Zephaniah's Vision of a Reconciliation Community of Peoples

Zephaniah portrays the day of the Lord as a sacrifice by which He satisfies His wrath and gains victory overall. The church today made up of believing Jews and Gentiles in Christ is indeed fulfilling Zephaniah's vision, he says. If the fires of judgment foreseen in Zephaniae 3.8 were bore for the elect by Christ at the cross, then His resurrection marked the initiation of ZephaniaH's vision of new creation.