Let's open the Word of God to Zechariah chapter 12, Zechariah chapter 12. While you're turning to Zechariah, he is quite a remarkable prophet, Zechariah. Prophesied in about 520 to 518. Prophesies after the Babylonian captivity is over and the people of Israel have been released from Babylon by Cyrus. They've come back to the land. He's what we call a postexilic prophet. He's prophesying to the people in the newly constituted nation of Israel. They've gotten their life back. They're in their country, and he encourages them to restore their love for God, their worship of God, and to build the temple. And he encourages them in that by prophesying the Word of the Lord to them--that the Messiah will come, the Messiah will come.
The theme of the coming Messiah runs all the way through Zechariah. The opening nine chapters or so focus a lot on the first coming of Messiah--features of the first coming of Messiah. But chapters 12 to 14 focus on the Second Coming of Messiah. So he gives them this amazing vision of the wonderful future that Israel has in the plan of God, a future of national salvation when the Messiah comes to establish His Kingdom and fulfill all the promises given to the patriarchs and to David and all the prophets in the past...
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“ An excellent expositional sermon on eschatology! ” Notice this is a fine explanation! ¶ http://tinyurl.com/zr7nzge (Transcript for this sermon) ¶ This sermon shows how book of Zechariah relates to eschatology! I will point out that most MP4 files can be played on android devices. Unfortunately, it's a huge file,. Even my tablet with Android Jellybean couldn't play it with the SA popup player. With my high speed Internet connection, I was able to play the video in the background while reading the transcript on my Windows desktop. This worked out well. ¶ If you can't play the video, and you don't want to try to download the video file, certainly see the transcript. It is excellent. It is a very good replica of what was spoken. I would hope sometime this sermon is put up as an MP3. ¶ John MacArthur from the sermon: "Again we acknowledge, Lord, that Your Word is supernatural, divine, heavenly, transcendent, that it tells us things written two thousand five hundred years ago that are accurate and we can see on the horizon, even now. Truly this is Your Word and the God who has declared the future is the God who can save us from the future judgment. We know that You save us only when we mourn over our sin and embrace Christ as Savior."
Widely known for his thorough, candid approach to teaching God’s Word, John MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969. John and his wife,...
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