Saturday, December 20, 2014

DBRP_Dec21_2014 Hag1-2 Is58 Rev12


I hope you saw correlations to Revelation in the 3rd chapter of Zephaniah yesterday— in what God plans for the nations and for those who come to the new Jerusalem. And these verses from that 3rd chapter are interesting because of correlations all over Scripture:

I will remove all proud and arrogant people from among you.

There will be no more haughtiness on my holy mountain.

12Those who are left will be the lowly and humble,

for it is they who trust in the name of the LORD.

Mears gives a helpful summary about the prophets: Of the 16 prophets, most of them— 11, prophesied before the exile, just 2 prophesied during the exile (Ezekiel and Daniel), while 3 prophesied after the exile. We turn to the first of these now— Haggai.

This book consists of four prophecies in four months— each dated and all in the second year of King Darius’ reign. (In the modern calendar these dates would have been between August 29 and December 18, 520 B.C.) This places Haggai’s messages two months before Zechariah started to prophesy. Haggai’s purpose was to move a discouraged nation to rise up and build the temple. Remember that opposition to the rebuilding of the temple caused a postponement of the work, which caused the discouragement.

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/hag.1.nlt

We turn to Isaiah 58. In Isaiah 57, we saw again that God considers idolatry to be a sin against him that is just like a wife being unfaithful to her husband. In such a context of explicit and harsh condemnation, these words stand out:

18I have seen what they do,

but I will heal them anyway!

I will lead them.

I will comfort those who mourn,

19bringing words of praise to their lips.

Then God says,

20“But those who still reject me are like the restless sea,

which is never still

but continually churns up mud and dirt.

And finally for the second time in Isaiah God says,

21There is no peace for the wicked,”

says my God.

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/isa.58.nlt

We turn now to Revelation 12. In Revelation 11, John again took an active part in the vision he was seeing. He was given a rod and told to measure the temple, the altar, and count the worshippers. What other prophet participated in measuring a temple in a vision? John was told not to measure the court of the Gentiles. I encourage you to dig for gold there. Check out some on-line study Bibles on this. And while you are at it, find out what ideas people have about the two witnesses. John is not the first prophet that saw olive trees on both sides of a lamp and lamp stand. Who was the prophet? And how is John’s vision different than the other prophet’s vision?

At the end of the chapter, we heard ‘the last trumpet’. Say, is the last trumpet that Paul mentions?! The words of praise by the 24 elders and the last verse in the chapter give a big clue as to what the seventh trumpet brings. What happens in the next 2-3 chapters is not the direct result of that trumpet blast.

Modifications:

11And they[— our brothers and sisters,] have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/rev.12.nlt

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