For the day of the LORD is approaching for all the nations! Just as you have done, so it will be done to you. You will get exactly what your deeds deserve. (Obad 1:15 NET)
Obadiah, though the shortest book in the Old Testament, gives a grave warning to the nations of God’s eschatological judgment. And Obadiah reminds Edom that because of their antagonistic treatment with their neighbor Israel (which is also their ancestral brother Jacob), he warns Edom of recompense. Obadiah teaches us that injustice can run, but it cannot hide–there will be Divine poetic justice. Wrongdoing against God’s people requires divine reckoning. Obadiah encapsulates for us his primary message in verse fifteen, “Just as you have done, so it will be done to you. You will get exactly what your deeds deserve.”