"Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of ...

Question

the mount of Esau?" This verse is found in the Bible in Obadiah 8. My question is who are the "wise men" and what is "that day"?

Answer 1

MAN alot of people dont even know that book exists me included i actually had to find it in the BIBLEnever knowing that it is there after reading it dont quote me on this but he could actually be talking about the end times the old testment spoke of it alot sorry i cant be a lot more helpfull but our days right now my advise is to look at old geo maps of the world and to find out where hey were or something to that wise then look at mondern day map and see where or what is on them now maybe that could give you some better understanding on it

Answer 2

"In that day" refers to the "Day of the Lord," also known as the Second Coming of Messiah. Do a little research into how the people of Edom mistreated the Jews during and after the 40 years of wandering in the desert. God has always said He would destroy Edom for this. When Jesus returns, He will save the remnant of believing Jews who are hiding in Bozrah (probably in the ancient city of Petra), completely destroy it, then move on to the Mt. of Olives in Jerusalem. The "wise men" are Edomites (Jordanians) who consider themselves wise, but are fools because they've rejected the true God.

You may find it helpful to read an answer I gave on a related subject here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AstXXbpYaDqQU7IB1MrDYebsy6IX?qid=20070116045820AAYYEiX

Answer 3

Many of the verses in this prophecy can be paralleled in Jeremiah 49:7-22 As for the wisemen, you must remember that that Edom was proverbial for its wise men, so it's hard to determine who they were precisely. That day is the day where God stated he would cause revenge.

Answer 4

Here are excerpts on that text from a bible commentary:
Nichol, Francis D., The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association) 1978.

Edom was evidently noted for its wisdom (Jer. 49:7).

The 'day of the Lord': In connection with the restoration of Judah (vs. 17–21) would have come a day of judgment upon the nations... The prophecies of doom upon Edom should be understood in the light of the prophecies concerning Israel’s future. Inasmuch as the promises of restoration of Israel were conditional, and Israel failed to meet the conditions, not all the details of the predictions of doom were fulfilled.

'The day of the Lord'. This expression occurs at least 20 times in the writings of the various OT prophets. It is always used in reference to a time of divine judgment upon a city or nation (rather than upon individuals), or eventually upon the inhabitants of the whole world. In contrast, what might be called “the day of man” is described in Scripture as the “day of salvation” (Isa. 49:8; 2 Cor. 6:2), “an acceptable time” (Ps. 69:13; Isa. 49:8), the time when probation for men as individuals or as nations still lingers (see Ps. 95:7, 8, Heb. 4:7).

Conversely, “the day of the Lord” is the time when, historically, the probation of a city or a nation closes, and ultimately when the destiny of all men is forever fixed. During the “day of salvation” men and nations are free to exercise their God-given power to choose between right and wrong, but with the arrival of “the day of the Lord” God’s will becomes supreme, being no longer circumscribed by the exercise of the human will.
“The day of the Lord” against Judah (see Isa. 2:12; Joel 1:15; 2:1; Zeph. 1:7) was thus the day when, as a nation, it was no longer permitted to continue on in its reprobate course and divine judgment was meted out against it (see Eze. 12:21–28). The same was true with the northern kingdom, Israel (Amos 5:18), with Egypt (Eze. 30:3), with Edom (Obadiah 15), and with other nations of antiquity (see Dan. 5:22–31). What happens to a city or to an entire nation when “the day of the Lord” comes to it is similar to what will happen to the whole world at the close of its probation. In Matt. 24, for instance, Christ’s description of “the day of the Lord” upon the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish nation is manifestly similar in many respects to what will also be true of the entire world at the time of Christ’s “coming, and of the end of the world” (Matt. 24:3; Luke 21:20; cf. Matt. 24:30). Thus, principles that apply when “the day of the Lord” comes to any city or nation also apply when “the day of the Lord” comes upon the world as a whole, and an OT prophetic description of the fate of some ancient city or nation in terms of “the day of the Lord” applies also in principle to “the great day of the Lord” (Zeph. 1:14) at the end of time. In view of the fact that NT writers make of the fate of ancient Babylon a figure of the fate of spiritual Babylon (see on Isa. 13:4), and because they apply the expression, “the day of the Lord,” to the time when Christ returns to earth in judgment (1 Cor. 5:5; 2 Cor. 1:14; 1 Thess. 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10), “the day of the Lord” upon Babylon, as described in Isa. 13 is, in many respects, also descriptive of “the great day of the Lord” at the end of time.

Answer 5

The outgrowth of Edom/Esau was the Roman Empire and thus, Christianity.

Answer 6

What is an Edom? A town in the armpit of the world?

Answer 7

Read the rest in context, you'll get it.

Answer 8

The day is today. The "wiseman" is you.

Answer 9

Don't know ,Don't care!