Ever been an Outcast? Take a Stand!

“If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.” Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804);
first US Secretary of the Treasury
 
Don't let it be said that you didn't take a stand for God's people. 

Zephaniah 2:1-2 The Message"So get yourselves together. Shape up!
   You're a nation without a clue about what it wants.
Do it before you're blown away
   like leaves in a windstorm,
Before God's Judgment-anger
   sweeps down on you,
Before God's Judgment Day wrath
   descends with full force."

^{Isaiah 11:12 The Message} "And he'll raise that rallying banner high, visible to all nations,
   gather in all the scattered exiles of Israel..."

Zechariah 12:1-9 The Message 
War Bulletin:
   "God's Message concerning Israel, God's Decree—the very God who threw the skies into space, set earth on a firm foundation, and breathed his own life into men and women: "Watch for this: I'm about to turn Jerusalem into a cup of strong drink that will have the people who have set siege to Judah and Jerusalem staggering in a drunken stupor. ³"On the Big Day, I'll turn Jerusalem into a huge stone blocking the way for everyone. All who try to lift it will rupture themselves. All the pagan nations will come together and try to get rid of it.
 ^4-5"On the Big Day"—this is God speaking—"I'll throw all the war horses into a crazed panic, and their riders along with them. But I'll keep my eye on Judah, watching out for her at the same time that I make the enemy horses go blind. The families of Judah will then realize, 'Why, our leaders are strong and able through God-of-the-Angel-Armies, their personal God.'
 ⁶"On the Big Day, I'll turn the families of Judah into something like a burning match in a tinder-dry forest, like a fiercely flaming torch in a barn full of hay. They'll burn up everything and everyone in sight—people to the right, people to the left—while Jerusalem fills up with people moving in and making themselves at home—home again in Jerusalem.
 ^7-8"I, God, will begin by restoring the common households of Judah so that the glory of David's family and the leaders in Jerusalem won't overshadow the ordinary people in Judah. On the Big Day, I'll look after everyone who lives in Jerusalem so that the lowliest, weakest person will be as glorious as David and the family of David itself will be godlike, like the Angel of God leading the people.
 ⁹"On the Big Day, I'll make a clean sweep of all the godless nations that fought against Jerusalem."