SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/30/2016 11:55 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2 The Plan of the Vision
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 4:9-10
Message of the verses: “9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the
foundation of this house, and
his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has
sent me to you. 10 “For who has despised the day of small things? But these
seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel-these
are the eyes of the LORD which range to and fro throughout the earth."”
We are
talking about the plan of the vision in today’s SD, as we have broken this
section up into two different Spiritual Diaries. John MacArthur states that there is a
two-fold prophecy in this section of Zechariah and we have mentioned this in
earlier Spiritual Diaries that this is what happens in many of the OT
prophecies as they have a future meaning and then a far distance meaning
too. He Writes: “So what is the plan? Now watch, the plan God the Father lays out
the plan, God the Son directs its fulfillment, God the Holy Spirit supplies its
power. The whole Trinity involved with
Israel in the past as they built their temple and in the future as the kingdom
comes. And just as the Davidic prince,
Zerubbable was to complete the restoration temple, so the greater Davidic king,
Christ, will build the millennial temple.”
Now we want
to look at verse ten in more detail and talk about who it is that has despised
the day of small things. When we studied
the book of Ezra and Haggai we learned that there were some in the remnant who
had seen the wonderful temple that Solomon had built and the one that the
remnant built was much smaller and so they were the ones who despised the small
things. Now as far as the “seven” he is
talking about the seven eyes of the Lord, and the reason there are seven is
because seven is the number of perfection, the omniscient of the Lord. God is
happy over the building of this temple, and so if God is happy, then we should be too, along with the
remnant for after all this temple will be the one that the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Son of God will go into and even teach from along with running out of it
the money changers because of the fact that He is zealous for God’s house.
Since God is
happy over this relativity small thing we know that He will be happy over the
coming kingdom of Israel where His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ will rule the
world from Jerusalem. Now after studying
many of these OT prophecies about the end times and what will happen in it and
knowing that none of it will be possible without Israel being in the land,
which they have been not for 68 years, this makes me happy to see them there.
In our next
SD from Zechariah we will look at the promise of the vision.
5/31/2016 12:16 AM
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