“I’m going to make a clean sweep of the earth, a thorough housecleaning.” God’s Decree. Zeph 1:2-6

Never Provoke God

“I’m going to make a clean sweep of the earth,

    a thorough housecleaning.” God’s Decree.

“Men and women and animals,

    including birds and fish—

Anything and everything that causes sin—will go,

    but especially people.

4-6 

“I’ll start with Judah

    and everybody who lives in Jerusalem.

I’ll sweep the place clean of every trace

    of the sex-and-religion Baal shrines and their priests.

I’ll get rid of the people who sneak up to their rooftops at night

    to worship the star gods and goddesses;

Also those who continue to worship God

    but cover their bases by worshiping other king-gods as well;

Not to mention those who’ve dumped God altogether,

    no longer giving him a thought or offering a prayer. Zephaniah 1:2-6

The enemy who can not bear the goodness and blessings, God’s people are entitled to enjoy, along with the beautiful earth, that was given to mankind to rule, enjoy and subdue, out of jealousy, attempted for centuries, using non-sensical arguments, in partnership with, so-called scholars, philosophers and rationalists and scientists, and with the support of knowledgeable presbyters, convinced a world of the theory against His account of creation, that came in to existence, out of His extreme expression of unfathomable love, the Most pure form of love that extended to the extreme of the culmination of creating both the first man, and out of his single bone from rib the most beautiful first woman, who in their lust for knowledge and power, were convinced by the enemy, to consume the forbidden fruit, and the willful sin against God’s Word and warning. It must have saddened Him, to sent the first family to be sent away from, the garden that they had privilege, to wander, eat of the best fruits, and many more things and the closest relationship and intimate fellowship, and all they lost with the greatest offense against Him. He is against sin and not against the sinner, for He chooses to give them time, to realize, repent and return back home to Him, for He is the loving father: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Pet 3:9) When mankind chooses and embraces sin over Him constantly and continuously, it hurts Him to that extent He worries to that extent He feels sorry for creating the world, the world He enjoyed creating, along with mankind. Together with the complete union and fellowship of the Word and His Spirit:

 

Gen 6:5-22  Noah and His Sons

5-7 God saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil—evil, evil, evil from morning to night. God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. God said, “I’ll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds—the works. I’m sorry I made them.”

8 But Noah was different. God liked what he saw in Noah.

9-10 This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11-12 As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.

13 God said to Noah, “It’s all over. It’s the end of the human race. The violence is everywhere; I’m making a clean sweep.

14-16 “Build yourself a ship from teakwood. Make rooms in it. Coat it with pitch inside and out. Make it 450 feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof for it and put in a window eighteen inches from the top; put in a door on the side of the ship; and make three decks, lower, middle, and upper.

17 “I’m going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.

18-21 “But I’m going to establish a covenant with you: You’ll board the ship, and your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives will come on board with you. You are also to take two of each living creature, a male and a female, on board the ship, to preserve their lives with you: two of every species of bird, mammal, and reptile—two of everything so as to preserve their lives along with yours. Also get all the food you’ll need and store it up for you and them.”

22 Noah did everything God commanded him to do.

 

The most intelligent species on earth are very fast, forgetting the history of creation, sin, God’s forgiveness, continued sin, and destruction with the flood, and that is why His prophet has to declare the next era of destruction that we may or may not witness, as the time of its fulfillment, may be the time that we are living in, as condition fully applies, as in the time of Noah, almost all sin and sin in abundance without any fear of God, and even barking that there is no God and no possible destruction, and convincing everyone the world is going to last forever. 

Tzefanyah 1:2-3 

2 I will utterly sweep away all things from off the adamah, saith Hashem.

3 I will sweep away Adam (humankind) and Behemah (beast, animal, cattle); I will sweep away Oph HaShomayim (Birds of the Air) and the Dagim of HaYam (Fish of the Sea), and the michsholim (stumbling blocks, what causes to fall into sin) with the resha’im; and I will cut off adam from off the adamah, saith Hashem.

May we, who get this message, have the duty of praying for those whose conversion may change the heart of God, and who knows it may be delayed and we may praise God, along with His most beautiful creation of the world, that need to adore, worship, and bow before Him. 

 

Abba, thank You for being merciful to mankind this long. Let Your Spirit refresh our soul and spirit to fully comprehend Your message of love, and respond to the call of genuine conversion, along with all our brothers and sisters, who are spread across the earth, even if divided between borders, countries, races, and so on, In Jesus’ Most Perfect Name, Amen.