There is an intriguing, and marvelous, statement at the conclusion of Obadiah’s prophecy. To relate it to the descendents of Edom is to relate it to a failed people. That’s the reason it has meaning for you and me. For it is a certain thing that we are all from a failed family line. No matter how good we think we are, nor how evil we may consider our family to be, we all stand on the same ground. We have ...all sinned and have come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).

Before God, there is none better, and none worse than the other. And—there is but one way any one of us may enter into a right relationship with God. That is through His Son, Jesus Christ.

John 14:6—I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Him.

When we enter by that one Way, we come into God’s Kingdom. Obadiah introduces us to that Kingdom, but with a twist that is rather marvelous when we can understand it.

Let’s see it:

Obadiah 21—And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the Kingdom shall be the LORD’s.

(MSG)19-21—People from the south will take over the Esau mountains;
   people from the foothills will overrun the Philistines.
They'll take the farms of Ephraim and Samaria,
   and Benjamin will take Gilead.
Earlier, Israelite exiles will come back
   and take Canaanite land to the north at Zarephath.
Jerusalem exiles from the far northwest in Sepharad
   will come back and take the cities in the south.
The remnant of the saved in Mount Zion
   will go into the mountains of Esau
And rule justly and fairly,
   a rule that honors God's kingdom.

In the Government of God’s Kingdom there will be saviors. Now, it is clear that in the Kingdom of God there is but one Savior, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. So, can we but look into this word saviors and discover why it might be in the plural form? The word, within itself, means “deliverers.” There will be many in Zion’s government who will serve the Kingdom with the ministry of deliverance. They will proclaim the Day of Christ as they bring deliverance to the many who have been caught in the web of carnality. It is these to whom Paul is directing us as we follow him in His prayers.

DEAR FATHER, there is no doubt in my own mind that many of us will need deliverance as the Day of Christ draws close in upon us. Raise these up, Oh LORD! Too many of us have lived with darkness in our souls from which we have sought to be free. We know it cannot go with us into Your Kingdom. So, please bring deliverance to us!