Zechariah
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Title: The Lengthy Indictment Introduction Most of us don’t believe in curses but there are people who do and they practice magic, witchcraft and voodoo. Also in sports people often make up curses. During the 5 years that Babe Ruth played for the Boston Red Sox they won the world series three times. In 1918…
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Title: The Prime Mover Introduction The Prime Mover is well known to some as a film, or a computer game, or a comic book character, or a band, I use the term however in the philosophical sense of a first cause. The uncaused cause of other things. In the Bible God is the prime mover…
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Title: Our All-sufficient Priest Introduction Joshua was a genuine priest of Israel and is listed among the returning exiles in Ezra 2:2. He is frequently mentioned as the high priest who along with Zerubbabel received the messages of the Lord from Haggai in both chapters of that book. He was the first of the high…
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Title: The Wallless City Introduction The word utopia was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book “Utopia,” describing a fictional island with an ideal society in the Atlantic Ocean. Actually the word is the combination of two Greek words “ou” and “topos” and the meaning is “no place.” More’s work is…
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Title: Ironic Doom Introduction This passage is about history. For those of you who hated history in school, relax, this is not a classroom lecture. However, I want us to understand that history is full of ironies. The conquerors become the conquered. History is a fickle mistress. Events and people famous now will fade into…
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Title: False Peace Introduction Things are not always what they seem. In the situation, in general, it looks like the nations raised up to punish God’s people are prospering while the Jews returned from Babylon are facing the devastating project of rebuilding on the ruins of the Holy City. The message here is that Israel…
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Title: Overtaken Introduction It is generally understood that the message of the Old Testament prophets was repent or else. This is also the way the gospel is introduced in the first century at the commencement of Jesus’ ministry. John the Baptist came saying, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near.” In Matthew 3:7-10 we…
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Title: Hidden Truths Introduction There is a class of prophets who are called post-exilic, that is, they prophesied after the Jewish people returned from Babylon and began rebuilding. This is in the same period as the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Zechariah writes, In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word…
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OUTLINE OF ZECHARIAH I Eight Symbolic VisionsA The Commencement of the Visions1 The Preface 1:12 The Particulars 1:2-6B The Communication of the Visions1 The Vision of the Horsemen 1:7-172 The Visions of the Horns 1:18-213 The Vision of the Holy City 2:1-134 The Vision of the High Priest 3:1-105 The Vision of the Help 4:1-146…
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