Author: Shalem John

Open your doors, oh Lebanon, to judgment. You will be destroyed as though by fire raging through your forests. 2 Weep, oh cypress trees, for all the ruined cedars; the tallest and most beautiful of them are fallen. Cry in fear, you oaks of Bashan, as you watch the thickest forests felled. 3 Listen to the wailing of Israel’s leaders all these evil shepherds for their wealth is gone. Hear the young lions roaring the princes are weeping, for their glorious Jordan valley lies in ruins. 4 Then said the Lord my God to me, “Go and take a job…

Another message came to me from the Lord in late November of the fourth year of the reign of King Darius. 2 The Jews of the city of Bethel had sent a group of men headed by Sharezer, the chief administrative officer of the king, and Regemmelech, to the Lord’s temple at Jerusalem, to seek His blessing, 3 And to speak with the priests and prophets about whether they must continue their traditional custom of fasting and mourning during the month of August each year, as they had been doing so long. 4 This was the Lord’s reply: 5″When you…

A gain the Lord’s message came to me: 2 “The Lord of Hosts says, I am greatly con- Cerned yes, furiously angry because of all that Jeru-salem’s enemies have done to her. 3 Now I am going to return to My land and I, Myself, will live within Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called “The Faithful City,’ and ‘The Holy Mountain,’ and ‘The Mountain of the Lord of Hosts.’ ” 4 The Lord of Hosts declares that Jerusalem will have peace and prosperity so long that there will once again be aged men and women hobbling through her streets on…