SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/31/2016 9:11 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Promise of the Vision
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 4:11-14
Message of the verses: “11 Then I said to him, "What are these
two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?" 12 And I
answered the second time and said to him, "What are the two olive branches
which are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from
themselves?" 13 So he answered me, saying, "Do you not know what
these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." 14 Then he said,
"These are the two anointed ones who are standing by the Lord of the whole
earth."”
What we
have here is a picture, or a promise of the time when Israel will be a blessing
to the whole world, and this has to happen during the Millennial Kingdom, but
if we think about it Israel has always been a blessing to the world. Why do I say that? Well think about the Word of God as it has
come through those who are from Israel, and then we have to think about the
Messiah, the Savior of the world, He too came from the nation of Israel. Paul
tells the Romans in chapters 9-11 that Israel has been set aside by the Lord,
but not forever for when the church age is complete at the rapture of the
church then God will go back to dealing with Israel. I have mentioned in earlier SD’s and
especially when we looked at the book of Daniel and the ninth chapter of Daniel
where we see a very long prophecy of 490 years which began in the second
chapter of the book of Nehemiah and then 483 years later we see that God
stopped it for a while. In the 19th
chapter of the book of Luke we see Jesus coming into Jerusalem to offer Himself
to be their King, but they rejected Him and so the prophecy stopped with seven
years left on it. Daniel writes that it
will begin again when the Antichrist signs a peace treaty with the nation of
Israel for seven years, which begins the tribulation period and this concludes
with the second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth and soon after that the
Millennial Kingdom will begin where Jesus Christ will rule on David’s throne
from Jerusalem and Israel will receive their long promised kingdom, and this 4th
chapter of Zechariah tells us that during this time Israel will begin to bless
the nations around them as they should have been doing since they began.
John
MacArthur writes “These two anointed ones, As the lamp stand symbolizes Israel
in full fellowship with God, the Holy Spirit, the source of fuel, and becoming
a light bearer to the world, as he was called to be, we now see the two olive
trees through which the blessings of God is flowing to the nation. And those two things are the office of king
and priest, the royal and priestly offices, as we mentioned.
“The two
anointed ones, literally that means the sons of oil, have to be the king and
priest. And the word for oil there is
incidentally fresh oil, which indicates that it is fresh oil out of a tree
rather than manufactured oil. And again
we go right back to the absolute accuracy of the word of God that God is trying
to present something that has no human instrumentation and even uses the right
word for oil, so we know it’s not the manufactured kind, but ischar, which has to do with fresh oil.
“So he’s
saying it is the pure power of the Spirit of God flowing through the priestly
kingly office into the life of Israel that makes it radiate messianic
truth. And we know who the king priest
is none other than Christ himself. So it
is Christ starting and finishing the cycle.”
Now in our next SD we will look at the concluding “P” which
is the “Person of the Vision.”
5/31/2016 9:34 PM
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