SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/2/2016 9:42 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
The People will Repent
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 12:10-14
Message of the verses: “10 “I will pour out on the house of David
and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication,
so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for
Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like
the bitter weeping over a firstborn. 11 “In that day there will be great mourning in
Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 “The
land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by
itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by
itself and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by
itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and
their wives by themselves; 14 all the families that remain, every family by
itself and their wives by themselves.”
We begin
looking at the second main point under Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary which is
entitled “The Lord will Cleanse Israel” and it covers 12:10-13:9, and we look
at the first sub-point under this second main point.
Dr. Wiersbe
writes “In delivering Israel from her enemies, or Lord’s ultimate goal is more
than their national perseveration, for their spiritual restoration is uppermost
in His heart. He wants to reveal Himself
to them and establish the kind of relationship that was impossible in previous
centuries because of their unbelief.”
When we
hear God’s word and also recognize His grace then we will repent if we are
going to at any time. Repentance is not
something we work up to, and I am talking about repentance that is a part of
salvation, for the Spirit of God will open our hearts to understand the truth that
is found in the Word of God so that we will have a desire to repent of our sins
and then trust the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord.
As we look
at verse ten we see the words “the Spirit of grace and supplication” and in the
NIV the word Spirit is not capitalized showing that they believe this verse is
not speaking of the Holy Spirit, but in the NASB we see it capitalized and so I
believe that it is the Holy Spirit that is being spoken of here. Joe says something similar “28 "It will
come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your
sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young
men will see visions. 29 “Even on the male and female servants I will pour out
My Spirit in those days (Joel 2:28-29).”
Now as we look at the later part of verse ten we see that the nation of
Israel will look upon the Lord Jesus Christ as He returns from heaven and see
that He is the one whom they have pierced and realize who He is. Psalm 22:16 and Isaiah 53:5, along with John
19:34, 37 speak of Israel putting their faith in Him.
Now
Zechariah goes on to mention families of different people in verses 11-14 and
this shows that these individual families will come to repentance and faith in
their Messiah. He does mentions also families
or clans of Israel will mourn. We have
to believe that this will be a very difficult time for those people as they for
the most part of their lives had believed the lies that were taught to them,
that Jesus was not the Messiah, and now they will realize that they are wrong
and because of this they will mourn over their sin and repent.
10/2/2016 10:01 PM
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