Micah McCormick: called Hosea, joel Amos Obadiah.
Micah McCormick: We'll start by reading this for us the vision of Obadiah.
Micah McCormick: This is what the Lord, god, has said about Edom.
Micah McCormick: We have heard a message from the Lord.
Micah McCormick: An envoy has been sent among the nations.
Micah McCormick: Rise up and let's go to war against her.
Micah McCormick: Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations.
Micah McCormick: You will be deeply despised.
Micah McCormick: Your arrogant heart has deceived you.
Micah McCormick: You who live in clests of the rock, in your home on the heights, who say to yourself who can bring me down to the ground, though you seem to soar like an eagle and make your nest among the stars?
Micah McCormick: Even from there, I will bring you down.
Micah McCormick: This is the Lord's declaration.
Micah McCormick: If thieves came to you, if marauders by night, how ravaged would you be?
Micah McCormick: Wouldn't they steal only what they wanted?
Micah McCormick: If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn't they leave a few grapes?
Micah McCormick: How Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasure searched out.
Micah McCormick: Everyone who has a treaty with you will drive you to the border.
Micah McCormick: Everyone at peace with you will deceive and conquer you.
Micah McCormick: Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you.
Micah McCormick: He will be unaware of it In that day.
Micah McCormick: This is the Lord's declaration.
Micah McCormick: Will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom and those who understand, from the hill country of Esau, temen.
Micah McCormick: Your warriors will be terrified, so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter.
Micah McCormick: You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever.
Micah McCormick: Because of violence done to your brother, jacob, on the day you stood aloof.
Micah McCormick: On the day strangers captured his wealth while foreigners entered his city gate and cast lots for Jerusalem.
Micah McCormick: You were just like one of them.
Micah McCormick: Do not gloat over your brother in the day of his calamity.
Micah McCormick: Do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction.
Micah McCormick: Do not boastfully mock in the day of distress.
Micah McCormick: Do not enter my people's city gate in the day of their disaster.
Micah McCormick: Yes, you Do not gloat over their misery in the day of their disaster and do not appropriate their possessions in the day of their disaster.
Micah McCormick: Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives and do not hand over their survivors in a day of distress, for the day of the Lord is near against all the nations.
Micah McCormick: As you have done, it will be done to you.
Micah McCormick: What you deserve will return on your own head.
Micah McCormick: As you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually.
Micah McCormick: They will drink and gulp down and be as though they had never been.
Micah McCormick: But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion and it will be holy.
Micah McCormick: The house of Jacob will dispossess those who dispossessed them.
Micah McCormick: Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire and the house of Joseph a burning flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble.
Micah McCormick: Jacob will set them on fire and consume Edom.
Micah McCormick: Therefore, no survival will remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
Micah McCormick: People from the Negev will possess the hill country of Esau.
Micah McCormick: Those from the Judean foothills will possess the land of the Philistines.
Micah McCormick: They will possess the territories of of Esau.
Micah McCormick: Those from the Judean foothills will possess the land of the Philistines.
Micah McCormick: They will possess the territories of Ephraim and Samaria, while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Micah McCormick: The exiles of the Israelites who are in Hala and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephard, will possess the cities of the Negev.
Micah McCormick: Saviors will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the hill country of Esau, and the kingdom will be the Lord's Amen.
Micah McCormick: Father, thank you for your word.
Micah McCormick: Again, we cry out to you to give us good things from your word tonight.
Micah McCormick: In Jesus' name, amen.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah is probably one of the least familiar books in the Bible, I think, to most people, even most Christians.
Micah McCormick: I do with the boys on Friday night Christian service brigade.
Micah McCormick: We do this thing we call sword drills sometimes, where I give them a passage and they have to all look it up and the first one to get there and stand up and start reading it wins that sword drill.
Micah McCormick: Right, like the Bible is the sword of the spirit.
Micah McCormick: You want to know how to handle your sword and so sometimes give them easier ones, sometimes harder ones.
Micah McCormick: Sometimes I'll throw in like all right, josiah, chapter four, verse six, charge.
Micah McCormick: And then I'll start looking and I'll say wait, wait a minute, that's not a book of the Bible.
Micah McCormick: I'll say, correct, you've won that one.
Micah McCormick: But then they know in the back of their mind that that could be a trick I'm doing sometimes.
Micah McCormick: So there have been times where I've said Obadiah 15, charge, and I'll get two of them.
Micah McCormick: That's not a book of the Bible, yes, it is.
Micah McCormick: Get open and start looking.
Micah McCormick: So this is not the most common book of the Bible for us, but the book of Obadiah shows us that the seed of the serpent will be crushed by the seed of the woman.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah shows us the seed of the serpent will be crushed by the seed of the woman, shows us the seed of the serpent will be crushed by the seed of the woman.
Micah McCormick: And we think, well, wait a minute here.
Micah McCormick: I didn't see the word serpent anywhere in Obadiah.
Micah McCormick: I didn't hear a lot of talk about seed.
Micah McCormick: Where are you getting that?
Micah McCormick: I'm going to try to show you that from scripture tonight by setting Obadiah in the context of more of the whole of scripture, especially what's come before it.
Micah McCormick: The first thing to note with Obadiah is that it's not primarily about the people of Israel.
Micah McCormick: Verse one says this is what the Lord, god, has said about Edom.
Micah McCormick: Yes, there are prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel who include oracles against other nations, but most, all of the prophets are mainly talking about Israel.
Micah McCormick: Sometimes, maybe more the northern kingdom, sometimes more the southern kingdom, you will have Jonah, who was sent specifically to the Ninevites to talk to them.
Micah McCormick: But this is one of the very few prophecies where you read through this book as we did.
Micah McCormick: It's just one chapter and it's all about Edom.
Micah McCormick: So, yes, the house of Jacob, another name for Israel, is mentioned.
Micah McCormick: You can see that in verse 17 and in verse 18 as well, but the whole book is more about Edom.
Micah McCormick: So who was Edom?
Micah McCormick: If Obadiah is unfamiliar as a prophet, edom's not the most familiar place people?
Micah McCormick: What is it?
Micah McCormick: Well, there's a clue here.
Micah McCormick: For us, it's a very huge clue, because there's a name that comes up frequently in the book and that's the name Esau.
Micah McCormick: Esau runs parallel to Edom in this prophecy.
Micah McCormick: So judgment against Edom is judgment against Esau and judgment against Esau is judgment against Edom.
Micah McCormick: I'll give you an example of that.
Micah McCormick: Look at verse number eight.
Micah McCormick: In that day this is the Lord's declaration Will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom and those who understand from the hill country of Esau?
Micah McCormick: It's not talking about two entirely different things.
Micah McCormick: It's another way of saying the same thing.
Micah McCormick: Edom is the place of Esau.
Micah McCormick: Verse 9, if you look at verse 9, mentions Teman.
Micah McCormick: According to Genesis 36.15, teman is the grandson of Esau, esau, esau.
Micah McCormick: So Edom is the place of Esau and the place of Esau is going to be judged.
Micah McCormick: What are they going to be judged for?
Micah McCormick: Well, I'm going to highlight just two things here.
Micah McCormick: They're going to be judged for pride.
Micah McCormick: You see that in verses three and 4.
Micah McCormick: They have an arrogant heart.
Micah McCormick: They think that they live in the clefts and on the heights they're soaring like an eagle.
Micah McCormick: It even describes them as making a nest among the stars, and yet God's going to bring them down.
Micah McCormick: Similar to the sermon this morning, doug brought out this language of pride that kind of goes back to the Garden of Eden, but then the Tower of Babel, where the people thought they could exalt themselves to God and God comes down and levels them.
Micah McCormick: Similarly, here, these Edomites, these people who have descended from Esau down through the years, there's an arrogance in their heart that thinks they can exalt themselves but God's going to bring them down.
Micah McCormick: They're also judged for their opposition to God's people and we find that in verses 10 through 14.
Micah McCormick: So it says in verse 10, they'll be covered with shame because of violence done to your brother, jacob.
Micah McCormick: Okay, esau, the historic original Esau, had a brother named Jacob.
Micah McCormick: Descendants of Esau, edomites, descendants of Jacob, israel, and we'll come to that as we go into this more.
Micah McCormick: But here just observe that they're covered with shame because of violence done to Jacob.
Micah McCormick: Well, what's if they didn't do it?
Micah McCormick: Why are they being covered with shame?
Micah McCormick: Well, they didn't step in to help in any way.
Micah McCormick: Instead, they laughed and scorned the people of God and they took advantage of the people of God in a difficult place.
Micah McCormick: So you can keep reading down in some of those verses For example, in verse number 12, it says do not gloat over your brother in the day of his calamity.
Micah McCormick: So the Edomites are gloating over the nation of Israel's misfortunes.
Micah McCormick: Think about it this way.
Micah McCormick: If you think about the nation of Israel like a sheep okay, think about them like a sheep you had these big nations like Assyria or later, like Babylon they're going to come in and just cause havoc among the Israelites.
Micah McCormick: So Assyrian Babylon would be like a lion or a bear coming in and just devouring the sheep.
Micah McCormick: But then you have the Edomites.
Micah McCormick: They weren't as big and bad and grand as the Assyrians or the Babylonians, but it's almost like they're like the hyenas.
Micah McCormick: They're just sitting over there laughing and they're waiting.
Micah McCormick: As soon as the lying gets done, we'll go in and pick up some of the scraps.
Micah McCormick: This'll be great, all right.
Micah McCormick: And God says you're going to be judged for that attitude towards Israel.
Micah McCormick: Now, yeah, I've seen the Lion King a lot, but it works here.
Micah McCormick: Okay, they're laughing, but they're also.
Micah McCormick: There's a devilish sort of intent to what they're planning to do.
Micah McCormick: They're going to pick at Israel's carcass, so to speak.
Micah McCormick: So why does Obadiah keep saying Esau, esau, esau?
Micah McCormick: I mean this is taking place.
Micah McCormick: We don't know exactly when Obadiah wrote, but probably a thousand years or so after Esau himself actually lived.
Micah McCormick: So why doesn't it just say the Edomites or the descendants of Esau?
Micah McCormick: Why Esau?
Micah McCormick: You know he's long gone.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah wants us to see that there's something happening in his day that's a repeated pattern and fulfillment of something that's been going on for centuries and centuries, and centuries Started a long, long time ago.
Micah McCormick: That's why he's using this kind of language, and he wants us to keep in mind these kind of patterns as we read the Bible.
Micah McCormick: So hold your finger here on Obadiah.
Micah McCormick: Let's go back to Genesis 25.
Micah McCormick: Genesis 25.
Micah McCormick: Back to Genesis 25.
Micah McCormick: Genesis 25, this is where we first encounter Esau.
Micah McCormick: Genesis 25, verse 19.
Micah McCormick: These are the family records of Isaac, son of Abraham.
Micah McCormick: Abraham fathered Isaac.
Micah McCormick: Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebecca, daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddam Aram, and the sister of Laban, the Aramean.
Micah McCormick: Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless.
Micah McCormick: The Lord was receptive to his prayer and his wife Rebecca conceived, but the children inside her struggled with each other and she said why is this happening to me?
Micah McCormick: So she went to inquire of the Lord and the Lord said to her two nations are in your womb.
Micah McCormick: Two peoples will come from you and be separated.
Micah McCormick: One people will be stronger than the other and the older will serve the younger.
Micah McCormick: When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.
Micah McCormick: The first one the CSP translation here.
Micah McCormick: The first one came out red looking, covered with hair, like a fur coat it's such a vivid description of this baby right.
Micah McCormick: And they named him Esau.
Micah McCormick: So there's our introduction to Esau.
Micah McCormick: After this, his brother came out grasping Esau's heel with his hand.
Micah McCormick: So he was named Jacob.
Micah McCormick: So right from the very outset in the womb, we've got Jacob versus Esau and they're struggling.
Micah McCormick: They're battling when they're born, struggling.
Micah McCormick: They're battling when they're born, jacob's grabbing at his heel, they're battling.
Micah McCormick: And the prophet here the prophetic word says there's going to be two nations and what's happening to them as babies is going to keep happening to them.
Micah McCormick: And we see that play out over the course of history.
Micah McCormick: Give you a few examples here.
Micah McCormick: Turn over to Numbers, chapter 20.
Micah McCormick: Numbers 20.
Micah McCormick: Israel needs passage as they're traveling through the wilderness to get through to where they need to go.
Micah McCormick: Verse number 14, moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom.
Micah McCormick: So this is many years later now.
Micah McCormick: Yes, there's two peoples Jacob has had his descendants, esau has his descendants.
Micah McCormick: Jacob's descendants are out of Egypt.
Micah McCormick: They're on their way to the promised land.
Micah McCormick: They need some passage here and they request for the king of Edom.
Micah McCormick: Hey, let us go through.
Micah McCormick: And they give the story.
Micah McCormick: Verse 17,.
Micah McCormick: Please, let us travel through your land.
Micah McCormick: We won't travel through any field or vineyard or drink any well water.
Micah McCormick: We'll travel the king's highway.
Micah McCormick: Verse 18, but Edom answered him you will not travel through our lands, but we will come out and confront you with the sword.
Micah McCormick: But these people, they have the same parents.
Micah McCormick: Ultimately there were brothers back at no, but not now.
Micah McCormick: There's tension.
Micah McCormick: Go over to 1 Samuel 14.
Micah McCormick: 1 Samuel 14.
Micah McCormick: Verse 47.
Micah McCormick: When Saul assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies in every direction, israel.
Micah McCormick: He fought against all his enemies in every direction, against Moab, the Ammonites, edom.
Micah McCormick: So now, years later, in the promised land, supposed to be putting out the enemies, didn't do that completely.
Micah McCormick: Judges come through.
Micah McCormick: Now King Saul's on the stage and there's still this thorn in Israel's side, more than one.
Micah McCormick: But Edom is mentioned specifically here.
Micah McCormick: And then last, let's go to 2 Chronicles.
Micah McCormick: These aren't the only examples, but 2 Chronicles 28.
Micah McCormick: Just look at one verse, verse 17.
Micah McCormick: The edomites came again, attacked judah and took captives.
Micah McCormick: So even though Edom is not as big and burly as Assyria, then later Babylon, they're a continual enemy of the people of God over the years.
Micah McCormick: Brother versus brother, people versus people.
Micah McCormick: Edom is an archetypal enemy of God's people.
Micah McCormick: I don't mean by that mythical there was battles, they really happened Not mythical.
Micah McCormick: But what I mean by that is, in the Bible Edom is portrayed as there's something deeper going on here.
Micah McCormick: There's a particular exemplary pattern of what it looks like to be opposed to the people of God, and you find it in Edom.
Micah McCormick: They're not the only ones.
Micah McCormick: Babylon has a similar idea in scripture, but Edom is this perpetual enemy of the people of God, of the people of God.
Micah McCormick: And so when prophets like Obadiah denounce the Edomites, he's showing us that there's a deep pattern that really all those who stand opposed to the people of God are going to face.
Micah McCormick: What the Edomites face.
Micah McCormick: That's the pattern that's going on here.
Micah McCormick: Now I went back to Genesis 25, but I really didn't go back far enough, did I?
Micah McCormick: In that pattern, brother versus brother, struggling two peoples Is the first time we find that in the Bible.
Micah McCormick: Struggling Two peoples Is the first time we find that in the Bible.
Micah McCormick: Jacob and Esau no, that's why I said it's an archetypal pattern.
Micah McCormick: It's actually not even the first time.
Micah McCormick: We can go all the way back to Cain and Abel and the very first two sons struggled and one killed the other.
Micah McCormick: And then God, even going back to the curse, told Eve already there's going to be serpent type of people and life-giving type of people.
Micah McCormick: You're going to eventually Eve is going to be a seed of the woman that crushes the head of the serpent.
Micah McCormick: But in the meantime it often seems like the seed of the serpent is winning.
Micah McCormick: Cain's the one that kills Abel when Jacob and Esau are born, jacob's grabbing at Esau's heel, jacob's not cutting off his head and later in the story Esau's pretty wealthy and Jacob spends quite a lot of time wandering around the wilderness.
Micah McCormick: Now he has possessions, but he has that encounter with God.
Micah McCormick: Jacob's the one that ends up limping through life.
Micah McCormick: Why did God let Edom beat up on Israel all those years?
Micah McCormick: Yeah, sometimes David was victorious, or Solomon, but why did God let those hyenas come in and scrape at the carcass of Israel once Assyria came through?
Micah McCormick: It seems like the seed of the serpent, the one opposed to the people of God, is winning, is winning, is winning.
Micah McCormick: But that's not the end of the story.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah is giving us the end of the story here, and it's more than just a story of two nationalities.
Micah McCormick: That's one reason why in the book of Hebrews, in chapter 11, jacob is described as a man of faith.
Micah McCormick: In the very next chapter, esau is an example of someone who doesn't have true repentance.
Micah McCormick: Now, I'm not saying that every single descendant of Jacob had true faith or that every descendant of Edom didn't, but I'm saying there's something more than just an ethnic identity.
Micah McCormick: It's about those who are trusting in God, seed of the woman, grabbing hold of his promises, promises or those who are serpent-like, wanting to destroy the people of God, like Pharaoh in Egypt wanted to destroy the people in Egypt.
Micah McCormick: Go back to Obadiah.
Micah McCormick: If you're not there, go to Obadiah.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah powerfully gives us the end of the story, and the end of the story is destruction for the Edomites.
Micah McCormick: The end of the story is destruction for those who stand opposed to God.
Micah McCormick: We don't hear too much about the Edomites today, do we no?
Micah McCormick: Pretty much obliterated, wiped out, scattered, kind of mingled into other groups over history.
Micah McCormick: But that's the end result of everyone who stands opposed to God.
Micah McCormick: As great as they may seem at some point in time, their end is destruction and death.
Micah McCormick: Even within the book you can see that.
Micah McCormick: Look at verse 15.
Micah McCormick: For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations.
Micah McCormick: Where did all the nations come into this?
Micah McCormick: Wasn't this a prophecy about Edom and their mistreatment of Israel?
Micah McCormick: Yes, it was.
Micah McCormick: But even within this book, obadiah is saying what's going to happen to Edom is going to happen in a greater way to all the nations.
Micah McCormick: The day of the Lord that's coming on.
Micah McCormick: Edom is going to come for everyone that stands opposed to God.
Micah McCormick: The only deliverance, according to verse number 17, is this Mount Zion, the holy people, the Israel of God.
Micah McCormick: So right here, at this point, you can insert Pastor Doug's whole sermon from a Sunday ago.
Micah McCormick: If you didn't hear it, go back and listen to it on sermon audio.
Micah McCormick: But there's this wonderful and beautiful day ago.
Micah McCormick: If you didn't hear it, go back and listen to it on sermon audio.
Micah McCormick: But there's this wonderful and beautiful idealized imagery of the people that truly understand what it means to trust in God.
Micah McCormick: They're the ones who survive, they're the ones who flourish in the end in the grand scheme of God's plan and his story.
Micah McCormick: And you get down to the very last phrase of the book.
Micah McCormick: And you get down to the very last phrase of the book, verse 21,.
Micah McCormick: The kingdom will be the Lord's.
Micah McCormick: That's the end of the story.
Micah McCormick: No matter how much it seems like the people of God are suffering or defeated now or being opposed by Satan and his enemies throughout the ages, the end of the story is the kingdom will be the Lord's.
Micah McCormick: That's why Revelation, chapter 12, verse 11, says or, I'm sorry, revelation 11, 15 says this the seventh angel blew his trumpet and there were loud voices in heaven saying the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.
Micah McCormick: Doesn't that sound like what Obadiah is saying here?
Micah McCormick: Doesn't that also want to make you just blast Handel's Messiah?
Micah McCormick: That's the guy that, and he shall reign forever and ever?
Micah McCormick: Well, it makes you want to just say Lord Jesus, come quickly.
Micah McCormick: That's the end of the story for people that know him.
Micah McCormick: Story for people that know him.
Micah McCormick: So Obadiah shows us that this seed of the serpent now come down through the Edomites, but really all the nations who stand opposed to God is going to be destroyed in the end.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah is emphasizing, in one sense, more that destruction than the deliverance for God's people.
Micah McCormick: And it's okay, We've got to be careful of our hearts but to say, lord, we want to see your enemies judged, we want to see you victorious and your righteousness vindicated.
Micah McCormick: So it's in one sense more about that.
Micah McCormick: But you might ask well, how is this seed of the serpent?
Micah McCormick: It's battling brothers, battling nations.
Micah McCormick: How will they be destroyed?
Micah McCormick: You need the rest of the Bible to fill that story out.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah doesn't fill in all those details.
Micah McCormick: Right here he just speaks of the success of God's people.
Micah McCormick: But Revelation 12, 11 says that the people of God conquer the serpent by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.
Micah McCormick: So we want to read any part of the Bible in light of the whole of what's going on.
Micah McCormick: We conquer, and Revelation 12 speaks specifically of this great dragon, conquered by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.
Micah McCormick: We're not given physical swords and spears, the way that Israel was, but we're given something even more eternally powerful the sword of the Spirit that is the Word of God.
Micah McCormick: We're not given a task to try to coerce someone to follow God, because they have to have a change in their heart.
Micah McCormick: And you can coerce actions, but you can't coerce a heart change.
Micah McCormick: But we are given the ability to speak the testimony of what Jesus has done to conquer the devil, of what Jesus has done to bring victory over sin, of what Jesus has done to bring in an everlasting kingdom.
Micah McCormick: So by all means, go vote on Tuesday.
Micah McCormick: But no, that's not the ultimate way.
Micah McCormick: The seat of the serpent is going to be defeated.
Micah McCormick: So I'll say that again go vote, but no, that's not the ultimate way.
Micah McCormick: The seat of the serpent will be defeated.
Micah McCormick: I mean, maybe you should go vote on Tuesday, then go out to the parking lot, get in your car and just crank handles Messiah, with the windows down so everyone can hear it.
Micah McCormick: I don't know, are you allowed to do that?
Micah McCormick: And I'm not sure if you're allowed to do that or not.
Micah McCormick: Probably you're not really advocating everything.
Micah McCormick: If some people end up in jail on Wednesday I'll come visit you.
Micah McCormick: It's George Frederick Handel's fault, it's okay.
Micah McCormick: But our hope is in the conquering lion of Judah the lamb who was slain.
Micah McCormick: That's the beautiful thing here.
Micah McCormick: It can be discouraging sometimes as Christians, when we're kind of maybe we feel like Jacob We've got some possessions, we've got some things, you know, we've got churches in different places, but we're kind of in the wilderness limping along.
Micah McCormick: But that's not the end of the story.
Micah McCormick: Obadiah gives us the end of the story.
Micah McCormick: The promised land is much nearer than we think.
Micah McCormick: And then enemies of God, as Paul says Satan to the church of Rome.
Micah McCormick: Satan's going to soon be crushed under your feet.
Micah McCormick: Let's pray, lord, thank you.
Micah McCormick: Thank you that we have such confidence to know that your judgment is not lingering.
Micah McCormick: You're patient, you're wanting more and more to come to repentance and we have nothing to say.
Micah McCormick: But thank you for your grace.
Micah McCormick: It was your grace that led us to repentance.
Micah McCormick: Your goodness brought us to repentance.
Micah McCormick: We do want many who are right now the seed of the serpent, many who are right now Edomites in their heart, opposed to the things of God and the people of God.
Micah McCormick: We want them to come and know the beauty of Mount Zion.
Micah McCormick: We want them to know what it means to be an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no guile.
Micah McCormick: We want them to know what it looks like to have faith that Eve had the mother of all the living ones.
Micah McCormick: So, lord, be gracious to grant salvation to many.
Micah McCormick: And yet we, at the same time, want to pray.
Micah McCormick: Come quickly, lord Jesus.
Micah McCormick: How long, while the blood of the saints and the martyrs cries out for justice, while the enemies of God rage against your Holy One, your anointed Son.
Micah McCormick: Oh, vindicate your Son, glorify yourself.
Micah McCormick: We pray that soon would be the end of all things, that soon, in the grandest and fullest sense, the kingdom of this world would become the kingdom of our Lord in Christ.
Micah McCormick: That he might reign forever and ever this true seed that we trust in Jesus Christ, our hope.
Micah McCormick: We pray all these things in Jesus' name, amen.