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Discipleship Focus: King
- King: This is the pinnacle of the Kingdom Triangle. When we look towards God’s position in the universe, we acknowledge that He is an omnipotent king. Authority comes from Him. Power comes through His authority. He is looking for representatives for His kingdom.
We end
the book of Zechariah on a very bleak note.
God promises judgment. God
promises plague. God promises a
difficult life as the world comes in rebellion against Him.
When I
hear these words, I can’t help but think about God as king. As human beings, we like to rebel. We like to do our own thing. We like to walk away from God’s ways and live
our own life. But the reality is that no
matter how much we rebel, we can’t get away from God forever. We will eventually die. Our sin will catch up with us and we will
then truly be at the mercy of God’s grace.
Even when we rebel and reject, we cannot deny that we will eventually
find ourselves in God’s hands because He is king.
This chapter
is not all bleak, though. Do you hear
the part of this chapter that speaks about the surge of water that will come
from Jerusalem? When I read those
verses, I couldn’t help but think about the same imagery from Ezekiel 47. While God may be the king in judgment, He is
also king in grace and mercy. He can
heal the world in spite of our rebellion.
He can do it because He is indeed king.
As an
aside, if you want a look at how we can see multiple interpretations of this
chapter rather than just an interpretation of the Last Days, see the
theological commentary that I offered up three years ago and link to above.
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