Tag: The Help You Think is There, Is Not!! - Obadiah

Obadiah 1:7

All your allies have driven you to your border;

those at peace with you have deceived you;

they have prevailed against you;

those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you— you have no understanding.

Tag: The help you think is there, is not!

Obadiah is as prophet proclaiming the prosecution of Esau (Edom), Israel’s (Jacob) brother.  When Israel was in trouble, Edom would not reach out in support. Instead Edom would inflict more harm on Israel ... when they were down.   The story is a story we see today when we see others in trouble and we do not reach out to help them.   

In the above verse we see the results of God’s discipline on Edom.   Edom thought, in their time of trouble, those sitting around them would help them.  God tells them that those they thought would help, will not be there.  God is discipline them and those they now rely upon for help will not be helping them.   As they did not help Israel, no one is coming to help them.  This is a classic, what you sow you reap story.  Edom trusted in allies and those sitting around their table.  But, when God comes to correct, NO ONE is able to deliver you.   The chastisement from God is sure and true.  Nothing delivers from His hands. 

In the future all the nations, rulers and peoples of the world will be disciplined for their bad treatment of God’s people.   That will not be diminished.  They will not find someone to help them.  When people hurt, injure and persecute God’s people, they will be dealt with by God.   No one will deliver them.  They may think they can withstand the discipline of God and that they have allies and a way of escape, but they do not.   God’s judgment is true.  Like Edom, no one escapes.  They lack understanding of the sureness and completeness of God’s judgment.