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Malachi 2:10 “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?” Here is a basic truth not easily recognized by mankind. It explains conflicts, cruelty, and genocide in the history of mankind. All…

Malachi Malachi 1:2 “’I have loved you,’ says the LORD. But you say, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?’ declares the LORD. ‘Yet I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of…

Zechariah 14:9 “And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.” Chapter fourteen is all about the coming day of the Lord. Many strange things will happen on that day according to the prophet. This is of…

Zechariah 13:1 “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.” ‘On that day’ is the prophets’ notice of when God would send the Messiah and make things right for his people. We…

Zechariah 12:10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child,…

Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” Everyone who is familiar with the four gospels’ account…

Zechariah 8:16, 17 “These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate,…

Zechariah 7:13 “’As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear’ says the LORD of hosts,” Here is a verse to contemplate carefully. Make no doubt about it, God is calling you. He will continue to call while there is time to respond.…

Zechariah 7:12 “They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.” I remember a preacher years ago who would often interrupt his…

Zechariah 2:10 “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD.” What welcome words these should be to the people exiled away from their home and center of worship. They had felt the absence of God for seventy…