Saviours, the Machabees, as figures of Christ. The temporal power of the Jews ended thirty-seven years after his resurrection. (Calmet) -- The rest of this prophecy (ver. 19.) regards Christ's kingdom over all nations, which believe in him, and receive the remission of their sins, Acts x. 43. (St. Augustine, City of God xviii. 31.) (Worthington)
Verse Obadiah 1:21. _AND SAVIOURS SHALL COME UP_] Certain persons whom God may choose to be deliverers of his people; such as _Zerubbabel,_ _Ezra, Nehemiah_, and the _Maccabees_. Some think these _s...
AND SAVIORS SHALL ASCEND ON MOUNT ZION - The body should not be without its head; saviours there should be, and those, successively. The title was familiar to them of old Judges 3:9, Judges 3:15. “The...
OBADIAH 1:15 A, OBADIAH 1:16. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS. The Day of Yahweh approaches; Judah has already drunk her cup of suffering (_cf._ Jeremiah 25:15;...
SAVIOURS. deliverers: i.e. earthly and human, as in Judges 3:9; Judges 3:15. Compare Micah 5:4; Micah 5:5. See the Structure, above. the kingdom shall be the LORD'S
The Restoration of Israel By an easy transition the prophet passes to the second and brighter part of his picture. The destruction of her enemies is accompanied by the restoration and salvation of Is...
_saviours_ i.e. _deliverers_. The word, enshrined already in the name of Joshua, the great deliverer, is frequently applied to the Judges: "The Lord raised up judges, which delivered (saved) them out...
_THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD -- OBADIAH 1:19-21:_ The destruction that was to come upon the nations was described in the words, "And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plai...
VICTORY FOR GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE TEXT: Obadiah 1:17-21 17 But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And...
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and SAVIOURS SHALL COME UP ON MOUNT ZION TO JUDGE THE MOUNT OF ESAU - "saviours;" there will be in the kingdom yet to come no ki...
THE *LORD IS KING OBADIAH _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF OBADIAH AUTHOR This is the shortest book in the *Old Testament. Obadiah means ‘the servant of *Yahweh’. Or it means ‘the person who giv...
17-21. — ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF JEHOVAH ON MOUNT ZION. (17) DELIVERANCE. — Better, as in margin, _the fugitives of Israel who have survived the recent calamity._ This is clear from Isaiah 10:...
וְ עָל֤וּ מֹֽושִׁעִים֙ בְּ הַ֣ר צִיֹּ֔ון לִ
EDOM AND ISRAEL Obadiah 1:1 IF the Book of Obadiah presents us with some of the most difficult questions of criticism, it raises besides one of the hardest ethical problems in all the vexed history...
And (q) saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S. (q) Meaning that God will raise up in his Church those who will rule and govern for the d...
"And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the...
REFLECTIONS Reader! we have a very solemn subject in this short but striking prophecy. When we consider the nearness of natural alliance between Jacob and Esau, and behold the bitterness of Edom to hi...
Here the Prophet says, that there are in God’s hand ministers, the labor of whom he employs to preserve his own people. He alludes here, I have no doubt, to the history of the judges. We indeed know t...
Edom is frequently spoken of in the prophets. This people, who, as well as Jacob, were descended from Isaac, had an inveterate hatred to the posterity of the younger son who were favoured as the peopl...
AND SAVIOURS SHALL COME UPON MOUNT ZION,.... Which according to some, is to be understood literally, either of Zerubbabel and Joshua, after the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, who we...
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S. Ver. 21. _And saviours shall come up on mount Zion_] Judas Maccabeus and Hircanus in the hist...
_And the captivity of this host_, &c. Those of the ten tribes that were carried away captive by Shalmaneser; _shall possess that of the Canaanites_ That is, all the countries they anciently possessed,...
And saviors, men who would bring the deliverance of the Lord, SHALL COME UP ON MOUNT ZION, appearing in the Church of the Lord as His messengers, TO JUDGE THE MOUNT OF ESAU, as typical of the entire h...
The Deliverance of God's People...
17-21 There should be deliverance and holiness at Jerusalem, and the house of Jacob would again occupy their possessions. Much of this prophecy was fulfilled when the Jews returned to their own land....
AND, or _For_, so the Gallic version, printed at Rochelle, 1616. SAVIOURS; deliverers; literally, the governors or leaders of those captive troops, who shall come up from Babylon to their own country,...
Obadiah 1:21 saviors H3467 (H8688) come H5927 (H8804) Mount H2022 Zion H6726 judge H8199 (H8800) mountains...
THE DAY OF YHWH WILL RESULT IN THE CARRYING OUT OF GOD'S JUDGMENT AND WILL BRING ABOUT THE VINDICATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE (OBADIAH 1:15). But what they had overlooked was that one day YHWH would call the...
KINGDOM See Kingdom, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 12:8). _ (_ See Scofield) - (1 Corinthians 15:24). _...
CONTENTS: Edom's humiliation because of sin against God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Obadiah. CONCLUSION: If men in their pride and carnal security dare to challenge omnipotence, their challenge will...
_And saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s._ CHRIST AS A CONQUEROR This is a vision concerning Edom, or the Mount of Esau, or Idumea, wh...
OBADIAH—NOTE ON OBADIAH 1:21 SAVIORS. Those appointed by God to deliver the people and bring just government. The Lord has always been King over the nations (v. Obadiah 1:1), bu
CRITICAL NOTES.] Obadiah 1:17.] Yet this MOUNT shall become a sanctuary for God and his people, who will POSSESS, regain their possessions. OBADIAH 1:18.] Israel, again united and unassailed, shall...
Tonight shall we turn now to Obadiah. Who Obadiah was, or where he came from, when he prophesied, nobody knows for sure. There have been a lot of guesses as to who Obadiah actually was, but they are a...
1 Corinthians 6:2; 1 Corinthians 6:3; 1 Timothy 4:16; 2 Kings 13:5;...
Saviours — Deliverers, literally the leaders of those captive troops, who shall come up from Babylon, such as Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Mystically, Christ and his apostles, and other preachers o...
OBADIAH — If the Book of Obadiah is inspired Scripture, then why is it not quoted in the NT? (For a discussion of this question, see Ecclesiastes 1:1.) OBADIAH — Is the prophecy of Obadiah simply an...