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Pamphlet 1717 Zephaniah kc 6-3
Assyria, the type of Babylon the great of these end times, shall be utterly destroyed when "He stretches out His hand"!
Assyria, the type of Babylon the great of these end times, shall be utterly destroyed when "He stretches out His hand"!
Our Father is not "mean spirited" but rather completely fair and just seeing to it that everyone reaps what they have sown, i.e. that they all get exactly what is coming to them!Zeph 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
[10] This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
What a great day that will be! It is written that every knee shall bow to the King of kings and Lord of lords! All the gods of gold and silver and power and pride, i.e. ALL idols shall be destroyed, kaput, gone![11] The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
His sword is His Word (Rev. 1:16), His Truth, His Fire, which shall ALSO slay ALL idolaters of whom Cushi (meaning "blackness", like those dressed in black robes) is put forth as a type![12] Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Assyria, the type of Babylon the great of these end times, shall be utterly destroyed when "He stretches out His hand"! Woe! "Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen! (Rev. 18:2). Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, also a type of that great city Babylon, that harlot with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, shall be dried up and blown away in the wind of His fury! Rev. 18:21 "...Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all."[13] And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
In other words, as the last two verses in this chapter explain, the whole filthy corrupt One World System, the New World Order, is coming down and it shall be replaced with the Kingdom of Righteousness!
Do not make this difficult to understand. God is going lay bare, make desolate, Babylon the Great and the "upper lintels" and "windows" of her temples and palaces shall become resting places. To "uncover the cedar work" is another figure of speech meaning to "expose" it all, i.e. to the weather.[14] And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
That great city, that great harlot who thought she was the "cat's meow" and who sat married to the false messiah SHALL become a DESOLATION, a resting place from henceforth! We can read the same account in the Book of Revelation concerning the great whore, the woman, which is that great city, even Jerusalem.[15] This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
As Zephaniah said, she rejoiced and lived carelessly (meaning securely) and considered herself to be the "I AM", a great Queen in need of no one, a Queen who shall see no "sorrow"!Rev. 17:18
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Sorry Queenie! Boy are you going to get it!Rev. 18:7
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Strong is the Lord God! That is an understatement if ever there was one! There is no power in heaven or on earth that withstand Him who has ALL POWER! Col. 1:16-17 "For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: [17] And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist."[8]Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
POOF![9]And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Get your act together! The hour is coming![10] Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
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