SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/20/2016 10:19 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “I
Will Not Feed You”
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah: 11:9
Message of the verses: “9 Then I said, "I will not pasture you.
What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be
annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.’” “9 And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to
any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the
rest take one another’s flesh for food (BBE).”
I want to
remind you that we are in the middle of an action sermon played out by
Zechariah, as he is playing the part of the Messiah here. Now we will look at Matthew 23:37 to see what
Jesus said “37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those
who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the
way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.” This surely looks to me that this is the
fulfillment of verse 9 of Zechariah 11.
Now as we
look at the rest of verse nine we see some more terrible news for the Jews in
the time of Jesus, actually some 40 years after Jesus goes back to heaven. The verse goes on to say what is to die let
it die, and then what is to be annihilated, let it be so, and then the verse
actually talks about cannibalism which is exactly what happened during the
surge done by the Romans in 70 AD. “9 “I
will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters,
and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with
which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them’ (Jeremiah
19:9).” This verse is actually talking
about what happened in 586 BC, but the same thing happened in 70 AD.
“10 And I
took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord’s agreement, which
he had made with all the peoples, might be broken (Zechariah 11:10).”
Now you
remember that Zechariah had two staffs that he spoke about earlier in this
chapter, and now he breaks the one in pieces showing that the agreement or
covenant was now being broken. MacArthur
explains “Here is the idea that God has agreed to restrain the nations for a
time from decimating Israel and made an agreement. That’s what that covenant is. I had agreed to protect Israel, be Israel’s
protector, and He had been since the time of Zechariah. Five hundred years before He had been the
protector of Israel. But He breaks the
staff of protection, shatters the staff or protection.” Remember what we just quoted from Matthew
23:37 as this pertains also to this verse.
Let us also look at Luke 19:41-44 “41 When He approached Jerusalem, He
saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you had known in this day,
even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from
your eyes. 43 “For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up
a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, 44 and
they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will
not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time
of your visitation.’” We have looked at
these verses in an earlier SD, even when we were in the first part of the 12th
chapter of the book of John as it is a parallel passage to that, and we saw
that the reason that God is breaking that agreement with Israel is because they
did not recognize their visitation, the visitation of Messiah coming to Israel.
9/20/2016 10:41 PM
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