December 29 Daily Discovery
December 29 Daily Discovery
Read Zechariah Chapter 6
"IF" Promises
There are two types of promises that God makes to man in the Scriptures. They are conditional and unconditional.
Conditional promises have and "if" in them and unconditional promises do not.
We will focus upon the "if" promises here, because that is what is in this text and MOST of God's promises are conditional.
However, we will cover a few UNCONDITIONAL promises first.
Unconditional Promises
1) God promised to never destroy the entire earth again with a flood of water. (Gen. 9:11-17)
2) God promises to keep His people. No one can take them away from Him. (John 10:27-30)
3) God promised to never leave or forsake His children. (Heb. 13:5)
4) God promised an eternal kingdom to His people that would be ruled by God Himself. (Isa. 9:6-7)
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Conditional Promises
In the scriptures, there are commands to obey and promises to claim.
One cannot obey a promise, and one cannot claim a command.
And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.
~ Zech. 6:15
The book of Zechariah is introduced with the prophet receiving the word of the Lord and we learn in the first chapter that the Word of the Lord was coming from an angel.
In Stephen's sermon recorded in Acts 7, Stephen charges "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it." (Acts 7:53) No man has ever seen God. When they say "I saw the Lord", they actually saw an angel that represented God.
The only God we will ever SEE is the Lord Jesus Christ. In Him dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Jesus said, "If you've seen Me, you've seen the Father" and He also said, "I and my Father are One."
God's Judgement of His Enemies
In this sixth chapter of Zechariah, the prophet is given a vision of four chariots coming between two mountains. He asks the angel that was attending him what this vision meant and the angel told him: they are four spirits of the heavens that do God's bidding on the earth.
The Bible often refers to the "host" of heaven. A host is an army. Chariots were primarily horse-dran vehicles of war.
God was judging the enemies of His people, and the black horses, symbolic of the results of war, probably means God was content with how he had judged the Assyrians and Chaldeans.
God's Establishment of His Earthly Government
God told Zechariah through the His angel to anoint this Joshua the priest as the King and to also crown his four assistants: Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen.
God told Zechariah that they that were far off could come and build the temple of the Lord.
God's Fulfillment of His Covenant Promise
This "covenant" promise means His agreement to do what He has proclaimed IF they will do what He requires.
Zechariah says, "If you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, then He will fulfill His promise."
If you want to "claim" a promise of God, then you must meet His conditions.
Simple. Perhaps not easy, but simple.
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