Quotes About Spirituality

For the second time that day, the twenty-fourth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to Haggai, saying,

“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”

Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëI am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,

Then I looked up and saw four horns.

Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and another angel came out to meet him

Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.

So the angel said to those standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes!” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have removed your iniquity, and I will clothe you with splendid robes.”

Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.

“What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.

There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”

“What are these, my lord?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.

Then I asked the angel, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?”

And I questioned him further, “What are the two olive branches beside the two gold pipes from which the golden oil pours?”

“Do you not know what these are?” he inquired. “No, my lord,” I replied.

So he said, “These are the two anointed ones who are standing beside the Lord of all the earth.”

Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

So I inquired of the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ëWhen you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?