Passage of the Day: April 2011

Friday, April 29, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 29, 2011

Ecclesiastes 5:1-3

¹Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil.

²Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.

³For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

“let your words be few”. What an affront to spirituality! Aren’t having long, eloquent prayers a sign of great spirituality? Shouldn’t we be shamed for our short prayers? Shouldn’t we be shamed for spacing out during the magnificent long prayers of others? Or is it that we should be short and to the point? Perhaps a little less talkin’ and a whole lot more listenin’. Perhaps we should even think about what we actually bring up to God in the first place. If, while we pray, we remember the simple fact that our life is all about Him and not all about us, our prayers will be focused more on what God is doing in us and through us and less on what God is doing for us.

Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®,
© Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
Used by permission." (http://www.lockman.org/)

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 28, 2011

Ecclesiastes 4:13-16

¹³A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction.

¹⁴For he has come out of prison to become king, even though he was born poor in his kingdom.

¹⁵I have seen all the living under the sun throng to the side of the second lad who replaces him.

¹⁶There is no end to all the people, to all who were before them, and even the ones who will come later will not be happy with him, for this too is vanity and striving after wind.

Fame, fortune, and power are all fleeting. When your purpose has been served and your skills are decreasing or people develop a distaste or fatigue of you, you will be kicked to the curb. We see it all the time with our politicians and leaders. When you are a public figure, you are at the whim of the fickleness of the masses. What is the point of that?

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 27, 2011

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

⁹Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.

¹⁰For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.

¹¹Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

¹²And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.

We have independent spirits who want to live life on our own terms, unencumbered by the needs and desires of others. However, God has structured our lives, our society, and our very soul to need companionship and interconnectedness. Independence is great until life throws you a curve ball. The problem with independence is that as much as one tries to be in control, he can never even come close to controlling everything. Stuff happens and if you are on an island when it does, you are in serious trouble emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, or socially.

Passage of the Day - April 26, 2011

Ecclesiastes 4:7-8

⁷Then I looked again at vanity under the sun.

⁸There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches and he never asked, "And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of pleasure?" This too is vanity and it is a grievous task.

There is no point to being rich if you can’t enjoy your riches. Being a workaholic has no reward and serves no purpose other than adding stress, subtracting years of life, multiplying disappointments, and dividing families.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 25, 2011

Ecclesiastes 4:5-6

⁵The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

⁶One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.

A man who does not work reaps pointlessness. A man who works his fingers to the bone reaps unhappiness. A man who properly balances usefulness and restfulness reaps fullness of life.

Passage of the Day - April 24, 2011

Ecclesiates 4:4

⁴I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor This too is vanity and striving after wind.

Why do we go to school? Why do we take on that extra assignment? Why do we take certification examinations? To broaden our horizons? To get ahead? To differentiate ourselves from someone else? The problem with the rat race is that nobody ever wins.

Passage of the Day - April 23, 2011

Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

¹Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

²So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

³But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

If we truly look at the plight of the rest of the world we can become so depressed about how bad it is for them and how it is so unfair that we don’t endure the same hardships that wicked guilt and heartache can consume us. The problem is, that this guilt and heartache breeds ingratitude. Ingratitude breeds cold and hard hearts. Cold and hard hearts breed godlessness. Godlessness breeds evil. Evil breeds further oppression. Further oppression breeds further pain and suffering. Therefore, be wary of being consumed by the plight of the world and focus on doing something about it to the glory of God.

Passage of the Day - April 22, 2011

Ecclesiastes 3:16-22

¹⁶Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

¹⁷I said to myself, "God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man," for a time for every matter and for every deed is there.

¹⁸I said to myself concerning the sons of men, "God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts."

¹⁹For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

²⁰All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

²¹Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

²²I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

There are three guarantees in this life, death, taxes, and injustice (I added the last one and it is so appropriate). The sooner we understand that life ain’t fair and we are all gonna die, the better. Nobody is treated justly all the time. I am no exception and you are no exception. We are all going to die. I am no exception and you are no exception. If we focus on dust, our works will end up in dust. However, if we focus on the eternal, our works will end up in the eternal.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 21, 2011

Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

⁹What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?

¹⁰I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

¹¹He has made everything appropriate in its time He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

¹²I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime;

¹³moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor--it is the gift of God.

¹⁴I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him.

¹⁵That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.

It is good to enjoy the good fruits of our good labor. God created us that way. God is glorified by good work and us enjoying and being thankful for the good fruit.

You will note that this passage intertwines our work with God’s work. We are designed to work because we are made in the image of God and God works. We enjoy the fruits of our labor, but do we allow God to enjoy the fruits of His? We are the fruits of His labor. Are we pleasing to Him, or are we moldy and rotten?

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 20, 2011

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

¹There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven--
    ²A time to give birth and a time to die;
         A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
    ³A time to kill and a time to heal;
         A time to tear down and a time to build up.
    ⁴A time to weep and a time to laugh;
         A time to mourn and a time to dance.
    ⁵A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;
         A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
    ⁶A time to search and a time to give up as lost;
         A time to keep and a time to throw away.
    ⁷A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
         A time to be silent and a time to speak.
    ⁸A time to love and a time to hate;
         A time for war and a time for peace.

Balance and doing the right things and having the right attitudes at the right times are the keys to a happy and effective life, but are extremely difficult to navigate. Many of us lean too far in one direction and we do one when we should do the other. We argue so much over what to do when because we refuse to accept that it might ever be time for the opposite. For example, many people may think it is always the right thing to do to sew together and try to restore relationships, but in reality at times it is necessary to tear the relationship apart and move on. Other people may cut off relationships way too quickly, not making the effort at restoration. There are times where we hold onto tradition to a fault. There are times where we throw away the grand traditions for the sake of something new for the wrong reasons. Let us all take stock of this passage and keep it in mind when we find ourselves in our next argument. It is possible we may not be right.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 19, 2011

Ecclesiastes 2:8-26

¹⁸Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

¹⁹And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun This too is vanity.

²⁰Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

²¹When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge and skill, then he gives his legacy to one who has not labored with them. This too is vanity and a great evil.

²²For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

²³Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity.

²⁴There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

²⁵For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?

²⁶For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God's sight This too is vanity and striving after wind.

Here, we are beginning to see the whole point of life. God is the whole point of life. No matter how much pleasure we seek, how wise we are, or how hard we work, it is all pointless if we aren’t pleasing God. We can never be happy without God.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 18, 2011

Ecclesiastes 2:12-17

¹²So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done?

¹³And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

¹⁴The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

¹⁵Then I said to myself, "As is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me Why then have I been extremely wise?" So I said to myself, "This too is vanity."

¹⁶For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten And how the wise man and the fool alike die!

¹⁷So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

What is the point? We are all going to die anyway? No matter how smart or how wise we are, only a minuscule portion of our life will ever be remembered even amongst the greatest of us. How much do we really know about Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Shakespere, Moses, or even Jesus? What kind of lasting impact can we really have? Even if we will be remembered for much, what good is that at the end of days? Eternally, what good is wisdom, in of itself?

Passage of the Day - April 17, 2011

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11

¹I said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself." And behold, it too was futility.

²I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of pleasure, "What does it accomplish?"

³I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.

⁴I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;

⁵I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

⁶I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees.

⁷I bought male and female slaves and I had homeborn slaves Also I possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem.

⁸Also, I collected for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces I provided for myself male and female singers and the pleasures of men--many concubines.

⁹Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.

¹⁰All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.

¹¹Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

What if we got everything we ever wanted? What if we chose not to neglect ourselves anything? What would we be missing? We make so many choices and sacrifices to be able to enjoy the pleasurable things of life, so what would be so bad about having it all all the time?

It’s all fun and games until somebody gets bored. As the wise Dean Vernon Wormor once told a similarly deceived Kent Dorfman:

No I don't endorse this movie, but it is a classic line.

Passage of the Day - April 16, 2011

Ecclesiastes 1:12-18

¹²I, the Preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

¹³And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

¹⁴I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind.

¹⁵What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.

¹⁶I said to myself, "Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge."

¹⁷And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind.

¹⁸Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.

The more we understand about how the world and everything else works, the more we realize how powerless we are to change any of it. The problems that plague this world are nothing new and no matter how hard we try, we can never get rid of them. The additional problem is the more we investigate, the more prevelant we realize the problems are. Talk about disheartening. We have had poverty and hunger drilled into our heads since we were little, but the offshoots of these predicaments we aren’t as exposed to. For example, when we take a closer look we will discover the spread of AIDS in poorer countries for multiple reasons including sex trading, sex abuse, and rape. All of this disgusting behavior is disheartening and you can make yourself go mad trying to make sense of it all.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 15, 2011

Ecclesiasts 1:8-11

⁸All things are wearisome;
         Man is not able to tell it.
         The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
         Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
    ⁹That which has been is that which will be,
         And that which has been done is that which will be done.
         So there is nothing new under the sun.
    ¹⁰Is there anything of which one might say,
         "See this, it is new"?
         Already it has existed for ages
         Which were before us.
    ¹¹There is no remembrance of earlier things;
         And also of the later things which will occur,
         There will be for them no remembrance
         Among those who will come later still.

We have been hammering on the fact that there are no truly new things. Do you agree or disagree? If disagree, can you provide some examples we can discuss?

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 14, 2011

Ecclesiastes 1:5-7

⁵Also, the sun rises and the sun sets;
         And hastening to its place it rises there again.
    ⁶Blowing toward the south,
         Then turning toward the north,
         The wind continues swirling along;
         And on its circular courses the wind returns.
    ⁷All the rivers flow into the sea,
         Yet the sea is not full.
         To the place where the rivers flow,
         There they flow again.

No matter what happens, the sun will come up tomorrow. No matter how much we think we can control things, we will never be able to control the weather. God has created this Earth with a perfect balance to maintain cycles that remain for our survival. Nothing about these cycles changes. There is no great work we can perform or destructive disaster we can create that will thwart the cycles of life God has put in place. Therefore, what kind of lasting impact can we really make? Are we too focused on our legacy, because, in the end, it doesn’t really matter.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 13, 2011

Ecclesiastes 1:4

⁴A generation goes and a generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.

As different and as great as we may think we are, we are no more profound on the questions of life than any other generation of mankind.

As evil as we think this generation is, we are no more evil than any other generation of mankind, either.

It is unwise to take pride in being a part of "this generation" because it too will pass and will be lumped in with all the other generations.

Ponder on that.

Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®,
© Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
Used by permission." (http://www.lockman.org/)

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 12, 2011

Ecclesiastes 1:3

³What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?

What is the point of work? We have jobs we go to. Yes, we make money to put food on the table, but is that all there is to it? It gives us purpose perhaps? Does it really? Is our work that which defines us? If we can survive without working, what is the point of working? What do we really gain by working?

Feel free to comment and discuss. I would like Ecclesiastes to be a more interactive study.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 11, 2011

Ecclesiastes 1:1-2

¹The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
²"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher,
"Vanity of vanities! All is vanity."

If you haven’t studied Ecclesiastes before, get ready for a Christian philosophical ride! The writer is on a quest. He is on a quest for purpose, a reason to live, a reason to do anything. Nothing seems to be all that important or new. Nothing is special. A spirit of depression or disillusionment with life is gripping the writer. We have been there and can relate. I invite you to a great journey to discover what has meaning and what does not. I invite you to Ecclesiastes!

Passage of the Day - April 10, 2011

Zechariah 14:12-21

¹²Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

¹³It will come about in that day that a great panic from the LORD will fall on them; and they will seize one another's hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another.

¹⁴Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.

¹⁵So also like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

¹⁶Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

¹⁷And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.

¹⁸If the family of

Egypt

does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the LORD smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

¹⁹This will be the punishment of

Egypt

, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO THE LORD " And the cooking pots in the LORD'S house will be like the bowls before the altar.

²¹Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts in that day.

Two long enemies, Egypt and the Canaanites, along with the general enemy of Israel (all other nations) are all mentioned here. However, only one will never be in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day. The problem with the Canaanites is that they weren’t just an enemy like Egypt or Assyria; they were a people group that was to be completely eradicated when the Israelites took the land. The reason this is important is to show that there will no longer be defilement in Christ’s Church when He returns. No more corruption. No more drama, affairs, abuse, or the like. We will no longer have to apologize for the zillions of things wrong with the Church. It will be made the holy, spotless, pure Bride of Christ it was always meant to be.

Passage of the Day - April 9, 2011

Zechariah 14:1-11

¹Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.

²For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

³Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.

⁴In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.

⁵You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!

⁶In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle.

⁷For it will be a unique day which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.

⁸And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

⁹And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one.

¹⁰All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin's Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's wine presses.

¹¹People will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security.

Think of that glorious day! Think, reflect, and meditate on the return of Jesus. No more battle of philosophies. No more persecution. No more coexist bumpers stickers or walking fish evolve decals. No more anti-religion or anti-Christian rules. The first amendment to the constitution being properly interpreted and abolished due to a lack of a point. In other words, no more of the stupid silly squabbles we get into.

Instead, power, majesty, confidence, love, victory, and closeness to God will be the soup de jour that day!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Passage of the Day - April 8, 2011

Zechariah 13

¹"In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

²"It will come about in that day," declares the LORD of hosts, "that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

³"And if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD'; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

⁴"Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;

⁵but he will say, 'I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.'

⁶"And one will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will say, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
    ⁷"Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
         And against the man, My Associate,"
         Declares the LORD of hosts
         "Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
         And I will turn My hand against the little ones.
    ⁸"It will come about in all the land,"
         Declares the LORD,
         "That two parts in it will be cut off and perish;
         But the third will be left in it.
    ⁹"And I will bring the third part through the fire,
         Refine them as silver is refined,
         And test them as gold is tested
         They will call on My name,
         And I will answer them;
         I will say, 'They are My people,'
         And they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

Matthew Henry, again, puts it much more eloquently than I could. He is dead on with his interpretation of this one (in my humble like Moses opinion)

http://www.christnotes.org/commentary.php?b=38&c=13&com=mhc

Passage of the Day - April 7, 2011

Zechariah 12:4-14

⁴"In that day," declares the LORD, "I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

⁵"Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, 'A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the LORD of hosts, their God.'

⁶"In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while the ^(J)inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.

⁷"The LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah.

⁸"In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them.

⁹"And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰"I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one ^(T)mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

¹¹"In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

¹²"The land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves;

¹³the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves;

¹⁴all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves.

What a glorious day it will be when every enemy of God's people is vanquished by God Himself and the Jews are drawn to Christ as their King and mighty God.