For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. (Zephaniah 3:17) Judah was in pretty bad circumstances all due to their idol worship and all the wickedness they had embraced because of the influence of the foreign peoples they were living amongst. The whole purpose of Zephaniah's words was to call Judah, and especially Jerusalem, to repentance and restoration. They have become rebellious, full of themselves, moving further and further away from the worship of the one True God. The people had 'mixed' religious practices, some were what God had asked in the Law of Moses, others were from the regions in which they now resided. Whenever we allow a 'mixture' of practices or beliefs, departing from what scripture clearly defines as moral, upright, honorable, or holy, we are in danger of doing exactly what Judah is found at f...
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