SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/25/2016 8:56 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 The Divine Conqueror
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 9:8-9
Message of the verses: We left of in our last SD speaking about what
is seen in verse eight of chapter nine and stated that in the middle of the
verse we saw a change of “conquerors” as the first part of the verse speaks of
Alexander the Great, and the second part of the verse speaks of the coming
Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is where we want to pick up in this
SD. Now what we will see in these
remaining verses of chapter nine and really all the way through the rest of the
book is the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in judgment, and also in salvation,
as He returns to earth at the end of the seven years of the Tribulation period
described in chapters 6-19 of the book of Revelation. Now there will also be times when Zechariah
does speak of the first coming of our Lord in these chapters too, but mostly it
will be about His second coming.
“8 But I
will camp around My house because of an army, Because of him who passes by and
returns; And no oppressor
will pass over them anymore, For now I have seen with My eyes (9:8).” Now the highlighted portion of this verse
speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ as it says that “no oppressor will pass over
them anymore,” and this will not happen until Christ comes at His second
coming.
“9 Rejoice
greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold,
your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and
mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey (9:9).” Now we know that this verse refers to the
Lord Jesus Christ riding into Jerusalem on a donkey which is seen in Luke
chapter 19 among other chapters of the gospels, and this of course happened
during the end of His first coming. Now
contrast His coming with Alexander’s triumphal entries into the cities he
conquered as he rode on a white horse, but that is exactly what Jesus will be
riding when He returns from heaven with others, and all will be riding on white
horses. That is the contrast of His
first coming and His second coming as the first one shows the humble Savior,
while the second coming shows the conquering King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
John
MacArthur talks about four elements of His character as we look at verse
nine. The first one is He is a King “Behold,
your king is coming to you.” This speaks
of Israel’s King, also Israel’s redeemer as He is the promised seed of David,
the Messiah, and is the One who will reign, the One whom Isaiah speaks of as a
child who is born and the government shall be upon His shoulders. It is hard to wait for our Lord to return to
planet earths to stop all of these terrible things that are now going on all
over planet earth.
Next thing
that He is just “He is just.” We see in
His character that it is both royal and also righteous, and that means that He
will deal justly. He is going to do what
is right. We see a lot of
unrighteousness in our world today as people with money and power can get away
with doing wrong, and people who are poor are put in jail for some little
thing. This will all stop when the King arrives
back on planet earth.
Next we see
He has salvation “endowed with salvation.”
His name even means Savior as that is what Jesus means. We truly need a Savior and there is none like
Him. We saw in the first part of chapter
nine that Alexander was no Savior, but we see in the last part of chapter nine
that Jesus is a Savior.
The fourth
thing we see of His character is that He is on only a King and a righteous
Savior, but He is meek, and lowly which also is a lot different that Alexander. “Humble,” is how the NASB puts it. John MacArthur writes “The same Hebrew word
is used in an economic sense to speak of somebody with no money. That sounds like Jesus, doesn’t it? You know, when they crucified Him, they took
all of His belongings. You know what
they had? One robe, that was it. Foxes have holes, the birds of the air have
nests, Matthew 8:20 says, but the Son of Man hath not any place…what? To lay
His head.”
8/25/2016 9:28 PM
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