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Zechariah chapter one, verse three.

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 Zechariah. 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 know 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 and myriads of them,

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.

It's speaking to you right now through His Word.

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

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