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Let Him enter! (Sunday IV of Advent)

“…why the Holy One took flesh and walked as a Man among them. And so we celebrate Christmas as everything else at the foot of the Cross. Christmas had to be, so that Good Friday could be.”

Reading through the prophecy of Sophonias (aka. Zefaniah)

At the tail-end of the Hebrew Bible, in the collection of the ‘minor’ prophecies, is the rather short prophecy of Sophonias, the prophet of the Remnant, the royal prophet of the family of David. Sophonias was apparently working in the reign of the good King Josias of Juda and ministering to the southern Judaite kingdom.Continue reading “Reading through the prophecy of Sophonias (aka. Zefaniah)”