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"ON THE DAY OF THE LORD'S SACRIFICE".
(Zephaniah 1:8 NEB).

"Silence before the Lord God! for the day of the Lord is near. The Lord has prepared a sacrifice and has hallowed His guests. On the day of the Lord's sacrifice I will punish the royal house and its chief officers and all who ape outlandish fashions. On that day I will punish all who dance on the temple terrace, who fill their master's house with crimes of violence and fraud." (Zeph 1:7-9 NEB).

ROYAL INTEGRATIONISTS WHO UNRIGHTEOUSLY
SEGREGATE THEMSELVES FROM OTHER NATIONS.
These segregators use "outlandish fashions" to integrate with fellow officers, but also use such external means of identification and self-established authority to segregate out all others dividing themselves off from other nations. This is the means by which they reinforce ethnic differences (rivalry) and authority among their people.

The "royal house" described in the scripture is that of King David, from whom natural born Jews trace their descent. On the imminent day of the Lord's sacrifice God will punish all those among them, or allied to them, exercising authority over people by the use of outlandish garb, by violence (military force), by ethnic segregation, or by commercial usury and fraud. (e.g.) In contravention of the law of God, many Jews running financial institutions, banks and businesses practice usury (lending with interest). (See: Ezek 18:5-9 NEB).

THEIR "VIOLENCE AND FRAUD". (Zeph 1:9).
They manifest their "violence and fraud" in a variety of ways, but mainly through the adoption of oppressive financial and commercial schemes for "driving others to work" (Isaiah 14:4) (See Pages: 31/12/84A, 31/12/84B, 31/12/84C); manipulating financial and business transactions within demoncracies to gain unjust advantage over the people.

"For all the traders are undone, the merchants are wiped out. For I am searching Jerusalem with a lamp, to punish careless men, living at ease, who think the Eternal never does anything so their goods shall be plundered, their houses laid in ruins [[they shall not live in the houses they build, nor drink wine from the vineyards they plant]]." (Zeph 1:11-13 Moffatt).

(Cont. on Page 14/1/85B).

14/1/85A.