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!

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