October 12

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2867S1012.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1231 Download Link --> <p>Zephaniah 1:1-2:3 We are in the Exile Stream reading from the International Standard Version. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Lord, you are never done calling us back to you.  Your love is relentless and greater than we can understand.  Thank you for your love.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <p>Zephaniah was a great mover/shaker in the reformation we read of in II Chron. 34.  People in the western hemisphere more readily call such developments a revival. But Zephaniah was a contemporary of Josiah's reforms. The succession was King Hezekiah (good king), his son Manasseh (wretched king), his grandson Josiah (a good king).  Josiah did great things for God's Name and glory.  It helped slow the tide of the inevitable from Manasseh's 55 years of horrible lust for blood and demonic activity ...activity that he executed WITHIN the city of Jerusalem.  So, at any rate, Josiah is turning things aright again, and Zephaniah is right there with him.  We notice that "The Day of The Lord" is mentioned 10 times in today's reading.  And Zephaniah isn't done using the phrase.  It's sort of a phrase related to ... well, how many of you, when you were being a bit of a rascal, your mother grew exasperated finally to assure you there was trouble at sundown. The phrase she would say was, "wait until your father gets home!"  <em>That</em> was a misbehaving child's version of "The Day of the Lord."  When Zephaniah uses it here however, it had national insinuation, and a historical proportion to it. This "Day of the Lord" changed everything.  It wasn't just a momentary 'heat on the seat' to curb and correct behavior.</p> <div>1 - Zephaniah is verbally letting loose on Judah.  His para