Today is the 13th day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It's

wonderful to be here with you today as we gather around the global campfire and do what

we do every day. Take the next step forward together. Our next step forward leads us into

the yet again new territory in the Old Testament. We have reached our final destination in the New

Testament. We are working our way through the Book of Revelation and so that's the last book in

the New Testament. So that will carry us to the end of the year and incidentally since we have been

putting some of the additional discussion about the Book of Revelation at the end of the

program for the last few days. Just letting you know there won't be one of those today at the end

after the prayers. There won't be one of those tomorrow after the prayers but then we'll pick back

up in a couple of days. But that's getting ahead of ourselves. That's in the New Testament. But we

have quite a bit of ground to cover in the Old Testament and today we will read the shortest book

in the Old Testament in its entirety. So a whole Old Testament book today, one of the minor prophets

known as Obadaya. And Obadaya identifies himself as the author in the text, although almost nothing

is known about who Obadaya was. The name Obadaya means servant of Yahweh but that wasn't an

uncommon name so dating the prophecy specifically becomes difficult. A general consensus is that

Obadaya probably was a contemporary with Jeremiah and that his prophetic works used Babylon's

destruction of Jerusalem as its context and if that's correct then Obadaya would be dated somewhere

to the late 500's BC. This shortest book in the Old Testament has 21 verses in it but it uses those

21 verses to deal with a very very big family issue and discusses the destruction of the Edomites.

And we might be like really the destruction of the Edomites family issue. Obadaya,

what's this doing? How does this work for us? We remember back when we were moving our way

through the book of Genesis way back when our journey began. We certainly remember that we met a

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