PROPHETIC WARNING

​ZEPHANIAH 2:1-3
GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER, YEA, GATHER YOUSELVES TOGETHER, O’ NATIONS NOT DESIRED;
BRFORE THE DECREE BRING FORTH, BEFORE THE DAY PASS AS THE CHAFF, BEFORE THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD COME UPON YOU, BRFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD’S ANGER COME UPON YOU.
SEEK YE THE LORD, ALL YE MEEK OF THE EARTH, WHICH HAVE WROUGHT HIS JUDGMENT; SEEK RIGHTEOUSNESS, SEEK MEEKNESS; IT MAY BE THAT YE SHALL BE HID IN THE DAY OF THE LORD’S ANGER.
 
The prophet Zephaniah is moved by the Spirit of God to relay the anger of the Lord toward his children. The Lord is furious. The people have turned their backs on their savior ad has given themselves to idolatry. They have acknowledged higher powers that are not angels of light.
Jesus is the first and the Lost. He is our creator. Instead of seeking and inquiring of Him, the people have gone on their own. The y worship the hosts of Heaven provoking the Lord to jealousy. They seek strange gods. After all the Lord has done, with pouring his spirit upon them. He has sent forth miracles, signs, and wonders. The children have delivered themselves to the slaughter.
The prophet urges the children to gather themselves to hear the word of God. They are not desirable to the Lord because of their sin. The Lord Jesus loves his children so much that even in the midst of his anger he sends Zephaniah with a message of compassion and tender mercy. He says you haven’t sought me. I’m giving you room to repent. Do not depend on your own selves. Do not depend on false coverings that cannot save in the day of my anger. Do not continue to allow yourselves to be seduced with food from the tree of knowledge. I am the bread of life. Seek me for righteous judgment. Seek me for cover so that you are hid in the day of wrath. The Lord will punish those are not dressed appropriately when he comes. Do not settle with the thought that he is not paying attention. He is coming and his reward is with him. The devastation that will come upon the disobedient cannot be put into words.
Zephaniah 1:14-15
The great day if the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: The mighty man shall cry bitterly.
The day is a day of wrath, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness, and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Forsake the abominable things and return to your savior. There is no other deliverer. There is no peace to the wicked. Jesus Christ is the prince of peace. There Is no other…There is no other, I say, There is no other.