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| '''Coming Judgment on Judah and the Great Day of the Lord'''
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| V2 "I will utterly consume" is translated from the appearance of the word AlefSamechPie repeated twice.<Ref>{{0622}}</Ref>
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| v3 the word for [[stumblingblock]]<Ref name="stumblingblock">{{04384}}</Ref> includes the VavTav<Ref> is וְהַמַּכְשֵׁל֖וֹת  wə-ham-maḵ-šê-lō-wṯ  '''VavHey'''MemKafShinLamed'''VavTav'''</Ref>   suggesting that it separates us from our faith.
Ezekiel describe the ''beast'' of the same letters as the "abominable beasts".
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| The "remnant of [[Baal]]" is like those who follow the error of [[Balaam]] and do the deeds of the [[Nicolaitan]]s by the practices of the Chemarims the ''idolatrous priests''<Ref>{{03649}}</Ref>
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| These PRIESTS are always associated with Baal and [[idolatry]]  along with an abandonment of the humility of Prayer... trading spiritual for emotional or the vanity of intellect.
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| Civil ruler who use the law [[force]] through [[fealty]] and [[contract]] by [[consent]] wear "foreign garments"/"clothed with strange apparel" seen in '''verse 8''' and not wearing the "[[breeches]]" sewn by the people.
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| V1:9 Superstitions of the pagan who may say the believe but clearly are trading ritual for [[righteousness]], [[force]] for [[faith]], and form for [[fruit]]. Their [[false religion]] prays to men who [[exercise authority]] for the [[wages of unrighteousness]] bringing  "violence" in the temple.
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| V7-8 day of the LORD v1:14-18 ... we will see Capt 2:1 the CONSEQUENCES
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| v7 and 3:12  give us the theme about the people "Where they feed righteously and have no shame no fear.
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| [[Legal title]] and why you do not own your house nor [[employ|your does your labor belongs to you]] because of the [[gods]] like [[FDR]] and [[LBJ]]. All this because of the [[covetous practices]] that made you [[merchandise]] and [[curse children|curse your fathers children]]. And part of that curse comes because of their [[golden calf]].
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| V1:12 Defection from belief in judgement v1:12
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| [[Cognitive dissonance]] and denial of God's judgement
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| [[bloody city|Bloody cities]] do not offer the [[righteous]] feasts of the LORD but the [[tables]] of [[iniquity]] and the [[covetous practices]] of the wicked. [[Zephaniah 3]]:1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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| See Also [[Breeches]], [[Fringes]], [[Altars]] etc<Ref>[[2 Peter 2]]:20-22 "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the [[world]] through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. [21]For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. [22]But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in [[the mire]]."
: [[Amos 7]]:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an [[harlot]] in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into [[captivity]] forth of his land.
: [[Acts 15]]:20 "But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."
: [[Habakkuk 2]]:7 "Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?"
: [[Hosea 12]]:7 "He is a [[Merchants of men|merchant]], the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
: [[Revelation 18]]:3 "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the [[wrath]] of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the [[Merchants of men|merchants of the earth]] are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies...."
: [[Matthew 15]]:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."</Ref>
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== Zephaniah Chapter 1 ==

'''The Coming Judgment on Judah'''

1 ¶ The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

2 
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

3 
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

4 
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

5 
And them that [[worship]]<Ref name="hammistaḥawim">'''He yMem'''Shin'''Tav'''Chet'''VavYodMem''' {{07812}}</Ref> the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship<Ref name="hammistaḥawim"></Ref> and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham<Ref name="Malcham">{{04445}}</Ref>;

6 
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.


'''The Day of the Lord Is Nea'''r

7 
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.

8 
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

9 
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

10 
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

11 
Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the [[Merchants of men|merchant people]] are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

12 
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

13 
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

14 
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

15 
That day is a day of [[wrath]], a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

16 
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

17 
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

18 
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S [[wrath]]; but the whole land shall be [[bite|devoured]] by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.