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Podcast: Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio
Episode: Zechariah 7:1-14: To Fast or Not to Fast? There’s More than That Question
Description: On December 7, 518 BC, the Word of the LORD comes to Zechariah to answer a question regarding ongoing religious practices. Now that the temple is being rebuilt, a delegation from Bethel wants to know if the fasts observed for the first temple’s destruction should continue or not. The LORD does not give a simple “yes” or “no” answer in response. He questions His people concerning the reason for their fasting—was it for Him or for themselves? He calls them to account, as He had done through former prophets, for only going through the motions religiously while living faithlessly toward their...