There's a strange Scripture in Zephaniah that perplexes the Western mind but it shouldn't. Take a look at it:
"Then it will come about on the day of the Lord’s sacrifice That I will punish the princes, the king’s sons And all who clothe themselves with foreign garments." There is, as always in the Bible, a biblical context and a cultural context to the verse.
The biblicat context is that the Southern Kingdom of Israel has, by choice, allowed spiritual rot metastasize through every level of their society. The prophet is enumerating the corruption of the nation and he's come to the royal court charging them with practicing Baal rituals and worship, along with the infiltration of the idols of MolUck. These are foreign gods imported into Israel by Jezebel and her ilk. One of the acts of ritual and worship of this god was human sacrifice including children.
In a word picture, the prophet displays the Southern Kingdom as a "sacrifice" prepared by God for the "guests" (the Babylonians) to eat. Then the prophet tells the princes that they will be punished for wearing "foreign garmets." That sounds odd; why punish them for their choice of robes?
There is an excellent reason; their choice of wardrobe is making a statement of their values. Their robes were what the Babylonian or Egyptian royaly wore. By choosing that clothing, they were making a sartorial statement that they were adopting the values of the Babylonian or Egyptian culure. But is that so odd?
No, not really. Take a look at the recent mobs of Jew haters on university campuses and what do you see? The same thing as in the Southern Kingdom of Israel. The destructive and disruptive mobs choose to wear the keffiyeh to show solidarity with the Oct. 7th terrotists. Their clothing is a statement of rejecting America's founding upon Christian values and showing their loyalty to the values of viscious Jew hating terrorists.
These will be the bankers, lawyers, judges, senators, reprsentatives, teachers, professors, and college presidents for decades to come. As Lincoln said, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Get ready, they're on the way!
