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.

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