ZEPHANIAH, Chapter 2
“The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast.” Zephaniah 1:14
Zephaniah speaks at the precise moment when Judah’s long experiment with compromise reaches its breaking point. This is not a story of transferred allegiance, but of accommodation. Judah still carries the Lord’s name and maintains His Temple, but they have woven other gods into the fabric of daily life.
This is YHWH-plus religion.
It presents itself as a sophisticated, tolerant "synthesis," but it is far more dangerous than honest paganism. Judah’s elites swore by the LORD and by Milcom in the same breath (Zeph…
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