How firm a foundation,

ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Compared to New York, Paris or Rome, Jerusalem hardly qualifies as one of the world's most popular cities.

But our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, tells us that in the future, Jerusalem will be the center of the earth.

Welcome to Through the Bible. I'm your host, Steve Schwartz, welcoming you aboard the Bible bus for another intriguing study in the Old Testament book of Zachariah.

Now, in our last introduction, we heard Dr. McGee say that there will be no peace on earth

until the kingdom is established here. Let's listen as he continues.

Jeremiah had something to say about this time of peace and the false peace that is offered to mankind.

In the sixth chapter,

Jeremiah, verse 14, he says, they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people

slightly, saying, peace, peace, when there is no peace. And you look at Israel back in the land today,

and everybody's talking peace. But there's no peace there

because they are working from the wrong side, the wrong end. It's the human heart that needs

to be dealt with. It's very easy to beat your swords into plowshares, my friend. But as long as

the human heart is as it is today, you better start beating plowshares, my friend. But as long as the human heart is as it is today, you better start

beating plowshares into swords because there's war in the heart of man, and there's no peace there,

and there's no one actually to enforce it today. What a joke the United Nations has become. It's not a peacekeeping organization at all.

It is more warlike than probably any other place. Now you'll also notice that all of the

minor prophets had something to say about the kingdom in which peace would reign on the earth.

Just take a look as we go down through the

mine of prophets, and you'll notice that each one of them had something to say about this kingdom

that was coming here upon the earth. Moses had something to say about it. Osaya mentioned

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