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Nahum and Obadiah: An Expositional Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Approximately one hundred years after Jonah preached to the citizens of Nineveh to turn “from their evil ways” and escape imminent judgment, God commissioned Nahum to prophesy the city’s complete destruction. At the time, the Assyrian Empire was both strong and wealthy, yet Nahum prophesied that soon the entire kingdom would be crushed forever under the power of God’s wrath. Obadiah’s prophecy...

their borders beyond pre-exilic boundaries (vv.17–20) and he established his own universal kingdom for their habitation (v.21). Obadiah’s book is the shortest in the Old Testament and is never quoted or even referred to in the New Testament. However, it contains a message of hope, comfort and encouragement for every Christian: ‘THE LORD REIGNS FOR EVER’! (Psalm 9:7). It does not matter how many nations oppose his rule or oppress his people. It makes no difference how many spiritual forces of evil
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