The People’s Obedience

^12 (A)Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord.

^9 (A)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, ^(B)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.

Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet^(A)

6 In the year that ^(B)King Uzziah died, I ^(C)saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. ² Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, ^(D)with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³ And one cried to another and said:

⁴ And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ So I said:

⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from ^(H)the altar. ⁷ And he ^(I)touched my mouth with it, and said:

The Sealed of Israel

7 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, ^(A)holding the four winds of the earth, ^(B)that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. ² Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, ³ saying, ^(C)“Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God ^(D)on their foreheads.” ^4 (E)And I heard the number of those who were sealed. ^(F)One hundred and forty-four thousand ^(G)of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:

A Multitude from the Great Tribulation

⁹ After these things I looked, and behold, ^(H)a great multitude which no one could number, ^(I)of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, ^(J)clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, ¹⁰ and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ^(K)“Salvation belongs to our God ^(L)who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” ^11 (M)All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and ^(N)worshiped God, ^12 (O)saying:

¹³ Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in ^(P)white robes, and where did they come from?”

¹⁴ And I said to him, ^[b]“Sir, you know.”

So he said to me, ^(Q)“These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and ^(R)washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will ^(S)dwell among them. ^16 (T)They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; ^(U)the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne ^(V)will shepherd them and lead them to ^[c]living fountains of waters. ^(W)And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”