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Zechariah chapter 1 verse

therefore say to them, thus declares the Lord of hosts.

Return to me, says the Lord of hosts and I will return to you says the

Lord of hosts. What a great verse for its simplicity, its repetition, and obviously ultimately its meaning.

Thus declares the Lord of hosts, This is God speaking through Zakaria.

And how does God refer to himself

as the Lord of hosts?

The Lord, it's, you can't see it as you're listening to this, but it's capital L, small caps, O-R-D, which whenever we see that spelling of the Lord in the Old Testament, we this is Yahweh, the covenant name God revealed himself

as to his people the covenant keeping steadfast loving, always faithful God who loves his people, the Lord of hosts

of heavenly armies, of angels, myriads. of

angels, myriads and myriads of them who are at his bidding, who are at his bidding,

who are singing and shouting of his glory at all times,

says the Lord of hosts, this is Yahweh

who rules and reigns over heavenly armies

and all that is on the earth he is speaking to you thus declares the Lord of

hosts like feel that even right now in your own life the Lord of hosts speaks to you through his word is speaking to you right now through his word

Now obviously we want to be careful whenever we're reading passages in the Old Testament

for example not to just directly apply them to us we want to understand how people

would have understood these things in the Old Testament,

think through how we understand these things

in light of the New Testament, the New Covenant,

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