SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/29/2016 10:48 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 The Coronation of the King
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 6:9-15
Message of the verses: “9 The word of the LORD also came to me,
saying, 10 "Take an offering from
the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah; and you go the same day and enter
the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have arrived from Babylon.
11 “Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua
the son of Jehozadak, the high priest. 12 “Then say to him, ’Thus says the LORD
of hosts, "Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from
where He is; and He will build the temple of the LORD. 13 “Yes, it is He who
will build the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear the honor and sit and
rule on His throne. Thus, He will be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of
peace will be between the two offices."’ 14 “Now the crown will become a
reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son
of Zephaniah. 15 “Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the
LORD." Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And
it will take place if you completely obey the LORD your God.”
As we begin
this SD we will be looking at eight things that are said about Him (Jesus
Christ in prophetic form). We will begin
to look at the eight things this evening as see how far we get.
First is
from verse 12 and in the NASB we read “for He will branch out from where He is,
“while in the KJV we read “and He shall grow up out of His place.” Let us look at Isaiah 53:2 for a comparison “For He grew up before Him like a
tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately
form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be
attracted to Him.” This speaks of the Messiah,
(Branch) He will grow up from His own people from His own land which of course
is Israel. Now we can see this happened
to Jesus when we read through the NT gospels.
Look at Luke 2:46 “Then, after three days they found Him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them
questions. 47 And all who
heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers (Luke
12:46-47).” This speaks of Jesus when He
was 12 years old.
Next we
look at another statement from verse 12 “He will build the temple of the LORD.” I have a couple of things to say about
this. First of all when Jesus came the
first time to planet earth He went into the temple and cleansed it, and then
some 40 years after His resurrection the temple was destroyed just as Jesus predicted
it would be. Now when He comes back the
second time He will rebuild the temple as seen in Ezekiel chapters 40-42. Now I have mentioned this earlier when
talking about the Millennial temple being built and this comes from a man I use
to read and listen to many years ago who said the perhaps when the Lord returns
in the second coming He will build the temple in three days. Why would he say that? He said that because of what Jesus told the
Jews when they asked Him why He was cleansing the temple and He said “destroy
this temple and I will build it again in three days, something that spoke of
His resurrection from the dead. However
if this is true that Jesus rebuilds the temple in three days when He returns it
would not be a problem for Him.
We will
look at one more thing found in verse thirteen ““Yes, it is He who will build
the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear the honor.” Now when Jesus came the first time there was
not much glory given to Him from men, as they successfully had Him killed, but
when He comes the next time glory will be given to Him from men, and the sad
part is that many people who have not looked forward to His coming will go into
eternal punishment. MacArthur writes “He
finally will be laden with majesty. He
finally will be laden with glory and with honor and He will receive what He is
due and it will be then that the chorus of Revelation 4 and 5 can shout their
hallelujahs. It’s certainly a deserved
day when He comes as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. ‘He shall bear the glory.’ He, Himself…again, in the Hebrew…He, Himself
shall bear the glory. In the Old
Testament God said, ‘My glory will I not give to another.’ And it’ll all be His in that day and we’ll be
a part of the hosanna chorus that sings glories and hallelujahs to His
name. What a deserved day for the
humiliated One.”
6/29/2016 11:17 PM
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