SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/27/2016 10:38 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Coronation of the King
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 6:9-11
Message of the verses: I want to add the verses that we are looking
at a bit later. As we begin to look at
this last paragraph of chapter six which makes up seven verses we will see that
this, according to John MacArthur is not a vision. We concluded looking at the eight vision in
verses 1-8 of chapter six, and not we will be looking at the coronation of King
Jesus in this section, something that is still in the future, but closer than
when Zechariah writes this section.
Zechariah
now awakens to a new day as the visions are over, MacArthur writes “Zechariah
has arisen from seeing these marvelous visions of future and there is a
beautiful act that takes place on that next day that actually did happen
historically, no doubt, to symbolize the coronation of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this has got to be one of the most
marvelous passages in all Scripture on the exaltation of Jesus Christ.” He goes on to write “The climax of history is
not an event. The climax of history is a
person, always a person. To the Jew, the
climax of history was always the arrival of Messiah, a person.”
Let us look
at verses 9-10 “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.”
What we see
in these two verses is that the Word of the Lord begins to talk to Zechariah
and He tells him that there were some more Jewish people coming back to
Jerusalem from Babylon, and He gives the names to Zechariah. These men which we will look at in a moment
were bringing some gold and silver to help in the effort of building the
temple, but as we will see that is not what will happen with their gifts. MacArthur writes the following about the
names of these men: “Heldai means ‘the
Lord’s world.’ Tobijah means ‘God is
good.’ Jedaiah means ‘God knows.’ And Josiah means ‘The Lord supports.’ So they all had God-honoring names, names
that spoke of the character of God.
We will now
look at verse eleven: “11 “Take silver
and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest.” Now I may
have written this in an earlier SD on these verses, but what do you think that
these men were thinking when Zechariah comes up to them and asks for their
offering to make a crown because he had gotten that message from the Lord. I think that maybe they may have been
wondering if what he was telling them was the truth. Now according to MacArthur the word crown is
plural and so even though it is plural they were only to make one crown. But it
would be a composite of one crown.
6/27/2016 11:04 PM
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