SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/8/2016 9:34 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Gentiles will worship
at Jerusalem
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 14:16
Message of the verses: “16 Then it will come about that any who are
left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to
year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of
Booths.”
I have read
in some places that one out of four people who are in the world at the time
after the rapture of the church will be alive at the end of the
tribulation. In numbers I don’t know how
many that will be as I don’t know how many will go in the rapture. The reason that I am saying this is because
in our verse tonight we see that Zechariah is telling us that “any who are left
of all the nations that went against Jerusalem,” and he is to me, talking about
the survivors of the tribulation period who are believers will be the ones who
will go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord.
Now remember after Jesus returns He will separate the sheep and the
goats putting the goats into the lake of fire with Satan, the Antichrist, and
the False prophet, so all who will be left to go into the kingdom will be the
believers who are left after the tribulation period, some Gentiles and some
Jews. The kingdom will begin with all
believers, however after children are born to these believers some of the
children will not accept the forgiveness they need to become believers and so at
that time not all will be believers.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes the following on this verse:
“Israel will have a ministry to the Gentiles who will trust the true and
living God and come to Jerusalem to worship at His temple (Isa. 2:2-5; Zech.
2:10-13). Of the seven annual feasts
listed in Leviticus 23, the Feast of Tabernacles is the only one that will be
celebrated during the Kingdom age (Lev. 23:33-44). This feast commemorated the nation’s
wilderness wanderings, but it also was a time of rejoicing at the bountiful blessings
of the Lord during the harvest (v. 40).
“But why
celebrate only the Feast of Tabernacles?
Merrill Unger makes an excellent suggestion when he points out that the
Feast of Tabernacles is the only one of the seven feasts of Leviticus 23 that
will not have been fulfilled when the kingdom is established.” What he is saying by not saying it is that
all the other feasts will have been fulfilled through the person of Jesus
Christ. I have to say that this would be
the most fun feast to celebrate because it is kind of like camping out only you
build your own little place to live in for the length of the feast, and you can
remember how the Lord took care of the children of Israel while they wondered
around the wilderness for forty years.
As believers today we can remember how the Lord has taken care of us our
entire life and celebrate that each month when we partake of the Lord’s Supper.
We have three more SD’s to look at in this portion of our
journey going through Zechariah and then we will go back to looking at some of
the things that John MacArthur brings up from his sermons on chapters
12-14. Not sure how long that will take
us, but we began this study in April of this year and hopefully we can finish
it sometime late this year so we can them move onto the book of Malachi.
10/8/2016 9:57 PM
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