Today is the 22nd day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian. It is fantastic. It is a joy. It is an honor and a privilege. It's crazy that we even have this place that we can come and call home and just be warm and cozy on a campfire together.

It's a peaceful oasis for us.

It's a joy to be here with you today.

So we began the Book of Zechariah yesterday and that is the second to the last book in the Old

Testament and we will continue with Zechariah for the next several days until the last couple of days of the year and so we're not

flying through another book today in its entirety we're picking up where we left off

which is our normal custom around here so things should feel a little bit more normal

even though Christmas is almost upon us.

Let's pick up where we left off and that will be Zechariah chapters two and three today.

I looked again and there was a man with a measuring line in his end. I asked, where are you going? He replied to measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.

At this point, the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out and another messenger came to meet him and said to him,

Hurry, speak to this young man as follows.

Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls because of the multitude of people and animals there.

But I, the Lord says, will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.

You there, flee from the north land, says the Lord.

For like the four winds of heaven I have scattered you says the Lord.

Escape Zion, you who live among the Babylonians,

for the Lord of heaven's army says

For his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you.

For anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

Yes, look here. I am about to punish them so that they will be looted by their own slaves.

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