SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/29/2016 11:03 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 The Future Glory of Jerusalem
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 2:5
Message of the verses: We are looking at the third point in the
vision that is described in chapter two which is his second vision that he
received from the Lord, second of eight, which were all received on the same
night. The name of this point that comes
from a sermon by John MacArthur is “The Divine Protector,” and of course that
would be the Lord Jesus Christ as we will see from verse five: “5
’For I,’ declares the LORD, ’will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’"”
Now as we
look at this verse we can see for sure that there is some historical principles
seen in it as we think about when the children of Israel were leaving Egypt
after God destroyed their nation with ten plagues. When they were traveling in the wilderness
the Lord would be a cloud over them to protect them from the heat in the
desert, and then at night when it got cold He would be a fire around them to
keep them warm. There is a name for this
and it is called the Shekinah glory of the Lord, the same glory that would fill
the tabernacle and then the temple once they were built.
John
MacArthur writes “God has been a flaming wall. I couldn't help but mention to
you II Kings 6:15, remember this one? This is great! We went over this when we
studied angels. "When the servant of the man of God was risen early,
Elisha's servant, and he'd gone forth, the host compassed the city with horses
and chariots. "And his servant said to him, 'Alas, my master, what will we
do?'" He says, the army is on us. "And he said, 'Don't be afraid for
they who are with us are more than they who are with them.' The servant looks
around and he says you got to be kidding. You and me guy, that's it. What do
you mean they who are with us? "Oh Elisha prayed and said, 'Lord open his
eyes.' And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the
mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha." God had
His angelic wall of fire protecting His prophet and his servant. God can make a
wall of protection around and in and that's exactly what He'll do in the future
for Israel.”
One more
quote from MacArthur’s sermon which is actually a long quote from the book of
Ezekiel: “Afterwards, says Ezekiel in
Chapter 43, "He brought me to the gate, to the gate that looks toward the
east and behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east
and His voice was like the noise of many waters and the earth shined with His
glory. And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, that
according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city and the
visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my
face and the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east. So the spirit took me up and brought me into the
inner court and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I heard Him
speaking to me out of the house and the man stood by me and said, "Son of
man the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will
dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever, and my holy name shall
the house of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their kings, by their
harlotry nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places." God
returns to Israel, a wonderful, wonderful truth. So we see the glorious plan
and then we see the wonderful delivering protecting God.” Now remember that chapters 40-48 of the book
of Ezekiel speaks of the Millennial Kingdom and what the nation of Israel, and
especially what Jerusalem will look like during that time period.
4/29/2016 11:18 PM
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