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Brand New! - Check out our new mini-site Introduction to Inductive Bible Study
by Joseph Short and Jim Flohr Responsibility: An outdated concept? by Joseph Short August 1, 2001
The Day of the LORD in View of Zephaniah's Prophecy
by Joseph Short October 18, 2002
by Joseph Short October 18, 2002
There's Something about Hypocrisy
by Joseph Short October 18, 2002
Priests Prone to Partiality are to Receive Recompense
by Joseph Short October 18, 2002
Lack of Proper Priorities Leads to Carnal Compromises (Haggai 1)
by Joseph Short October 16, 2002
Calvinism or Arminianism--"And that not of yourselves" Ephesians 2:8 and Salvation
by Joseph Short October 15, 2002
The Image of God (Genesis 1, 5, 9)
by Joseph Short October 15, 2002
The First Promise Keeper (Joshua 14)
by Joseph Short July 5, 2001
Jephthah's Final Answer (Judges 11)
by Joseph Short July 5, 2001
by Joseph Short July 5, 2001
Charles L. Feinberg's The Minor Prophets
by Joseph Short October 16, 2002
James A Borland's Christ in the Old Testament
by Joseph Short August 1, 2001
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The primary
purpose of this e-zine is to examine some of the greatest deceptions that
exist in politics, advertising Newest Study The Day of the LORD in View of Zephaniah's Prophecy
People today are crazy about prophecy. The Left Behind Books, The Tim LaHaye School of Prophecy, and the proliferation of prophecy study Bibles of shelves today are indicative of this. Some would allege that the interest is ebbing away the more time passes since the beginning of the new millennium. However, much interest still remains.
It is this
interest in part that motivates this paper. People want to know the
major events of the future because they want to know where they are
going. They want to know how it will all end. One major event of
prophecy is the period of time known as the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord is a central theme running through the Minor Prophets. This is not surprising since the very nature of prophecy is to reveal some fact about the future. Ten of the twelve Minor Prophets make some reference to the day of the Lord (Jonah and Nahum do not). Some books like Obadiah make only one reference (1:15) while others seem to focus on it almost exclusively (Zephaniah and Joel).
This paper will attempt to determine the proper interpretation of the day of the Lord as based on occurrences of the phrase in the Minor Prophets. Since there are around eighty occurrences of the phrase in those twelve books, one book will be chosen as representative of the Prophets.
The book
chosen will be Zephaniah, one of the two books (the other being Joel)
that are so concerned with the topic that scholar Dr. Charles Feinberg
gave it the surname “The Day of the Lord.”
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