A Warning:
Gather yourselves together...before the decree is issued...before the Lord's fierce anger comes upon you...!
Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth...seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger.
God promises to judge the nations:
Gaza shall be forsaken, Ashkelon desolate, Ashdod driven out, and Ekron uprooted.
O Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy you; so there shall be no inhabitant...The residue of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.
All the gods of the nations will be reduced to nothing, and people shall worship HIM from those nations. (Obviously, this is not happening today because it is future - the Millennium period.)
Commentary:
It will be a blessing to be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger. As McGee says:
It is a glorious, wonderful thing to be hidden in the cleft of the rock and covered by His wings.
God is going to judge these other nations, not just His own people, Israel.
