SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/11/2016 9:49 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Holiness will Characterize all of Life
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 14:20-21
Message of the verses: “20 In that day there will be inscribed on
the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO THE LORD." And the cooking pots in
the LORD’S house will be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Every cooking pot
in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all who
sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer
be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts in that day.”
Verse 20
shows us something that is kind of hard to believe, and that is that the bells
of the horses will have written on them “Holy to the Lord,” as we might expect
that on the high priests robe as described in Exodus 28:36-38. We also see it on the common cooking utensils
and on the bowls before the altars. Now
the last part is more understandable than the first part. Dr. Wiersbe that “In the Kingdom Age every
aspect of life will be holy to the Lord,” and we know that when God called
Israel out of Egypt that He stated the following in Exodus 19:6 “and you shall
be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you
shall speak to the sons of Israel.’” In
the Kingdom Age this surely will be fulfilled.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes “For the believer today, this is the Old Testament version of 1 Corinthians
10:31 ‘Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory
of God.’ There is no ‘secular’ or ‘sacred’
in the Christian life, because everything comes from God and should be used for
His glory.”
As I read
verse twenty-one I was a little taken back at the use of the word Canaanite, as
they are not allowed in the house of the Lord of hosts during the Kingdom Age,
and as I read the commentary from Dr. Wiersbe he explained that “The Hebrew
word translated ‘Canaanite’ in Zechariah 14:21 refers to merchants and traders
or to any unclean person, both of whom would defile the temple of God.” This
makes it much more understandable to me.
Remember at the beginning of Christ’s ministry and at the end of it He
cleansed the temple as He ran the merchants and money changers out of the temple. The house of prayer for all the nations,
Jesus said, had been turned into a den of thieves, and the high priests were
the ones making all the money from it.
Things will be much different in the Millennial temple, as it will
always be holy to the Lord.
Dr. Wiersbe
concludes this last chapter of his commentary on Zechariah by writing “Zechariah’s
book begins with a call to repentance, but it ends with a vision of a holy
nation and a glorious kingdom. Zechariah
was one of God’s heroes who ministered at a difficult time in a difficult
place, but he encouraged God’s people by showing them visions of what God has
planned for their future. God is still
jealous over Jerusalem and the Jewish people, and He will fulfill His promises. ‘Pray for the peace of Jerusalem’ (Psalm
122:6.’” 10/11/2016 10:09 PM
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