SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/31/2016 12:09 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-5 Divine Conqueror
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 9:15-17
Message of the verses: “15 The LORD of hosts will defend them. And
they will devour and trample on the sling stones; And they will drink and be
boisterous as with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin,
Drenched like the corners of the altar. 16 And the LORD their God will save
them in that day As the flock of His people; For they are as the stones of a
crown, Sparkling in His land. 17 For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs!
Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.”
The first
thing that I want to remind you, that I have spoken of in earlier Spiritual
Diaries is that when we see the term “The LORD of hosts” it is speaking of the
Lord of armies as it is translated in the NLT “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies will
protect his people.” Zechariah is saying
that God will protect His people like a lion protects her cubs, and MacArthur
concludes “And Israel like the lion of God takes their enemies and devours
them.”
When we
look at the next part of verse fifteen we see that the stones, either big or
small, that are thrown at Israel will not hurt them they will just fall and not
do any harm to them. Victory for Israel
will be joyous, like a person who drinks wine that makes them happy and they
get loud. MacArthur writes “The battle
he’s really discussing here is Armageddon.
And the armies of the world may amass themselves against Israel, but
Israel’s going to wind up just walking over the stones, shouting with joy.”
Verse
fifteen goes on to say “And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin,
Drenched like the corners of the altar.”
The bowl he is talking about is the bowl under the place where the
sacrifices are made which catch the blood of the sacrifices. This blood collected in these bowls is what
they put onto the altar, all the corners of the altar. This is not really a pretty sight to see, but
that is what they did.
MacArthur
writes “But they were literally, he says, you will be like bowls that are used
to splatter blood all over the altar.
And what he’s really saying here is that Israel is going to see the
splattering of the bloodshed of the godless.
Se, both parts are here. That’s a terrible thing to think about. There’s going to be so much blood, you’ll
think you’re the bowls. Read Revelation
14:20, the blood will be to the depth of the horses’ bridles for 200 miles.”
So we have seen the salvation on one side and
then we have seen the terrible judgment of the godless on the other hand. We have also seen the character of one
worldly king and the character of the Divine King in this 9th
chapter of Zechariah.
In verse
sixteen we see the care of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ and He will turn
judgment into salvation again “And the LORD their God will save them in that
day As the flock of His people.” Then
Zechariah writes “For they are as the stones of a crown, Sparkling in His land.” This is like jewels in His crown.
Now as we
have looked at this chapter we see that there is a great future for the people
of Israel “17 For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs! Grain will make
the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.” After all of the hardships that Israel has
gone through since AD 70 they finally got their land back and will at the end
of the seven year tribulation period see the return of their Messiah who will
rule over them for the next 1,000 years.
We truly hope that this will happen very soon.
8/31/2016 12:34 AM
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