Today is the 22nd day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is great to be here with you today as we move through Christmas week.

It's exciting.

It's exciting that we can be together, no matter where we are in the world that we can be together during Christmas week, enjoying it as a community, as we continue to take steps forward through the Scriptures.

We began the book of Zechariah yesterday and mentioned that we are not completely done with new books, but there is only one book we haven't gotten to.

That is the final book in the Old Testament Malachi. But we have come to the book of Zechariah and Zechariah will take us all the way to within a couple of days of the end of the year.

So we'll be camping out in Zechariah in the Old Testament and Revelation in the New Testament all the way through the holiday season.

We're reading from the common English Bible this week and today Zechariah chapters 2 and 3.

Then I looked up and saw a man in his hand was a measuring line. I said, where are you going? He said to me, to measure Jerusalem to see how wide and long it will be.

As I watched, the messenger speaking with me went ahead and another messenger came to meet him. He said to him, run, say to this young man, Jerusalem will be inhabited like open fields because of the throngs of people and cattle inside it.

But I will be a wall of fire around it, says the Lord, and I will be glorious inside it. Look out! Look out! Flea from the land of the North, says the Lord. For I will scatter you like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.

Look out, Zion. Flea, you dwell with daughter Babylon. The Lord of Heavenly Forces proclaims, after His glory sent me, concerning the nations plundering you. Those who strike you strike the pupil of my eye.

But look, I am about to raise my hand against them. They will become prey to their own slaves, so you will know that the Lord of Heavenly Forces sent me.

Rejoice and be glad daughters, Zion, because I am about to come and dwell among you, says the Lord.

Many nations will be joined to the Lord on that day. They will become my people, and I will dwell among you, so you will know that the Lord of Heavenly Forces sent me to you.

The Lord will possess Judah as His inheritance upon the Holy Land. He will again choose Jerusalem. Be silent.

Everyone in the Lord's presence, because He has moved from His holy habitation.

Then the Lord showed me the high priest Joshua, standing before the messenger from the Lord, and the adversary was standing by His right side to accuse him.

And the Lord said to the adversary, the Lord rebukes you adversary. The Lord, the one choosing Jerusalem, rebukes you.

Is this one not a log snatched from the fire? Joshua was wearing filthy clothes and standing before the messenger.

He responded to those standing before him, take off his filthy clothes. And he said to Joshua, look, I have removed your guilt from you.

Put on priestly robes. He said, put a clean turban upon us head, so they put a clean turban upon us head.

And they dressed him in garments while the Lord's messenger stood by. Then the Lord's messenger admonished Joshua.

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