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Zechariah
1
1. In
the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to
Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Zechariah
14
1.
Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your
spoil will be divided in your midst.
2. For
I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be
taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go
into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the
city.
3. Then
the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
4. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in
two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall
move toward the north and half of it toward the south.
5. Then
you shall flee through My mountain valley, for the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake
in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the Lord my
God will come, and all the saints with You.
6. It
shall come to pass in that day that there will be no
light; the lights will diminish.
7. It
shall be one day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night. But at
evening time it shall happen that it will be light.
8. And in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from
Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the
western sea; in both summer and winter it shall occur.
9. And
the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be "the
Lord is one,'' and His name one.
10. All
the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's Gate to
the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel
to the king's winepresses.
11. The
people shall dwell in it; and no longer shall there be utter destruction, but
Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12. And
this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who
fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their
feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall
dissolve in their mouths.
13. It
shall come to pass in that day that a great panic from
the Lord will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, and
raise his hand against his neighbor's hand;
14.
Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the
wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be gathered
together: gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
15.
Such also shall be the plague on the horse and the mule, on the camel
and the donkey, and on all the cattle that will be in those camps. So shall
this plague be.
16. And
it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came
against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord
of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
17. And
it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no
rain.
18. If
the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain;
they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do
not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
19.
This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the
nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20. In
that day "HOLINESS TO THE LORD'' shall be engraved on the bells of the
horses. The pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21.
Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of
hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In
that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of
hosts.
Three score years ago my fore fathers brought me forth to Gettysburg Battlefield (1958 class trip). I can still see the places and hear the sounds of an event that changed history.
About a 3 quarter score before that my father came home from WWII to see me for the first time. Yipes.
About a score after that I experienced JFK’s assassination and was drafted into the US Army (Viet Nam – a computer guy keeping track of those ugly numbers – but I met a lot of real heroes – WWII, Korea, Viet Nam). About 2 score after that we were all impacted by 9/11/2001, and still are…
Many heroes, of all flavors, have sacrificed to give us a restart in the advance of civilization. And of course the reason for these sacrifices was against those of evil intent to enslave us to their dismissal of God’s purposes and commandments.
And of course Jesus the Son of God came about 100 score years ago to ‘rescue’ those who would believe in Him and also give us a commission to ‘subdue the earth’ much like the Creator, Our Father, did about 300 score ago.
Today, we are involved in a great civil war. And as always we have the great task of nobly advancing the unfinished work of God’s Commandments and Commission against those who dismiss that this is one nation, under God, dedicated to the proposition that all mankind is created equal, and responsible to their Creator for their behavior.
“That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Until He has to Return, to settle all accounts.
Heroes of Faith – Hebrews 11
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