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Whereas the prophet Micah dealt very carefully and sympathetically with the problems with the frequent people of Judah, Zephaniah's utterances clearly show a Significantly better familiarity with court docket circles and latest political concerns. Zephaniah was likely aware of the writings of these prominent eighth-century prophets as Isaiah and Amos, whose utterances he displays, and he may are already mindful of the ministry on the younger Jeremiah.

Substantially that was long term with the saints of old is currently background for us. We can look back again on the cross of Calvary, even though they could only search forward. I repeat, how considerably more need to we enter into joyful worship, recognizing that we shall escape divine judgment, Which we shall soon enter into our Everlasting blessings, all because of the person and do the job of our Lord Jesus Christ!

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As I have studied the Book of Zephaniah, I are actually forced to rethink the connection among divine judgment and divine blessing. I have often considered them as opposites which have no connection. I like to think of judgment as something that has very little to complete with me and much to carry out with my enemies. I like to consider God’s blessings and salvation as mine, unrelated to judgment. I have come to the conclusion that divine judgment and divine blessings are certainly closely inter-associated.

Their phone calls will audio from the window, but desolation will lie on the edge, for He will expose the beams of cedar. 15This carefree metropolis that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I'm it, and there is none In addition to me,” what a ruin she is becoming, a resting spot for beasts. Absolutely everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

These cries grew to become the prayers of God's oppressed "saints," and as a result they ended up taken up into Israel's book of prayers. When Christ arrived in the flesh, he recognized himself with God's "humble" folks on the earth. He became for them God's righteous servant par excellence, and he shared their sufferings on the fingers of your wicked.

7  iThe seacoast shall turn out to be the possession of jthe remnant of your house of Judah, hon which they shall Bible graze, and in the homes of Ashkelon they shall lie down at night. for your Lord their God kwill be mindful of them and lrestore their fortunes.

Zephaniah preached his information throughout the rule of King Josiah, who had initiated spiritual reform in all of Judah and many surrounding territories.

He was also an intercessor with God in behalf of your nation, the builder and maintainer on the temple (as God's earthly palace and also the nation's dwelling of prayer) and the foremost voice contacting the nation to worship the Lord. It is maybe by using a perspective to those very last responsibilities that he's declared to be don't just king, but additionally "priest" (see Ps a hundred and ten and notes).

If so, the prophecy of Zephaniah could be up to date With all the early prophecy of Jeremiah, with which it shares both equally language and concepts.

nine  On that working day I will punish Absolutely everyone swho leaps around the edge, and people who fill their grasp’s3 house with violence and fraud.

12  t“Woe to him ewho builds a town with blood and founds a town on iniquity! thirteen  Behold, is it not through the Lord of hosts that fpeoples labor merely for fireplace, and nations weary by themselves for nothing?