In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
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Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
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Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
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And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
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And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
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Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
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And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
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So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
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And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
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Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
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Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
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And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
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And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
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Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
Zechariah 4
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And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
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And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
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And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
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So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
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Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
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Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
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For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
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Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
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And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
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And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
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Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Romans 14
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Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
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For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
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Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
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Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
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One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
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He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
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For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
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For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
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For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
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But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
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So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
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Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
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I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
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But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
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Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
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Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
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For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
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Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
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And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
