SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/30/2016 11:01 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
The Lord will Defeat the Enemy
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 12:4-9; 14:12-15
Message of the verses: “4 “In that day," declares the LORD,
"I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness.
But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the
peoples with blindness. 5 “Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ’A
strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the LORD of
hosts, their God.’ 6 "In that day I will make
the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch
among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the
surrounding peoples, while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their
own sites in Jerusalem. 7 “The LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, so
that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah. 8 “In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the
house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them. 9 "And in that day I will set about to
destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
“12 Now
this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who
have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their
sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. 13 It will come about
in that day that a
great panic from the LORD will fall on them; and they will seize one another’s
hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another. 14 Judah
also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations
will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. 15 So also
like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the
donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.”
Dr. Wiersbe
begins this section stating “Panic, a plague, and special power given to the
Jewish warriors (12:8) are the means God will use to conquer the invading
armies.” In the first section from
chapter twelve we see that God will strike every horse with bewilderment and
the rider of the horse will be struck with blindness. Notice that God says that He will be the One
doing this, and it reminds me a little bit about the story of Gideon when the
Lord used Gideon and three hundreds to defeat an enemy of Israel as the enemy
went mad and started killing each other, but God was the One who caused that
and will be the One who causes this.
Think about the whole world being against Israel in the tribulation
period, all the nations going to go against her and yet it will be the nations
themselves who will be in trouble, even though many in Israel will be killed,
in the end Israel will be the one who will stand against her enemies.
God has
promised to look out for His people and He will keep that promise. Zechariah says that God will make the Jews to
be like fire and their enemies will be like dry stubble. Jesus Christ will be the One who will defend
His people as He will defeat their enemies with the sword of His mouth as it
says in the 19th chapter of Revelation.
Now Judah
is mentioned in this section as they will play in this battle, even though
Jerusalem will be the main focus the invaders must march through Judah to get
to Jerusalem. The people in Judah will
fight bravely as Dr. Wiersbe says they “will wax valiant in the fight, and God
will enable them to conquer (vv. 5-6).
The weakest Jewish warrior will have the power of David, who slew tens
of thousands of enemy soldiers (1 Sam. 18:7).
The Jewish army will go forth like the Angel of the Lord who slew 185,000
Assyrian soldiers in one night (Isa. 37).”
In our next
SD on Zechariah will begin to look at the second point from Dr. Wiersbe’s
outline “The Lord will Cleanse Israel” and this will cover Zech. 12:10-13:9.
9/30/2016 11:22 PM
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