it had been for some while. This allowed some 338,226 of our troops to escape from Dunkirk and the surrounding areas. Christian people hailed this as the hand of God working to protect Britain from invasion by the enemies of civilization. The armies of Assyria had come very near to Jerusalem, but God had turned them back. Later, when the Babylonians arrived in 586 BC, they took away the best among the Judeans; but even though this was going to happen in the future, Zephaniah wanted the people to