Zephaniah 1:4-6

God would rather you give away your wealth and be poor and humble than puffed with pride, arrogance and  a sense of entitlement to money and the false power it brings.

The world is in a downward spiral. He is the Lord our God and He will not tolerate false gods to come before Him. Pray for our nation and the world that God may have mercy on us for we are small. Perhaps He will relent and give us His wisdom to guide us.....to the day of Christ return.

Jesus seized on Zephaniah’s picture of the day of the Lord. On one occasion He referred to Zephaniah 1:3, when He spoke of His second coming and gathering “out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness” (Matt. 13:41). 

On another occasion, Jesus no doubt envisioned Zephaniah’s description of “a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet and alarm”.

Although Zephaniah doesn’t specifically name the Messiah as the subject of these scenarios, it is assumed. Who else could, as the prophet foretells, gather His people and reign in victory?

Zephaniah 1:4-6

⁴ “I will stretch out My hand against Judah, 
And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, 
The names of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests— 
⁵ Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops; 
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord, 
But who also swear by Milcom; 
⁶ Those who have turned back from following the Lord, 
And have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”