Books of the Old Testament: Lesson 18 Obadiah, Jonah,
and Micah (Cloze test 18)

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Obadiah is the in the Old Testament - only one page, -, but it is still significant for us today. It is the prophecy of . It includes two important themes - the doom of the , and the of the meek and humble. The Edomites descended from , who had despised his birthright - Edom continued to be . She was destroyed, as Obadiah warned.

Obadiah, like the other prophets, predicted the coming of the day of the Lord and the establishment of .

The book of Jonah contains , although Jonah was a prophet. It is the personal account of a major event in Jonah’s life, which was a sign of the greatest event in the history of the world - the . In this book, God prepared four things: a (1:17), a (4:6), a (4:7), and a vehement (4:8). God was taking care of His prophet!

There are two events of great importance in the book: the , and the huge heathen city of Nineveh being converted by an obscure foreign missionary in just a few days.
We must notice two things in this book. First, Jonah is a type of Christ in his . Second, Jonah is also a type of Israel - , swallowed by the nations of the world, who will yet give her up when . Then Israel will be of God everywhere.

Micah proclaimed and the cities of Israel. But he hastened on to words of hope. A natural warning comes from Micah’s three messages, each beginning with “”.

1. The first (1:2) was addressed to .

2. The second (3:1) was addressed to the .

3. The third (6:1) was a personal word of pleading to Israel to to God.


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