Are you being sifted? (Zephaniah)
Are you being sifted? How is your life going so far? I find mine quite challenging at times, mostly emotionally. Am I being sifted like wheat like Israel was in the book of Zephaniah? Are you being sifted? It seems through the book they were purified, sifted like wheat or flour. Zephaniah was a minor prophet meaning short message, who came before the reformation of Judah in the days of king Josiah around 640 BC. Was this global message to be taken seriously? Yes, of course! God was going to strip bare the whole earth, maybe the known world at the time. (Chapter 1). In Chapter 2, it starts with a call to repent then a threat to the people of every corner of the earth. In Chapter 3 God intervenes again on behalf of his very own people Jerusalem and Israel, but finally in that same chapter he gives them rest (verse 11-14) and then jubilation. The Lord has taken care of their enemy (v.15. There will finally be great comfort...