Thurs.’s Devo - Judgment on God’s Enemies

Read: Zechariah 10:1-11:17; Revelation 18:1-24; Psalm 146:1-10; Proverbs 30:33
Zechariah pled with the people to ask God, not their idols and false prophets, to bless their fields and give them rain. God was extremely angry with the shepherds who were suppose to be feeding the people with the bread of truth, but instead were teaching them to follow false gods.
God said that from Judah (the redeemed) would come the cornerstone which is the truth of the Messiah. From the redeemed would come the tent peg which holds up the tabernacle - the walls of salvation. From the redeemed would come the battle bow which knows how to shoot the arrows of the Word of God. From the redeemed would come every ruler because they would be the head and not the tail. When they gather together they will trample the enemy because God would be with them. God would scatter them across the earth then bring them back from Egypt and Assyria and bring them to Gilead and Lebanon. Gilead and Lebanon speaks of eternity and being made white. God told Zechariah to pasture and feed the ones that were marked for slaughter. He told him to take two rods and name one Beauty and one Bands. He was to break Beauty to break the covenant God had with all the people of both Israel and Judah. Then he broke Bands which was the covenant between Israel and Judah. The three shepherds he cut off in one month were the prophet, priest and king.
Zechariah was paid thirty pieces of silver for his prophecy and he threw it to the potter’s field. One day, Israel would reject the Messiah and pay the same price for his blood. It would also go to buy the potter’s field to pay for people who couldn’t afford to pay for their burial.
Then he spoke of the false prophet that would rise up in the end. He would not visit the oppressed, nor heal the broken, or care for the fatherless, or feed the poor, but he will take the best of the land and tear in pieces the weak. Woe to the leaders of the believers who don’t stay by their people. His end will be cursed.
Revelations gives the last call for the righteous people to come out of Babylon and be saved because judgment is about to fall. When she does, all the earth will look in awe and fear. The economy of the whole earth will be shaken. Babylon’s destruction will be permanent and quick.
Lord, you watch over your people and frustrate the ways of the wicked. We praise you!