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DLCM DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL

WE SHALL LAUGH LAST

7^TH  , AUGUST 2022

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: John 16-18

TEXT:  Obadiah 1-21

1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the Lord, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):

2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You shall be greatly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, You who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high; You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.

5 “If thieves had come to you, If robbers by night— Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to you,
Would they not have left some gleanings?

6 “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; The men at peace with you
Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Those who eat your bread shall lay a [a]trap for you.
No[b] one is aware of it.

8 “Will I not in that day,” says the Lord, “Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter.

10 “For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.
11 In the day that you stood on the other side— In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem— Even you were as one of them.

12 “But you should not have gazed[c] on the day of your brother [d]In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have [e]gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the crossroads To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have [f]delivered up those among them who remained In the day of distress.

15 “For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your [g]reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16 For as you drank on My holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had never been.

17 “But on Mount Zion there shall be [h]deliverance, And there shall be holiness; The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau shall be stubble; They shall kindle them and devour them, And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,” For the Lord has spoken.

19 The [i]South shall possess the mountains of Esau, And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim And the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As far as Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Shall possess the cities of the [j]South.
21 Then saviors[k] shall come to Mount Zion To judge the mountains of Esau, And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

 

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KEY VERSE:

“For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.” -  Obadiah 15

 

 

 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

God's final deliverance is only for those who stick to His ways to the end.

 

 

THE MESSAGE:                                                                                        

For centuries, Christians have paced almost the entire world warning that a day of reckoning would dawn on the entire human race to reveal the fury of a God whose laws have been overturned. Quoting from the Scriptures, they have solemnly declared that it would cease to be business as usual, once their cup was full. They have referred to such supernatural instances as when a great universal flood destroyed man and the localised judgment of fire on transgressing Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

 

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Through Obadiah, the Lord assured His people that deliverance was near. The Assyrians were tormenting God's people while the Edomites, Israel's kinsmen, were also taking part in the plundering of the Holy Land. They took delight in the hardships of Judah. And when the children of Jacob fled from their aggressors, Esau blocked them and sold them into slavery.

 

Yet, the word of God was that Judah would have the last laugh, no matter how long their persecution. "But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions." Earlier, the Lord had spoken of a day when the wickedness of the enemy would be returned unto him. God honoured His promise to restore Israel's possessions as they returned from captivity.

 

Knowing that we are going to celebrate as triumphant followers of Jesus Christ in the end, we must not fail to preach His gospel despite persecutions and rejection. Christ wants us to continue to display a lifestyle of holiness, even if others do not see it as fashionable in this world of sunken moral values and godlessness.

 

 

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

 

 

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