{"id":2270,"date":"2011-06-28T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:31","slug":"zephaniahs-name-recipient-and-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"Zephaniah&#8217;s Name, Recipient, And Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Zephaniah 1:1 <strong><em>an introductory remark\u00a0from this b<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><strong><em>ook<\/em><\/strong>. May we see today <strong><em>Zephaniah&#8217;s name, recipient, and the theme of this book.<\/em><\/strong> The prophets name means\u00a0<strong><em>Jehovah hides\u00a0or Jehovah protects.<\/em><\/strong> The theme is <strong><em>the day of the Lord<\/em><\/strong>. This depicts a time when God will judge the nations. It will certainly be a time when we need to be hidden\u00a0in the Lord. The recipient of this book was\u00a0 Josiah king of Judah. This was the last of the righteous kings. He led this people during\u00a0his time into a national revival when he found the word of God in the Temple. He lifted up the word before his people. He was killed in a battle against the king of Egypt. He went down in history as a righteous king\u00a0who brought\u00a0revival.\u00a0Oh may\u00a0God raise up such political leaders in our day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Zephaniah 1:1 an introductory remark\u00a0from this book. May we see today Zephaniah&#8217;s name, recipient, and the theme of this book. The prophets name means\u00a0Jehovah hides\u00a0or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}