SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/7/2016 8:51 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Divine Restoration
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 10:5-7
Message of the verse: 5 "They will be as mighty men,
Treading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle; And they will
fight, for the LORD will be with them; And the riders on horses will be put to
shame. 6 "I will strengthen the
house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will bring them
back, Because I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had
not rejected them, For I am the LORD their God and I will answer them. 7 "Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And
their heart will be glad as if from wine; Indeed, their children will see it
and be glad, Their heart will rejoice in the LORD.”
I have to
say that this will be a very short SD from these verses as Zechariah is talking
about the restoration of all of Israel as he talks about Judah, the southern
kingdom and also the house of Joseph which speaks of the Northern kingdom. I have mentioned when we studied the book of
Ezekiel that we saw in Ezekiel 37:16
"And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it,
’For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick
and write on it, ’For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel,
his companions.’ 17 “Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick,
that they may become one in your hand. 18 “When the sons of your people speak
to you saying, ’Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?’ 19 say to
them, ’Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph,
which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and
I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and
they will be one in My hand."’ 20 “The sticks on which you write will be
in your hand before their eyes. 21 “Say to them, ’Thus says the Lord GOD,
"Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they
have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own
land; 22 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of
Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be
two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.” In May of 1948 the leader of Israel was
wondering what the nation should be called and this prophecy was given to him
and thus their country was called Israel as there was no longer any division
like there was before.
So we see
in our passage from Zechariah that God is going to empower the people of Israel
and will bring them back together again.
9/7/2016 9:11 AM
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