SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/2/2016 7:37 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-5 The Coronation of the King
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 6:15-
Message of the verses: Now since we have looked at verses nine
through fifteen in our last several Spiritual Diaries on this subject I will
not put them all in this SD, but only the ones that pertain to this
lesson. Now just a little review, and
that is we have been looking at chapter six for several days, perhaps weeks now
and we stated that there were two points in them, the first one “The
condemnation of the nations” was seen in verses 1-8 and then the second main
point “The Coronation of the King” in verses 9-15. We have been looking at eight elements or
things that are said about Jesus Christ in this section and in today’s SD we
will begin with number six and this is found in verse fifteen “"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.” Our sixth point is seen in this highlighted
portion of verse fifteen.
The
question is who are those who are “far off,”? and the answer would be “The
Gentiles” as seen in section of Ephesians and also Romans as a Gentile to a Jew
is far off, and through Christ those who are far off have now come near. We are talking about who is going to build
the temple here, and the temple which is being spoken of here is the millennial
temple, but we thought that it would be Christ who would build this temple as
we spoke of before. John MacArthur
writes that the Gentiles “will come and make a contribution in it. And it says here that in the kingdom there
will be a delegation of Gentiles worshipping the true God. There will be a people who were a no people
who will become God’s people in God’s kingdom.
In Isaiah 2 and verse 2 it says ‘And it shall come to pass in the last
days that the mountain of the Lord…shall be established in the top of the
mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto
it. All nations! ‘And may people shall go and say ‘Come ye and
let us go to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and He
will teach us His ways and we will walk in His paths…’ Many nations in the kingdom coming into the
presence and the true worship of the one true God, and so Christ will be
worshipped by nations from all over the world.
In Micah 4:1, ‘…in the last days it shall come to pass’ …almost the same
statement…’the mountain of the house of the Lord…be established in the top of
the mountains…be exalted above the hills and people shall flow unto it and many
nations shall come and say, ‘Come and let us go…to the mountain of the Lord, to
the house of the God of Jacob and He will teach us His ways and we will walk in
His paths…’ Gentiles will come in that
day to worship God.” So it looks like to
me that the Gentiles will contribute to the temple Christ builds and the
Gentiles will come and worship the Lord there in His temple in the millennial
kingdom.
“Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you,”
is from the next section of verse fifteen and we will now look at it. What we see here is a prophecy of what will
happen in the millennial kingdom and when it happens people will “know that the
Lord of hosts has sent me to you.” I
have mentioned a pet peeve of mine in several recent Spiritual Diaries and that
is that there are those who believe that there will not be a millennial kingdom
and they also believe that the promises the pertain to Israel in the Old
Testament now pertain to the church, and that everything will just get better
and better so that Christ will want to come back to earth. I guess they haven’t looked at the news, for
what is going on in our world is not getting better. In fact in the eschatology of the Muslim’s they
believe that they have to make things get so bad that the 12th Inman
will return to make things better, so they are trying their best to make things
worse and are doing a good job at it.
Another thing is that in May of 1948 Israel became a nation and many of
us believe that even though they don’t realize it they are preparing the way
for the return of their Messiah, the Messiah they don’t believe in. So Zechariah is saying in this highlighted
statement we are looking at when Christ returns it will happen just like I said
it would.
We will
look at the last part of this verse in our next SD.
7/2/2016 8:07 PM
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