Sheshbazzar, or Zerubbabel

 

Just as Zerubbabel and Jeshua were raised up, and gifted, and divinely endowed, and protected against Satan's assaults. So in the coming day of Israel's acknowledgement by God. Two other great witnesses from God will be raised up. Corresponding to them, occupying a similar position as thee depositories of Heavenly power and wisdom and exercising a similar ministry.

 

Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

• The word ''Zerubbabel'' means to born in confusion ''to flow smoothly out of Babel'', It means ''to come out of Babel'', or out of Babylon (confusion) in this present day to learn the full truth.
• The 7000 will bring the 144,000 and in time the whole world, out of Babel.
• The beauty of this whole thing and it's important to translate the full meaning into English is the fact that the oil from these lamps flows not with the help of man, But with the spirit of God.
• The truth is fed into your mind, not by the help of man, but the spirit of God.
• We know this is the season. He called you and is the reason we cannot impose this message upon someone who does not want to accept it.
• The two olive trees are explained as denoting Zerubbabel the prince, and Jeshua the high priest.
• And when it says in Revelation 11:4 "These (Two Witnesses) are the two olive trees, the figure is Metaphor, and the verb "are" means represents the olive tree", etc.
• This the spirit's own explanation of these two witnesses.
• Just as Zerubbabel and Jeshua were raised up, and gifted, and divinely endowed, and protected against Satan's assaults, so in the coming day of Israel's acknowledgement by God, two other great Witnesses from God will be raised up, corresponding to them, occupying a similar position as thee depositories of Heavenly power and wisdom and exercising a similar ministry.
• The two olive trees represented two individuals then; and they represent  two individuals here in this scripture.
• They will be the "two olive trees" for their day, as Zerubbabel and Jeshua were in a former day.
• Ezra 3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
• Ezra 5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
• The power to  Zerubbabel and Jeshua for the completing of the work in which they were engaged. That work was the restoration of Jerusalem, its temple and its worship.

7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

• Who art thou O great Mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain
• In other words, nothing will stand in the way of this witness or message.
• There is no mountain, or it could be said Nation or government that can stand in the way of it, The headstone, of course, is Christ

Sheshbazzar = (worshipper of fire), the Chaldean or Persian name given to Zerubbabel

 

Ezra 1:8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

 

Ezra 1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

 

Ezra 6:14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

 

Ezra 6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

 

Zerubbabel means (born at Babel, Babylon), the head of the tribe of Judah at the time of the return from the Babylonish captivity in the first year of Cyrus.

 

The history of Zerabbabel in the Scriptures is as follows: In the first year of Cyrus he was living at Babylon, and was the recognized prince of Judah in the captivity, what in later times was called "the prince of the captivity," or "the prince."

 

On the issuing of Cyrus decree he immediately availed himself of it, and placed himself at the head of those of his countrymen "whose spirit God had raised to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem."

 

It is probable that he was in the king of Babylon's service, both from his having, like Daniel and the three children, received a Chaldee name, Sheshbazzar, and from the fact that he was appointed by the Persian king to the office of governor of Judea.

 

On arriving at Jerusalem, Zerubbabel's great work, which he set about immediately, was the rebuilding of the temple.

 

In the second month of the second year of the return the foundation was laid with all the pomp which could be commanded. The efforts of the Samaritans were successful in putting a stop to the work during the seven remaining years of the reign of Cyrus and through the eight years of Cambyses and Smerdis.

 

Nor does Zerubbabel appear quite blameless for this long delay. The difficulties in the way of building the temple were not such as need have stopped the work and during this long suspension of sixteen years.

 

Zerubbabel and the rest of the people had been busy in building costly houses for themselves.

 

But in the second year of Darius, light dawned upon the darkness of the colony from Babylon.

 

In that year it was the most memorable event in Zerabbabel's life the spirit of prophecy suddenly blazed up with a most brilliant light among the returned captives.

 

Their words fell like sparks upon tinder. In a moment Zerubbabel roused from his apathy, threw his whole strength into the work.

 

After much opposition and many hindrances find delays, the temple was at length finished, in the sixth pear of Darius, and was dedicated with much pomp and rejoicing.

 

The only other works of Zerubbabel of which we learn from Scripture are the restoration of the courses of priests and Levites and of the provision for their maintenance, according to the institution of David.

 

The title of Sheshbazzar, or Zerubbabel = Tirshatha

 

Nehemiah is called a pechah, or governor, a title which is given to Sheshbazzar also, it has been supposed that pechah and tirshatha' were equivalent terms, the former being of Assyrio-Babylonian and the latter of Persian origin.

 

According to Lagarde, it comes from the Bactrian antarekshatra, that is, "he who takes the place of the king."

 

According to Meyer and Scheftelowitz it is a modified form of a hypothetical Old Persian word tarsata.

 

According to Gesenius and Ewald, it is to be compared with the Persian torsh, "severe," "austere," "stern lord."

 

It seems more probable that it is derived from the Babylonian root rashu, "to take possession of," from which we get the noun rashu, "creditor."

 

In this case it may well have had the sense of a tax-collector.

 

One of the principal duties of the Persian satrap, or governor, was to assess and collect the taxes

 

This would readily account for the fact that the tirshatha' gave to the treasure to be used in the building of the temple a thousand drachms of gold, etc., and that Cyrus numbered the vessels of the house of the Lord unto Sheshbazzar.

 

This derivation would connect it with the Aramaic rashya, "creditor," and the New Hebrew rashuth, "highest power," "magistrate."

 

Ezra 2:63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

 

Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

 

Nehemiah 10:1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

 

Ezra 5:14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

 

Nehemiah 7:70 And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.

 

Ezra 1:8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

 

In John 12:31 Christ refers to Satan as the prince of the world, therefore, the prince of Persia also.

 

Psalms 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver.

 

Numbers 36:1 The children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh

 

Centre - Levi

 

East Side - Judah, Issachar, Zebulon,

 

South Side - Reuben, Simeon, Gad

 

West Side - Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin

 

North Side - Dan, Asher, Naphtali

 

So here is the throne of God in the midst of Israel. He's talking about the house of Israel and Judah

 

Numbers 26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

 

Genesis 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

 

Numbers 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:

 

Joshua 17:2 There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.

 

Numbers 32:40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

 

Numbers 36:1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

Zebulun = today Holland = End times type = Josephus

Of the individual Zebulun nothing is recorded. The list of Gene 46 ascribes to him three sons, founders of the chief families of the tribe (comp.)

 

Numbers 26:26 Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

 

At the time of the migration to Egypt. The tribe is not recorded to have taken part, for evil or good, in any of the events of the wandering or the conquest.

 

The statement of Josephus is probably in the main correct, that it reached on the one side to the Lake of Gennesareth and on the other to Carmel and the Mediterranean.

 

On the south it was bounded by Issachar, who lay in the great plain or valley of the Kishon; on the north it had Naphtali and Asher.

 

Thus remote from the centre of government, Zebulun remains throughout the history with one exception, in the obscurity which envelops the whole of the northern tribes.

 

That exception, however, is a remarkable one. The conduct of the tribe during the struggle with Sisera, when they fought with desperate valor side by side with their brethren of Naphtali, was such as to draw down the special praise of Deborah, who singles them out from cell the other tribes.

 

Judges 5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

 

Numbers 26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.

 

Genesis 46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

 

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25

 

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.