Obadiah 1:21

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 king, but a prince; there will return the sabbatic period of the judges, when there was no visible king, but God reigned in the theocracy (cf. the phrase so frequent in Judges, only once found in the times of the kings, , "In his (Asa's) days the land was quiet ten years;" "the land had rest"). Israelites, not strangers, shall dispense justice to a God-fearing people, (; .) The judges were not such a burden to the people as the kings proved afterward, according to the forewarning of Samuel ...

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 that the people of Israel were often so distressed, that their deliverance was almost incredible; and that yet they were also delivered in such a way as to have made it evident that the hand of God had appeared from heaven. Since this then was well known to the Jews, the Prophet here reminds them that God had still in his hand redeemers, whenever it might please him to gather his people. God then shall send _preservers, _even as he did send them formerly to your fathers. They had indeed found true by experience what the Prophet says here, not only once, but more than ten times. This then ought to have served much to confirm this prophecy. _Ascend _then _shall they who will judge the mount of...

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 1:21. _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 _saviours_, מושיעים moshiim, mean the _apostles_ of our Lord. Several MSS. have מושעים _mushaim_, the _preserved_; those _that are saved_, i.e., they who were _delivered_ from the captivity; and _those of Mount Zion_ shall _judge_, that is, shall _execute judgment_ on the Edomites. And as the Asmonean princes joined the _priesthood_ to the _state_, it might be what the prophet means when he says, "the kingdom shall be the Lord's," the high priest having both the _civil_ and _ecclesiastical power_ in his own hands. And these actually were masters of Edom, and judged and _governed_ the mountai

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 children of Israel cried unto the Lord, Who raised them up a savior, and he saved them. And the Lord gave unto Israel a savior” 2 Kings 13:5, in the time of Jehoahaz. Nehemiah says to God, Nehemiah 9:27. “According to Thy manifold mercies, Thou gavest them saviours, who should save them from the hands of their enemies.” So there should be thereafter. Such were Judas Maccabeus and his brothers, and Hyrcanus, Alexander, Aris

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 were the restorers of, their civil and church state; or rather of Judas Maccabeus and his brethren, who saved the people of the Jews from Antiochus and his generals, called "saviours", as the judges of old were, Ne 9:27; but it is best to interpret these saviours of the apostles of Christ, and ministers of the word; and especially of the preachers of the Gospel in the latter days; called "saviours", because they publish salvation, preach the Gospel of it, show unto men the way of salvation; and so they, and the word preached by them, are the means and instruments of the salvation of men; otherwise Christ is the only Saviour of God's appointing and sending; and who came to effect salvation, and...

KINGDOM See Kingdom, (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 12:8). _ (_ See Scofield) - (1 Corinthians 15:24). _...

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,...

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. Compare Psalms 22:28; Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:14; Daniel 7:27; Zechariah 14:

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 Israel. There is however no sudden break between the two portions of the prophecy. The key-note of deliverance had already been struck in the earlier portion by the implied promise (Obadiah 1:16) that the punishment of Israel was not to be, like that of her enemies, continual. The tones of vengeance are heard still in the later portion, and are only lost at length in the final strain of victory, "The kingdom shall be the Lord's." Israel is to regain her former possessions (Obadiah 1:17), to overcome her ancient foes (Obadiah 1:18),