SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/25/2016 6:44 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Admonition
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zech. 2:6-9
Message of the verses: “6 "Ho there! Flee from the land of
the north," declares the LORD, "for I have dispersed you as the four
winds of the heavens," declares the LORD. 7 “Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are
living with the daughter of Babylon." 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts,
"After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he
who touches you, touches the apple of His eye. 9 “For behold, I will wave My
hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will
know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.”
In these
verses God is telling the Jews to get out of Babylon, which was now under the
Persian rule, as He wanted them to go back and rebuild the city walls of
Jerusalem and also to rebuild the city.
When you look at the prophecies of Daniel chapter two and also chapter
seven you can see that there were four nations that would come into power,
which will greatly affect the Jewish people, something we have already
discussed, and so if the Jews stayed in Babylon, now ruled by the Persians, the
Persians would be defeated by the Greeks and so the Jews would then still be in
Babylon and in trouble. Now the Lord did
have people in Babylon who were serving Him there like, Daniel, Ester, Mordecia
and also Nehemiah who were doing things that the Lord wanted done, and so they
were not under obligation to leave, but the common people should leave their
houses and businesses and return to Jerusalem where they would be doing the
work of the Lord.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes “The Jews are very precious to God; He called them ‘the apple [pupil] of
His eye’ (Zech. 2:8; Deut 32:10; Psalm 17:8).
The pupil is the tiny opening in the iris that lets in the light, and
this is a very delicate and important area of that vital organ. Hence, anything dear and precious is like the
pupil of the eye.” Dr. Wiersbe adds the
following in an endnote: “The word ‘pupil’
comes from the Latin papilla, ‘a tiny doll,’ referring to the small reflection
you see of yourself when you look into another’s eyes. The Hebrew word for ‘apple’ (pupil) in
Deuteronomy 32:10 is literally ‘little man.’
4/25/2016 7:01 PM
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