Do the tares encourage people to obey the Bible and the command to leave the churches?
No. Generally, the tares do not encourage people to carefully obey all of the Bible. In some cases, the tares have tried to encourage people to stay in the church, which is contrary to what God commands. In other cases, the tares have tried to encourage people to follow doctrines contrary to the Bible. All of these actions are like cutting off the people. The tares, without recognizing it, are trying to cut off people from the blessing of God by leading them in a path of disobedience. The second part of Obadiah 14 is talking about those that remain using the same Hebrew word translated remaining in Obadiah 18. Obadiah 14 talks about how the tares delivered up those of his that did remain. The ones that remain is referring to those that remain in the churches. The word delivered up is more commonly translated shut up or shut. It is commonly used in the sense to shut something. Here are two example verses with this same Hebrew word: Genesis 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and fe