Today is the 23rd day of December.

Christmas Eve, Eve.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Vival.

I am Brian. It's great to be here with you today.

So we gather around the global campfire.

Let's just imagine we have some hot cocoa and marshmallows and whatever else today.

We're just here.

Gathering in, it's crazy out there.

Christmas is upon us.

Everything is like all the last minutes, last minutes are upon us.

So it's good that we can come to this little oasis in the midst of it all.

And gather together and take one more step forward.

And just allow the scriptures to bring peace into our lives as we continue forward.

And so let's do that.

We are working our way through the book of Zechariah.

Today we will read chapters four and five.

Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me up in the same way that a man is awakened from sleep.

He said to me, what do you see? I said, look, right there I see a lampstand made entirely of gold

with a basin on top of it, with seven lamps on it, and there are seven channels leading to the lamps that are on top of it.

There are two olive trees beside it, one to the right of the bowl and one to its left.

I asked the angel who was speaking with me, what are these, my lord. The angel who was speaking

with me answered me, don't you know what these are? I answered, no, my lord. So he said to me,

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