As God sends distresses and captivity upon all of Judah, He still grants to the Individuals who stay faithful to Him the ability to bear much fruit.  Paul, hearing of Philemon's love and faith asks that Onesimus, a run away slave he witnessed to be welcomed back as a brother in Christ after coming to faith on the behalf of Paul.

God warned Judah & Jerusalem yet they instead worshipped idols so God pronounces a judgement against them, as He still considers them his beloved.  Put on the new self, with a new heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience as those who are called of Him.

Jeremiah, known as the weeping prophet, continues his lament over Judah and Jerusalem in that if only they would have repented all these things could be avoided.   All the hyper-spiritual people who were outwardly forbidding eating certain foods and touching things made by human hands for self advancement and show are destined to perish.

A continuation of the prophecy of doom Jeremiah pronounced on Judah & Jerusalem for their failing to accept correction by God.  Paul's letter to the Colossians is one of the clearest teachings of the Trinity in all the Bible.

WIth Jerusalem and Judah's godlessness, God calls for their destruction, but not completely as they hardened their hearts against Jeremiah's warning.  Paul arrives in Rome, explains why he's been brought, gives his testimony of faith and spends 2 years in custody freely preaching the Kingdom of God.

The ongoing ministry of Jeremiah is to warn Judah to turn back from sin, using Israel and the mistakes and consequences it's met as an example, yet they do not learn and are taken into captivity in Babylon.

Jeremiah is called as a prophet and given a commission for Judah and Israel.  First he addresses Judah and it's apostasy.  Paul is sent to Rome and is shipwrecked along the way.

The near and far prophecy of Zephaniah is one of hope when Judah is on it's way down into captivity due to their defilement.  A remnant will remain faithful, speaking pure things of The Messiah, Jesus Christ with rejoicing.

God still brings about their downfall as the new kings and peoples hearts didn't turn from their idolatrous ways after Josiah's death resulting in the deportation to Babylon then beginning.  Paul makes his defense before Agrippa, giving his testimony of who he'd been previously and who he had become upon the heavenly visitation he had been charged with, the gospel of Jesus Christ... and on to Rome as God had told him.

The reforms of good King Josiah, regaining control of all the north and south, clearing the entire land of cult places and practices after he read the Word found in the Temple of The Lord.