Here are my thoughts and highlights from Zephaniah as I continue my journey through the Bible:
- Zephaniah means, “Yahweh had treasured” or “Yahweh has hidden”
- Written between 641 and 612 B.C. (Josiah of Judah)
- God’s ticked because of idol worship and judgement is coming to the Jews in this book
- The call to repentance is
- Seek a quiet and disciplined life
- I need a “quiet and disciplined” life
- God’s promise for an unhypocritical faith:
- In the end…I’ll give them a language undistorted, unpolluted,
Words to address God in worship (3:9)
- In the end…I’ll give them a language undistorted, unpolluted,
- God’s promise for redemption
- I’ll heal the maimed;
I’ll bring home the homeless.
In the very countries where they were hated
they will be venerated. (3:19)
- I’ll heal the maimed;
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Sweet blog! Thanks for commenting on mine.
It’s been a while since I read the minor prophets. But I like those promises that God gives. I like the call to repentance. I feel like it’s very applicable to Americans in 2007.