Zep 3:6 | KingComments | STEP | God reminds His people of His dealings with other nations ( ). These are unspecified nations. It is about God’s general judgments on certain nations. Wars of people against people are ultimately God’s way of punishing peoples. Those nations think to do their own will, but in reality God uses them to execute His judgments. His people need to see that, we also need to see that in our time. God allows one people to exterminate the other, to destroy their “corner towers”, to make their “streets” desolate and impassable, to lay waste their “cities” and to completely depopulate them, without a single remaining inhabitant. Jerusalem does not take to heart the example of God’s dealings with the peoples around her ( ). She does not allow herself to be corrected (cf. ) and brought to a fear of the LORD. God uses His Word to instruct ( ). Instruction means bringing the people back on the right path. It is a great grace of God that He wants to do this with His people. But God’s people do not listen and do evil. They are even “eager” to do evil. This is also the case with the masses today.

‏ Zephaniah 3:6

God Points Out His Actions to His People

God reminds His people of His dealings with other nations (Zep 3:6). These are unspecified nations. It is about God’s general judgments on certain nations. Wars of people against people are ultimately God’s way of punishing peoples. Those nations think to do their own will, but in reality God uses them to execute His judgments. His people need to see that, we also need to see that in our time. God allows one people to exterminate the other, to destroy their “corner towers”, to make their “streets” desolate and impassable, to lay waste their “cities” and to completely depopulate them, without a single remaining inhabitant.

Jerusalem does not take to heart the example of God’s dealings with the peoples around her (Zep 3:7). She does not allow herself to be corrected (cf. Zep 3:2) and brought to a fear of the LORD. God uses His Word to instruct (2Tim 3:16). Instruction means bringing the people back on the right path. It is a great grace of God that He wants to do this with His people. But God’s people do not listen and do evil. They are even “eager” to do evil. This is also the case with the masses today.