SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/22/2016 10:18 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 The Condemnation of God’s Enemies
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 6:1-8
Message of the verses: 1 Now I lifted up my eyes again and
looked, and behold, four chariots were coming forth from between the two
mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains. 2 With the first chariot
were red horses, with the second chariot black horses, 3 with the third chariot
white horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled horses. 4 Then I spoke
and said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my
lord?" 5 The angel replied to me, "These are the four spirits of
heaven, going forth after standing before the Lord of all the earth, 6 with one
of which the black horses are going forth to the north country; and the white
ones go forth after them, while the dappled ones go forth to the south country.
7 “When the strong ones went out, they were eager to go to patrol the
earth." And He said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled
the earth. 8 Then He cried out to me and spoke to me saying, "See, those
who are going to the land of the north have appeased My wrath in the land of
the north.’”
As we look
at this section we are looking at something that has been going on since
Lucifer sinned before Adam and Eve sinned, and that is “The Condemnation of God’s
Enemies.” Let us look at Revelation
14:6-7 to begin with “6 And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to
those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue
and people; 7 and he said with a loud voice, "Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His
judgment has come; worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea
and springs of waters.’” We see in these
two verses what the eternal Gospel is as it is described in verse seven, “Fear
God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come.” The theme throughout the Scriptures is that
God will punish sin, and reward the righteous, so the condemnation of God’s
Enemies has been going on, as stated since the beginning of time.
John
MacArthur writes “Now, I want us to look at the vision that unfolds this
element of the everlasting gospel. First
of all, let’s look at the symbols in verses 1-3 and this will be interesting…the
symbols themselves.” “: 1
Now I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming
forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains. 2
With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses, 3
with the third chariot white horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled
horses.” We need to remember that as we
looked so far at Zechariah that each time he received a vision that “they were
so devastation and so powerful and no doubt had a cumulative effect so by now…when
he saw the one in chapter 5, it just overwhelmed him and he actually collapsed
and his head was bowed and in each case, he had to lift up his eyes again.” Now as we look at verse one we see that
Zechariah saw in his vision four chariots and during that time period this
could only mean war, and these chariots came between the mountains, mountains
made out of bronze. MacArthur says that
these chariots were there to bring war upon the nations. In our first vision that Zechariah reports on
had four horses who went out around the world to report on what was going on in
the world, and since then they have been sitting there not doing anything, that
is until now when they turned into war horses pulling four chariots. This is where we will stop our SD for this
evening and pick it up tomorrow, (Lord willing) to talk about the two
mountains.
6/22/2016 10:41 PM
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