"Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon."
Zechariah 2:6-7
Sort of an amusing one for Christmas, but also some great stuff here. This is the Lord in the last days, telling Israel to gather home again, and I kind of love that "deliver thyself" is part of it... God is going to strengthen and help, but it sounds like this is finally when God says, okay, enough, we're done... which is scary definitely, but also amazing and glorious and perfect, because the earth has dealt with wickedness for so long. We see people working to defraud others and they very often profit from it. We see human trafficking and other atrocities, and finally, after all of the longsuffering that God has gone through allowing it and watching people hurt, he is going to make it right.
Today, let's make sure we are fully current on our repentance so that when God makes things right, he doesn't have to go through us to do it. And let's look forward to the end to evil that the Lord will bring, and the better world to come.
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