This book is one of the least known in the whole Bible, I think. Most people can’t remember anything about him. I think, however, that if I was teaching a class on the prophets, I might start with Zephaniah. The reason is that he’s a very normal prophet but he is short. So by studying this book, you learn a lot about the main emphases of a prophet. One special emphasis of Zephaniah is on the Day of the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe time in the future when God will judge his enemies and save his chosen ones.<\/p>\n
[There’s a course at a nearby school where the book they choose to introduce students to the prophets is Jonah. That’s wrong in so many ways.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This book is one of the least known in the whole Bible, I think. Most people can’t remember anything about him. I think, however, that if I was teaching a class on the prophets, I might start with Zephaniah. The reason is that he’s a very normal prophet but he is short. So by studying\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading-guide","category-prophets-besides-isaiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}