Year 9, Day 261: Zechariah 2

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In Zechariah 2, we get more prophetic views.  These views are incredibly hopeful.  In these views we see the future that God sees.  In these views we can see what God sees when He looks at the world.

In the first vision, we are told of a time when Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls.  In other words, Jerusalem won’t need protection.  Jerusalem will be safe.  Jerusalem will exist in a time when human beings are no longer dominating one another but are existing in God’s peace.  Zechariah’s prophecy speaks of a future time of peace.

The second prophetic view is one of restitution.  Those who oppressed the Hebrew people will be plundered by them.  The people who used their power to be dominant over the Hebrew people will find that under God they are no longer dominant.

It goes deeper than this, though.  God also tells us that in this time there will be other nations that will join with the Hebrew people.  There will be people in the world who see God’s ways and wish to come into relationship.  Such people will be called God’s people regardless of whether they are genuinely Hebrew by birth or not. God knows His people by who they are in their hearts, not who they are by their lineage.

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