Today is the 29th day of December.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian and it is a joy and an honor to be here with you today around the global

campfire.

As we settle into this peaceful oasis that we create for ourselves every day and take the

next step forward together regardless of what time of year it is.

It just so happens that there are only a couple of steps left in the year that we are in.

So we are in that in between week, between Christmas and New Year's where we contemplate

quite a bit about what the New Year may look like and what we may achieve in it.

And we are looking into the scriptures to be a voice in that process today and every

day.

So let's dive in and take the next step forward together.

Our next step leads us back into the book of Zechariah.

Today we will read Zechariah chapter 14.

A day of the Lord is coming Jerusalem.

When your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls, I will gather

all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it.

The city will be captured, the houses ransacked and the women raped.

Half of the city will go into exile but the rest of the people will not be taken from the

city.

Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as he fights on a day of that

all.

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