Zephaniah 2:3

"before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes on you, before the day of the LORD’s anger comes on you."

Key Reflection

This passage from Zephaniah 2:3 warns of an impending judgment where God's wrath will come swiftly and devastatingly, likening the approach of this day to chaff being swept away by the wind. It emphasizes the urgency for people to repent before it is too late, as this appointed time will bring fierce punishment from the Lord.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Seek ye the Lord -He had exhorted sinners to penitence; he now calls the righteous to persevere and increase more and more. He bids them “seek diligently” , and that with a three-fold call, to seek Him from whom they received daily the three-fold blessingNumbers 6:23-26, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as he had just before threatened God’s impending judgment with the same use of the mysterious number, three.

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