OUR LORD DOES WHAT HE SAYS HE WILL DO The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him. –-Zechariah 12:1 …and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever…. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was…

DIAMOND HARD HEARTS OF DESTRUCTIVE! “Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” —Zechariah 7:9-10 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. —Zechariah 7:12             Here is what the right thing to do is from our Lord’s perspective— Render true judgments— Imagine if true and just judgments were taking…

FRUITFULNESS THROUGH LOVING OBEDIENCE Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts. —Zechariah 4:6   And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God. ——Zechariah 6:15             What God says He will do, He will do.  He says to us— “If you love me, keep my commands… Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to…

GOD DOES GET ANGRY… FOR THE RIGHT REASONS… The LORD was very angry with your fathers. —Zechariah 1:2             People typically want to think of the love of God and rightly so.  He is a loving God.  But… He is also a God who can be angry.  This is not a sinful anger like man exhibits so often in perversion.  God’s anger is a righteous anger— angry over the right things at the right time for the right reason.  His anger is against sin and sinful activity.             In Contrast, man’s anger is usually self-centered and not against that which is sinful.  Are there things that should make us angry? …

STIR OUR SPIRITS, OH LORD, TO FINISH YOUR WORK! And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. —Haggai 1:14-15             Oh, how we need our Lord God Almighty to have people that He has “stirred up the spirit of” to do His will.  Oh, may He stir…

THERE WILL BE AN END… AND THEN A FOREVER! Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished. And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true…

WHEN THE FOUNDATONS ARE DESTROYED THE RIGHTEOUS DO WHAT GOD DESIRES! Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted. —Habakkuk 1:3-4             Do not be surprised in this world or in this nation when justice is perverted.  When the wicked surround the righteous, when those who seek to do evil outnumber and hem in those who seek to do right, then what is just will not take place.  We have to remember that…

KNOW THE TRUTH OR BE DELUDED BY THE LIE Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. —Revelation 13:16-18             What are some things we do know at this time from this passage? The 2nd beast” will cause…

SAFE FROM SATANIC FURY’S FINALITY And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.  Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!” —Revelation 12:11-12 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the…

THE COMING JUDGMENT… AND REWARDS! It shall come to pass in the latter days…  they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. —Micah 4:1, 3 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.” —Revelation 18:18             Oh, joy of joys and delights of delights because there is a day coming in the latter days when instead…