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Zechariah 6:12

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Tell him that I, the LORD All-Powerful, say, "Someone will reach out from here like a branch and build a temple for me. I will name him 'Branch,' and he will rule with royal honors. A priest will stand beside his throne, and the two of them will be good friends.

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and no one will be able to take his kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me.

When the builders had finished laying the foundation of the temple, the priests put on their robes and blew trumpets in honor of the LORD, while the Levites from the family of Asaph praised God with cymbals. All of them followed the instructions given years before by King David.

During the second month of the second year after the people had returned from Babylonia, they started rebuilding the LORD's temple. Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the priests, the Levites, and everyone else who had returned started working. Every Levite over twenty years of age was put in charge of some part of the work.

Like a branch that sprouts from a stump, someone from David's family will someday be king.

The time is coming when the LORD will make his land fruitful and glorious again, and the people of Israel who survive will take great pride in what the land produces.

Like a young plant or a root that sprouts in dry ground, the servant grew up obeying the LORD. He wasn't some handsome king. Nothing about the way he looked made him attractive to us.

Someday I will appoint an honest king from the family of David, a king who will be wise and rule with justice.

I promise that the time will come when I will appoint a king from the family of David, a king who will be honest and rule with justice.

Next we went into the main room of the temple. The man measured the doorway of this room: It was ten feet wide,

In the future, I will rebuild David's fallen kingdom. I will build it from its ruins and set it up again, just as it used to be.

because he will bring peace. Let Assyria attack our country and our palaces. We will counterattack, led by a number of rulers

The LORD All-Powerful said: My sword, wake up! Attack my shepherd and friend. Strike down the shepherd! Scatter the little sheep, and I will destroy them.

Listen carefully, High Priest Joshua and all of you other priests. You are a sign of things to come, because I am going to bring back my servant, the Chosen King.

I am the LORD All-Powerful! So don't give up. Think about the message my prophets spoke when the foundation of my temple was laid.

So I will call you Peter, which means "a rock." On this rock I will build my church, and death itself will not have any power over it.

and said, "This man claimed that he would tear down God's temple and build it again in three days."

"We heard him say he would tear down this temple that we built. He also claimed that in three days he would build another one without any help."

People who passed by said terrible things about Jesus. They shook their heads and shouted, "Ha! So you're the one who claimed you could tear down the temple and build it again in three days.

A Roman army officer was standing in front of Jesus. When the officer saw how Jesus died, he said, "This man really was the Son of God!"

God's love and kindness will shine upon us like the sun that rises in the sky.

Philip then found Nathanael and said, "We have found the one that Moses and the Prophets wrote about. He is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth."

Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said, "Here is the man!"

My friends, the message is that Jesus can forgive your sins! The Law of Moses could not set you free from all your sins.

He has set a day when he will judge the world's people with fairness. And he has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death.

Apollos and I work together for God, and you are God's garden and God's building.

But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice that is good forever. Now he is sitting at God's right side,

But Jesus will never die, and so he will be a priest forever!

Notice how great Melchizedek is! Our famous ancestor Abraham gave him a tenth of what he had taken from his enemies.

Since all priests must offer gifts and sacrifices, Christ also needed to have something to offer.




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