Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the word of the Lord to Zephania, as we pick up in Zephania chapter 1 verse 1.

And now with today's message here's pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the Book of Zephania?

The opening verse tells us that this is the word of the Lord

which came to Zephania, the son of Kushai, who was the son of Geddeliah, who was the

son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah in the days of Josiah. Now of the minor prophets we really have very little of

their background. For some reason we have more of Zephania's background than any of them.

As he gives his lineage and he takes his lineage actually back to Hezakiah, who was of course one of the great kings of

Judah.

So Zephania was actually of the royal family.

And he prophesied during the reign of Josiah.

And Josiah had a fairly successful reign in Judah, especially from a spiritual standpoint.

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