The day of the Lord - Bible Verse Handbook

Session #2: The Day of the Lord

THE DAY-OF-THE-LORD THEME OF THE BOOK OF JOEL

15For the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.   (Joel 1:15)

1Blow the trumpet in Zion…for the day of the LORD is coming, for it is at hand.   (Joel 2:1)

11For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; who can endure it?  (Joel 2:11)

31The coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.  
(Joel 2:31)

14For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.  
(Joel 3:14)

A. The primary theme of the book of Joel is the “day of the Lord,”

15  Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. (Joel 1:15)

Blow the trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the Lord is coming,
For it is at hand:

11  The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great;
For strong is the One who executes His word.
For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
Who can endure it?

31  The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord .
(Joel 2:1, 11, 31)

14  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. (Joel 3:14)

DEFINITION OF THE DAY OF THE LORD

D. It is “His Day” because He displays His sovereign leadership for all to see.

9  The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (2 Pet. 3:9)

11  Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. (Eccl. 8:11)

G. For the primary passages in the Old and New Testaments.

10  Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty.
11  The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

12  For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
13  Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,
And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
14  Upon all the high mountains,
And upon all the hills that are lifted up;
15  Upon every high tower,
And upon every fortified wall;
16  Upon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops.
17  The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
18  But the idols He shall utterly abolish.

19  They shall go into the holes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the earth,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

20  In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, each for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,
21  To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

22  Sever [ g ] yourselves from such a man,
Whose breath is in his nostrils;
For of what account is he? (Isa. 2:10-22)

1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying,
“We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel;
Only let us be called by your name,
To take away our reproach.”

2  In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious;
And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing
For those of Israel who have escaped.

3  And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem. 4  When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning, 5  then the Lord will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering. 6  And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain. (Isa. 4:1-6)

1There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse,
And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
2  The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him,
The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The Spirit of counsel and might,
The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord .

3  His delight is in the fear of the Lord ,
And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,
Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;
4  But with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.
5  Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

6  “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
7  The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8  The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den.
9  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.

10  “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a banner to the people;
For the Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”

11  It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

12  He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
13  Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
14  But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the people of the East;
They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall obey them.
15  The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over [ i ] the River,
And strike it in the seven streams,
And make men cross over dry-shod.
16  There will be a highway for the remnant of His people
Who will be left from Assyria,
As it was for Israel
In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt. (Isa. 11:1-16)

6  Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7  Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man's heart will melt,
8  And they will be afraid.
Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.

9  Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy its sinners from it. (Isa. 13:6-9)

5  You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the Lord . (Ezek. 13:5)

“Wail, ‘Woe to the day!'
3  For the day is near,
Even the day of the Lord is near;
It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles. (Ezek. 30:3)

15  Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. (Joel 1:15)

Blow the trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the Lord is coming,
For it is at hand:

31  The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
(Joel 2:1, 31)

14  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. (Joel 3:14)

18  Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord !
For what good is the day of the Lord to you?
It will be darkness, and not light.
19  It will be as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
20  Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18-20)

15  “For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your reprisal shall return upon your own head. (Obad. 15)

7  Be silent in the presence of the Lord God ;
For the day of the Lord is at hand,
For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
He has invited His guests.

12  “And it shall come to pass at that time
That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And punish the men
Who are settled in complacency,
Who say in their heart,
‘The Lord will not do good,
Nor will He do evil.'

14  The great day of the Lord is near;
It is near and hastens quickly.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter;
There the mighty men shall cry out.
15  That day is a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
16  A day of trumpet and alarm
Against the fortified cities
And against the high towers.

17  “I will bring distress upon men,
And they shall walk like blind men,
Because they have sinned against the Lord ;
Their blood shall be poured out like dust,
And their flesh like refuse.”

18  Neither their silver nor their gold
Shall be able to deliver them
In the day of the Lord 's wrath;
But the whole land shall be devoured
By the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make speedy riddance
Of all those who dwell in the land. (Zeph. l:7, 12, 14-18)

1Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
2  For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

3  Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
4  And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south . (Zech. 14:1-4)

2  For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3  For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. (1 Thes. 5:2-3)

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2  not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3  Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4  who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits [ c ] as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thes. 2: 1-4)

10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. (2 Pet. 3:10)

17  For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6:17)

THE TWOFOLD NATURE OF “GOD'S DAY” - GREAT AND TERRIBLE

11For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; who can endure it?   (Joel 2:11)

5“I will send you Elijah…before… the great and dreadful day of the LORD.”  (Mal. 4:5)

H. The twofold nature of the day of the Lord is that it is both great in power and blessing for the redeemed and terrible in judgment for those who persist in rebellion.

2“To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God.” (Isa. 61:2)

I. Great Day:

1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2  I will say of the Lord , “ He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”

3  Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence.
4  He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5  You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
6  Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7  A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.
8  Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked. (Ps. 91:1-8)

9  They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn. (Jer. 31:9)

Goshen principle

22  And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land. 23  I will make a difference between My people and your people. (Ex. 8:22-23a)

4  And the Lord will make a difference between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt. So nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”

6  So the Lord did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.

26  Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail. (Ex. 9:4, 6, 26)

The “great” aspect of that Day will include the outpouring of the Spirit with extraordinary miracles

(Joel 2:28-32 See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook )

J.  Very Terrible Day:

8  So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

9  When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held (Rev. 6; 8-9)

I I. EXPRESSIONS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD IN HISTORY: GLOBAL AND LOCAL SCALE

A.  Global and ultimate Day:  

(Joel 2:18-3:21 See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook )

B. Local and lesser day:  

(Joel 1:1-2:11 See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook )

E. Prophetic foreshadows of the future Day at the end of the age.

31  The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
(Joel 2: 31)

F. Israel's end-time crisis at the hand of the Antichrist will exceed the military invasion of the Babylonians.

(Joel 2:1-9 See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook )

1Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst. 2For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken…   (Zech. 14:1-2)

THREE “DAYS OF THE LORD” IN THE BOOK OF JOEL

H. We see three “days of the Lord” in the book of Joel.

First, in Joel 1, we see the agricultural crisis

15  Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. (Joel 1:15)

Second, in Joel 2, we see the Babylonian military invasion of Israel

Blow the trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the Lord is coming,
For it is at hand:

11  The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great;
For strong is the One who executes His word.
For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
Who can endure it? (Joel 2:1, 11)

Third, in Joel 3, we see God's blessing on Israel and judgment on the Antichrist's empire

The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord .
(Joel 2:31)

14  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. (Joel 3:14)

I . These three “days” were each associated with a catastrophe.

1. The first day of the Lord involved an agricultural crisis caused by a locust plague

4  What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

5  Awake, you drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6  For a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
7  He has laid waste My vine,
And [ c ] ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.

8  Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For the husband of her youth.
9  The grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord ;
The priests mourn, who minister to the Lord .
10  The field is wasted,
The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.

11  Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
12  The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men. (Joel 1:4-12)

Accompanied by a drought

15 Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
16  Is not the food cut off before our eyes,
Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17  The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
18  How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.

19  O Lord , to You I cry out;
For fire has devoured the open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20  The beasts of the field also cry out to You,
For the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the open pastures. (Joel 1:15-20)

2. The second day of the Lord was a military crisis. The Babylonian army invaded Israel

(Joel 1:1-2:9 See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook )

3. The third day of the Lord pointed to God's activity at the end of the age

(Joel 2:18-3:21 See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook )

This Day of the Lord crisis is seen in the book of Revelation

17  For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” (Rev. 6:17)

J. The locust plague crisis probably lasted three to five years

25  “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)

2. It was at this time that Joel called the people to a solemn assembly of prayer with fasting

14  Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord . (Joel 1:14)

K. 2. He said that the calamities would increase until God's desired effect occurred—seeking God with all their heart

(Joel 2:12 See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook )

L. The second day of the Lord that Joel prophesied was the Babylonian invasion

(Joel 2:1- See Session 1 Bible Verse Handbook 9)

1. The locust crisis lasted a few years, yet the Babylonian crisis lasted 70 years

8  “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9  behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the Lord , ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10  Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11  And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12  ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the Lord ; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. 13  So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. 14  (For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)' (Jer. 25:8-14)

10  For thus says the Lord : After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. (Jer. 29:10)

III. THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL DAY OF THE LORD: NARROW AND BROAD

C.  Broad Day of the Lord: 

1. It begins in the middle of Daniel's 70th week

31  “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32  All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33  And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34  Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35  for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36  I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'

37  “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38  When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39  Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40  And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'

41  “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42  for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43  I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'

44  “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?' 45  Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' 46  And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Mt. 25:31-46)

Continues through the millennial reign of Jesus for 1,000 years

1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2  He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3  and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

4  And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5  But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

6  Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. (Rev. 20:1-6)

2. It also includes God's judgment on the final revolt of the nations at the end of the Millennium

The cleansing of the present heavens and earth with fervent heat

17  “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
18  But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing,
And her people a joy.
19  I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
And joy in My people;
The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her,
Nor the voice of crying. (Isa. 65:17-19)

22  “For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord ,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain. (Isa. 66:22)

13  Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Pet. 3:13)

Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. (Rev. 21:1)

THE SECOND COMING: WINDS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER A GREAT HURRICANE

E. Daniel saw the activity of God shifting things in the nations like winds stirring on the sea.

2Daniel spoke, saying, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea. 3And four great beasts came up from the sea.”   (Dan. 7:2-3)

J. The winds preceding the Lord's appearing will cause a great shaking of all things.

26“Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”  
(Heb. 12:26)

THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLE: “LIKE KIND, BUT LESSER DEGREE”

P. Jesus will set up His throne in Jerusalem and rule all the nations from Israel

Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord 's house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
3  Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord ,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4  He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore. (Isa. 2:2-4)

12  Then speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying:

“Behold, the Man whose name is the BRANCH!
From His place He shall branch out,
And He shall build the temple of the Lord ;
13  Yes, He shall build the temple of the Lord .
He shall bear the glory,
And shall sit and rule on His throne;
So He shall be a priest on His throne,
And the counsel of peace shall be between them both.” (Zech. 6:12-13)

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