Obadiah 1:2
Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
you shall be utterly despised.
Tag: God is Sovereign - He sets up one and takes down another.
Before considering the above statement from the prophet Obadiah, consider the following statement from this Psalm:
Psalms 75:6-7
For not from the east or from the west
and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,
but it is God who executes judgment,
putting down one and lifting up another.
The Prophet Obadiah was sent by God for a very specific reason. As the people of Israel were beginning to be taken captive by the Babylonians the neighboring country of the Edomites were adding to their injury and harm. Not only were they not assisting their brothers (Edom is from the descendants of Esau, the brother of Jacob ... later named Israel), they were even taking up residents in some of their homes as Israel was taken captive. God despises this action. God wants us to love our bothers and wants us to assist our brothers. Edom was to be judged. God states HE will make them lower and smaller. It is fascinating how mankind wants to "build" itself into something. We so want to be something significant. We constantly want to build our teams, organizations, businesses, countries. We never stop building for more. Yet, it is God who builds. God puts up on and takes down another. We have to realize that even though man thinks he is in control, He is not. We need to trust Him for promotions, contracts, growth, expansion. We, ourselves, don't climb higher. It is God who allows us to grow higher ... or, like Edom, lower.
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