“But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And they will not escape [the Justice of God]…”
Job 11:20 (AMP)
Obadiah, the shortest book in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, gives a dramatic example of God’s response to anyone who would harm His children.
Edom was a mountainous nation occupying the region southeast of the Dead Sea. The Edomites were descendants of Esau (Genesis 25:19 – 27:45) and, thus, blood relatives of Israel. Like their forefather, they were fierce and proud warriors with seemingly invincible mountain homes. Rather than support their northern brothers, however, they gloated over Israel’s challenges and sufferings, captured and delivered them to the enemy, and even looted Israel’s land.
Obadiah prophesied to the Edomites that because of their callous indifference and the violence and treachery towards their relatives in Judah, they stood condemned and would be destroyed. Despite their impregnable cliffs and mountains, they will not be able to escape God’s judgement since no one is allowed to persecute God’s children (Obadiah 1:10-14). God will always judge them.
Beloved, many of us who work in organisations may have experienced all forms of victimisation, stagnation, marginalisation, and discrimination unjustly by those supervisors/managers who are placed over us. They may have built structures and systems to frustrate, hinder, and ultimately deny our upward mobility. Some of these persons are coverts and act as our friends, while some are openly hostile. We have prayed, and it seems like God has turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to our situation. Saints, fear not! Our enemies will receive just recompense for their wicked deeds. None shall escape God’s judgement.
Llike the Israelites, some of us also have seen Edomites traits in our siblings and/or blood relatives, who were/are in a position to help us in dire situations and blatantly refused to do so. They have gloated over our misfortunes, have maligned us, spread lies about us, isolated us, visited séances to conjure spells, enchantments, and curses to destroy us, but yet still we stand.
Brethren hear God’s Word for our life: “Because you are precious in my eyes, and honoured, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life” (Isaiah 43:4 – ESV), while Psalm 1:4-6 (NCV) states that wicked people “are like chaff that the wind blows away. So the wicked will not escape God’s punishment…This is because the Lord takes care of His people, but the wicked will be destroyed.”
Fear not; God is not slack concerning His promises (2 Peter 3:9). He will redeem us from the wiles of the enemy.
Read: Psalm 118:8; Isaiah 3:11
Bible Reading Guide: Psalm 71:9-18; Acts 4:23-37; Acts 5:1-11; 2 Samuel 13
