O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:28 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Saturday September 26 > Day 269 > > Obadiah 1 (The Message) > > Obadiah 1 > Your World Will Collapse > 1 Obadiah's Message to Edom > from God, the Master. > We got the news straight from God > by a special messenger sent out to the godless nations: > "On your feet, prepare for battle; > get ready to make war on Edom! > > 2-4 "Listen to this, Edom: > I'm turning you to a no-account, > the runt of the godless nations, despised. > You thought you were so great, > perched high among the rocks, king of the mountain, > Thinking to yourself, > 'Nobody can get to me! Nobody can touch me!' > Think again. Even if, like an eagle, > you hang out on a high cliff-face, > Even if you build your nest in the stars, > I'll bring you down to earth." > God's sure Word. > > 5-14"If thieves crept up on you, > they'd rob you blind-isn't that so? > If they mugged you on the streets at night, > they'd pick you clean-isn't that so? > Oh, they'll take Esau apart, piece by piece, > empty his purse and pockets. > All your old partners will drive you to the edge. > Your old friends will lie to your face. > Your old drinking buddies will stab you in the back. > Your world will collapse. You won't know what hit you. > So don't be surprised"-it's God's sure Word!- > "when I wipe out all sages from Edom > and rid the Esau mountains of its famous wise men. > Your great heroes will desert you, Teman. > There'll be nobody left in Esau's mountains. > Because of the murderous history compiled > against your brother Jacob, > You will be looked down on by everyone. > You'll lose your place in history. > On that day you stood there and didn't do anything. > Strangers took your brother's army into exile. > Godless foreigners invaded and pillaged Jerusalem. > You stood there and watched. > You were as bad as they were. > You shouldn't have gloated over your brother > when he was down-and-out. > You shouldn't have laughed and joked at Judah's sons > when they were facedown in the mud. > You shouldn't have talked so big > when everything was so bad. > You shouldn't have taken advantage of my people > when their lives had fallen apart. > You of all people should not have been amused > by their troubles, their wrecked nation. > You shouldn't have taken the shirt off their back > when they were knocked flat, defenseless. > And you shouldn't have stood waiting at the outskirts > and cut off refugees, > And traitorously turned in helpless survivors > who had lost everything. > > 15-18 "God's Judgment Day is near > for all the godless nations. > As you have done, it will be done to you. > What you did will boomerang back > and hit your own head. > Just as you partied on my holy mountain, > all the godless nations will drink God's wrath. > They'll drink and drink and drink- > they'll drink themselves to death. > But not so on Mount Zion-there's respite there! > a safe and holy place! > The family of Jacob will take back their possessions > from those who took them from them. > That's when the family of Jacob will catch fire, > the family of Joseph become fierce flame, > while the family of Esau will be straw. > Esau will go up in flames, > nothing left of Esau but a pile of ashes." > God said it, and it is so. > > 19-21 People from the south will take over the Esau mountains; > people from the foothills will overrun the Philistines. > They'll take the farms of Ephraim and Samaria, > and Benjamin will take Gilead. > Earlier, Israelite exiles will come back > and take Canaanite land to the north at Zarephath. > Jerusalem exiles from the far northwest in Sepharad > will come back and take the cities in the south. > The remnant of the saved in Mount Zion > will go into the mountains of Esau > And rule justly and fairly, > a rule that honors God's kingdom. > > > > > > > ~~~~~ > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > Also, follow my tweets on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/Donnie1261 > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dbilg?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
