The Bible Study Podcast, episode 791.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Zechariah with chapter 13.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We are wrapping up Zechariah. There are just two chapters left this one and chapter 14 next week. This chapter is titled cleansing from sin. On that day, a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from

sin and impurity. On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they

will be remembered no more, declares the Lord Almighty. I'll remove both the prophets and the spirit

of impurity from the land. And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother to whom they were

born will say to them, you must die because you have told lies in the Lord's name. Then their own

parents will stab the one who prophesies. On that day, every prophet will be ashamed of their

prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet's garments of hair in order

to deceive. Each will say, I am not a prophet. I am a farmer. The land has been my livelihood

since my youth. If someone asks, what are these wounds on your body? They will answer the wounds

I was given at the house of my friends.

The shepherd struck the sheep scattered.

Awake sword against my shepherd against the man who is close to me, declares the Lord Almighty. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. I will turn my hand against the little

ones in the whole land, declares the Lord. Two-thirds will be struck

down and perish, yet one-third will be left in it. This third will be put into the fire. I will refine

them like silver. I will test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them.

They will say, they are my people, and and they will say the Lord is our God.

Okay, well, that's rather a strange set of verses here. Again, we're dealing with on that day.

We've got three different times of on that day. And again, I encourage you to think that my first

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