Zechariah

Zechariah Cross References

• Lesson 1

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• Lesson 2

  Day One

  [Amos 3:7 ESV] {7} “For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

  [Jeremiah 1:12 ESV] {12} Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”

  Day Two

  [Haggai 1:1-15 ESV] {1} In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: {2} “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.” {3} Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, {4} “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? {5} Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. {6} You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. {7} “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. {8} Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD. {9} You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. {10} Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. {11} And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.” {12} Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD. {13} Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD’s message, “I am with you, declares the LORD.” {14} 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, {15} on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

  [Haggai 2:1 ESV] {1} In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:

  [Haggai 2:10 ESV] {10} On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,

  [Haggai 2:20 ESV] {20} The word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,

  [2 Chronicles 36:11-21 ESV] {11} Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. {12} He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD. {13} He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel. {14} All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem. {15} The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. {16} But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy. {17} Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand. {18} And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. {19} And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. {20} He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, {21} to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

  [2 Chronicles 36:22-23 ESV] {22} Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: {23} “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.’”

  [Ezra 3:8-10 ESV] {8} Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD. {9} And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers. {10} And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

  [Ezra 4:24 ESV] {24} Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

  [Ezra 5:1-2 ESV] {1} Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. {2} Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.

  [Ezra 6:15-16 ESV] {15} and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. {16} And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

  Day Three

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  Day Four

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  Day Five

  [Daniel 11:32 ESV] {32} He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

• Lesson 3

  Day One

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  Day Two

  [Job 1:6-12 ESV] {6} Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. {7} The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” {8} And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” {9} Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? {10} Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. {11} But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” {12} And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

  [Revelation 12:10 ESV] {10} And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

  [Exodus 28:3-4, 36-38 ESV] {3} You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. {4} These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. … {36} “You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the LORD.’ {37} And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban. {38} It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

  [Exodus 19:6 ESV] {6} and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

  [2 Chronicles 29:3-11 ESV] {3} In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them. {4} He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east {5} and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. {6} For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs. {7} They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel. {8} Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes. {9} For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. {10} Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us. {11} My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”

  [Isaiah 64:5-9 ESV] {5} You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved? {6} We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. {7} There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities. {8} But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. {9} Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.

  [Isaiah 11:1-10 ESV] {1} There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. {2} And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. {3} And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, {4} but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. {5} Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. {6} The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. {7} The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. {8} The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. {9} They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. {10} In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

  [Jeremiah 23:5-6 ESV] {5} “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. {6} In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’

  [Isaiah 28:16 ESV] {16} therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’

  [1 Peter 2:4-8 ESV] {4} As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, {5} you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. {6} For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” {7} So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” {8} and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

  [2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV] {9} For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

  [Revelation 5:6 ESV] {6} And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

  [Micah 4:1-8 ESV] {1} It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, {2} and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. {3} He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and 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; {4} but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken. {5} For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. {6} In that day, declares the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted; {7} and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore. {8} And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

  Day Three

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  Day Four

  [Ezra 2:1-2 ESV] {1} Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. {2} They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

  [Ezra 3:1-5 ESV] {1} When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. {2} Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. {3} They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening. {4} And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required, {5} and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.

  [Ezra 5:1-2 ESV] {1} Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. {2} Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.

  [Haggai 2:1-5 ESV] {1} In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: {2} “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, {3} ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? {4} Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts, {5} according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.

  [Haggai 2:20-23 ESV] {20} The word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, {21} “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth, {22} and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother. {23} On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts.”

  [Matthew 1:1, 6-12, 17 ESV] {1} The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. … {6} and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, {7} and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, {8} and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, {9} and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, {10} and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, {11} and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. {12} And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, … {17} So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

  [2 Samuel 7:8-16 ESV] {8} Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. {9} And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. {10} And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, {11} from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house. {12} When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. {13} He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. {14} I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, {15} but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. {16} And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”

  Day Five

  [Matthew 25:31 ESV] {31} “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

  [John 14:1-3, 16-17 ESV] {1} “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. {2} In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? {3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. … {16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, {17} even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

  [Acts 1:6-8 ESV] {6} So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” {7} He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. {8} But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

  [Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV] {13} In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, {14} who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

  [1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV] {19} Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, {20} for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

• Lesson 4

  Day One

  [Ephesians 4:28-29 ESV] {28} Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. {29} Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

  Day Two

  [Ephesians 4:28-29 ESV] {28} Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. {29} Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

  [Genesis 9:18, 20-25 ESV] {18} The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) … {20} Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. {21} He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. {22} And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. {23} Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. {24} When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, {25} he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

  [Genesis 10:6, 8-10 ESV] {6} The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. … {8} Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. {9} He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.” {10} The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

  [Genesis 11:1-9 ESV] {1} Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. {2} And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. {3} And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. {4} Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” {5} And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. {6} And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. {7} Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” {8} So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. {9} Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

  [Isaiah 13:1-22 ESV] {1} The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. {2} On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles. {3} I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones. {4} The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle. {5} They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. {6} Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! {7} Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt. {8} They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame. {9} Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. {10} For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. {11} I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless. {12} I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. {13} Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger. {14} And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land. {15} Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. {16} Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished. {17} Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold. {18} Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children. {19} And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. {20} It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there. {21} But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance. {22} Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.

  [Revelation 17:1-7, 18 ESV] {1} Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, {2} with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” {3} And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. {4} The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. {5} And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” {6} And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly. {7} But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. … {18} And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”

  [Revelation 18:1-5, 8-10 ESV] {1} After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. {2} And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. {3} For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.” {4} Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; {5} for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. … {8} For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.” {9} And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. {10} They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

  [Revelation 18:20-24 ESV] {20} Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!” {21} Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more; {22} and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more, {23} and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery. {24} And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth.”

  [Revelation 19:1-3 ESV] {1} After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, {2} for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.” {3} Once more they cried out, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”

  [Zechariah 2:6-7 ESV] {6} Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD. {7} Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

  Day Three

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  Day Four and Five

  [Joel 3:1-2, 12-14 ESV] {1} “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, {2} I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, … {12} Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. {13} Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great. {14} Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

  [Psalm 110:1-4 ESV] {1} A Psalm of David. The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” {2} The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! {3} Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. {4} The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”

  [Hebrews 4:14-16 ESV] {14} Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. {15} For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. {16} Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

  [Hebrews 5:5-10 ESV] {5} So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”; {6} as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.” {7} In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. {8} Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. {9} And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, {10} being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

  [Hebrews 7:23-28 ESV] {23} The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, {24} but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. {25} Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. {26} For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. {27} He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. {28} For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

  [Revelation 19:9-16 ESV] {9} And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.” {10} Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. {11} Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. {12} His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. {13} He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. {14} And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. {15} From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. {16} On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

  [Romans 2:4 ESV] {4} Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

  [Zechariah 2:9, 11 ESV] {9} “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me. … {11} And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

  [Zechariah 4:9 ESV] {9} “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

  [Zechariah 6:15 ESV] {15} “And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

• Lesson 5

  Day Two

  [2 Kings 25:8-10 ESV] {8} In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month–that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon–Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. {9} And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. {10} And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

  [2 Kings 25:22-26 ESV] {22} And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor. {23} Now when all the captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite. {24} And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.” {25} But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. {26} Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

  [Leviticus 16:29, 31 ESV] {29} “And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. … {31} It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.

  [Psalm 35:13 ESV] {13} But I, when they were sick– I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.

  [Isaiah 58:1-12 ESV] {1} “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. {2} Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. {3} ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. {4} Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. {5} Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD? {6} “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? {7} Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? {8} Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. {9} Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, {10} if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. {11} And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. {12} And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.

  [Joel 2:12-21 ESV] {12} “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; {13} and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. {14} Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God? {15} Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; {16} gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. {17} Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” {18} Then the LORD became jealous for his land and had pity on his people. {19} The LORD answered and said to his people, “Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations. {20} “I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things. {21} “Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things!

  [Daniel 9:1-22 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.

  [Matthew 6:1, 16-18 ESV] {1} “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. … {16} “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. {17} But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, {18} that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

  Day Three

  [Jeremiah 11:1-11 ESV] {1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: {2} “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {3} You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant {4} that I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God, {5} that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.” Then I answered, “So be it, LORD.” {6} And the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them. {7} For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice. {8} Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.” {9} Again the LORD said to me, “A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {10} They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers. {11} Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.Isaiah 58

  Day Five

  [Zechariah 1:13-17 ESV] {13} And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me. {14} So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. {15} And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster. {16} Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem. {17} Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”

  [Haggai 2:1-19 ESV] {1} In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: {2} “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, {3} ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? {4} Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts, {5} according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. {6} For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. {7} And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts. {8} The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the LORD of hosts. {9} The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.’” {10} On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, {11} “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests about the law: {12} ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.” {13} Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” {14} Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean. {15} Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD, {16} how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. {17} I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the LORD. {18} Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider: {19} Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”

  [2 Kings 25:1-7 ESV] {1} And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. {2} So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. {3} On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. {4} Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. {5} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. {6} Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. {7} They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

  [Romans 11:1-36 ESV] {1} I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. {2} God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? {3} “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” {4} But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” {5} So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. {6} But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. {7} What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, {8} as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.” {9} And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; {10} let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.” {11} So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. {12} Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! {13} Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry {14} in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. {15} For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? {16} If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. {17} But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, {18} do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. {19} Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” {20} That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. {21} For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. {22} Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. {23} And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. {24} For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree. {25} Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. {26} And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; {27} “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” {28} As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. {29} For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. {30} For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, {31} so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy. {32} For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. {33} Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! {34} “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” {35} “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” {36} For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

• Lesson 6

  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.”

• Lesson 7

  Day One

  [Jeremiah 32:17-44 ESV] {17} ‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. {18} You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts, {19} great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. {20} You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day. {21} You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror. {22} And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. {23} And they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them. {24} Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it. {25} Yet you, O Lord GOD, have said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”–though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’” {26} The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: {27} “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? {28} Therefore, thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it. {29} The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger. {30} For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD. {31} This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight {32} because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger–their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {33} They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction. {34} They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. {35} They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. {36} “Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’: {37} Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety. {38} And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. {39} I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. {40} I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. {41} I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul. {42} “For thus says the LORD: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them. {43} Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ {44} Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD.”

  [Joel 3:1-14 ESV] {1} “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, {2} I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, {3} and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it. {4} “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. {5} For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. {6} You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. {7} Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. {8} I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken.” {9} Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up. {10} Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.” {11} Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD. {12} Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. {13} Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great. {14} Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

  [John 19:31-37 ESV] {31} Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. {32} So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. {33} But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. {34} But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. {35} He who saw it has borne witness–his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth–that you also may believe. {36} For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” {37} And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”

  [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.

  [Revelation 1:7 ESV] {7} Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

  [Matthew 5:4 ESV] {4} “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

  Day Three

  [Ezekiel 36:16-36 ESV] {16} The word of the LORD came to me: {17} “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity. {18} So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it. {19} I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them. {20} But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ {21} But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came. {22} “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. {23} And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. {24} I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. {25} I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. {26} And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. {27} And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. {28} You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. {29} And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. {30} I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. {31} Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. {32} It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. {33} “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. {34} And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. {35} And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ {36} Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.

  [Ezekiel 39:27-29 ESV] {27} when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. {28} Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. {29} And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”

  [Jeremiah 23:31-32 ESV] {31} Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the LORD.’ {32} Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the LORD.

  [Matthew 26:20-32 ESV] {20} When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. {21} And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” {22} And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” {23} He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. {24} The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” {25} Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.” {26} Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” {27} And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, {28} for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. {29} I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” {30} And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. {31} Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ {32} But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”

  [Jeremiah 31:31-33 ESV] {31} “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, {32} not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. {33} For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  [Romans 11:25-27 ESV] {25} Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. {26} And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; {27} “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

  Day Four

  [Revelation 15:1, 7-8 ESV] {1} 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. … {7} And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever, {8} and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

  [Revelation 16:12-16 ESV] {12} The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. {13} And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. {14} For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. {15} (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) {16} And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

  [Revelation 17:14 ESV] {14} They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”

  [Revelation 19:11-21 ESV] {11} Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. {12} His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. {13} He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. {14} And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. {15} From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. {16} On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. {17} Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God, {18} to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.” {19} And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. {20} And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. {21} And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

  [Acts 1:11 ESV] {11} and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

  [Ezekiel 47:1, 8-12 ESV] {1} Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. … {8} And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh. {9} And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. {10} Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea. {11} But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. {12} And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

  Day Five

  [Leviticus 23:33-43 ESV] {33} And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {34} “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD. {35} On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. {36} For seven days you shall present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work. {37} “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, {38} besides the LORD’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD. {39} “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. {40} And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. {41} You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. {42} You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths, {43} that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”

  [John 7:1-2, 37-39 ESV] {1} After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. {2} Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. … {37} On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. {38} Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” {39} Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

  [1 Peter 1:16 ESV] {16} since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”