Zechariah 8                                                                                        

 

Zechariah 8:1 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

 

2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

• I was jealous because you are following false teaching and not My Word
• The prophecies concerning Jerusalem and its inhabitants
• All refer to the future, and await their fulfillment in millennial days.
• Saith = hath said

3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

• I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem
• Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, meaning The Lord is there
• The mountain of the LORD of hosts the Holy Mountain
• Ezekiel 48:35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.
• Exodus 29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
  46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the Lord their God.
• Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
  3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
  4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
• Mic 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
  2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

• Old men and old women dwell in the streets = all will be safe
• What I understand all will be in young body
• All angels were young. I saw my grandpa and mother after they died, they were young. I don't know

5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

• At this time all are safe, why? Because Christ is with us. 
• He's using boys and girls showing we are all safe.
• All will be changed into their spiritually body. You will have a young body.

6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

• We're in the millennium
• God is showing us that ALL will Be SAFE. No Wickedness
• At the last trump, All will be changed into their own spiritually body, all will be young
• Mine eyes = "in those future days" of which He was speaking

7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

• He said you're not going to have to worry about evil people anymore

8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

• I will be their God, all will be safe.
• My people, the believers
• The millennal temple will be in Jerusalem

9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

• The prophets will tell us God's Plan
• If = here's the condition = If you study God's Word
• If you listen to man = God's not going to hear your cries
• God loves ALL His children = God needs to know IF you love Him
• This is why we are in this earth age = you are born with free will = God needs to know if your going to follow Him or satan
• 2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
  8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
• What is the day of the Lord? It's the millennium
• 1000 years =  Millennium = Revelation 20 = More on the Millennium = The last eight chapters of Ezekiel
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• God loves His children, He hopes none will perish
• But that all should come to repentance
• We all come short and need repentance
• When you do something wrong, ask God to forgive you
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
• 7th vials = The Elements is to destroy the evil things, the works of this earth age that is evil.
• Melt means be dissolved
• Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
• A thief in the night = They don't know God's Word. They don't have the seal of God in their forehead.
• They don't know = the seals, trumpets or vials = God' Plan
• Darkness means opposite of the truth = deception and confusing
• 4th trump = 1/3 of the Christians are spiritually dead to GOD'S WORD.
• 4th trump = It's to make a choice,  choose to follow God or Satan
• 1 King 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
• Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
• Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
• What did this verse say? The number is the number of a man.
• The name of the man is Satan = Satan's number is 666
• His number is 666 = to know what happens at the 6th seal, 6th trump and 6th vial.
• The sixth seal = Who is able to stand against Satan and his false angels
• What's happen at the sixth trump?
• Satan has been cast out with his angels for five months = Satan's tribulation
• What happen at the sixth vial?
• 6th vial - Satan's spirits of devil poured out on the earth.
• Revelation 16 and 17 Satan lies, deception and confusion poured out on the people, those that have not the seal of God in their forehead.
• What beast?
• Revelation 17 = 8th king = Satan saying he is God
• The truth shall make you free, God uses nature itself to relate something to you because you can identify with the things you can see.
• Who are the beasts?
• Daniel 7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
• Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
• And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
  Revelation 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbor.

• Before the Lord's Day, I set all men every one against his neighbor
• The Lord's going tell us what's going to happening just before the Lord's Day

11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.

12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

• God's very elect, All races = Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
  Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
  Isaiah 62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
  2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
  3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,

19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

• It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

• Satan standing in Jerusalem saying he God = 2 Thess 2
• Mark 13: 5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
• 1st seal - Don't be deceived, Satan's riding the first white horse
• 6th seal - Who is able to stand against Satan?
• Just as Satan deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden = Genesis 3
Mark 13:6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
• Don't be deceived, Many false Pastors use religion to deceived men.
• 6th trump = 2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
  2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
  3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
  4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
  5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
  Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
  Why, Because it's a lie
  What happen when Christ comes?
  All will be changed into their own spiritual body, at the last trump
  If you are still in your flesh body, you know that Christ has not return
  1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
• Paul is telling us this is the beginning of the millennium
• Because of the LAST trumpet = 7th trump
• 6th seal, Satan The false Christ appears to be Christ by imitating the Messiah, Don't be deceived.
• 7th trump = Rev 11 Christ returns and gathers His elect and pours out the wrath of God on those that worshipped Satan.

22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

• To pray before the Lord = this is Satan saying he God. Go back up and read
• Nations - a foreign nation, a flight of locusts, Gentile, heathen, nation, people
• Strong people = These say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan
• Joel 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
• Teeth = might ones, nations
• The Lion, The church of Pergamos God was not pleased with this church, Why?
  Revelation 2:12-13 We see then, that this is an evil place, where Satan exercises his power and authority. Thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat.
  Revelation 2:14 I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
  These say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
  Mark 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
  Why, Because it's a lie
  What happen when Christ comes?
  All will be changed into their own spiritual body, at the last trump
  If you are still in your flesh body, you know that Christ has not return
  1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
• Paul is telling us this is the beginning of the millennium
• Because of the LAST trumpet = 7th trump

23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

• As long as you are in flesh body, Christ has not return
• They seek power and therefore they grab onto the political system = they almost bring in one worldism
• Governments and the Kenites manipulates our money.
• Revelation chapters 13 and 17; tells us about  the political system
• Revelation 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
• Bible study Revelation 13:1
• Revelation 13:1 I stood upon the sand of the people, and saw Satan's one world order rise up out of the people, having 7 dominations (G7) and ten rulers of the earth (parts of G20) and almost brings in one world order.
  The woman Jezebel, The "great city is Babylon, or state of confusion  has setup lies, (Rev 2 & 17)
  And upon Satan's one world order, ten kings, the ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations and upon his evil leaders, they setup confusion, lies.
  5th vial = They setup Satan's seat in Jerusalem for two and one half months and the 6th trump sounds, and they give the kingdom over to Satan, the 8th king for another two and one half months.
  (Dan 2 and Dan 7) Rev 13 and Rev 17)
  5th trump = Satan's angels cast out into the earth Rev 9
  These 10 kings setup in Jerusalem for 5 months - Rev 17
  Rev 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
  13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
  One hour = 5 months = Rev 9

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God has told us many times, do not believe what any man may teach you unless you first check them out directly from God's Word which is unchangeable.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25

 

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.