1102 Zech 2

Our Heavenly Father never forgets His children and He never forgets to fulfill the covenants and promises He has made in His Word, the proof of which can easily be documented over and over and over again in the pages of History. Of course some of those promises contain both blessings and cursings which are conditional upon the course of action His children decide to follow (Deut. 30:19). To that end, our forefathers who "sorely displeased Him" (Zech. 1:2) by not listening to His prophets (vs. 3), thereby rejecting His Word, found out that the cursings are just as sure a promise He fulfills as the blessings (Zech. 1:6).

We also know that among the many immutable promises our Father made was that there would be two advents, the first of which would be as the Lamb of God, Emmanuel, who would come and dwell among us in a tabernacle of flesh and pay the ultimate price upon the cross of Calvary to save and redeem His children. However, the second advent would not be to come as a Lamb to be slain but as the mighty King of kings and Lord of lords who would "raise up out of His habitation" (Zech. 2:13) and execute justice and righteousness among all nations and restore the kingdom upon Mount Zion in the great city of Jerusalem. And you can be as sure as knowing that the sun will rise in the east, that God has NOT forgotten that promise and just as surely as the first advent came to pass and was fulfilled exactly as it is written, so SHALL the second advent come to pass and be fulfilled exactly as it is written. In fact, the name "Zechariah" means "Remembered of Yahveh" and the subject of his marvelous book is just that, i.e. that God has remembered His children! You see, Zechariah speaks of the second advent when Messiah returns to Jerusalem and he details the work of the ministry which comes in the spirit of Elijah in these last days and prepares the way before Him.

In chapter 1 we documented the time frame of Zechariah's prophecies as being when the Four Horns, the Four Hidden Dynasties, the first Four Seals of Rev. 6, had succeeded in scattering all of true Israel and Judah and Jerusalem to where "no man did lift up his head" (Zech. 1:21)! Of course Zechariah, the servant of God, by the grace of God was able to (and did) "lift up his eyes" and see the Four Horns (Zech. 1:18), just as the apostle John was able to stand on the sand of the sea and lift up his eyes and "see" the beast, the New World Order powered by these Four Horns, rise up from among the people. It has come to pass and the hourglass marking the final hour of this generation of the fig tree is all but emptied out.

We also learned that the carpenters of God shall come from the four corners of the earth and "fray" those powers and cause the walls of Babylon the Great to come tumbling down just like the walls of Jericho whereby you can be sure there also shall not one stone be left standing atop another!

Let us now continue with our reading and understanding of the great Book of Zechariah. The subject as we begin chapter 2 is taken from Zech. 1:16 which is Christ's "return to Jerusalem with mercies" to build His house. Remember, this concerns the second advent, not the first.

This verse refers in part to the Song of Moses (Deut. 32) that the house of God now being built will be singing when the LORD comes to dwell in the midst of His children on Mount Zion (See Rev. 15:3-4).

What do we say then? We say hear the words of your Father: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts."

So turn to Him and seek Him now! Seek Him daily through His Word and come out of confusion, come out of Babylon, and enter into His rest now! Else you can continue to follow the traditions of men and become part of the new "Silent Majority", those silenced by the shaking of His hand when He pours out His Wrath upon the world of the ungodly.