“Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around, and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples, all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.” (Zachariah 12:2-3).
Hey gang: Notice how Zechariah begins this chapter, “The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.” In other words what I am about to relay to you from the throne room of heaven can be taken to the bank ! “Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundations of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.”
In Paul’s second letter to his adopted spiritual son, Timothy, he sends out a very clear warning to God’s children “that in the last day difficult times will come,”
The writer of Hebrews added some meat to that statement when he wrote ,“take heed, everything that can be shaken will be shaken”. James expands on this even further “Consider it all joy when you are being shaken for it makes you tough as nails and produces endurance – that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
And the Psalmist wraps it up with a bow on it, “The Lord is your keeper; The Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time, forever and ever”. That from the mouth of the One who neither slumbers nor sleeps.
Blessings
Gramps
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