Zephaniah 3:16

"In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not; O Zion let not thy hands be slack."

According to Ironside, these words, "will be their joy and blessing throughout the Millennium."[35] This is profoundly true, of course, provided that the Millennium is understood to be the present period of the Church's sojourn in the wilderness of her probation. The current theories of some kind of a Golden Age called the Millennium to take place after the Second Advent of Christ have no support in the Bible. The expression "a thousand years" is applied in the Book of Revelation to the entire current dispensation of God's love; and the same period is also called "a little time," and "a thousand, two hundred and three score days," and "forty two months," and "time and times and half a time"; and a careful study of Revelation requires all of them to be understood as a reference to the current age of the Church on earth. (See a full discussion in this in my commentary on Revelation, pp. 459-464.)

Both these verses (Zephaniah 3:16,17) are encouragement to the Church. They include admonition against fear, exhortation to diligence in the work of the Lord, and stimulate confidence and a feeling of security in the knowledge of the love and blessing of the Father.