OBADIAH OUTLINE

A. Ralph Johnson

Theme: Doom of Edom (descendents of Esau, brother of Jacob.)

They lived in Petra, a city carved in the rock south of the Dead Sea.

About 585 BC following the fall of Jerusalem?  (Ezek 25:12; 35:1-5)

Chapters &

Key Words

OUTLINE

1ch(5) Map Treasury   

1: Doom

1.   Jehovah will bring down the pride of Edom (1-4)

 

2.   Edom’s allies and wise men have deceived them (5-9)

 

3.   Judgment because of sharing in the violence to brother, Jacob (10-14)

(cf. Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11-12)

4.   They will share in the day of Jehovah’s wrath on the nations (15-16)

 

5.   Coming Triumph of the Children of Israel escaped from Zion (17-21) [MESSIANIC]