Zephaniah 3- Truth in Love Network: "Growing up in all things into Christ" Eph 4:15

The Zephaniah chapter 3 the last chapter of Zephaniah. How's it going Dan. Good good good to see you. So we're looking for potential. You know, who knows when people are gonna watch this or if anybody ever will.

But but tonight specifically I'm hoping that we're gonna get a little snow here and see some snow in the morning. But chances are slim. Does it get old for you. Where you live. I.

Don't know I like the snow. We woke up Friday morning and we had about an inch and a half of ice. It was Just nasty. Yeah, it's still all over the driveway. If I didn't have four-wheel drive, I wouldn't be going anywhere, right?

Yeah, I guess I guess it does depend on the person. You if you like snow you like it if you don't you don't. Yeah. It's one of those things. It's it's you're not in the middle a whole lot. So we're in Zephaniah tonight.

We're gonna end up the book Zephaniah chapter 3. So if you're in if you have your Bibles and you want to Look at look at Zephaniah chapter 3 with us and follow along with us. That would be great. If you'd like course to pray for you.

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Lost half of our North Carolina followers, but it'll be alright. No 0 Would not recommend.

In Christian love. Look past those comments, please brothers and sisters. But we I'm just now realizing I guess that Dan and I are on the same level here of Feelings toward a certain team. So I'm very thankful for that but.

That's a good. Do what? It's a good day yesterday.

We're gonna try to keep that from translating over into our feelings towards each other as brothers and sisters in Christ, even though we are ABC anybody but Carolina. I'm down with that. So is that when I chapter 3?

Zephaniah Before the Babylonian Captivity

Well before I pull it up, let's let's do a little teeny tiny review. We walked through the book of Daniel and we're not doing anything chronological here. But just just as for timeline purposes Daniel was going on During the captivity of Babylon where Babylon came in and took them into captivity and Daniel had to speak to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Translating visions and dreams and and that good stuff here in Zephaniah. This is before the Babylonian captivity. Is that correct, yep, okay and he is during the reign of King Josiah and Josiah is one of the few Pretty good Kings.

Most of the Kings is my understanding that they were they were bad and not good. Some of them just downright terrible. They had a few that were decent like Josiah who wanted to bring some reform and bring them back to God and and we think that maybe Zephaniah was was part of that motivation for Josiah to Bring back or bring those reforms to the nation.

Because of his warnings we read through chapter 1 where Zephaniah is warning folks. Chapter 2 he's warning the folks. He's warning Jerusalem and he's warning all the other nations and He doesn't quit.

He's got good news in here. Yep, but he's still on the warning track. And so let's. As we looked at the end of chapter 2. The end of chapter 2 was very interesting to me that the wordplay and the poetry aspect of it as you were describing it because if you look in.

Okay, verse 13 of chapter 2 parts like wilderness and then he gives this big long description. Flocks will lie down on their midst, beasts will range in herds. Both the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge on the tops of pillars, birds will sing in their windows.

Desolation will be on the threshold. So you just got a tumbleweed and animal takeover in this desolate land and. What what an awesome, you know picture here that he's drawing for us. And now we begin in chapter 3 and he's Well, he's can he's using some tough language here.

Verse 1 woe to her who was a rebellious and defiled the tyrannical city. She heeded no voice. She accepted no instruction. She did not trust the Lord. She did not draw near to her God. Now who who is Zephaniah talking about when he's talking about this this rebellious this tyrannical.

She accepted no instructions. She did not trust the Lord. She did not draw near to God. Who is he talking about? Because we know that he was talking about Jerusalem at one time. He's talked about other nations.

Who were we back to here in chapter 3?

Well, you just kind of gave it away by saying back to but here we go. If you look right there where it says she did not trust in the Lord Lord in all Caps is the name of God. It's Yahweh and It says she did not draw near to her God.

The there is only one nation whose God was the Lord whose God was Yahweh and That is Israel because they were called out from among the nations and got you guys said I will be your God and you will be my people.

So right here. We're back to talking about the city of Jerusalem as a. It'd be like if you're talking about Washington DC. You're gonna talk about Washington DC, you don't just mean the little blip of land over there in between Maryland and Virginia.

You're talking about the entire country, but you're using it. You're focusing in on the point where the the city where the leaders Convened to do their dirty work so to speak. So this is his description.

Vivid description. Rebellious and defiled. And this is before. We Know that when they went into captivity because of Babylon and then God allowed them to go back we know that they took Babylon with them, basically and And so they remain they were defiled because of them bringing Babylon back with them.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but but this is before all that.

And you're right this is before Babylon, yeah, yeah, they haven't even gone off into their first captivity yet.

Exactly. So so you've got some. I mean their heart is already on the wrong path before they even Introduced to this culture and Religion in the city of Babylon right. They didn't accept the instruction of the Lord didn't trust the Lord did not did not draw near to her God.

Well, and I guess the answer would be Because we talked about it last time when we were looking at chapter 2 how There were many of these cities as they were led to the promised land that they were supposed to destroy.

But they left high places and high places being these places of worship of these false religions. They've left these hot places. They let peoples that they were supposed to destroy and so There there has always been this intermingling this flirting with this Replacing God with with other idols with other gods with other images, right?

That's always been present because they didn't obey the Lord.

Right and it wouldn't have even been so bad for them to not take over everybody as they entered the land right away because even back when they were Taking over the different places the different cities and taking the land the first time.

It said that they wouldn't be able to take it all over at once and they wouldn't be able to do it quickly because if they Did then the land would be too much for them to handle the wild beasts would come up and all sorts of different things.

They wouldn't be able to handle it. So there was a bit of of an idea that they were supposed to take a while to do it. But they were never supposed to stop taking dominion of the land that they were given.

That's where they got themselves into trouble. When they allowed these false gods to stand when they allowed the people who live there to stand over periods of time. They got sucked into worshiping those other gods instead of turning and punching them in the mouth and getting them out of there.

It would have taken a little bit longer maybe over the course of generations but it would have. They were supposed to continue on doing that. They didn't they got complacent. They found a land. They wanted to rest they settled down they started prospering and Because of their prosperity they said hey, we we don't really need this God anymore and after no so several run-ins with with the different judges and then three Monarchs over the the United Kingdom they broke off and you never saw another good king out of Israel and you only saw a small sprinkling of good kings out of Judah.

Let's move on to the next few verses and I like how The the description as you as you read through the verses you can tell that is how he's describing or the the aspects or arenas Of where the corruption is.

Verse 3. Oh I've got I've got to go to the other screen to control it. All right, verse 3 her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are wolves and evening they leave nothing for the morning.

So in my eyes, this is what I'm saying. I'm seeing two different areas of their culture and then you go to verse 4. Her prophets are reckless. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

So as I look at those two verses, I'm seeing his description of the the corruption Invasively all arenas of their culture.

A lot of the arenas anyway it doesn't it doesn't necessarily mention the family, but it does hit on government and Religion. Which are no two of the biggest spheres out there. The government this is interesting because it says their princes within her roaring lions or judges.

Are wolves at evening they leave nothing for the morning. In other words, they're devouring the people who are who they're in charge of who they've been given Responsibility to lead and this isn't just a problem.

That they had now this problem comes back to to haunt them later if you look at the book of Micah Micah chapter 2 you see basically the same thing going on only that it seems like they've gotten better at it.

Says woe to those who devise iniquity. It's just no almost Identical what it says up above. And who work out evil on their beds at morning light they practice it. Because it is in the power of their hand.

In other words They scheme on ways to cheat people out of their money and houses all night. And then when they wake up in the morning since they have the ability to do it. They go out there and use their power.

To cheat people out of their property since they covet fields and take them by violence and also houses and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house and a man and his inheritance. Man, that sounds like our government, doesn't it?

They Hey, what's a new way that we can tax these people and then tax the the tax and yeah, it's. They're not doing what what they're supposed to be doing. They're being evil wicked people that the judges aren't providing true justice.

The princes aren't no protecting the people and giving them a good safe place to live. They are just devouring their own folks. They leave nothing for the morning. There's there's nothing left. It's like it's like we heard some some coyotes yipping and hollering out out back a little bit ago.

I mean maybe a week ago and I had some old. Well some stuff coyotes may may like to eat. And when we got we check it out the next morning. It's gone. There's nothing left. Just like that they go and they find and they rip and tear and devour.

It's it's real interesting that the the prophets are spoken of in about the same manner. It says they're reckless another Word for that is fickle or undisciplined. They have no moral fortitude to them.

That's the idea. They're they're treacherous because they're dangerous now being being dangerous as a man is not a bad thing. You want to be dangerous, but you want to be danger under control. You want to be dangerous to those who need to be slapped down those who are trying to hurt the innocent and And wreck the the weak.

You want to take care of people you want to be dangerous enough to take care of the folks who need to be taken care Of but you always want to do that with a sense of with a moral compass that aligns with the Word of God.

Were you doing things the right way they had they did not have that moral compass. They were just treacherous like if you got close to them. You've seen somebody who doesn't know how to swing an axe. You see them swing an axe.

You just like oh, how do you have shins left like? What are you doing with your life, please please stop? That's the sort of thing they had the power of prophecy speaking for Yahweh and Like like Calvin said they're like a lunatic with a sword.

They're just wall rolling around hacking stuff off all over the place like why are you doing this? It says in the process they profaned the sanctuary. They did violence to the law. They took it. They twisted it they Shaded it they beat it into a weapon for their own destruction.

That's not what the law was there for the law was to God to keep us as a schoolmaster until the Messiah would come. But instead they took it as a way to to browbeat the people who were beneath them. This even came back after the the captivity.

That's why Jesus came in and he was so angry with the Pharisees. Why are you you know you straining in that you're you can't fit through the the the camel through the eye of a needle? You've Neglected the commands of God for the traditions of men and he had all of those things.

John the Baptist called him a brood of vipers. Yeah, they it was something that they just held on to.

Yeah, we can see here that the government wasn't fulfilling its role. New the religion wasn't fulfilling its role. And I'm thinking here looking at the people as a whole the nation of Israel as a whole and The state of their being this this really reveals to me.

And of course it not just them, but I'm referring to all humanity in general as well. But it reveals this the state of humanity and. And it relates a lot to our subject on Thursday night last Thursday and this coming Thursday where we're talking about the doctrine of total depravity and total inability this really speaks to that to me and what I'm saying here because In God's mercy he gave his people here in this time More or less a quick pro quo covenant if you do this, I will bless you if you do this you will be cursed so.

They had the opportunity in the aspect of the government you know, they were they were given the the command to Take dominion have dominion. They had God on their side and they were given the command to to take dominion of the whole earth.

And so therefore there's there was no kingdom. There was no people that could stand in their way. Because they had a mandate and they had a God on their side to back it up and and with religion, you know, you had all these you have all these other religions where they They were cutting themselves trying to get blessings from from their gods.

They wanted, you know Great crops, they wanted a wet season. They wanted blessing and they did all sorts of Immoralities to try to appease their God when Israel had a God that said if you do this, I will bless you.

But they wanted to intermingle with these other religions these false gods that never answered. When they had the God of gods the campaigns and Lord of Lords. They had the God and creator of the universe on their side saying if you do this, I will bless you.

Here's the mandate go and have dominion take over I will be with you because I'm giving you the mandate and it shows their utter depravity and our utter depravity that man would despise. The mandate of God and the blessing of God when he's he's given it to us or he gave it to them.

Yep, and and it's it's interesting that all of this was prophesied way back in Deuteronomy. If you look at Deuteronomy 31 starting verse 19, it says now therefore Right mind the right spot. Yeah now therefore write down this song for yourselves and teach it to the children of Israel put it in their mouths that they may.

That the song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel when I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey of which I swore to their fathers and they have eaten and Filled themselves and grown fat then they will turn to other gods and serve them.

And they will provoke me and break my covenant. Then it shall be when many evils and troubles have come upon them that this song will testify against them as a witness. For it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their descendants for I know the inclination of their behavior today.

Even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give to them. Who he was already telling them? You are going to. I've given you this covenant. He told them just prior to this I give to you today a choice life and blessing or death and cursing.

Choose life. And he says, but I know what you're gonna do. You're going to choose death and When you do it's going to come to you you're gonna have judgment fall on you.

Yeah, it's amazing how things are so it's still the same oh and so consistent and never change you have there in Deuteronomy Where basically to sum it up God knows man's heart. No, and then you come to the New Testament where Christ says or the New Testament says Jesus did not entrust himself to them because he knew Me and he know what was in their heart.

Yeah. Doesn't change still the same and God knows our hearts and All this is still about his graciousness. Is He was gracious to give them that mandate that covenant, but he was also gracious to to give them the law to Use it to show them their their simple list and show us our simple list.

Let's move on so we don't.

Run out to me rabbit trails and expand all our time. We're gonna go to part F before we know it.

Verse 5. The Lord is righteous within her. He will do no injustice. What an encouragement. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust knows no shame.

What a distinction there between God and man. Yeah big contrast, right?

Verse 6. And if you have any other comments, just Just let them out. I have cut off nations their corner towers Are in ruins I have made their streets desolate with no one passing by. Their cities are laid waste without a man without.

Yeah, verse 5 he says I'm He's just and he's not gonna leave justice undone and then verse 6 he goes look I did it before. Yeah, I've already done it before what makes you think I won't do it now. I'm gonna be just yeah, you can bank on it.

Yep.

Verse 7. I have I said surely you will revere me except instruction. Going back to the I guess earlier passage. Except instruction. So her dwelling will not be cut off according to all that I have appointed concerning her.

But they would they were eager to corrupt all their deeds.

So let me ask you this Robert. Yeah, and I Uh God expected Them to do better. But they didn't. Was God wrong.

So truly you will revere me. Surely you will revere me. So that's where you're that's where you're getting the comment. He expected them to To do better. Surely you will revere me and accept instruction.

Listen and you're not going you're not gonna get put out of the land and. But then it says but You did something else. Yeah, so with God wrong.

That's that's a good question. And the way the way this is worded Makes it really difficult to answer because we've looked at verses before where God has has changed his mind or repented and You know, we've been able to explain that and talk about that and talk about how God's God's plan a and plan B has always was has always been plan a.

If it looks like there was a plan B. That's because it was part of plan a. In such a way and that's you know, that's similar to what's going on here.

What would be your explanation. I would say no, it doesn't look like that at all. Well, it doesn't look like that. And here's why. Here's what. Because what God did with Israel specifically. He pulled it called people to himself.

He gave them his law. He says here's your instruction. He put redeemed folks. There in the nation were those who knew him not pretend knew him, but knew him. The redeemed individuals in the Old Testament.

They had his law. You've had every chance to succeed. If anybody Was going to succeed is gonna be you. But you didn't. And I think that's the language that's being used there surely of everybody out there who would accept instruction.

So they wouldn't get cut off of if there was anybody out there who was going to listen to me. It was going to be you. But you wouldn't do it. Don't think God actually expected them to not to Do. Well because he and Deuteronomy said you're going to fail.

He said you're going to fall away. You're going to follow other gods. So what I think he's saying here is I gave you every chance to succeed. You have no excuse. I've been more than merciful to you and yet you loved your sin more than you loved me.

So it's not necessarily describing God's Character His nature who he is. In saying that he was he was expecting a certain outcome and then become disappointed. What it's really saying is This is a statement to Israel To reveal to them who they are.

Right. He's given them every opportunity and every opportunity. They've turned their backs on him. Yeah, cuz cuz even even in Deuteronomy says choose you this day you have life and blessing or death and cursing.

He gave them the Remember us as Calvinists we or us to. I don't know. Anybody listening? We'll fight up amongst ourselves later but we believe that God really does have a moral responsibility placed upon us.

We really do Everything that we want to because of our nature and yet it's in line with God's decrees. Yeah, so Here given every opportunity to succeed these people Use their will use their choices to Go against what God had commanded them to do.

Yeah, so it's not speaking of God's response is speaking of Israel's response and I'm in my mind I'm seeing the reaction. So if I'm if my dad was saying That's saying this to me Surely surely you should have Done this and my response should be surely surely I should have.

It should be of an attitude of Reality of humility of Repentance of remorse. Surely I should have done that. And I think it's it's revealing the response of that Israel should have had.

Surely I should have responded this way instead of the other way. Yeah, it's kind of like if I were to take my My boys fishing in a few years and I were just to let them go. But before they left I said, all right now right here is a big big hole.

You're gonna want to drop your bait right there. You don't want to use chicken breasts because that's the best. Drop it right there in the hole. And what's gonna happen is a big old catfish is gonna come up and eat it.

They come back the next day. How many did you catch dad? We didn't catch anything. Well, why not buddy? Well, we went over there to the little little Creek and we dropped our our Worms over on the the bank.

We thought they'd come up and walk over and eat them. Well, well guys that's not what I told you to do at all. I Told you to do all of this stuff and surely you would have caught fish had you done what I told you.

Yeah, but y 'all were knuckleheads and went the opposite direction. It's something that's going something like that it will be in every opportunity to succeed and yet. They did not because they did not listen to God.

So since you didn't wait on the Lord since you didn't heed his instruction right. Verse 8 Therefore wait for me declares the Lord for the day when I rise up as a witness Indeed, my decision is to gather nations to assemble kingdoms to pour out on them.

My Indignation all my burning anger for all the earth will be devoured by the fire of my zeal. Who so he's going to. They're gonna be one of the one of the nations now that he's gonna bring judgment on right, right.

Right, but even then.

You still get the idea in verse 8. Therefore wait for me declares Lord wait for him. How to. You can either wait for him to see if he's gonna do what he said. Mm-hmm. He will or wait for me to be your deliverance.

Mm-hmm. It can go both ways you you wait upon the grace of the Lord or you just Know wait around to stick it out to see if no this God guy is gonna actually do what he said. So there even there there's a little glimmer of hope in the face of great destruction, right?

And here we have some of this Judgment apocalyptic type language that we see in other places, you know as we've as we've talked about eschatology. And we we come across this type of language before and so here.

Can we understand this and how it's used in in the other s s get a lot of cool places in the Bible because. You just you think it out think it out logically. He says all my burning anger. You know, that's that's a word picture.

Anger can't burn. So it's just it's a descriptive word for all the earth will be devoured. The context. Here we've been we've been talking about a localized place Judea Jerusalem, right?

Ethiopia the Ammonites the Moabites the Philistines. Yeah, and then they will be devoured.

By the fire of my zeal. Yeah. And what's interesting is you go to the next sentence in verse 9. For then I will give to the people's purified lips. Now if you're thinking this through logically if he's going to devour the nations of the earth by the fire literal fire of his zeal.

Then who's going to be left to give people's purified lips.

Yeah, which lips are going to be purified. Exactly exactly so. If it's a literal burning fire.

Right, and I like what Gary DeMar has has brought up in his teaching. He says we we interpret the Bible literally literal according to the literature, right. And. And You know, we don't see this as just as we discussed a literal fire.

We don't anger doesn't literally burn. We can't see that. It doesn't anger doesn't get consumed and produce ashes. So it's it's word pictures. It's Figurative it's it's describing something.

The. The literal part of it is his anger his indignant. Yeah. That's his anger and his indignation is being described in figurative language. But it's a literal anger and indignation like this is real judgment coming on people.

So do you think this. Do you think this relates to the the fire language of consuming the whole earth because Growing up I was influenced by the dispensational pre-mill viewpoint that the earth was first destroyed by water and then The second time of that is this destroyed it's going to be destroyed by fire.

That that was my thinking. That's how I was brought up. And so but but now from a post-mill perspective do we see that that fire language as Judgment language not necessarily literal Fire that consumes wood To consume the whole earth But a purifying like we see here in Zephaniah.

Yes, and and here's why We we would we would be overstepping our bounds to say that that is is not going to be a fire that is actually Going to consume like no cups and and wood and rocks and melt elements and stuff.

If We didn't have language that suggested it. Otherwise that was clearer than this. Because you could you could I don't think like you said who's gonna be left for their lips to be purified. That makes sense.

You also have to look at different language. I think of Isaiah of 13 10. Speaking of a judgment coming upon a specific nation Babylon. It says that that the moon will turn to blood and the Sun moon and stars are going to fall from the sky and be destroyed.

Now did the Sun moon and stars actually get destroyed in the judgment on Babylon? Well Babylon's not here anymore, but the Sun moon and stars are so what we know from that language is that it was the the The light was going out on the nation of Babylon.

The Sun the show the shown on Babylon won't shine on them anymore because the Sun's gone. No, but because Babylon's gone. So what it looks when he gives that language of of Judgment of no Sun moon and stars falling we have fire coming and purifying.

He's not saying that there's going to be an actual fire that comes and purifies. But that his judgment will be rained down on them Scorched earth. We're looking at a Terrible time of judgment where only a a remnant is going to be left and that remnant is going to be purified through His through his judgment.

This happens in Smaller Sections we think of Babylon being judged as Syria being judged Jerusalem being judged on several occasions. We think of other nations who have risen and fallen. The Different empires a big Turkish Empire that fell away.

Genghis Khan fell away Napoleon. They came back. No shrunk back down. We think of all these nations that tried to puff themselves up against God to say that we're going to take over the world. I know this is my world.

He put the kibosh on them put judgment on them. And they fell they fell away. But in each one of those instances he preserved alive a people for himself and those people were there To call upon the name of the Lord.

That's what we see here. It's a picture of the end time. When we see Jesus coming back and the full and final judgment is put over all of the nations at a singular time. And all that remains are those who trust in Christ those who believe in God and and have Had their sins forgiven through the blood sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

Well, if you ask me Dan that was a pretty good segue to move forward.

Let's do a really good segue.

Purified Lips and the Gathering of the Nations

First nine then I will give to the people's purified lips more hope language more encouraging language. That all of them may call on the name of the Lord to serve him shoulder-to-shoulder. And we're not just talking about Jerusalem here, right?

I mean he was talking about other nations and now he's talking about purifying their lips along with Jerusalem and Causing them to your version that you were reading earlier said language. Yep purifying their language that they may call on the name of the Lord.

So you have all these different remnants within all the different kingdoms Calling on the name of the Lord and together Serving him shoulder-to-shoulder.

Yep. Yep, and it's interesting. He. The one little verse in chapter 12 or chapter 2 was at verse 12, I think. Maybe is verse 10 on some other page first 12. Yeah, Ethiopia. You're going down. Here's my sword.

Now you see in chapter 3 verse 10. All the way over there in Ethiopia my worshipers my dispersed ones will bring my offerings talking about a. You know, wherever a nation falls my kingdom will stand. Which is it's an amazing thing because look at the book of Daniel, that's that's the whole point of the book of Daniel.

Wherever a nation falls my kingdom will stand. No, whenever the little stone hits the statue and the nation's fall my kingdom will continue to grow. It's a God's Justice and his mercy is grace. Put out it's in the destruction of these world powers the.