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Zephania chapter 1 verse 18.

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord.

In the fire of his jealousy all the earth shall be consumed, for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

It's hard to imagine a more sobering, humbling verse than Zeph and I a 118 at the end of a chapter where verse after verse talking about the day of the Lord.

Now whenever we see the day of the Lord in scripture and specifically here in the Old

Testament and Old Testament prophets.

It's directly talking about the day of God's judgment

that's coming upon his people for their sin.

We've seen this in different ways through different prophets with the

Northern Kingdom of Israel. This is relating to the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

God warning his people that because of their sin that he will bring his judgment upon them and we see these warnings for other nations

This is what we see in Nahum for, talking about God's judgment on the people of Nineveh.

And then in a broader way, because we see this all the way through the Bible, all the way to the

end in revelation, when we see the day of the Lord as a

picture of his ultimate judgment in the earth that all of these displays of his judgment at different times in

history will one day culminate in the ultimate day of the Lord when all of these things will happen.

And so now listen to these words, a full and sudden end.

He will make of all the inhabitants of the earth. There's coming a day

when God will fully and finally judge the earth and every inhabitant in it, all the inhabitants of the earth.

And on that day, silver or gold will not be able to deliver anyone. Like money can't save, prosperity in this world can't save.

Nothing in this world will be able to save on the day of the wrath of the Lord. And we know this.

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