Obadiah

In all the years of my Bible Studies there is one characteristic that I know that God hates and will not tolerate…pride
and the arrogance that comes with it
and
God protects all of His children. Even when those closest to us disagree with us, we still love them, we still stand up for them, we still want the very best for them. It is the same but magnified with the Father. He hates our actions, but He loves us. He loves us as we are but too much to leave us that way.
We are all His children who believe that only in Jesus Christ are we saved. We need each other and we need to be His loving arms to others. Only by the grace of God, in Jesus Christ, do we have any hope. Faith is a gift. It is nothing that we earned or deserved. It is the ultimate gift of a loving Father who reached out to save us by giving His only Son. We have no reason to be anything but humbled. We will learn our lesson, the easy way OR the hard way, but we will learn the lesson.

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.

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 on the day of your brother

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 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 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 reprisal shall return upon your own head.

17 "But on Mount Zion there shall be 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.

21 Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion

To judge the mountains of Esau,

And the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

The NKJV says this:

Edom's physical location became a metaphor for the proud and haughty spirit that the nation had displayed at the time of Judah's distress. Trusting in its high places and mountainous strongholds, Edom reckoned that no one could bring it to account for its actions. Pride incites insolence and rebellion toward God, and it brings shame. The "pride of your heart" of which Jeremiah speaks is "presumptuous godlessness," the arrogance of those who think that they can thrive without their Creator. Esau and Jacob were brothers, the sons of Isaac and Rebekah. Edom was descended from Esau; Judah was descended from Jacob. It was one thing for the Babylonians to attack Judah; for a nation like Edom to join the Babylonians against their own brothers was unthinkable. God would judge all the nations, including Edom, that had participated in Judah's destruction. As you have done: The nature of God's judgment always reflects the nature of the sin being judged. The Lord still viewed Jerusalem as His holy mountain because He intended to reestablish His presence there. God intends to rejoin the kingdoms of Israel and Judah as one people again. These were Obadiah's last words against all human arrogance, pride, and rebellion. Edom had thought itself indestructible; but the Lord humbled that nation and restored the fallen Judah. Many people are tempted to consider themselves beyond the reach of God. But God will bring them low, just as He will lift those who humble themselves before Him. And one great day, He will establish His just rule over all.