Zephaniah 2:1-3

Repent before it is too late -- Zephaniah 2:1-3: God's people had become a disgraceful nation. God called upon them to gather around and focus their attention on correcting those things wherein they had failed in their relationship with Him. The gathering together was to be a time of mourning and repentance. Zephaniah called upon them to repent and correct their evils before it was too late. If they failed to repent the Lord had set a time when His furious wrath would be poured out and they would be swept away. The prophets announced the doom that would happen if the people did not repent. He urged them not to just allow the day to pass as chaff and there be no repentance. We must never neglect, even for a day, getting right with God and staying right with Him. God says, "Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6:2) The Devil says, "there is no hurry, get right later." The message of the prophet was, "Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger." (Zephaniah 2:3)