As part of the lead up to Advent readings, we're reading the final prophets before God speaking to Israel appears to have gone dark for several hundred years. We are now in the next to the last prophet before Jesus' birth, Zechariah. The Book of Zechariah was written between 520 and 480 BC.
Check out the video below. Today's readings are part of the video section from mark 6:50 through to the end.
The Lord’s Triumph and Reign
14:1 Look, a day belonging to the Lord is coming when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your presence. 2 I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
14:1 Look, a day belonging to the Lord is coming when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your presence. 2 I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
3 Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as he fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south. 5 You will flee by my mountain valley, [Some Hb mss, LXX, Sym, Tg read The valley of my mountains will be blocked] for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled [LXX reads It will be blocked as it was blocked] from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with him. [Some Hb mss, LXX, Vg, Tg, Syr; other Hb mss read you]
6 On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight will diminish. [LXX, Sym, Syr, Tg, Vg read no light or cold or ice] [Lit no light; the precious ones will congeal] 7 It will be a unique day known only to the Lord, without day or night, but there will be light at evening.
8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea [= the Dead Sea] and the other half toward the western sea, [= the Mediterranean Sea] in summer and winter alike. 9 On that day the Lord will become King over the whole earth—the Lord alone, and his name alone. 10 All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be changed into a plain. But Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain [Or will be inhabited] on its site from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the First Gate, [Or the former gate] to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. 11 People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.
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