Zechariah 9 was the topic and if I was to just read it in my devotionals I might have passed over it as a simple prophetic chapter that I can't exactly seem to understand. But Pastor Jack pointed out, for those less historically inclined, that this chapter tells almost the whole redemptive story of the history of God's people!
The even cooler part is that it is directly parallel with Alexander the Great's conquest and that led right to the sparing of Jerusalem, just like God said He would spare His people! Pastor Jack pointed out that Zechariah predicted the fall of Tyre, which Alexander did conquer in 6 months time. But at the time that this book was written that Type was superior and impregnable. King Nebuchadnezzar spent 13 years trying to take it any never could. Imagine hearing that prophecy and thinking... yeah right. Or even if you believed it, it would be pretty frightening. And then watching Alexander take Tyre, Gaza, Philistia... just exactly like Zechariah said he would and then coming to Jerusalem and sparing it because he had a dream about some priests. Exactly like it was predicted! Sometimes I look through the old testament and get excited and not often enough do I realize that the power of God enabled these men to foretell the future. That is something that even in today's day and age, where "magic" and wonders have become common place, we can hardly comprehend.
Read Zechariah 9 if you get a chance and have some historical awareness. Then be amazed, be VERY amazed!
Somehow I forget you have this blog, even though I know I've read it before.
ReplyDeleteI love hearing your thoughts...and now I'm going to check out Zechariah 9. :)