Zechariah 2                                                                                                

 

Zechariah 2:1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.

• Zechariah 1:16 a line shall be stretched,  a measuring-line, For the whole work of building

2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

• Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem, With the pre- fixed to the first two (not Jerusalem) for emphasis, so that we may not confuse them with the Church or with Gentile peoples.
• There is no "gloss", as alleged

3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:

• Saying "Stop", for the reason given implies that measuring will be useless, owing to the overflow of inhabitants.
• Ezekiel 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
• Who are the unwalled villages? USA and the Christian Nations
• Wall of fire,  Like the watch-fires seen round Bedaween camps, which have no walls.
• Isaiah 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
  2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
  3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
• Isaiah 33:21 But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
  22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
• Isaiah 33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
  21 But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
  22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
• Isaiah 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
  19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

5 For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of he

• Zechariah 2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
  11 And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.

• Ho, ho means come forth: or, supply the Ellipsis "escape"

7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

• Babylon means confusion
• He said, Deliver thyself from Babylon = which is confusion
• Come out of Babylon, let God be your wall
• 5th trump sounds, Satan fallen angels are here on earth. They are supernatural.
• God likeness these locusts to men. Why? Because they come in crowds
• All people that have not studied God's word and know the seals, trumpets, vial and God's plan will be torment 
• Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

• His eye =  Mine eye
• The song of Moses, the over comers are singing
• Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them (very elect) that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
• 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
• Deut 32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me.

• Their servants = their own slaves

10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

11 And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be My people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

• Nations are the Gentiles
• Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
• The word ''after this'' are important to note. He sees this vision after the sealing of the 144,000.
• Evidently when the 7,000 are delivered up before the synagogue of Satan
• The 7,000 are from all races. There will also be many Gentiles from the 7,000 saints
• Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
• Their task will be to set up their own nations (all races) throughout the millennium.
• They (the Gentiles) will be priest of their own people. They will come into the millennium temple with the Lord, and  they will be teaching their own people the laws of God.
• There will be a place for the multitudes, with the Lord. Part of the multitude are their people.
• Who wore the white robes and were before the throne?
• In Revelation 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.  John, etc...
• Revelation 11 tells us, Satan will kill the two witnesses three and one half days, before Christ's return here on earth.

12 And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

• Is raised up = hath roused Himself up
• Psalms 78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
  66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
  67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
• His Holy Habitation Reference to = The Lord's Day
• Deut 26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
  16 This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

• 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