Today’s Bible Translation

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Podcast Introduction

It’s Prophecy Friday, and we’ll read the book of Zephaniah. Three chapters. I’m calling this episode “The Fall of Nineveh.”

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Summary

Zephaniah 1-3 is about Nineveh, a once powerful city that turned away from God. The prophecy predicts its destruction, which later came true. This story reminds us that even great nations can crumble without honoring God.

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Steve Webb 0:00
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Steve Webb 0:02
It’s the Lifespring! One Year Bible coming to you almost live from Riverside, California, podcasting since 2004. My name is Steve Webb and I am your OG Godcaster is prophecy Friday and we’ll read the book of Zephaniah, three chapters. The website is Lifespringmedia.com. and I’ll have contact information at the end of the show. Before we read, let’s pray. Our heavenly Father, Lord, we thank You for Your Word. and we thank you for our time together. We pray, Lord, that You would bless this time, teach us Lord, touch our hearts. I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. All right, are you ready? Let’s begin.

Steve Webb 0:43
Zephaniah, chapter one. This is the message that the Lord gave to Zephaniah. He received this message during the time that Josiah son of Amman was king of Judah. Zephaniah was the son of que Shai, who was the son of get Elia. Get Elia was the son of Amariah, who was the son of Hezekiah. The Lord says, I will destroy everything on Earth, I will destroy all the people in all the animals, I will destroy the birds in the air and the fish in the sea. I will destroy the evil people and everything that makes them sin, I will remove all people from the earth. This is what the Lord said, I will punish Judah and the people living in Jerusalem. I will remove from this place any signs of Baal worship, no one will remember the priests who serve the idols there. and those who go up on their roofs to worship the stars will be forgotten. They worship me the Lord, but they also use the name of the false god Milcom to make promises. They have turned away from me, says the Lord, they have stopped following me. They no longer asked me the Lord for help. Be silent before the Lord God, because the Lord’s day for judging the people is coming soon. The Lord has prepared his sacrifice and he has told his invited guests to get ready. The Lord said, on the Lord’s Day of sacrifice, I will punish the king’s sons and other leaders. I will punish all the people wearing clothes from other countries. At that time, I will punish all the people who jumped over the threshold and those who fill their Masters House with lies and violence. The Lord also said at that time, people will be calling for help at the fish gate in Jerusalem, and morning in the new part of town, they will hear the sound of destruction in the hills around their city. You people living in the lower part of town will cry because all the traders and rich merchants will be destroyed. At that time I will take a lap and search through Jerusalem, I will find all those who are satisfied to live their own way. They say the Lord does nothing he does not help and he does not hurt. I will find them and I will punish them. Then others will take their wealth and destroy their houses. Those who built houses will not live in them. and those who planted vineyards will not drink the wine from the grapes. The Lord’s special day for judging is coming soon. It is near and coming fast. People will hear very sad sounds on the Lord’s special day of judgment. Even strong soldiers will cry. The Lord will show his anger at that time. It will be a time of terrible troubles and a time of destruction. It will be a time of darkness, a black, cloudy and stormy day, it will be like a time of war when people hear horns and trumpets in the defense towers in protected cities. The Lord said, I will make life very hard on the people. They will walk around like the blind who don’t know where they’re going. That will happen because they sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be spilled on the ground. their dead bodies will be like dung on the ground. Their gold and silver will not help them. At that time the Lord will become very upset and angry. The Lord will destroy the whole world. He will completely destroy everyone on Earth.

Steve Webb 3:58
Zephaniah Chapter Two shameless people change your lives before you become like a dry and dying flower. In the heat of the day a flower will wilt and die. You will be like that when the Lord shows his terrible anger. So change your lives before the Lord shows his anger against you. All you humble people come to the Lord, obey His laws. Learn to do good things. Learn and be humble. Maybe then you will be safe when the Lord shows his anger. No one will be left in Gaza. Ashkelon will be destroyed. By noon the people will be forced to leave Ashdod background will be empty. You cretins living by the sea, this message from the Lord is about you. Canaan land of the Philistines you will be destroyed. No one will live there. Your land by the sea will become empty fields for shepherds and their sheep. Then the land will belong to their survivors from Judah. The LORD their God will remember the people from Judah and restore their fortunes. Then they will let their sheep eat the grass in those fields. In the evenings, they will lie down in the empty houses of Ashkelon. The Lord says, I know what the people of Moab and Ammon did. They embarrassed my people. They took their land to make their own countries larger. So as surely as I’m alive, Moab and the people of Amman will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah, I am the Lord all powerful, the God of Israel, and I promised those countries will be completely destroyed forever. Their land will be overgrown with weeds, it will be like the land covered with assault by the Dead Sea. The survivors of My people will take that land and everything left in it. This will happen to the people of Moab and Ammon because they were so proud and cruel and humiliated, the people of the Lord all powerful, they will be afraid of the Lord because He will destroy their gods, then everyone in all the faraway lands will worship the Lord. People of Ethiopia. This even means you, the Lord Sword will kill your people. Then the Lord will turn north and punish a Syria. He will destroy Nineveh. That city will be like an empty dry desert. Only sheep and wild animals will live in those ruins. owls and crows will sit on the columns that are left standing, their calls will be heard coming through the windows crows will sit on the doorsteps, blackbirds will make their homes in those empty houses. Nineveh is so proud now, it is such a happy city, that people think they’re safe. They think Nineveh is the greatest place in the world, but it will be destroyed. It will be an empty place where only wild animals go to rest. People who pass by will whistle and shake their heads when they see how badly the city was destroyed.

Steve Webb 6:37
Zephaniah chapter three, Jerusalem, your people fought against God, they heard other people and you have been stained with s...