Wait, Homelessness?

I realized as I was going to bed last night that I made a big, unexplained jump in yesterday's blog.

How did I jump from talking about just war and pacifism to talking about paying attention to the homeless folks standing in the medians in South Florida?

I've been wrestling with how to apply what I've been learning in Obadiah.  People in their 20s are always up for a good conversation about pacifism and just war, but not many of us are going to work for the DoD like Chris Tutor.

Some folks apply passages like the ones I've been studying as blanket endorsements of the nation of Israel.  Application becomes being anti-Arab or anti-Palestinian and doesn't really connect with real life.

But I think there's another vein of application to passages like the one I've been looking at in Obadiah.  The people of God had undergone a huge displacement.  The Exile had huge, disasterous implications.  People lost their lives.  People lost their homes.

I'm living today in a home that was sold in foreclosure last March.  Someone lost this home.  Hopefully, they moved on and found another, maybe even nicer place to live.  But I can't help but wonder.

What should the Edomites have done in the face of the Exile?

Does homelessness connect with Exile?