The Opposition Runs Errands

The Opposition Runs Errands

Ezra 6:13 (CSB)”Then Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.” Tattenai came to shut the work down. He was the Persian inspector over the region...
The Opposition Runs Errands

He Turns Fast Into Feast

Zechariah 8:19 (CSB)”The LORD of Armies says this: ‘The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love...
The Opposition Runs Errands

Streets Safe for Eight and Eighty

Zechariah 8:4-5 (CSB)”The LORD of Armies says this: ‘Old men and women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of advanced age. The streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in them.'”...
The Opposition Runs Errands

Hearts Like a Rock

Zechariah 7:11 (CSB)”But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.” Stiffening the shoulder is the picture of an ox refusing the yoke. He plants his weight against it and will not take it...
The Opposition Runs Errands

Your Neighbor Needs Your Good Works

Zechariah 7:9-10 (CSB)”The LORD of Armies says this: ‘Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one...
The Opposition Runs Errands

Did You Really Fast for Me?

Zechariah 7:5 (CSB)”Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?” A delegation from Bethel travels up to Jerusalem with one...