SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/28/2016 10:14 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Divine Prosperity
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 8:9-13
Message of the verses: “9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, ’Let
your hands be strong, you who are listening in these days to these words from
the mouth of the prophets, those who spoke in the day that the foundation of
the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, to the end that the temple might be
built. 10 ’For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for
animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace because of his
enemies, and I set all men one against another. 11 ’But now I will not treat
the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ declares the LORD of hosts. 12 ’For there will be peace for the seed: the
vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce and the heavens will
give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all
these things. 13 ’It will come about
that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of
Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let
your hands be strong.’”
Zechariah
is talking about what happened to those Jews who came back from Babylon, those
that built the foundation of the temple, and then remember when we studied the
book of Haggai we saw that the building stopped. It is also seen in the book of Nehemiah, in
the historical portion of the Word of God.
The worked stopped and the people decided to build their own homes and
it is believed that they used the wood that was supposed to be used for the
building of the temple. There were other
problems that stopped the work as the Samaritans also tried to stop the work
and even got the Persian government involved in it, but they found the letter
that the former king of Persia wrote and they began to build again.
Zechariah
tells the remnant that there will be a time when the Lord will be blessing
Israel with many blessings unlike what had happened with the remnant who came
back from Babylon. I believe that this
encouraged the people and they began to get the job done that them came back to
Jerusalem to do.
Next in on
our list of things to look at that is divine preference beginning with verse
fourteen. We will look at that in our
next SD.
7/28/2016 10:29 PM
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