But the recipients of that Promise is not the citizens of existing Jewish State of Israel.
Read
1 John 5:1-5 for a clear explanation of who is a child of God, the Overcomers for Him and the Victorious ones; literally the Israelites of God.
That passage applies to both Jew and Gentile who receive Christ. Zechariah 13:9 says that there will be those among the present state of Israel who will also come to find their victory in Christ as well.
The people who ‘won’t take correction and trust their Creator’, is the Jewish State of Israel.
They will eventually, though many of them will die before repentance comes from those who remain.
Judah has been punished and exiled before; by Babylon and by Rome. But as
Ezekiel 21:14 tells us, there will be a third time.
Consider that that exile by the Babylonians did not take place all at once but in three stages as written in 2 Kings chapters 24-25 and 2 Chronicles chapter 36.
Zephaniah 3:11-13 On that Day, Jerusalem, I shall wipe away your shame for all the transgressions committed in you, for I shall remove all your proud and arrogant citizens, only the humble and peaceful people will remain and those who never practise evil or speak lies, they will settle in the Land and nothing will disturb them.
This is the great Second Exodus of all of God’s people into all of the holy Land. Every faithful Christian: a vast multitude from every tribe, race, nation and language.
Isaiah 66:18-21,
Ezekiel 34:11-31,
Romans 9:24=26,
Revelation 7:9
The passage out of Zephaniah you cited says nothing about a great exodus to any place or from any place but is only about who is left in the land after the judgment is passed, but the other passages you cited to foretell a regathering of the people back to their homeland and with Gentile assistance as pointed out in Isaiah 66:20.
What is also most notable in that chapter is that God will make Himself known among all nations which is consistent with the great commission Christ commanded to be carried out and in verse 21 is that they who are not of the tribe of Levi, will be taken for priests and Levites which is consistent with the priesthood of all believers.
Zephaniah 3:9-10 They will all know a pure language, so everyone will know the true Name of the Lord and will praise Him with one accord. My worshippers, all the righteous people will come from afar to worship the Lord and bring offerings to Him. People from every race, nation and language, all the born again Christian people, will travel there to live, in the new nation of Beulah,
Isaiah 62:1-5, while the rest of the world is ruled by a One World Government.
Daniel 7:23,
Revelation 17:12
I am afraid this One World Government will attempt to destroy this nation of Beulah before it is called Beulah as is made clear by various passages of scripture and it will take the return of Christ to keep that nation from being destroyed.
This chapter of Zephaniah encapsulates the soon to happen end times story.
It tells how Jerusalem is denigrated by its ungodly inhabitants and will rejoice when they are gone. How those enemies of the Lord, the evil neighbors,
Jeremiah 12:14, and all who reject the Salvation of Jesus, will be uprooted and gone, then the holy Land resettled by the Lord’s faithful believers.
Ezekiel 34:11-31 tells it plainly.
Zechariah 13:9 says that a third of the people of Israel will be left in the land and Zechariah 14:2 will not be made empty of all of its inhabitants. But then again, not all of the inhabitants will continue in their ungodliness. Eventually, all the wicked people will be gone from the face of the earth, but Jeremiah 12:14 is a declaration to the enemies of Israel of how God will pluck the people of Israel out from among them.
We Christians are told by Paul in
1 Thessalonians 5:4-5, that we should know God’s plans for what will happen in the near future.
Zephaniah 3 gives it to us, confirmed by the sequence of Revelation chapters 6-7.
What is presented to you in these scriptures, is God’s Promises to His faithful people, His blessings of peace and prosperity, of joy and happiness, of security and long life, as all who love Him and keep the Commandments; will live in His Land.
It is the prophetic parallel of ancient Israel, where Jesus led the people through the desert and how most of them refused to accept the Promise.
1 Corinthians 10:6-13
Ezekiel 20:34-38 tells how, once again, some of His people will revolt and rebel and they will not be allowed to enter the Land of Israel.
1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 is about who we are in Christ, Revelation 6-7 is mostly about the judgments to come upon an evil and unbelieving world, and Zephaniah 3 is about both judgment and restoration. There is both good news and bad news in the passages you cite but unfortunately, judgment is a part of the purification process which leads to the wicked amongst the people of Israel being purged from the nation, which will result in the death of two thirds of the nation.(Zechariah 13:9)
1 Corinthians 10:6-13 was written as a warning to the Church which and increasing number among its members are not heeding.
In today’s situation, we have many who have accepted the Gospel, but who have chosen their own beliefs about what God intends to do for His people and during this forthcoming test,
1 Peter 4:12, they may fail to stand firm in their trust that the Lord will protect them. This won’t lose their salvation, but it will be a serious disadvantage,
1 Corinthians 3:13-15
As the great chapter of
Isaiah 35:1-10, one of the many prophesies that describe the Lord’s faithful Christian people entering the holy Land, says: ...
no one unclean will go there....The Lord’s people, set free: will enter Zion with shouts of triumph.
The cited passages of 1 Peter 4:12 has to do with suffering that pertains to our faith in Christ, 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 is about a fire that determines what rewards a person in Christ will receive at the end of this present age or if they will receive any rewards at all. Isaiah 35:1-10 simply gives us insight into the forthcoming condition of the world when the Lord reigns upon the earth.
