I believe we are watching the beginning of the downfall of Islam. Through the various yet prophetic wars, culminating with the Gog and Magog war, Islam will cease to exist as they will not succeed in any of them. Obviously, this will not happen overnight, but I do not think this will drag out for years to come like in years past in my humble opinion. Obadiah chapter 1 is full of prophecy concerning Israel and the non-Jewish people now living in the area. I have made comments by each verse in parenthesis and blue letters. We are extremely close to fulfilling much of Obadiah 1. Verses 1 to 14 have already been fulfilled as it talks about the destruction of Edom; the Edomites or descendants of Esau, the brother of Jacob. Beginning in verse 15 we see the future re-claiming of land by Israel.
15 For the day of the LORD (Tribulation period) is near (Days we live in) upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. (If you attack Israel, you will be attacked either by Israel or God’s revenge).
16 For as ye have drunk (rituals) upon my holy mountain (Jerusalem, Temple Mount), so shall all the heathen (non-Christian, non-Jewish) drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. (Fall of Islam)
17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob (Israel) shall possess their (heathen) possessions. (Israel re-gains more of their God given land)
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire (IDF), and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble (Edomites came up from Edom and populated the area in Israel/Palestine after the Jews were dispersed by Rome in 70AD), and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
19 And they of the south (Negev Desert) shall possess the mount of Esau (Past event, Mount Seir in Jordan); and they of the plain, (Gaza Strip) the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: (Past event, West Bank) and Benjamin shall possess Gilead (Northern Jordan. Future, possibly very soon) (From 1948 to 1967, the populace came to settle in the Gaza strip, West Bank, and Jordan along with the Edomites that had previously settled in 70AD).
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel (The Jews that returned in 1948) shall possess that of the Canaanites (Future event, the entire coastal area from Egypt to Zarephath in Southern Lebanon), even unto Zarephath (Future event, Southern Lebanon, Phoenician city situated between Tyre and Sidon); and the captivity of Jerusalem (Jews expelled in 70AD that went to Spain), which is in Sepharad (Sephardic Jews of Spain), shall possess the cities of the south (Negev Desert, yet future event).
21 And saviours (IDF Generals) shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.
Looking for that Blessed Hope! 