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Singing Over His People: A Day of Reckoning and an Unfinished Temple | Zephaniah 1–3; Haggai 1
Episode Overview
Today we read Zephaniah and begin Haggai. Zephaniah's opening is one of the most sweeping in the prophets—God will sweep away everything from the face of the earth. Then it narrows to Judah, and the list of targets is interesting: idolaters, obviously, but also those who bow to God and swear by other gods in the same breath, and those who are complacent, described as settled in wine like undisturbed sediment. Indifference gets named alongside outright rebellion.
The middle of the book widens to the surrounding nations, and chapter 3 turns the accusation back on Jerusalem…
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