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Ezra 5 Darius 2nd Year Who are our prophets today? Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 12:5, there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And in Ephesians 4:11 we see some are prophets. Do we know our own spiritual gifts? Did they know more about spiritual gifts in Ezra’s time than we do […]
Zechariah 6 Darius 2nd Year This passage reminds me of the ghostly message Ray Kinsella heard at the beginning of, Field of Dreams, “If you build it, he will come.” Commentaries can overthink things sometimes, and this chapter is no small exception. In full context, Zechariah is still firmly discussing rebuilding the temple. That’s the […]
Zechariah 5 Darius 2nd Year Today’s scripture has baffled many upon first reading—particularly if they start here and just read this chapter. But for us, this is a piece of cake because we understand the full context and the previous 10 chapters of chronology. How are we doing? If you’re excited about this project, please […]
Zechariah 4 Darius 2nd Year We shift from our last focus on the pastorate (Joshua son of Jehozadak) to the executive leadership (Zerubbabel). The imagery can remind us of that used by John in the book of Revelations. The lampstand and 7 lamps are likely the visible temple, being fed oil automatically from two olive […]
Zechariah 3 Darius 2nd Year There’s a metaphor I like called the “magical pair of glasses” that allow people to see what is really going on all around them in spiritual warfare—like angels and demons. When you don’t have them on, you only see what the humans around you are doing. But in passages like […]
Zechariah 2 Darius 2nd Year G-d has a way of cramming chapters of meaning into a single verse like verse 2. If the project was to rebuild the temple, and the goal was to minister to the entire country of Israel, why would the angel be measuring Jerusalem? It may initially seem odd because its […]
Zechariah 1:7-21 Darius 2nd Year, 11th Month, 24th Day (2.11.24) Here comes one of Zechariah’s psychedelic moments! Even though the seed of revival, sewn through the tag-team duo of Zechariah and Haggai, had taken root in Jerusalem, it still hadn’t spread across the whole land, which was essential to G-d’s plan. It’s also still essential […]
Zechariah 1:1-6 Darius 2nd Year, 8th Month, ??st Day (2.8.??) Definitely one of the “psychedelic prophets,” in between Zechariah’s wild visions of flying scrolls and still-popular sayings like, “the apple of my eye,” Zechariah has some remarkably immediate and lucid passages that are as clear and prescient today as they were then. The first half […]
At this point in the game, G-d knows what trials we have gone through, and more importantly, He knows the trials to come. In this moment, He asks us to compare our temple: the way it was before exile and the way it is now, and knowing all the trials we face He says, “Take […]
