Obadiah: The Most Terrifying Message in the Bible

The book of Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament. But it has the single most terrifying message of any book in the Bible! There is a vital reason why God is finally revealing it now. Perhaps this message should be more sobering to the saints than any of God’s messages. However, God doesn’t end on a negative note. Obadiah also has one of the most inspiring conclusions of any biblical book!

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The major and minor prophets all have an end-time message. Some people might say Obadiah is not for us today. But it contains the most frightening message in the Bible for God’s Church, and especially His END-TIME Church!

Obadiah utterly condemned Esau, or Edom (Genesis 25:30; 36:1, 8). But how does Esau relate to us today? Herbert W. Armstrong often said the Bible is a coded book. God must reveal the code. So before we turn to Obadiah, let’s look at another book that has an urgent warning for God’s Church today.

“The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi” (Malachi 1:1). The word burden here means a prophetic oracle—or warning. We have clearly shown that this book is a strong rebuke for God’s own Church. (Request a free copy of Malachi’s Message to God’s Church Today.) Malachi 4:5-6 prove this is an end-time book.

Notice what Malachi immediately begins to discuss: “I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness” (Malachi 1:2‑3). Why Jacob and Esau? They were twin brothers who had a long history of war. If we apply this to the Church today, we can see God is telling us that the main problem is family division. This is the main problem Malachi is attacking. His message is primarily for God’s divided Church today, which is rapidly becoming more divided.

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About The Author

Gerald Flurry is the presenter of the Key of David television program and the editor in chief of the Philadelphia Trumpet newsmagazine. He is the founder and pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God, chancellor of Herbert W. Armstrong College and chairman of the Armstrong International Cultural Foundation.
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