Zephaniah 2 - Seek God

 
 

The Lord says (by the prophet):

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Seek God, all you quietly disciplined people
    who live by God’s justice.
Seek God’s right ways. Seek a quiet and disciplined life.
    Perhaps you’ll be hidden on the Day of God’s anger.

This message is addressed to the saved people, the "quietly disicplined people who live by God's justice". It is very interesting the word "perhaps". Seek God's right ways and perphaps you will escape the ander of God. The Lord wants that his people seek for him.

In Zephaniah's days Assyria is the great nation, but he says


11-12 God will be seen as truly terrible—a Holy Terror.
    All earth-made gods will shrivel up and blow away;
And everyone, wherever they are, far or near,
    will fall to the ground and worship him.
Also you Ethiopians,
    you, too, will die—I’ll see to it.”


The Lord will destroy all earth-made gods. The land belongs the chosen people of the Lord.