First let's get something clear about erroneous notions of Paul and his founding a new religion, which he didn't. True, the halakhah of his Judaism switched from the Pharisaic oral law to the Ruach Hakodesh, but his religion was still one of the Judaisms of the time, not a new non-Judaism Gentile religion.

OVADYAH (OBADIAH)

A key to the dating of this book is found in Ezek. 25:12-14;

35:1-15, and Lam. 4:18-22--all documents of the early exilic

period when Jewish fury raged at the Edomites for the way they

swooped in like vultures to take advantage of the 588-586 B.C.

Babylonian victory over Judah. The Edomites moved into southern

Judah and took over Israelite territory near Hebron. Psalm 137:7

preserves a memory of this.

Probably written shortly after 586 B.C., Obadiah's book refers to

the Galut (the Exile) in Obadiah 20. 586 B.C. was the fatal year

when the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed and the city of Jerusalem

sacked. Obadiah sees in the fall of Jerusalem an outworking of

the wrath of the Day of the L-rd upon his people, but He has left

a remnant (holy consecrated survivors) who have a right to the

capital and the country, while the merited lot of the nations who

attacked Jerusalem is to perish. Edom is the particular nation

Obadiah prophesies about, saying they will justly suffer at the

hands of G-d. Edom's annexing of Israelite territory is to be

reversed, despite Edom's natural impregnability, human wisdom,

manpower, and weaponry (see also Jer. 9, 16). The moral of this

briefest book in the Tanakh is that if any nation thinks it is

impregnable to G-d, it had better think again. We live in a

world where human rights mean nothing and where people are

programmed for violence by constant movie/tv/reading. G-d

denounces the heartless violence of Edom in verse 10. This

heartless murderous hatred of the Jewish people is what that

cunning "Edomite" Hitler did not repent of that brought about his

destruction.

But over against the day of disaster endured by Jerusalem in 586

B.C. (see verse 11) stands another day, a day of disaster for all

the nations of the world, the Day of the L-rd (see verse 15-16).

See verses 17-18 where it says that a few survivors will escape

the calamity befalling G-d's people, but total destruction will

befall those who don't know G-d (16, 18). This would include no

doubt all who, like Jacob's twin Esau, sell their birthright and

foresake the L-rd (Gen. 25:29-34). For G-d has not merely

summoned a sword against Israel; He has summoned a sword against

all the inhabitants of the earth (Jer. 25:29) and it is a lethal

cup of judgment they must drink (Jer. 25:28), for Israel will not

be the only nation to drink it. When the Babylonians set fire to

the Beis Hamikdash in 586 B.C. judgment is merely beginning at

the household of G-d. Therefore when the world looks at those

flames or the flames of the 1933-1945 Jewish Holocaust the world

should shudder, for such is only a preview and a foretaste of

what horror is coming on the inhabitants of the world and, unlike

the Jewish people, the heathen will have no survivors. All the

nations around Jerusalem shall drink of judgment just as the

Jewish people drank (Obadiah 16). This is the world-sobering

Chazon vision that Obadiah saw (1:1).

OBADIAH 16

Just as you drank on my holy hill so all the nations will drink

continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had

never been.