Today, I am reading and commenting on Amos 6-9 and Obadiah.

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As I read this I did not know where I would start writing until I came to verse 8 in chapter 7, which reads, in part: ““Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel;”.   In case any of my readers do not know what a plumb line is, a plumb line is a string with a weight on the end.  When you hold a plumb line up, the string will fall straight from where you hold it to where the weight hangs.  A builder will hold it next to a wall, or other vertical structure, to see if it is straight.  Usually one would use it while building a wall to make sure that the wall was straight up and down.  Jesus is our plumb line.  We should measure ourselves against Him to see that we are pointing straight up to God.

Obadiah did not prophecy against the people of Judah or Israel, but against the people of Edom.  Through him, God condemned the descendants of Esau for standing aloof and watching with joy as the people of Israel suffered.  They profited from Israel’s destruction and gave no aid to its refugees.  This should serve as a warning to us.  We should not rejoice in the suffering of others, not even of our enemies.  Instead, we should offer succor to them.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.