“Be silent before the Sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near. The LORD has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited.”
– Zephaniah 1:7
Hi James and Ellen,
My name is Zephaniah. Even though I lived 2630 years ago, I have a message for you today. The message that I have for you came directly to me from God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit. I was still in my early twenties when the voice of God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, compelled me to write a short missive about the future of people groups of guys and gals who are living on planet Earth. The words of my short communiqué are warnings to people groups of guys and gals who flaunt their misguided beliefs and wicked lifestyles before God – as God the Father. The words of my short letter even apply to my own people group of guys and gals who are known as Israelites or Jews. I personally suffered living through the infamous reigns of Manasseh and Amon – who were two Judah kings. I now have the daunting task of mentoring and teaching a Judah king – who is six years old kid, whose name is Josiah, on being obedient to mandated worship laws and regulations that were given to Moses by God – as God the Father, when He met with Moses about 825 years ago on Mount Sinai. Please carefully hear what God – as God the Spirit, breathed on me to write in what is Zephaniah 1. I am totally convinced that God – as God the Father, was not bluffing when He through God – as God the Spirit, had me write in a dispatch that He is going to sweep away everything – from men to animals to birds to fish, from the face of planet Earth. Do you think the God – as God the Father, does bluffing? God – as God the Father, through God – as the Spirit, told me to widely announce that He is going to completely wipe away each pagan and idolatrous priest who has anything at all to do with worshipping Baal, each guy and gal who bows to the stars from the roof of his or her house and each guy and each gal who swears allegiance to both God – as God the Father, and to an inanimate Ammonite idol god called Molech. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, clearly named all the guys and gals who He is going to harshly punish for not taking His divine presence completely seriously. God – as God the Father, is going to punish each guy and gal who turns his or her back on Him, each guy and gal who is not being led to seek Him to know Him intimately, each prince, each king’s son and each guy and gal who dresses up as a foreigner, each guy and gal who is superstitious of stepping on thresholds and each guy and gal who uses deceit and violence to fill a temple with manmade idol gods that are handmade from wood, metal, stone and/or clay. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, told me what that pending day of infamy is going to be like for these guys and gals as His wrath is poured out on them. Merchants will have their businesses totally trashed, complacent guys and gals will be poured out into the street as wine dregs and wealthy dudes will have their houses razed and their vineyards plundered. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, also told me that the pending, imminent day of abomination is going to be for these guys and gals filled with catastrophes as they face His righteous anger. The holy wrath of God – as God the Father, will utterly saturate the air, fully soak the land with distress and wholly fill the time with torment, anguish, ruination, darkness, gloom and blackness.
This is your grandpaa now. Do you think that the horrific judgment day that Zephaniah describes in his letter has already taken place or do you think that God has this horrible day in His living schematic that He is perpetually unfolding still to take place everywhere on planet Earth? God’s programmed appalling day of wrath has affected or will affect each guy, gal and kid who has resided, is residing or will reside on planet Earth. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, and through Zephaniah, gives clear-cut counsel on how to escape from facing His vengeful ire and implacable fury. Verse 7 says, “Be silent before the Sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near. The LORD has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited.” This verse tells your grandpaa that God’s specially chosen guys and gals and/or God’s specially elected guys, gals and kids have found or will find God’s horrendous judgment day to have been or to be a day that was filled or is filled with rejoicing – a day when God – as God the Father, was given or will be given thanks for slaughtering their enemies. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, uses and will use sanctification – which is a tool that is unique to Himself, to purify a guy, gal or kid – in an ongoing moment by moment way, who He has chosen or elected consecrating him or her so that he or she is unconditionally acceptable in God’s sight.
A sad, heartbreaking reality today is that the vast majority of guys, gals and kids who are presently living on planet Earth do not want to have anything to do with experiencing a born again, personal intimate relationship with God – as God the Father, through what God – as God the Son, did when He allowed Roman soldiers to cruelly tie and brutally nail His incarnated body to a crude cross to die. How do you think Zephaniah would react today to the denunciation by the present President of the United State of America that the United States is no longer a Christian nation? Your grandpaa believes that Zephaniah would be franticly warning the guys, gals and kids who are living in the United States at this time about the dire consequences that will take place because of their failing faith in God.
Zephaniah 1 (998)