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Zephaniah INTRODUCTIONZephaniah prophesied during the reign of Josiah of Judah (640-609 B.C.). Distressed by the shallowness of Judah’s response to the godly king’s reformation, Zephaniah announced that sweeping judgment was about to fall on Jerusalem as well as on pagan nations.Zephaniah, the last of the preexilic prophets, summarized much of the judgment and salvation teachingContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

GOD’S PRIZED POSSESSIONMalachi 3–4 ” ’They will be Mine,’ says the LORD Almighty, ’in the day when I make up My treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him” (Mal. 3:17). The little Jewish community in Judea may have strayed from the Lord. But GodContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

Malachi INTRODUCTIONMalachi is the last of the three postexilic prophets. He ministered to descendants of those who returned to Judea from the Babylonian Captivity. When Malachi wrote, priests and people had become lax in their worship at the rebuilt temple, which had been completed in 515 B.C. Through a series of sharp rhetorical questions MalachiContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

THE LOST ARK1 Samuel 4–7 “A god has come into the camp” (1 Sam. 4:7). We should never take the symbols of our faith for the reality. Yet to many, symbols are important. Definition of Key TermsThe ark of the covenant. The ark was the holiest object in Israel’s religion. This box-like, gold-covered object containedContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

SISTERS AND BROTHERSRomans 16 “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea” (Rom. 16:1). Lists of names mean little to us. But each name represents a person who is important to God. OverviewPaul closed with personal greetings to close friends in Rome (16:1–16), with an exhortation (vv. 17–20), andContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”