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Old Testament -> Obadiah

We have heard a rumour from the Lord.
Obadiah 1

Obadiah for Skeptics

It’s amazing how much bad stuff can be packed into the Bible. There’s only 21 verses in Obadiah, for example, but somehow it manages to include:

The Israelites hear “a rumor from the Lord” telling them to start a war with the Edomites. 1, 8

God tells Israelites to “destroy the wise men out of Edom” and to slaughter “everyone of the mount of Esau.” 8-9

“For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen.” If so, then it must have come and past, unnoticed, long before the birth of Christ.  15

God will burn all the heathen to death, “for the LORD hath spoken it.” 16-18

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