Read: Zechariah 2:1-3:10; Revelation 13:18-18; Psalm 14:1-10; Proverbs 30:18-20
Zechariah met an angel who was on his way to measure the city of Jerusalem. This angel was stopped and told that Jerusalem was not to be measured as having boundaries. Its inhabitants would be too greatly populated to count. The Lord would be its protective wall and his glory would fill it. God called those who had been taken to Babylon to come home. Other nations that have never know the Lord would also become His nations.
In Chapter Two, Joshua is Jesus who is our High Priest. We as the Bride of Christ are Jerusalem who is chosen by God.
We get to see a picture of Jesus as he appeared in heaven after ascending from the grave. He wore our sin on him and God took off his filthy garments and put new garments on him. God gave him the position of governing his house and charge over his courts. God set a stone with seven eyes in front of Jesus and told him he would engrave an inscription on it on the day Jesus would come back to save Israel in a day. In Revelation 19:12 it says that Jesus had a name written on him that no man knew but himself. In Revelation 2:17, it says that to everyone that overcomes will be given a white stone with a new name engraved on which no man knows.
The seven eyes on the stone that Jesus had are the seven spirits of God which we can have also. They are named in Isaiah 11:2. The spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. We overcome when we walk in all of these spirits.
In Revelation, John sees a beast coming out of the sea of humanity. This beast raises up ten nations lead by seven leaders to do his work. One of the leaders has a fatal wound that is healed causing the world to follow him. This leader will wreck havoc on the Church and blaspheme the name of Jesus and God.
It will be a great time of persecution and tribulation for the true saints of God. Another leader will arise to align with the first. He will cause the earth to worship the healed leader who will do miracles to deceive the world. The world will be ordered to worship the healed leader and take his mark on their hand or forehead. The mark will be the number of his name which is 666. Many men throughout history have had the number of their name to be 666, but this will be the last and most vicious. (In the Hebrew alphabet letters are also numbers that can be calculated.) In the end the unbelievers will be numbered and measured but believers are renamed and rewarded.
At this time the church will be gone. The new believers will have to endure much tribulation, but God will be their fortress and safe tower.
Lord, prepare us to be overcomes and leave a legacy in your name.
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