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One of the main thrust of the book of Zephaniah is really a robust portrait of the day of the Lord.

The day of the Lord, most simply put, is the day that God comes.

And so if you're really wanting to talk about the coming of the Lord, the hope that all of us

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Welcome to help me Teach the Bible.

I'm Nancy Guthrie.

Help Me Teach the Bible is a production of the gospel coalition, sponsored by Crossway,

a not-for-profit publisher of the ESV Bible, Christian Books and Tracks.

Learn more at crossway.org. I'm in Atlanta today in the office of

William Wood, who's assistant professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary. Will,

thank you for being willing to help us teach the Bible. Hi, Nancy. It's good to be here. Thanks.

Will, you've been here at RTS in Atlanta for a little over a year. Tell us what you were doing before that that led to being here. Well, before that, I guess it was in 2011, moved up to Philadelphia, pursued my MDiv at Westminster Seminary there, and then stuck around to work on the PhD.

Is there a total of eight years and still finishing up the PhD?

You've got to put the period on that dissertation, be done here in a few months.

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