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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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17 - OBADIAH: PROPHET OF POETIC JUSTICE</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
1. (ESV) EDOM: THE WORD OF JEHOVAH. <font size="3">“Thus says the
Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a
messenger has been sent among the nations: ‘Rise up! Let us rise
against her for battle!’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Though
You delay Your judgments from our point of view Father, they are
really right on divine schedule! You use nations to judge a nation!
</span><b><i>Hallowed be your :name.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
2. EDOM: HER SMALL ESTATE. <font size="3">“Behold, I will make you
small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">A
big frog in a little puddle is bloated in false-esteem. From heaven’s
point of view we are all as nothing. O purge from us the deception
and delusion of Edom. </span><b><i>Your :kingdom come!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
3 (3-9) EDOM: HER OVER-WEANING PRIDE. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">The
pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of
the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, ‘Who shall
bring me down to the ground?’” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">The
first sin of Satan (Lucifer) is so often our first sin also! How can
we become so self-deceived? How different from the spirit of Jesus!
</span><b><i>Your :will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
10 (10-14) EDOM: HER UNPARDONABLE SIN. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">Because
of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off forever.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Teach
us Father, that we are our brother’s keeper! Hold us back from the
sin of Cain! Show us that we can break the power of sin by receiving
Jesus as our </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">sin</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">-offering!
Forgive us for seeking to get around our responsibilities and
avoiding Your way of Salvation! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
15 (15-16) EDOM: IN THE DAY OF THE LORD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done,
it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
judgments Father, are just and righteous altogether. We remember
Adoni-bezek (Judges 1:5-7)! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
17 (17-18) EDOM: HER EXTERMINATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy,
and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
will be true for Your Church also Father, in the last days. And as
this Millen</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">n</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ium
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ends,
we are in the last days. We are in the end of the 120</span></span><sup><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">th</span></span></sup><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Jubilee! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
21 (19-21) ISRAEL: HER RESTORATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Saviors
shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall
be the LORD’s.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
God our Father, </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Great</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is Your faithfulness, and </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Great</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is the faithfulness of Your Word! You and Your Word are </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">one</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
(John 1:1)! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
C.H. Spurgeon Quotes: “Afflictions and Education” - </b></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Some
of you people of God, when you get bitter waters, want to throw them
away. Do not throw a drop of it away, for that is the water you have
yet to drink. Accept your afflictions. They are a part of your
education.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 77:10-11 (77). IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE I SEEK THE
LORD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Then
I said, ‘I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of
the Most High’. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">11
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">I will
remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of
old.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
deliverance at the Red Sea was great; Your re</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">storation
of Israel to their land was greater; Salvation through Jesus was a
greater deliverance yet; but the restitution of all things at Jesus’
second coming shall supersede them all, Father! The Feast of
Tabernacles! </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">77:19-20.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Your way
was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your
footprints were unseen. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">20
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">You
led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">There
is much of mystery, awe and grandeur about You, O Jehovah Father,
Great God of Might! We tremble at Your presence and Word; Your fear
grips our heart, and we </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow
Your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:none">“</span><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">A
Psalm of Asaph.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Asaph
was a man of exercised mind and often touched the minor key; he was
thoughtful, contemplative, believing, but withal there was a dash of
sadness about him and this imparted a tonic flavor to his songs.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">77:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I cried unto
God with my voice.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
This Psalm has much sadness in it, but we may be sure it will end
well, for it begins with prayer, and prayer never has an ill issue.
Asaph did not run to man but to the Lord, and to Him he went, not
with studied, stately, stilted words, but with a cry, the natural,
unaffected, unfeigned expression of pain. He used his voice also, for
though vocal utterance is not necessary to the life of prayer it
often seems forced upon us by the energy of our desires. Sometimes
the soul feels compelled to use the voice, for thus it finds a freer
vent for its agony. It is a comfort to hear the alarm-bell ringing
when the house is invaded by thieves.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">77:6.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I call to
remembrance my song in the night.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
He did not cease from introspection, for he was resolved to find the
bottom of his sorrow and trace it to its fountain-head. He made sure
work of it by talking, not with his mind only, but with his inmost
heart; it was heart work with him. He was no idler, no melancholy
trifler; he was up and at it, resolutely resolved that he would not
tamely die of despair but would fight for his hope to the last moment
of life.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">77:10.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And I said,
This is my infirmity. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
has won the day; he talks reasonably now and surveys the field with a
cooler mind. He confesses that unbelief is an infirmity, a weakness,
a folly, a sin. He may also be understood to mean, “This is my
appointed sorrow,” I will bear it without complaint. When we
perceive that our affliction is meted out by the Lord and is the
ordained portion of our cup, we become reconciled to it and no longer
rebel against the inevitable. Why should we not be content if it be
the Lord’s will? What He arranges, it is not for us to cavil at.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">77:11.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I will
remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember Your wonders
of old. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Whatever
else may glide into oblivion, the marvelous works of the Lord in the
ancient days must not be suffered to be forgotten. Memory is a fit
handmaid for faith. When faith has its seven years of famine, memory
like Joseph in Egypt opens her granaries.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">77:20.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You led Your
people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
What a transition from tempest to peace, for wrath to love! Quietly
as a flock, Israel was guided on, by human agency which veiled the
excessive glory of the divine presence. The smiter of Egypt was the
shepherd of Israel. He drove His foes before Him but went before His
people. Heaven and earth fought on His side against the sons of Ham,
but they were equally subservient to the interests of the sons of
Jacob. Therefore, with devout joy and full of consolation, we
close this Psalm; the song of one who forgot how to speak and yet
learned to sing far more sweetly than his fellows. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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