PT-3 The Day of the Lord and the Gentiles from Zeph. 2:12

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/7/2016 10:08 PM

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  PT-3 The Day of the Lord and the Gentiles

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Zephaniah 2:12

            Message of the verses:  “12 "You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword."”

            I suppose that this will be one of the shortest Spiritual Diaries that I have done, but as I follow the outline of Dr. Wiersbe this is where we are at.    

            First let us look at different times we see the word Ethiopian or Cust that are found in the Word of God.  “Ge 10:7 The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. Ge 10:8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.”  It is good to see the first time that a word is used in the Bible and these two verses show us that.  Isa 45:14  Thus says the LORD, "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and will be yours; They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow down to you; They will make supplication to you: ’Surely, God is with you, and there is none else, No other God.’"”  It seems that when the word Cush is used that Egypt is also used in the verses many times, and I suppose for good reason as Cush and Ethiopia are the same country and sometimes interchanged depending which translation one is looking at. 

Now I want to quote from the book of Ezekiel where Ethiopia used “Eze 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet,” and this verse is in the section where Ezekiel is prophesying about a war that will take place in the end times and among the nations that will bring about a collation against Israel is Ethiopia, or Cust.  Now we will look and see what Dr. Wiersbe has to say about this verse from his commentary:  “This nation was located in the upper Nile region.  Some students think the reference includes Egypt, another long time enemy of the Jews.  It was Nebuchadnezzar and the swords of the Babylonian soldiers that conquered this ancient nation (Ezekiel 30:4-5).”  I guess that since it is mentioned in Ezekiel chapter 38 as I have written of that perhaps this can play into the end times judgment that the Lord will have on the Gentile nations.

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