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Study Section 13:  The Book of Zephaniah


                 13.1 Connect

                           Don’t you enjoy singing and worshiping the Lord together at church?  Singing is a special gift
                           God gives to some who can raise their voices and lift our spirits to God.  Job 38:7 says that
                           “while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.”  Revelation 5
                           says that angels sing a new song to honor the Lord of hosts.  People sing, angles sing, and
                           star sing.  But did you know that God himself sings?   In this book, we will discover not only
                           the God sings, but that He sings for a reason.  Probably one of the wonderful things about
                heaven will be the singing emanating from all of God’s created beings to worship the Lord, but perhaps
                we will also enjoy hearing God sing to us as a mother sings to her baby.  Something to look forward to!
                Let’s learn about singing in this wonderful book….

                 13.2 Objectives


                        1.  The student should be able to describe the purpose of the writing of Zephaniah.

                        2. The student should be able to state the audience to whom the book was written.


                        3.  The student should be able to answer the key questions presented in the lesson.

                 13.3 The Book of Zephaniah


                       From https://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Zephaniah.html

                       Picture to right:  Jerusalem is destroyed by the Babylonians

                       Author: Zephaniah 1:1 identifies the author of the Book of Zephaniah as the Prophet
                       Zephaniah. The name Zephaniah means "defended by God."

                Date of Writing: The book of Zephaniah was written during the reign of King Josiah, likely in the early
                part of his reign, between 635 and 625 BC.

                Purpose of Writing: Zephaniah's
                message of judgment and
                encouragement contains three major
                doctrines: 1) God is sovereign over all
                nations. 2) The wicked will be punished
                and the righteous will be vindicated on
                the day of judgment. 3) God blesses
                those who repent and trust in Him.

                Key Verses:

                Zephaniah 1:5  “ those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down
                          and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom, ” KJV

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