It frightens me every time I am led to this passage. I long for Christ to return but I want no one to be hurt or lost in the process.... that is how God feels! If only we did not have free will none of this would happen....BUT...God wanted a people who would choose to love Him and to follow Him. The ultimate gentleman He values freedom and our right to choose what we believe in. He will not come into our lives unless we ask, even if our decisions destroy us and we break His heart by those choices.
The message of Zephaniah begins with a pronouncement of universal judgment. These words not only introduce the particular judgment that would be pronounced upon Judah, but they also speak of the final judgment that will usher in the kingdom of God on earth.
Stumbling blocks here refers to idolatry, or substitutes for God in the life and affections of a person. Because there is nothing in the universe that really may be compared to the Creator.
Zephaniah 1:2-3
2 “I will utterly consume everything
From the face of the land,”
Says the Lord;
3 “I will consume man and beast;
I will consume the birds of the heavens,
The fish of the sea,
And the stumbling blocks along with the wicked.
I will cut off man from the face of the land,”
Says the Lord.
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