Obadiah 1:17

But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. BUT UPON MOUNT ZION SHALL BE DELIVERANCE - both in the literal sense and spiritual sense (repeated, with the fresh stamp of inspiration, from ; ; ; ). Maurer and Pusey, better, as margin, explain it, 'there shall be a remnant that shall escape;' 'an escaped remnant.' Compare : to the deliverance from Sennacherib there described Grotius thinks Obadiah here refers, 'Jerusalem shall not be taken, and many of the neigh...

Here the Prophet promises deliverance to the Jews; for other consolations would have been of no great moment, had they, who then were perishing, no hope of being some time restored to safety. The Jews might indeed have objected, and said, “What is it to us, though the Lord may avenge our wrongs? Should the Idumeans be destroyed for our sake, what profit will that be to us? We are in the meantime destroyed and have no hope of deliverance.” The Prophet here meets this objection, and says, _In mount Zion shall be escape _Though then the Idumeans had attempted to intercept all outlets, as it has been before mentioned, yet God promises here that there would be an escape in mount Zion: he says not, from mount Zion, but in the very mountain. What does this mean? even that God would restore those who might seem then to be lost. Then Obadiah clearly promises that there would be a restoration of t...

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. But the salvation and holiness of the gospel, its spread, and the conversion of the Gentiles, seem also to be intended, especially the restoration of Israel, the destruction of antichrist, and the prosperous state of the church, to which all the prophets bear witness. When Christ is come, and not till then, shall the kingdom be the Lord's in the full sense of the term. As none that exalt themselves against the Lord shall prosper, and all shall be brought down; so none that wait upon the Lord, and put their trust in him, shall ever be dismayed. Blessed be the Divine Saviour and Judge on Mount Zion! His word shall be a savour of life unto life unto numbers, while it judges and condemns obstina...

Verse Obadiah 1:17. _BUT UPON MOUNT ZION SHALL BE DELIVERANCE_] Here is a promise of the return from the Babylonish captivity. They shall come to _Zion_, and there they shall _find safety_; and it is remarkable that after their return they were greatly befriended by the Persian kings, and by Alexander the Great and his successors; so that, whilst they ravaged the neighbouring nations, the Jews were unmolested. See _Calmet_. _AND THERE SHALL BE HOLINESS_] They shall return to God, separate themselves from their idols, and become a better people than they were when God permitted them to be carried into captivity. _THE HOUSE OF JACOB SHALL POSSESS_] They were restored to their former possessions. But this may refer also to their future restoration under the Gospel, when they shall be truly converted, and become holine

BUT (AND) UPON (IN) MOUNT ZION, SHALL BE DELIVERANCE, OR, AN ESCAPED REMNANT, AND THERE (AND IT) SHALL BE HOLINESS - The sifting times of the Church are the triumph of the world; the judgment of the world is the restoration of the Church. In the triumph of the world, the lot was cast on Jerusalem, her sons were carried captive and slain, her holy places were desecrated. On the destruction of the nations, Mount Zion rises in calm majesty, as before; “a remnant” is replaced there, after its sifting; it is again “holiness;” not holy only, but a channel of holiness; “and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions (literally inherit their inheritances)”; either their own former possessions, receiving and “inheriting” from the enemy, what they had lost; or the “inheritances” of the nations. For the whole world is the inheritance of the Church, as Jesus said to the apostles, sons of Zio...

BUT UPON MOUNT ZION SHALL BE DELIVERANCE,.... Not only by Cyrus, at the end of the seventy years' captivity; and by the Maccabees from the Idumeans, and other enemies; but by the Messiah; for not merely temporal deliverance is here intended, unless as a shadow, type, and figure; but spiritual deliverance from the law, sin, Satan, the world, death, hell, and wrath to come, by Christ; who is the Deliverer that should both come to Zion and out of Zion, and who has wrought the above deliverance for Zion, his church and people; and where it is preached and proclaimed, and where those who are delivered come and dwell: or, "upon Mount Zion shall be an escape"; or, "they that escape" b; the pollutions of the world, the vengeance of divine justice, the curses of the law, and the damnation of hell, by fleeing to Christ for refuge: AND THERE SHALL BE HOLINESS: that is, on Mount Zion, on the church...

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; Jeremiah 49:12), and now the other nations shall drink destruction. Mount Zion shall be a sanctuary, and the house of Jacob (here for Judah) shall recover what has been lost (Obadiah 1:17). Judah shall be joined by the restored northern kingdom (the house of Joseph), and together they shall utterly destroy the Edomites (Esau,...

UPON MOUNT ZION. Compare Isaiah 46:13.Joel 2:32. SHALL BE. Compare Jeremiah 46:28; Joel 3:16; Amos 9:8. DELIVERANCE. a delivered remnant. Compare Joel 2:32. AND THERE SHALL BE, &C. Compare Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 4:3; Isaia

_But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance_ Unlike Edom (Obadiah 1:9) and the other heathen nations (Obadiah 1:16) whose destruction will be complete, Israel even in her worst calamities shall have "a deliverance," i. e. remnant of the people, who shall escape destruction and be delivered out of trouble, to be as it were a fresh nucleus and starting-point of the nation. The word here rendered "deliverance" occurs in Exodus 10:5, "that which is escaped," to denote the remnant of the fruits of the earth left by the plague of hail. It is used in the same sense as here in Isaiah 37:31-32, "that is escaped," "they that escape;" and in...

_THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR-- OBADIAH 1:15-20:_ God reminded Edom of His law that you reap what you sow. "The day of the Lord" was near for all nations. It was time for Edom to pay in full for what she had done. God said, "As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head." Other nations, in addition to Edom would feel the wrath of God. Especially Edom, but other nations also, would drink the cup of God's anger and wrath. Concerning those nations the Divine message was, it "shall be as though they had never been." God promised that His people would return from Babylonian captivity and "the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions." It was prophesied that Judah would retake some of their lost territory. The Edomites were to be completely overthrown as a ruling power. "Israel will be a fire, and Edom will be straw going up in flam