Amen and amen. Well good evening. How you guys doing tonight?

Blessed? Did you say blessed? Right answer. You can be seated.

10 points. I don't know what they're for but you got 10. So those of you joining us online

in whatever time zone you're in we want to welcome you as well. Looking forward

to tonight, Zechariah Chapter 13, the second to the last chapter in the second to the last

book of the Old Testament.

Okay, I thought, I think that's kind of cool.

You realize we're almost, it only took us 20 years.

We're almost done with the Old Testament.

And this chapter, though it speaks of Israel at the end of the seven-year tribulation

and kind of spills into the beginning of the millennial reign, the kingdom age, the 1,000 years on earth, has for us personal

application that can bring life-changing truth to us. Pastor, you say that every week on Thursday

nights. I know. I'm going to keep saying it. Why? Because there's this propensity,

this proclivity that all of us have, myself included, to disenfranchise ourselves or

disconnect ourselves from a chapter like the one that's before us tonight because we dismiss

it under the banner of, well, that was a prophecy concerning Israel in that day.

Well, wait a minute.

Last week, chapter 12, in that day, What was the takeaway? The takeaway, the title like tonight, synonymous,

was that what was prophesied to happen in that day is happening today.

Well, that's kind of a game changer.

Meaning that we should probably stand to attention because, yes, it was speaking of

Israel a prophecy concerning Israel in that day but when you say that day

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