Obadiah 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But (And) upon (in) Mount Zion, shall be deliverance, or, an escaped remnant, and there (and it) shall be holiness - The sifting times of the Church are the triumph of the world; the judgment of the world is the restoration of the Church. In the triumph of the world, the lot was cast on Jerusalem, her sons were carried captive and slain, her holy places were desecrated. On the destruction of the nations, Mount Zion rises in calm majesty, as before; “a remnant” is replaced there, after its sifting; it is again “holiness;” not holy only, but a channel of holiness; “and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions (literally inherit their inheritances)”; either their own former possessions, receiving and “inheriting” from the enemy, what they had lost; or the “inheritances” of the nations. For the whole world is the inheritance of the Church, as Jesus said to the apostles, sons of Zion Matthew 28:19, “Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” and Mark 16:15, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” Holiness is its title-deeds to the inheritance of the world, that holiness, which was in the “upper chamber” in “Mount Zion,” the presence of God the Holy Spirit, issuing in holy teaching, holy Scriptures, holy institutions, holy sacraments, holy lives.