First Intro to Zechariah chapter Five

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/2/2016 11:41 PM

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  Intro. To Zech 5

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Zechariah 5

            Message of the verses:  In this Spiritual Diary we will briefly take a look at the introduction to the fifth chapter of the book of Zechariah as we look at what John MacArthur calls “The Endo of Sinners and Sin.”  Warren Wiersbe writes the following in his commentary for the introduction to this 5^th chapter:  “The Previous vision ended with the interpreting angel calling Israel’s God ‘the Lord of the whole earth’ (4:14), a title that is also used in Psalm 95:7 and Isaiah 54:5.  Zechariah’s purpose in writing is to tell us about the future of the Jews and Jerusalem, but the future of the whole world is involved in the future of the Jews, for God called Israel to bring blessing or cursing to all the nations of the earth (Gen. 12:1-3).

            “The prophet describes three key events that give evidence that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is indeed ‘the Lord of the whole earth.”  Now the first evidence he entitles “The cleansing of the land” and that section covers Zechariah 5:1-11.  Next we will look at “God judges the nations” from Zechariah 6:1-8, and then “God crowns His King-priest” from Zechariah 6:9-15.”

            We will spend time looking at these main points that Dr. Wiersbe has in his commentary on the fifth and sixth chapters of Zechariah and then we will do as we did for chapters 3-4 and look at some of the things that John MacArthur brings up in his two sermons from these two chapters.  I think that this is the best way to do this and hopefully we will have a good understanding of these two chapters once we finish looking at them.

6/2/2016 11:56 PM