{"id":1643,"date":"2014-12-19T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2022-09-05T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:22:00","slug":"zephaniah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/zephaniah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zephaniah 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chapter two<\/strong> reveals the <strong>scope<\/strong> of the day of the Lord. Some have concluded that Zephaniah\u2019s prophecy was fulfilled by the Babylonians in the years following Josiah\u2019s death. (See Habakkuk for Babylon as God\u2019s instrument to punish Israel.) However, as terrible as the Babylonian attacks and captivities were, they did not compare to the complete annihilation described in chapter one. Additionally, chapter two lists other nations around Israel that Babylon also did not decimate \u2013 Moab and Ammon (vs. 8-11); Ethiopia (or Cush, vs. 12); Assyria (vs. 13-15).<\/p><p>A special point of note is in 2:9 where Zephaniah refers to the \u201cremnant\u201d or \u201cthose who are left.\u201d These will be the survivors of the great day of the Lord\u2019s wrath. The remnant is a common term used in Old Testament judgment passages and New Testament passages related to Israel (e.g., Romans 9-11) for those individual Israelites who had genuine faith in God. Using Church-Age terminology, we would call them \u201csaved\u201d or \u201cOld Testament saints.\u201d Like Abraham, they had believed God\u2019s promises and had faithfully obeyed his law. These will not suffer God\u2019s wrath; instead, they will enjoy the privileges of the spoils of his war on the nations. Notice the back and forth between judgment on the wicked (vs. 4-5, 8-13) and paradise for the righteous remnant (vs. 6-7, 14-15) throughout this chapter.&nbsp;This balance is shown throughout the Scriptures; God judges the wicked but is gracious and merciful to all who place their faith in him.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter two reveals the scope of the day of the Lord. Some have concluded that Zephaniah\u2019s prophecy was fulfilled by the Babylonians in the years following Josiah\u2019s death. (See Habakkuk for Babylon as God\u2019s instrument to punish Israel.) However, as terrible as the Babylonian attacks and captivities were, they did not compare to the complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[96,35,113],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-studies","tag-habakkuk","tag-romans","tag-zephaniah"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"widget-thumbnail":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Goepfrich","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/author\/dgoepfrich\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Chapter two reveals the scope of the day of the Lord. 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