be those

who escape and it shall be called holy.

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There will be a remnant that God

protects that will not suffer his wrath.

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In fact, they will possess

the possessions of EDA.

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They will, they will enjoy the fruit.

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Of of God's favor and his blessing.

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Jacob's shall be a fire.

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Joseph, a flame.

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Esau will be the stubble.

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So God's saying his people are going to

be the instrument of his fiery judgment,

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which will consume the adversary.

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And in this case, Esau, Esau.

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It will be stubble.

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Well, fast forward to the

rest of this chapter here.

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And what you have is God's promise that.

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They will be successful.

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Israel slash Judah.

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And Esau will not be.

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And the kingdom in verse 21 shall be

the Lord's everything's going to be set.

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Right.

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And that time is coming, but it's not yet.

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So even though you gloat and you

boast because you're seeming to

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squash the squash, his people.

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And that's not the end of the story.

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They're going to be times when

you, and I think that the enemy

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is winning, that the bad guys are

making progress and the challenge

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for you and for eyes to recognize

that this is not the final story.

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Remember the Christian's

best days are always ahead.

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Even though we could look longingly

at yesteryear and say, oh man, I

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really appreciate how in our culture,

we used to believe this and that.

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And we used to vote this way in that way.

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And now things are different.

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Everything's different.

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We're confused.

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We're enacting ungodly laws and

instituting unjust organizations,

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et cetera, et cetera.

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Well, no, here that God has

all things under his purview.

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There's not a single molecule

in the universe that is going

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astray in God's economy.

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He knows what he's doing.

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And granted.

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His justice in your mind may be slow.

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It might be slower than you prefer,

but God's justice is on the way.

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The day of the Lord is coming.

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In the meantime then, Jesus calls

us to pray for enemies to bless

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those who persecute us to do all

that we can to ensure that more

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people enter the kingdom before his

judgment and his justice are enacted.

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Okay.

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Jump over to Psalm 82.

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And as you're doing that, by the way.

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Uh, you might struggle to find

books like Obadiah in your Bible.

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Sometimes I do.

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I have.

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I'm going to confess to you.

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I learned the books of the Bible.

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Through a, do a kids song.

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The Bible book, Bob, I had to go

through that over and over again.

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I actually had to refresh it recently.

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So I would encourage you.

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If you struggle to remember where

things are in your Bible, to find some

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way to remember that if you've ever

done partners, you had to do that.

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You had to go and find a way to

memorize the old Testament and

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the new Testament books in order.

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And that's a good thing for you to

do, even though most of the time,

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you don't need that if you have an

electronic source, but if you have

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a physical Bible really helpful and

handy to know where everything is.

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So I would recommend to you the Bible

book, Bob, by the group called go fish.

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Really enjoyed that.

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In fact, Uh, I will put

that in the show notes.

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I hope I remember to do that.

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I want to do that.

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I'm going to do that.

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So help me, God, I will

put that in there for you.

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So if you struggle, like I do

remembering where stuff is.

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The Bible book, Bob could

be a great help to you.

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So I'm 82.

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So many too is a unique Psalm

and most people are going to

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tell you that this song is about.

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The earthly judges that God is calling

to account and saying, I'm going

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to judge you for your unjust rule.

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And that's a really good interpretation.

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But as you know, here in verse one,

it says God has taken his place

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in notice in the divine council.

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That's an interesting phrase.

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Interesting word.

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We saw something of this nature when

Ahab brought in Micaiah the son of a.

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I am law two prophesies about what

would happen in their upcoming battle.

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And of course, Makiah says, I saw in

heaven, there was this, there was a

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divine council essentially is not the

same words, but the same concept is

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captured where God says, who's going to

deceive a hap and then one comes forward

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and says, here's how I'm going to do it.

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And then God says, yes,

you're going to do that.

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And you shall succeed.

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It seems that this may

be talking about that.

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And I'm going to say may cause

it's a strained interpretation.

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Um, But it's valid.

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It's viable.

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Again, most people are going to interpret

this as saying God's speaking to the

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human judges and saying basically.

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Uh, how long will you

as little G gods rule?

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And decide unjustly, how long will

you oppress the weak and the needy?

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And that's really the,

the thrust of Psalm 82.

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God essentially is saying to these

judges, whether they're human or in some

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way, shape or form spiritual and their

spiritual, divinities now not divine

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as in capital G God, but lowercase G

there's some kind of gods and perhaps

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they're angelic angels who have fallen,

not entirely sure, but whoever these

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beings are, whether they're human

judges or whether they're divine judges.

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God says you're doing wrong.

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I'm going to judge you now.

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Uh, I said in verse six, you are God's

sons of the most high, all of you,

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nevertheless like men, you shall die.

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And fall, like any prints.

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Which again, if we're talking about human

judges here, And that would be a very.

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Odd few verses there.

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If he's talking to humans, why not just

say you're just, you're going to die.

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And someone would answer, well,

if they're exalted humans, they

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may think that they're above this.

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They're too lofty to even

conceive of their own death.

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Maybe that's the case.

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Or maybe this is again, uh, they're

spiritual beings that God is

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promising judgment for in the future.

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And it goes back to the day of the Lord.

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God's going to set all things, right.

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And that's also gonna include judging

the spiritual life or a spiritual realm.

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And that's what you may have here.

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In verse eight of Psalm 82.

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The Psalmist ACEF says, arisal

God judged the earth for you

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shall inherit all the nations.

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So the ultimate trust then is that

God is going to rule judge justly.

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And that time is yet to come and we're

praying for it's coming come quickly.

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Lord Jesus.

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We might say.

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Psalm 83.

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So many, three is a second Psalm

of ACF and he in this one here.

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Is asking God.

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To not be still to not be at peace.

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He's saying, God, please come

and act upon our enemies.

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There are people who are laying

crafty plans against your people.

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They consult with one another.

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They want to wipe out your heritage

and they do this all in one accord.

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And he talks about all these

different people, groups, the people

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of Moab, the people of Assyria.

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He says that the children of lot, which

are the people we just talked about.

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He says all of these people

are collaborating and colluding

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to destroy your people.

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In verses nine through 12, he recalls

how God has delivered them in the past.

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You'll notice that this is an ongoing

occurrence within the scriptures.

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Every time someone is confronted

with a difficult situation.

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They have to, as a matter of

practice, remember how has

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God dealt with us in the past?

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What has God done in his

deliverance in the past?

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And here you have something like this.

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He recounts what happens in judges

chapters four through eight.

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With, , Cicero and Jabin and aura.

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And Zeb and some of the Kings

that they, they conquered.

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And so he's reflecting on

what God has done in the past.

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And he says, oh God, do this again.

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Oh, God make them like whirling

dust, like chaff before the Windsor.

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Uh, effectively meaningless,

nothing insignificant.

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Uh, consume them's at

the mountains of blaze.

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And then notice here, as he turns

in verses 16 through 18, he says,

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fill their faces with shame that,

that they may seek your name.

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Oh Lord.

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Well, that's interesting.

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He's not just saying enact judgment and

vengeance, just so you can destroy them.

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He really wants him to know who

their God is, who YALI is.

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So fill their faces with shame

that they may seek your name.

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Old Lord.

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Let them be put to shame

and dismay forever.

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Let them perish and disgrace so that they

may know that you alone, whose name is the

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Lord are the most high over all the earth.

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That's a good direction for

you to pray as you think about

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the enemies of God right now.

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And there are plenty.

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You might've seen the debate

recently and thought, Lord, there

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are many enemies against your

people against wisdom and justice.

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A good way to pray is to

say Lord, please do good.

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By judging the evil that you see and do.

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So in order that people would know you.

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That's one of those delicate balances.

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Isn't it.

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It's a hard one to strike because

so often we get angry and perhaps

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righteously angry against sin.

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But notice here, the way that we

pray is also going to shape the fact

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that we want people to know Christ.

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We want people to repent to turn to him

and to know that he is the one true God.

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So as you pray this morning,

or you pray today, Make sure

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that you're praying, uh, right.

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That as you pray for your

enemies, you're not just praying

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that God would deal with them.

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But that God would deal graciously

with them, bringing them to a

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saving knowledge of Christ Because

that's how he dealt with you.

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And with me,

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that's all I have for you today.

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Thank you so much for joining me.

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I'll see you back tomorrow

for the very last podcast.

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That's just me.

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I mean, I'm excited.

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I'm sure you are too.

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I can't wait to have pastor

PJ back, but one more in the

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queue for just you and me today.

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And until then have a great day.

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I'll see you then.