Saturday, December 23, 2017

Zechariah 8

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’” v.23

Read chapter 8
The first time I read this I thought what a funny picture.  In my mind it looks as a Jewish man with ten men holding on to his robe like children on their mother as they travel to Jerusalem.   This could be literal or a metaphor of what's actually happening at this time. 
This verse (and most of this chapter) is foreshadowing the Kingdom to come still as we read of the Lord's returning to dwell among them again (v.3), of the streets of the once destructed city of Jerusalem filled again with old men and women, boys and girls, feasts of joy and gladness in stead of fasts of mourning and unfulfilled longing.  And the other thing mentioned of this foreshadow of the kingdom is that other nations will be there!  Not just Jews but men from all nations will humble and honor the Lord.  In the New Testament when gentiles started believing in Jesus Christ and becoming coheirs of God's blessings, this was no new surprise to the Jews for if they knew the scriptures they would know that the nations would inherit the kingdom as well.  
When the Kingdom is here on earth Jerusalem will be like the capitol of the world where God's seat of government is, kinda like Washington DC is the seat of government for the USA.  For in verse three we read, 
Thus says the Lord:
‘I will return to Zion,
And dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth,
The Mountain of the Lord of hosts,
The Holy Mountain.’
So it seems in the kingdom if one wants to go to Jerusalem to meet with Jesus that they have to go with a Jewish person, perhaps this is a picture of all nations humbling themselves not only to God but to the Jewish nations that has been a often maligned people for almost all time.
Praise the Lord we who believe from whatever nation we come from that we may God to Him with access and boldness and inherit the Kingdom!  How do you picture the Kingdom of all nations there?  Of the Jewish nation as God's chosen people positioned?

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