ZEPHANIAH

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ZEPHANIAH

• Judgment against Judah

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Date of Writing

• In the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah
  (Zephaniah 11).
• A Call for National Repentance.
• Slightly prior to Jeremiah.
• Foretells the Destruction of Nineveh.

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Jehoahaz
Jehoiachin
Kings of Judah
Josiah
Jehoiakim
Zedekiah
Jerusalem Temple Destroyed
Zephaniah
Jeremiah
Daniel
Nahum
Ezekiel
Fall of Nineveh
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• Zephaniah

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Zephaniah 12-3
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Zephaniah 14
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Zephaniah 21-3
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Zephaniah 38-10
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Zephaniah 311-12

• 11 In that day you will feel no shame
• Because of all your deeds
• By which you have rebelled against Me
• For then I will remove from your midst
• Your proud, exulting ones,
• And you will never again be haughty
• On My holy mountain.
• 12 But I will leave among you
• A humble and lowly people,
• And they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

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Lessons from Zephaniah

• God used the Babylonians to bring severe judgment
  on Judah and many other nations for their sins.
• Humbly seeking God provides hope for protection
  from harm.
• The destruction of other nations would one day be
  to Israels advantage.
• God will purify Gentiles and Jews and grant them
  magnificent blessings after his judgment is
  complete.

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JOEL

• Yahweh is God

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Other Observations

• Joel makes no mention of the northern kingdom of
  Israel as a separate entity.
• When he does speak of Israel, he uses it in a
  sense where it seems to refer to a united
  covenant people of God.

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Outline of Joel
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Joel 11

• The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son
  of Pethuel

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Joel 12-3

• 2 Hear this, O elders,
• And listen, all inhabitants of the land.
• Has anything like this happened in your days
• Or in your fathers' days?
• 3 Tell your sons about it,
• And let your sons tell their sons,
• And their sons the next generation.

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Joel 14

• What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming
  locust has eaten
• And what the swarming locust has left, the
  creeping locust has eaten
• And what the creeping locust has left, the
  stripping locust has eaten.

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Joel 110

• The field is ruined,
• The land mourns,
• For the grain is ruined,
• The new wine dries up,
• Fresh oil fails

The field fails, The land loses, For the grain is
gone, The wine withers, Fresh oil fails
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Joel 212-13

• 12 "Yet even now," declares the LORD,
• "Return to Me with all your heart,
• And with fasting, weeping, and mourning
• 13 And rend your heart and not your garments."

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Joel 230-31

• 30 And I will display wonders in the sky and on
  the earth,
• Blood, fire, and columns of smoke.
• 31 The sun will be turned into darkness,
• And the moon into blood,
• Before the great and awesome day of the LORD
  comes.

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Prophecy Fulfillment

• Gods Spirit to be poured out
• Sons and daughters to prophesy
• Dreams and visions
• Blood and fire, and vapor of smoke
• Sun darkened, moon into blood

• Gods Spirit was poured out
• Men and women prophesied
• Dreams and visions given
• Blood of Jesus shed and tongues of fire given
• Sun darkened at crucifixion

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The Day of the Lord

• Destruction from the Almighty (Isaiah 136 Joel
  115).
• Cruel, with fury and burning anger (Isaiah 139).
• The Day of the Lords Anger (Lamentations 222).
• The Day of the Lord will come like a Thief (2
  Peter 310).

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Joel 31-2

• 1 For behold, in those days and at that time,
• When I restore the fortunes of Judah and
  Jerusalem,
• 2 I will gather all the nations,
• And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
  
• Then I will enter into judgment with them there
• On behalf of My people and My inheritance,
  Israel,
• Whom they have scattered among the nations
• And they have divided up My land.

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• Ammon

• Moab

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OBADIAH

• Oracle against Edom

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Jehoahaz
Jehoiachin
Kings of Judah
Josiah
Jehoiakim
Zedekiah
Jerusalem Temple Destroyed
Zephaniah
Obadiah?
Jeremiah
Daniel
Nahum
Ezekiel
Fall of Nineveh
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• Judah

• Edom

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Obadiah 13-4
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• Petra

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Lessons from Obadiah

• God cares for his people when they suffer.
• God warns but will eventually judge those who
  persecute his people.
• God will give victory to his people.
• Gods faithful people will inherit the kingdom of
  God in its fullness.

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HABAKKUK

• The Prayer Praise of Gods Prophet

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Jehoahaz
Jehoiachin
Kings of Judah
Josiah
Jehoiakim
Zedekiah
Jerusalem Temple Destroyed
Zephaniah
Obadiah?
Jeremiah
Daniel
Nahum
Ezekiel
Habakkuk
Fall of Nineveh
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Lessons from Habakkuks Questions

• God Balances His Books in His own Time

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Lessons from Habakkuks Questions

• God Balances His Books in His own Time

• When God Balances His Books, He does it His own
  way

• Why does God use evil people?

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Lessons from Habakkuks Questions

• God Balances His Books in His own Time
• When God Balances His Books, He does it His own
  way

• God Balances His Books without Partiality

• Five Woes Proclaimed

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Lessons from Habakkuks Questions

• God Balances His Books in His own Time
• When God Balances His Books, He does it His own
  way
• God Balances His Books without Partiality
• God Ultimately Balanced His Books upon the Cross

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Habakkuk 33-5
3 God comes from Teman, And the Holy One from
Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor covers the
heavens, And the earth is full of His praise. 4
His radiance is like the sunlight He has rays
flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding
of His power. 5 Before Him goes pestilence, And
plague comes after Him.
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Habakkuk 313
Thou didst go forth for the salvation of Thy
people, For the salvation of Thine anointed.
Thou didst strike the head of the house of the
evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.
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Habakkuk 317-18
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom, And
there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield
of the olive should fail, And the fields produce
no food, Though the flock should be cut off from
the fold, And there be no cattle in the
stalls, 18 Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will
rejoice in the God of my salvation.
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Habakkuk 319
The Lord God is my strength, And He has made my
feet like hinds' feet, And makes me walk on my
high places. For the choir director, on my
stringed instruments.
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