them, and pray for them. How can we do that? We cannot without a transformation. We need deliverance. The second major thrust in Obadiah’s prophecy is a prediction of a deliverance on Mount Zion. “But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions” (v. 17). The deliverance prophesied was the return of the exiles to Jerusalem. An exposition of all the dynamics of that deliverance is a precursor of an ultimate deliverance that