Discovery Box| (1.00) | Zec 14:6 |
| On that day there will be no light – the sources of light in the heavens will congeal. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:9 |
| The Lord will then be king over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be seen as one with a single name. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:16 |
| Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. 1 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:17 |
| But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem 1 to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain. |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:18 |
| If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:20 |
| On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple 1 will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar. 2 |
| (1.00) | Zec 14:21 |
| Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite 1 in the house of the Lord who rules over all. |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:1 |
| What follows is divine revelation. 1 The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi: 2 |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:6 |
| “A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects 1 his master. If I am your 2 father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, ‘How have we made light of your name?’ |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:7 |
| You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask, ‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table 1 of the Lord as if it is of no importance! |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:8 |
| For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, 1 is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them 2 to your governor! Will he be pleased with you 3 or show you favor?” asks the Lord who rules over all. |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:10 |
| “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, 1 so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will no longer accept an offering from you. |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:11 |
| For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” 1 says the Lord who rules over all. |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:12 |
| “But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings 1 despicable. |
| (1.00) | Mal 1:14 |
| “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” 1 says the Lord who rules over all, “and my name is awesome among the nations.” |
| (1.00) | Mal 2:2 |
| If you do not listen and take seriously 1 the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment 2 on you and turn your blessings into curses – indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart. |
| (1.00) | Mal 2:5 |
| “My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me. |
| (1.00) | Mal 2:6 |
| He taught what was true; 1 sinful words were not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity, and he turned many people away from sin. |
| (1.00) | Mal 2:11 |
| Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. 1 For Judah has profaned 2 the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god! 3 |
| (1.00) | Mal 2:13 |
| You also do this: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears 1 as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you. |
