SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/21/2016 12:07 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Salvation of Israel
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 12:10
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.”
Now we did
look at this verse in our last SD, and promised that we would look once again
at it in this SD as it has to do with the salvation of Israel.
Now we can
see from the beginning of this verse that God is in the business of pouring, as
He never sprinkles, and what does He pour out but His Spirit, the Spirit of
grace and of supplication. He speaks of
the Spirit of grace because that is the motive and the reason that He is given,
and then we move to the Spirit of supplication and this is the response that He
brings. MacArthur adds “When God pours
out His Spirit of Grace, we respond in prayer.
Zechariah is saying that just as God pours out refreshing showers on
thirsty and parched ground, so will He pour out the Spirit of grace and
supplication on a repentant needy Israel.”
Let us look
at a few verses which tell us more about this term: “Hebrews 10:29 “How much severer punishment
do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and
has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified,
and has insulted the
Spirit of grace?” Next we look at
Joel 2: 28-29 "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.” Peter mentioned these verses in his sermon
that he gave on the Day of Pentecost when the church age began. However when Peter spoke these verses to that
crowd it only showed a taste of what was going to happen to Israel during this
last part of the tribulation period, and also into the Millennial Kingdom age.
Ezekiel
36:26 also speaks of this moment when Israel will receive their salvation from
the Lord “"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a
heart of flesh.”
The reason
for them receiving their salvation comes from the middle part of our verse
today when Zechariah writes “so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced.” The people of Israel will realize that it was
upon that old rugged cross that Jesus bore their sins in His body to proved
salvation for them, and after He died the soldiers pierces His side which I
believe is what Zechariah is prophesying that they will do to Him.
Now notice
also what this portion of the verse says “they will look on Me,” and that “Me”
refers to Jesus Christ the very God of God.
MacArthur
writes “And then Israel is going to receive salvation, look at 13:1, ‘In that
day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.’ God’s going to wash the nation from its sin.”
Now the
salvation that Israel receives in that day is open to those who will accept the
truth of what the gospel is, and that is first of all we must confess that we
are sinners, and as sinners we sin, and so we repent of our sins and then
receive the Lord Jesus Christ into your hearts and then, like Israel in that
day you will be saved.
10/21/2016 12:33 AM
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