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Interpretation of the Prophet Obadiah
6th May 1843
[1] The prophet "Obadiah," that is, the prophet of the present and future, or: the prophet of the outer and inner, as well as of the outer faith and inner love.
[2] "The punishment of Edom and the redemption of the Israelites (Lutheran Bible headline)", that is: the judgment of the world and the deliverance of the children of God's love, or: the depravity of worldly people and the glory of the true worshipers and lovers of the Lord God of hosts in Jesus Christ, as well as: the foundation of the worldly church and it's servants and the resurrection of the true, living church in the pure love for God the Lord in Jesus Christ. 1st verse "This is the vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Lord regarding Edom: We have heard from the Lord that a message has been sent among the Gentiles, "Go, let us fight against them!"
[3] This is the light of the present and the future, of the outer and the inner, of worldly faith and the inner love light in the Lord! Therefore the Lord witnesses against the world and it's unjust, loveless works! We children in the light of the love of the Lord, know it from Him that the world turns the light of grace of the Lord into wickedness, stinginess, self-love, and fornication, and does not respect the Lord for the sake of Himself in the least, but makes of Him only a false, bad commodity, in order to sell it to us as the genuine. Bless us, and all love and worship the Lord, for this He has spoken to us! Let us therefore set out with our hearts filled with the love and grace of the Lord and fight against all that is of the world and not of the Lord! 2nd Verse: "Behold, I have made you lowly among the heathen and have greatly despised.
[4] Listen, world! You are judged! Your love is a cold oven in winter, and your light has become the most bitter darkness, and all your doings, hustle and bustle, and your great cries resemble a drunken donkey dancing around on the ice with blindfolded eyes and tightly blocked ears to the laughter of the audience. 3rd Verse: "The pride of your heart has deceived you, because you dwell in the rocky crags, in your high castles, and speak in your heart: "Who will strike me down?"
[5] Your insane divine perfection of power withdrew your heart or your love from Me and filled it with arrogance, pride, wrath, revenge, fornication and all judgment, in that you, as the most judged harlot, also wanted to judge most and also judged according to your own intentions – because you believed to have a right to it because you cunningly built your loose existence on My word, misinterpreting it, as on rocks and gorges (wrong sense of word and inextricable mysteries) and you deceivingly and most shamefully put yourself on the throne of My power that is Mine alone ("high castles") and speak down from the stolen throne: "Come all to me! For apart from me there is no salvation, no love, no grace, no mercy, no light and no life! I alone dwell on the rock, and no hell can overpower me!” 4th Verse: "If you soar up like an eagle and make your nest among the stars, yet will I cast you down from thence, says the Lord.”
[6] I your Lord and your God now thunder into your ear, which has been blocked for a long time, and into your heart, which is obstinate and hardened to stones, from all sides: if you now also want to raise yourself to the level of pretense through all kinds of arts and also want to preach light and pass over into all tolerance and give up all your sharp-seeing judgeship and also want to gather together all wise people out of Me and want to build you a dwelling among them in the area of My
light of grace – so I will still take hold of you, because of your old fornication, and throw you down into the depth of your filth. Do what you will, but I will never look at you in your fashion and will never recognize you in your garment, and your dump shall remain a testifying deposit of your fornication! So I, your God and your Lord, thunder! 5th Verse: "If thieves or robbers shall come upon you by night, how shall you be destroyed! Yes, they shall steal enough! And when the grape-pickers come upon you, they shall not leave you any gleanings!”
[7] In your great night I will awaken wise people in your womb and will give holy visions to many. These shall lift your old veil and show you to all creatures in your true light and wretched, worst condition! How will you then, out of your most horrible night, meet My very brightest light from the heavens? Yes, I tell you, these will strip you of all your precious clothes and you will stand naked before the whole world as an old shameful harlot and adulteress, illuminated by My mighty Light! Your precious things of great value, which you still keep hidden, will be taken from you. And at the time of the great harvest in My vineyard on the other side, you shall be left without even the gleanings of the street boys, but you shall satisfy your hunger with sand and quench your thirst on dry moss! 6th Verse: "How shall they search out Esau and seek his treasures?”
[8] Oh how are you to be explored, you world paramour (Esau)! And how will you choose yourself in all your corners! But you shall find nothing in yourself! For what you had from Me has been taken from you, you queen of the heathen! You will be proved in vain! For those who will search you shall find nothing in you forever. 7th Verse: "All your own confederates will cast you out of the covenant; the people on whom you have put your consolation will deceive you and overpower you; those who eat your bread will betray you before you know it.”
[9] All your followers, whom you have tied to yourself with your long double-tongued power, will even detest you most highly in their hearts. And those blind people on whom you built as on a rock, will outwit you with the power of their night and will take all your power from you. Even your consecrated slaves, servants and mercenaries, that is, your jurors and anointed ones, will reveal you to the whole world and show you to the people how you are in your way full of folly, full of lies and full of deceit. But you shall not even notice how these will go about in order to commit the long- deserved high treason against you. 8th Verse: "What is the matter, saith the Lord, I will destroy in that day the wise men of Edom and the wisdom of the mountain of Esau."
[10] How does this apply? So the Lord thunders: You think you are insurmountable because you have forced yourself upon the rulers of the earth and they have taken you into the protection of weapons! And you believe that I will therefore not be able to harm you because you also have a great many wise men and a great many sharp-tongued men, who speak for your rights that are to be eternal!? But I, your Lord, in this last time of yours, will make your wise men into fools, which all the world shall recognize at first sight, and all your splendor into the general laughter of the world! Then you will see further what the matter with you will be in the future! So your false love (Edom) and all your false light (Esau) shall be destroyed forever. 9th Verse: "For your strong men of Theman shall faint, that they may all be cut off in the mountain of Esau by murder."
[11] Your strong in word (Theman), who call themselves "scholars of God," but yet have never heard a syllable from God, but have all their diplomatic doctrine of God from the world, I will frighten in their worldly conscience. And when they will hold a council of their doctorly wisdom, I
will strike them precisely on the crown of their wisdom and let them be destroyed by the weakest of My truly wise children in the cradle of My love, grace, and mercy! 10th Verse: "…for iniquity against your brother Jacob."
[12] And this I will do for the sake of the great iniquity which this "Samaritan family" of yours has committed against Me and My word. 11th Verse: "In the day that you stood against him, when the strangers carried away his army captive and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them. Therefore you shall be disgraced and be cut off forever!"
[13] You were always equal to the worst heathen. Even though you fought against them mightily, since they trampled My word underfoot, and in it's place set up dark paganism, and attacked My word like tigers, yet you are nevertheless in possession of My word, not only completely equal to them, but much worse than they. (Behold the wars in Constantine's time and then the Crusades!) But I say to you: For this very reason you shall be exterminated in your effect forever! You shall count your confessors on the fingers and shall be guilty of all the world! 12th Verse: "You shalt not look at your brother with pleasure in the time of his affliction, neither shall you rejoice over the children of Judah in the time of their affliction, nor speak proudly with your mouth in the time of their fear."
[14] Up to now you have rejoiced when you saw My confessors (Anti-Romans, Protestants, Huguenots) in some wretchedness and blamed everything on them as the guilt of their hereticism against you and called this a "just chastisement," and sang praises when thousands of My confessors have been killed by your rank and wicked cunning. But in the future you shall never again have this joy! You shall not rejoice in the trials of those who are Mine, and your messengers shall judge them in nothing in the time of their trial! 13th Verse: “You shall not enter the gates of My people in the time of their wailing. You shall not send against his army in the time of his woe.”
[15] You shall not enter the secret light of grace at the time of the visitation of My confessors! You shall be filled with disgust against My mercy, love, and favor for My confessors! When they are in want of worldly things and fast, then all desire shall cease for you, to rejoice over My confessors! When they are purified by Me, there also your preachers will become great disgrace before them! 14th Verse: "You shalt not stand in the parting of the ways to slay his escaped ones! You shalt not betray the rest of him in the time of fear!"
[16] If you would like to go on the ways to catch in your net the weak of My confessors, you will not be allowed to! And if you turn to the courts of kings, you shall be rejected in your treacherous demands at the time of the transformation of My confessors! 15th Verse: "For the day of the Lord is near upon all nations. As you has done, so shall it be done unto you again; and as you has deserved, so shall it be come upon your head."
[17] Behold, My day of grace, of light and of love has come upon those who are Mine; but as a day of judgment upon all nations and all the more upon you. As you did it with others, so shall they do it with you! And your long since well-deserved reward, shall come upon your head! 16th verse: "For as you have drunk on My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink daily. Yes, they shall suck it up and devour it, that it may be as if nothing had ever been there.”
[18] But how you have falsely and maliciously based your world-power on My word, and have procured for yourself great honor, gold, and precious stones – in the same way now your "heathens" shall do to you and shall suck you like bloodstains until the last drop of life! Yes, they who have
become "Gentiles" through you shall come upon you from all sides and devour you completely, that you may be as if you had never been. 17th Verse: "But on Mount Zion many more shall be saved, and they shall be a sanctuary, and the house of Jacob shall possess their owners."
[19] But of the confessors of My Word, who are keeping the faith, those will reach the living word in them and so the complete rebirth of the spirit, who through their faith have laboriously taken hold of Me, the Lord, in the love of their heart. But these are then also to be given a spiritual office (sanctuary) and My living Word. The house of Jacob is to become the property of their righteousness of faith and love, and thus the house of Jacob is to possess it's owners. 18th Verse: "And the house of Jacob shall become a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame. But the house of Esau shall be straw; they shall set it on fire and consume it, so that nothing shall remain of the house of Esau. For the Lord has spoken it!"
[20] The living word will become a fire in the hearts of those who will possess it, and a shining flame to those to whom it will pass from the mouth of the owners, in whose light they shall behold, like the owner, the great mysteries of My Kingdom! But all human, worldly-scientific word, on the other hand, is to become like an empty, dry straw; likewise also all studied oral sermons and pulpit speeches – when the "house of Jacob and the "house of Joseph" will overcome the "house of Esau"! And there shall be nothing left of the "house of Esau" after the fire. "For the Lord has spoken," that is to say, such things will certainly happen, here temporally and in the beyond, eternally! 19th Verse: “And they that dwell at noon shall possess the mountains of Esau, and they that dwell in the foundations shall possess the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria, and Benjamin will possess the mountain Gilead.”
[21] Those who are in the light of the inner, true wisdom, they will also subjugate all worldly wisdom and destroy it in the end. But those who stand in the fire of love, that is, the actual owners of the "house of Jacob," from which alone the "house of Joseph" emerges, will take captive in abundance the false prophets, teachers, preachers, orators and legislators, who are slaves, servants and also masters in the "house of Esau"! Yes, they will possess the kingdom of love and the kingdom of grace out of Me, that is to say: the kingdom of the heavens – namely the "house of Jacob" second, the "house of Joseph" the first or lowest heaven of wisdom and grace. But Benjamin, or: the pure love for Me – the mountain Gilead, or: the power of the living Word from Me in them, or: the highest heaven of love and innocence. For "Benjamin" designates children of My purest love, who are to come to Me and to whom no-one is to deny such things forever – there "such is the true, supreme kingdom of heaven!" 20th Verse: "And the exiles of this army of the children of Israel, as they are among the Canaanites even unto Zarpath, and the exiles of the city of Jerusalem, which are in Sepharad, shall possess the cities toward noon."
[22] But the so-called "heretics", who are most hated by the worldly wise and worldly priests, and who are thus called because they have taken the pure gospel instead of the world religion stuff and the market of tinsel, and now therefore also exist here and there among the Canaanites only as tolerated people, and likewise also the "old believers" who have always stuck to the word and now live completely unnoticed (the "schismatics"), are to be awakened in wisdom and love, that is: "who move into cities at noon." 21st Verse: "And there shall come up wise men on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau. Thus shall be the kingdom of the Lord."
[23] And from all sides, that is, possessors of the living Word out of Me, powerfully awakened in the Spirit, will be set up on Mount Zion, i.e., possessors who agree from all denominations, will
come and light a new light to all the world and thus judge them in their boundless folly and "punish" them, that is, bring them with their light to true repentance and conversion.
[24] And that will be "My kingdom on earth", or I as the eternal King among My faithful confessors, lovers, children and true worshipers of My name in Spirit and in all truth. And death will forfeit it's rights, where the King of life will thus rule – that is, the death of the spirit, but not of the flesh. For this must be killed when the spirit is to become alive, since it is the actual original sin of the immortal spirit, therefore an inheritance of Satan – but to be carried by My mercy only for a short time!
[25] This is then the understanding of this prophet in worldly and spiritual terms, generally speaking! But all this also has a special meaning for every human being. The one who wants to understand such things, take his own "worldly" under "Esau" and his own "spiritual" under "Jacob" or "Israel," then he has it completely applicable to himself. This is therefore also to be observed! Amen.