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CHAPTER 9
Zechariah speaks Messianically: Messiah shall come, having salvation, lovely, and riding upon an ass—He shall free the prisoners from the pit—Judah and Ephraim are instruments of the Lord. |
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1 THE burden of the word
of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. 3 And aTyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. |
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Melchizedek 8a TG Jesus Christ, David Descent TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies abt 10a Micah 4:3-4
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5 aAshkelon shall see it, and
fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for
her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and
Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. |
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High Priest,
Melchizedek 8a TG Jesus Christ, David Descent TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies abt 10a Micah 4:3-4
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7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and
his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he,
shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and
Ekron as a aJebusite.
8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. |
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High Priest,
Melchizedek 8a TG Jesus Christ, David Descent TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies abt 10a Micah 4:3-4
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9 ¶ Rejoice greatly, O adaughter
of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy bKing
cometh unto thee: he is cjust, and having salvation;
lowly, and driding upon an eass, and upon
a fcolt the foal of an ass.
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10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and
the ahorse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut
off: and he shall speak peace unto the bheathen: and his
cdominion shall be from sea even to sea, and
from the river even to the ends of the earth.
11 As for thee also, by the ablood of thy bcovenant I have sent forth thy cprisoners out of the dpit wherein is no water. |
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12 ¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of
ahope: even to day do I declare that I will
brender cdouble unto thee;
13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Ziona, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. |
13a filled the bow of Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion This is in reference to when the Lord does raise up 'Ephraim' upon the land of Joseph to the restoration of the gospel to the fulfilling of the Covenant of Abraham unto the the blessing of the nations of the earth; both living and dead, as those 'prisoners of the pit', the spirit prison will also be enabled to be judged according to men in the flesh due to that latter day work in the temples of the day of the Lord. And as the blessing of Joseph did proclaim, 'unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they, these blessings of the Covenant, shall be on the head of Joseph (Genesis 49:22-26)'. And certainly 'Joseph's bow is made strong and filled by the hand of the mighty God unto the preaching of the Word of God to all the nations of the earth (Genesis 49:24 & 26). And this as viewed from the perspective of Joseph and not of Judah. | |
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14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his
arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the
trumpet, and shall go with awhirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. |
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16 And the LORD their God shall
asave them in that bday as the
flock of his peoplea: for they
shall be as the cstones of a
dcrown, lifted up as an eensign
upon his landb.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. |
16a the flock of his people
Here we have those who have chosen to follow Christ denoted as 'the flock of
his people'. In Zechariah chapter 3 in the preexistent judgement council of
determination and reconfirmation, God the Father of Spirits did call upon
'Jesus the high priest, and his fellows, they who were men to be wondered
at (verse 8) and who were of the community of peace (Jerusalem - verse 3)
and how that the iniquity of the land would be removed in one day (verse9).
And now when the choice spirits of this flock, this peculiar people of the
latter days would be called upon as the seed of Joseph, Ephraim and his
companions of the restoration unto the gathering of Israel out of the nations
of the earth unto the blessing of those nation unto salvation; both living
and past dead, that they might come unto Christ and recieve of his gospel;
thus this 'flock', these who have been counted with Christ from the
beginning, do
lift up an ensign to the nations upon this his land of Joseph, his promised
land which is choice above all others, America unto the
fulfillment of the Covenant of the Fathers, the Covenant of Abraham unto the
great day of the Lord, the Millennial Day of Christ's reign upon the earth.
16b lifted up as an ensign upon his land The lifting up an ensign to the world is in reference to the restoration and work of the latter days. The church by the hand of Ephraim is in the process of meeting this prophecy. It seems significant that it references 'his land'. That the Americas is the promised land of Joseph is sure. That this land is that land upon which the ensign has been rasied is also sure. That the Lord would call this 'his land' is correct in one sense, in that the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. But there is another sense in which the Lord's land is the same as the land of Joseph. And that is to be found in the fact that Jesus Christ is the promises Messiah ben Joseph, as well as being Messiah ben David (See: Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben Joseph). |