SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/21/2016 10:40 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-6 The Rejection of the
True Messiah
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 11:11-13
Message of the verses: “11 So it was broken on that day, and thus
the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word
of the LORD.”
Once again
I want to remind you that this is an action sermon that Zechariah is presenting
to the people of Israel who had come back from captivity, and action sermon
where he is actually playing the Messiah.
Now what we
see here is that those who have come back from the captivity in Babylon were
seeing Zechariah play out this sermon and according to verse 11 they believed
that what they were seeing was the word of the LORD. Now at this point I wish that I had added
this portion to the last SD for it seems to fit better with it.
“12 I said
to them, "If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never
mind!" So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.”
Now as we
look at this passage, and it goes on for a few more verses, we will have a
tendency to look at it from what happens in the New Testament, but first of all
let us look at it from Zechariah’s perspective.
Zechariah is play a part here, a part that he is playing the Messiah when
He comes to earth and we have seen that the Messiah comes to preach to the
people of Israel, and He did this for a while, perhaps a little over three
years, and the job that He did was to preach to these people about God’s mercy,
and as we have learned from this chapter that they did not want to have
anything to do with Him, and so in verse 12 He tells them that if they wanted
to that they should pay Him His wages.
Now they gave Him 30 pieces of silver.
Now this amount has some significance in that this was the price for a
slave, and also this was the price that a man had to pay if his bull gored
another person. We can conclude from
this that they did not pay Him very much.
“13 Then the LORD said to me,
"Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by
them." So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter
in the house of the LORD.”
I think that there is a little sarcasm
in the word “magnificent” which is over the price that they paid Him, and so He
is told to throw it to the potter which is what He did. However it says that He threw it in the
potter in the House of the Lord.
Now as we look at this from the
perspective of the New Testament we know that this prophecy was actually
fulfilled by Judas, the one who betrayed our Lord. However I want you to think about something
that I have been thinking about, something that I never thought about before,
and that most of the people of Israel during the time when Jesus was on earth
believed that Jesus was only worth the price of a slave, and I think that we
know that Jesus actually did the work of a slave especially in the upper room
when He was washing the feet of His disciples, which is the lowest thing that a
slave can do, and yet He took on that roll and did it.
There is a cutoff point in this 11th chapter of
Zechariah and that comes in verse fifteen, and so we have one more SD to do as
we look at only verse fourteen in our next SD.
9/21/2016 11:06 PM
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