"We have heard a rumour from the Lord." -- Obadiah
Obadiah for Skeptics
It's amazing how much bad stuff can be packed into the Bible. There's only 21 verses in Obadiah, for
example, but somehow it manages to include:
- The Israelites hear "a rumor from the Lord" telling them to start a war with the Edomites.
1, 8
- God tells Israelites to "destroy the wise men out of Edom" and to slaughter "everyone
of the mount of Esau." 8-9
- "For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen." If so, then it must have
come and past, unnoticed, long before the birth of Christ. 15
- God will burn all the heathen to death, "for the LORD hath spoken it." 16-18