Comments On Zechariah Four

Posted : 12 Nov, 2010 05:47 AM

Some Comments on Zechariah Four

Bernard



Zec 4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked,

and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it,

and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which

are upon the top thereof:



Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall

rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with

those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro

through the whole earth.



Zechariah 4: 2-6 says " And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said,

I have looked, and behold a candlestick all [of] gold, with a bowl

upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to

the seven lamps, which [are] upon the top thereof:



3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right [side] of the bowl,

and the other upon the left [side] thereof.



4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying,

What [are] these, my lord?



5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me,

Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This [is] the word of

the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by

my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts"



Revelation 11: 4 says "These are the two olive trees, and the two

candlesticks standing before the God of the earth."



'These" refer to the "two witnesses: of Revelation 11: 3. Remember

that Paul says in Romans 11 that Gentile believers are grafted into

the good olive tree, which is Christ and also the object of God's

affection, Israel, but Israel reborn in Christ. The two candlesticks

mentioned in Zechariah 4: 2-3 represent the light of Christ's truth

to his followers.



Zerubbabel led the first group of the Remnant of exiles back to

Jerusalem after Cyrus decreed that Jerusalem was to be rebuilt. The

temple was rebuilt under Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah in about 516

BC.



"Not by might, not by power, but by my spirit" When man does things

in his own power and might, he messes up. We must be led by the

Spirit of God in doing things.



Very often when man responds to God and his word, man mingles that

word with man's own ways of thinking. This happened in a big way when

Roman Catholicism took over the early form of Christianity. The

Church mingled the iron and the clay of Daniel 2: 33. The Church

continued some aspects of the Christian faith, but mixed in with it

man's rule, man's government and pagan ritual.



We can see the man made theology of dispenszationalism is a mixing of

Scripture with man's own way of thinking. Dispensationalism changed

the Gospel of Christ into a doctrine more acceptable to man. In

dispensationalism believers think they will be raptured off the earth

before the tribulation begins, and will not have to face the terrible

times ahead. In a way the teaching that Chroistians will be raptured

before the tribulation is a doctrine made by man's "might", and by his

"power" and not by the the Spirit of God.



The plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel is a reminder of Amos 7: 8,

"And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A

plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the

midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:"



God measures the faithfulness of his people in their doctrines and

morals by the metaphor of a plummet line. The plummet line is used by

carpenters to find the true vertical of a wall they build. So in

God's metaphor those who claim to be God's people fall on one side or

the other side of the line. If you fall on the wrong side of the .line

you can repent of false doctrines or sinful behavior and move over the

the other side of the line where god accepts you.

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