Judgment on Jerusalem Zephaniah 3:1–8
Perhaps no city on earth is more loved than Jerusalem. The psalmist has well written, “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion ... the city of the great King” (Ps. 48:2). God said, “This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her” (Ezek. 5:5). Moses, the great lawgiver, said that when God gave the nations theirGet More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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Add to this the nation’s sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:22-33) and the curse of Matthew 27: 25 and we can see why Jerusalem and the temple was destroyed in 70AD