Obadiah, according to www.gotquestions.org, was written between 848 and 840 B.C., which puts him between or in the midst of Elijah and Elisha. According to a resource in the back of my Bible, he was a contemporay of those prophets after Israel's exile. What to belive, the editors at the Bible Society or the Internet?
Obadiah's message was to Edom. Essentially, he was sharing a message from God that was judging Edom for not helping Israel in it's time of struggle. God shares his promise that Israel will one day rulle over other nations, including Edom. There's really not much else for me to say, except that it's the shortest book in the Old Testament.
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