OUR FATHER WHO SEEKS SINCERITY AMONG HIS PEOPLE

Zachariah chapter 7 verses 1 - 7 says this;

1 Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev, Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev, 2 when the people sent Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God, to pray before the Lord, 3 and to ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?”

4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 5 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me? 6 When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? 7 Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the ciities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ” 

The Israelite captives sent a representative to ask the priests at the temple which fasting and  mourning months they needed to observe.

In response, the Lord gave a word to Zacharia that questioned why they were bothering to ask these questions. The Lord said to them that they would have better off following the ways of the in their own land when they were prosperous rather than waiting till the judgement was upon them before the sought to please the Lord.

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Amen.

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