Day Two

[Daniel 2:1-49 ESV] {1} In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. {2} Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. {3} And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” {4} Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” {5} The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. {6} But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.” {7} They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation.” {8} The king answered and said, “I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is firm– {9} if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.” {10} The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can meet the king’s demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean. {11} The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” {12} Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. {13} So the decree went out, and the wise men were about to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them. {14} Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon. {15} He declared to Arioch, the king’s captain, “Why is the decree of the king so urgent?” Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel. {16} And Daniel went in and requested the king to appoint him a time, that he might show the interpretation to the king. {17} Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, {18} and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. {19} Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. {20} Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. {21} He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; {22} he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. {23} To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king’s matter.” {24} Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation.” {25} Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: “I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.” {26} The king declared to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?” {27} Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked, {28} but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these: {29} To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be after this, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be. {30} But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind. {31} “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. {32} The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, {33} its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. {34} As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. {35} Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. {36} “This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation. {37} You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory, {38} and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all–you are the head of gold. {39} Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. {40} And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these. {41} And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay. {42} And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. {43} As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. {44} And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, {45} just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.” {46} Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and paid homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him. {47} The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.” {48} Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. {49} Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king’s court.

[Daniel 7:1-28 ESV] {1} In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. {2} Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. {3} And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. {4} The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. {5} And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ {6} After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it. {7} After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. {8} I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. {9} “As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire. {10} A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened. {11} “I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. {12} As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. {13} “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. {14} And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. {15} “As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me. {16} I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things. {17} ‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth. {18} But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’ {19} “Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet, {20} and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions. {21} As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them, {22} until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. {23} “Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces. {24} As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. {25} He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. {26} But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end. {27} And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’ {28} “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed, but I kept the matter in my heart.”

[Daniel 8:1-8, 20-21 ESV] {1} In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. {2} And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the citadel, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal. {3} I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. {4} I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great. {5} As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. {6} He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath. {7} I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. And the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power. {8} Then the goat became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven. … {20} As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia. {21} And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.

[Daniel 9:1-27 ESV] {1} In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans– {2} in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. {3} Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. {4} I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, {5} we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. {6} We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. {7} To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. {8} To us, O LORD, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. {9} To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him {10} and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. {11} All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him. {12} He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. {13} As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. {14} Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice. {15} And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly. {16} “O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us. {17} Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. {18} O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. {19} O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” {20} While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God, {21} while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. {22} He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding. {23} At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision. {24} “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. {25} Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. {26} And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. {27} And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

[Daniel 11:1-45 ESV] {1} “And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. {2} “And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. {3} Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. {4} And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. {5} “Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority. {6} After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his arm shall not endure, but she shall be given up, and her attendants, he who fathered her, and he who supported her in those times. {7} “And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail. {8} He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north. {9} Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return to his own land. {10} “His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress. {11} Then the king of the south, moved with rage, shall come out and fight against the king of the north. And he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand. {12} And when the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail. {13} For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude, greater than the first. And after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies. {14} “In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail. {15} Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand. {16} But he who comes against him shall do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, with destruction in his hand. {17} He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom, but it shall not stand or be to his advantage. {18} Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many of them, but a commander shall put an end to his insolence. Indeed, he shall turn his insolence back upon him. {19} Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found. {20} “Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle. {21} In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. {22} Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, even the prince of the covenant. {23} And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people. {24} Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers’ fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time. {25} And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him. {26} Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain. {27} And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed. {28} And he shall return to his land with great wealth, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will and return to his own land. {29} “At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before. {30} For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant. {31} Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate. {32} He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. {33} And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder. {34} When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery, {35} and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time. {36} “And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done. {37} He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all. {38} He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. {39} He shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. Those who acknowledge him he shall load with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price. {40} “At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through. {41} He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites. {42} He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. {43} He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train. {44} But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction. {45} And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.

[Luke 19:29-44 ESV] {29} When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, {30} saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. {31} If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.'” {32} So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them. {33} And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” {34} And they said, “The Lord has need of it.” {35} And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. {36} And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road. {37} As he was drawing near–already on the way down the Mount of Olives–the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, {38} saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” {39} And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” {40} He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” {41} And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, {42} saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. {43} For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side {44} and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Day Three

[Deuteronomy 30:1-4 ESV] {1} “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, {2} and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, {3} then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. {4} If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.

[Isaiah 11:11-12 ESV] {11} In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea. {12} He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

[Ezekiel 11:13-21 ESV] {13} And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?” {14} And the word of the LORD came to me: {15} “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from the LORD; to us this land is given for a possession.’ {16} Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.’ {17} Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.’ {18} And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. {19} And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, {20} that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. {21} But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

[Matthew 24:29-31 ESV] {29} “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. {30} Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. {31} And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Day Five

[1 Peter 1:10-12 ESV] {10} Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, {11} inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. {12} It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

[Matthew 27:3-10 ESV] {3} Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, {4} saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” {5} And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. {6} But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” {7} So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers. {8} Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. {9} Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, {10} and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”

[Exodus 21:32 ESV] {32} If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

[Luke 19:11-14, 27 ESV] {11} As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. {12} He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. {13} Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ {14} But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ … {27} But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.'”

[John 19:15 ESV] {15} They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”

[Luke 19:41-44 ESV] {41} And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, {42} saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. {43} For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side {44} and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”