Is God engaged in our world? Is He powerful enough to combat the evil of this world? Zephaniah

Zephaniah 1:12
" “It will come about at that time
That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And I will punish the men
Who are stagnant in spirit,
Who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good or evil!’"

Zephaniah is a prophet of the royal family and he has a great view of the leadership of Israel.  A leadership that brought the nation into idolatry rather into the Fear of the The Lord.  As the great-great-great-grandson of King Hezekiah, Zephaniah would have heard the stories of of his grandfather's reforms and loyalty to God's Word.   Yet, he also would have heard of all those kings in between who would have failed to follow God.   This book is about the judgment that must come when we reject God and follow useless idols.   But, Zephaniah wants to stress another abomination toward God. In the above verse, he talks about the philosophy that often shows its head in our society today.   It is a philosophy that portrays God as impotent and disengaged.    There are people who believe God created the heavens and the earth, but, like some science project, just left us to ourselves to see what would happen.  That He is disinterested in us and lacks power to help us.   To them, God is a God powerful enough to create us, but too weak to help us or to disinterested in engaging with us.   That is what the above passage condemns.    Like those in the Book of the Revelation, they are neutral, and God condemns it.

 Revelations 3:16
So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

God is a powerful God who controls the universe and even controls the evil that exists and came from the rebellion of Satan and the choices of Adam and Even in the beginning.   God can and does intervene in history and in the book of Zephaniah we have that stated over and over again.   God will "punish" those who believe He has no power or no interests in their sin and the rejection of Him.   God will show His power and ability to engage ... but not in a favorable way to those who reject Him.   He is the God of the universe and He is engaged and powerful.   He does good and He allows and permits evil to do its thing ... until  He doesn't.