PT-2 The Divine Conqueror (Zech. 9:10)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/26/2016 11:56 PM

My Worship Time                                                                           Focus: PT-2 Divine Conqueror  

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Zechariah 9:10

            Message of the verses:  “10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; And the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to the nations; And His dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.”

            We will be looking at the second coming of Christ in verse ten, whereas we looked at the first coming in verse nine in our last SD.  We looked at His character in our last SD and we will look at His conquest in verse ten this evening

            Some may wonder why the OT prophets could jump from the first coming of Christ to the second coming of Christ, however they did not know that the church age would exist and that is why when they wrote of Messiah they did not know that there would be two comings of Him, but because we look back at the first coming we understand as we read the prophets that they prophesied about two comings.

            In the first coming of Christ there was deep humiliation and also affliction, but in the second coming there will be exaltation and glory as He will rule over the earth with a rod of iron, and will bring about peace on earth for the first time.

            We will only look at verse ten in this SD, and then look at verse eleven in our next SD. 

            When Zechariah says that the Lord will cut off the chariots from the different nations He will stop the wars as the chariots were symbols of war, and when Christ comes there will be no more wars while He rules on planet earth from Jerusalem.  Zechariah goes on to talk about the battle bow, another symbol of war and it will be cut off, which is another reference of no more war.  Next we see that He will speak peace to the nations and will rule from sea to sea.  When rulers of nations speak of peace it only last for a very short time in our world today, but when Jesus Christ comes to set up His kingdom there really will be peace, and it will last for 1000 years.  Now the river mentioned here is the Euphrates River.  Israel’s borders were suppose to go to the Euphrates River, as it was the eastern border of the land given originally to Abram.

No more war and the Messiah ruling over the whole earth.  I doesn’t get any better than that.

8/27/2016 12:14 AM