Obadiah 1:16 says, For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.  This is the promise to the heathen and to those who only claim to be God's people, but who in fact are simply looking for their own prosperity.  God said that these people would be cut off, as though they had never been.  Verse seventeen then declares, But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.  God was going to deliver His people, but the Edomites would not be a part of that deliverance.  Verse eighteen proclaims, And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, 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.  Those who were truly God's people were to be delivered, but the people of Edom would not be among them.  They would be burned like stubble and utterly destroyed.  Those who claim to be God's people today only for their own benefit and not because of a real relationship with Christ will suffer the same fate.  Verse nineteen says, And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.  The defeat of Edom was to be complete, as will the defeat of all who stand against God.  Those who do defy or even deny God may be prosperous in this world, but will one day, when Christ returns, will be utterly defeated.  Verse twenty states, And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. The captivity of the children of Israel will come to an end.  Even if Israel was not immediately returned to a position as a world power, through Christ they were returned to a position of being the spiritual power of the world, if they accepted Him as Savior and Lord.  We are a part of that spiritual kingdom if we likewise accept Christ as our Savoir and Lord.  Vesre twenty says, And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.  I believe that this is a reference to those who preach the gospel of Christ.  Christ is the only Savior, but those who follow Him proclaim salvation to the world.