Zech 13

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Review

Israel in sin (killing babies was a big one), God sent them into exile

Jeremiah told them this would happen and prophesied a return in 70 years

Right on time thanks to Daniels intercession, and the Angel Michael, and of course the Power of GOD....

They were released by the king of the world to build their temple so they started to, but ran into many obstacles. attacks, lies, practical issues, unfaithfulness.

God answered their prayers and caused the Babylonian KING to force their enemies to bank roll the entire Enterprise and the building of the wall.

They built the wall it was very tough and discouraging, and took amazing leadership to guide them through. Nehemiah is a book that shows much of what was going on.

It is during this time of hardship and trials that they could be wondering is God really out there , does he care?

Go used Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Prophet Haggai to help guide them during this time...

English Standard Version Introduction

As Haggai encouraged the returned Jewish exiles to rebuild the temple, Zechariah encouraged them to repent and renew their covenant with God. Such spiritual renewal would be necessary for the people to be ready to worship God once the temple was rebuilt (about 516 B.C.). He accused them of doing the very things their ancestors had done before the exile. He was concerned about social justice for widows, orphans, and foreigners. But as the people endured opposition from the non-Jewish inhabitants of Judea, Zechariah reassured them of God’s abiding comfort and care. God would continue his covenant with Israel. Messianic hope was rekindled during Zechariah’s ministry, and the book ends with the promise that the Lord would establish his rule over all the earth (14:9).

We have now turned our attention to the little read and often neglected Book of Zechariah. Zechariah is a priest and prophet (one of the few with both roles)

First part of chapter 1 is a call for Israel to return to the LORD. Zechariah 1:3, Don’t be link you sinful fathers! And they repent!

Zechariah 1:3 ESV

3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 1:14 ESV

14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.

Zechariah 1:17 ESV

17 Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’ ”

Chapters 1b-6 = has a series of visions that clearly show that some of his prophetic material is about the promised Messiah!

VISIONS1-3: Horsemen, Horns (babylon, persia, greece & ROme) & Craftmen (detroy the horns), Man Measuring Jerusalem,

Zechariah 2:8 “8 For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye: 9 “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.”

Zechariah 2:13 “13 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”

VISION4: Joshua High priest accused by satan given clean priestly garments,

Zechariah 3:9 “9 For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.”

VISION5 Golden Lampstand,

Zechariah 4:6 “6 Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.”

VISION6&7: Flying Scroll , Woman in a Basket,

VISION8: four chariots

Zechariah 6:15 “15 “And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the Lord. And you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.””

Chapters 6-7 are about some issues current events epmasizing a call to Justice and Mercy. Some of the Jews in Bethel, near by that are not helping build Jerusalem are worried about fasting on the 9th of Av, Marking the Destruction of the Temple in in Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar a 70 years ago… They were not truly concerned about rightly walking before god in a practical way… showing kindness, rendering true judgement, helping the widow, fatherless and sojourners.

Chapters 8-11 Prophetic statement that shows God is concerned with them, and goes on to prophetically describe future events like Alexander teh greats conquest of the philistines, and how he left Jerusalem alone. — and also Jesus and the Triumphal entry into Jerusalem

Chapter 12- Prophetic statement: one of the several place in in the Bible that appears to describe the battle of Armageddon.

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God will make Jerusalem a cup of “staggering” to all surrounding people. a Heavy stone, and all who lift it will hurt themselves.

the enemies around Israel hate her strongly right now!

all the nations will gather against Jerusalem

God will defend her and strike every horse with panic & Blindness, riders with madness

God will make Judah HOT like a blazing pot in the midst of tinder, and shall burn up all surrounding peoples.

Inhabitants of Jerusalem will be protected by God and given great strength like a mighty angel

God will seek to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem.

Then a picture of the Messiah

Zechariah 12:10 “10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.”

all morning by them selves by tribes!

Zech 13

A fountain of cleansing

Zechariah 13:1 “1 “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.”

Goes with the previous section with them seeing the Messiah Jesus.

Which goes with the Armageddon passage.

Why is cleansing important?

God wants us to be clean.

1 peter 1:16 “16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”” (Lev 22:23 , Lev 19:2, Lev 22:22, Lev 21:8, Lev 11:45, Lev 20:7, Lev 20:26, Lev 17:11,

Be Heroic (2. The Lord Will Cleanse Israel (Zech. 12:10–13:9))

Isaiah had admonished the nation, Isa. 1:16 but they refused to listen.

Jeremiah had pleaded with his people, Jer. 4:14, but they wouldn’t obey.

But now, in response to Israel’s repentance and faith, the Lord will wash them clean! This forgiveness is part of the new covenant that God promised to His people Jer. 31:31–34

Jeremiah 31:31–34 ESV

31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

External cleansing is done with water, but according to the bible Internal cleaning of the Heart is done by blood.

Lev 17:11 “11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.”

1 John 2:2 “2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.”

This is the Fountain Filled with Blood. for it is the Blood of Jesus that does the cleansing.

Cutting off Idolatry

Zechariah 13:2 ESV

2 “And on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

This goes back to the weird vision of the woman in the basket perhaps, covering the sins not only of Israel but the uncleanliness of the land.

Zech 5:5-11 “5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.” 6 And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.” 7 And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket! 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening. 9 Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they taking the basket?” 11 He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.””

There are always two things God appears to care about with regard to Sin, the people and the LAND… fascinating.

Note the “prophets” here is in regard to false prophets as will be seen in the context “Spirit of uncleanness” and info coming up.

False prophets dealt with

these false prophets or bad shepherds will be contrasted with the True Shepherd

according to the Law of Moses False Prophets were to be killed Deut 13

Zechariah 13:3–6 ESV

3 And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies. 4 “On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, 5 but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’ 6 And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

False Prophets will go into pretending to be farmers because the backlash against them. even their parents will disown them and want them dead.

the reward vs Punishment for speaking lies. RIght now people think they can get away with it.

At some point that will change, and it will likely happen once Jesus comes back. False prophets will have a harder time peddling lies.

The true shepherd struck

Zechariah 13:7 ESV

7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Be Heroic (2. The Lord Will Cleanse Israel (Zech. 12:10–13:9))

Jesus quoted part of this prophecy when He was on His way to Gethsemane with His disciples (Matt 26:31).

“Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’” )

Jesus referred to it again when He was arrested in the garden (Matt 26:56)

“But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.” )

Only Jesus the Messiah could the Father call “the man who is My fellow,” that is, “the man who is My equal.” (See John 10:30 and John 14:9.)

turn my hand against the “little ones”=the lowly. those that crucified Jesus, or did not recognize him as the Messiah on Palm sunday?

But there is also a wider meaning of this text as it relates to the scattering of the nation in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem was taken by the Romans. The Jews had smitten their Shepherd on the cross (Isa. 53:10), and this act of rejection led to the nation being scattered (Deut. 28:64; 29:24–25).

Israel today is a dispersed people that is quickly coming together (more in israel than anywhere else)

Israel today they are a defiled people, but one day they shall be cleansed by Jesus

70,000 Jews returned to Israel in 2022!

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The nation will be refined

Zechariah 13:8–9 ESV

8 In the whole land, declares the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. 9 And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”

Be Heroic (2. The Lord Will Cleanse Israel (Zech. 12:10–13:9))

This image reminds us of the value God puts on His people Israel: they are like gold and silver that need to be refined in the furnace of affliction.

This had been their experience

in Egypt (Deut. 4:20) and

in Babylon (Isa. 48:10),

in the Holocaust, and so many times of affliction. (6 million jews 2/3 of all European jews, but Nazis killed 13 million people including soviet prisoners of war)

but “the time of Jacob’s trouble” will be their most difficult “furnace experience.” (worse than the Holocaust 2/3 will die this time)

The goldsmith refines the gold or silver so that the dross may be removed, and that’s what the Tribulation in the last days will accomplish for Israel.

One third of the people will be spared, the true believing remnant, while the rest will be rejected and perish.

That godly remnant who called on the Lord (Acts 2:21 ) will be saved and become the nucleus of the promised kingdom, for the Lord will acknowledge them as His own people (see Hosea 2:21–23).

Meaning for us

spiritual application for God’s people today.

We are also a defiled people who need to repent and be cleansed, and the promise of forgiveness is still valid (1 John 1:9).

God often has to put us through the furnace of suffering before we’ll call on Him and seek His face (Heb. 12:3–11; 1 Peter 4:12).

If God’s people will follow the instructions of 2 Chronicles 7:14, the Lord will cleanse and bless the church and bring healing to the land.

WAR ON DISHWASHERS

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced new efficiency regulations for dishwashers, beverage vending machines, and electric motors on Friday, the latest of several actions from the Biden administration to decrease power usage and combat climate change.

An announcement contended that the restrictions would decrease expenses for American consumers due to lowered energy consumption. Granholm said the administration is “using all of the tools at our disposal to save Americans money while promoting innovations that will reduce carbon pollution and combat the climate crisis.”

New dishwashers imported into the United States beginning in 2027 would have to consume 27% less power and use 34% less water, while more compact models would need to implement a 22% power reduction and an 11% water use reduction, according to an analysis of the proposal released by Bloomberg Law. Energy Department officials estimate that consumers would have to spend $15 more for a new dishwasher but would witness three times as much in energy savings over the appliance’s lifetime.

how much less effective does that make a Dishwasher?