Young Adults Bible Study: 24th Meeting - Millennium Discussion

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

24th Meeting - Millennium Discussion - Zech. 3-5

Chapter 3 opens with a High Priest named Joshua standing before an angel of the Lord and Satan is there to accuse him. This is a great story and reminds us that as Joshua is standing here, we are in a similar situation before God with Satan accusing us of not being clean enough. Joshua is the High Priest and he is wearing dirty garments, that should be clean, and it is his uncleanness that makes him unfit. We are unclean by sin before God and our God demands perfection. We by ourselves are not clean enough to stand before God, no one is. We plus Jesus makes us 100 percent clean in God's eyes. This is why everyone needs Jesus, "For all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God". Joshua had a friend in the angel of the Lord. Listen to the authority used by this angel. If he was an ordinary angel he would have said by God's power I will change your clothing. This angel did not talk in this manner. When ever an Angel of the Lord talks with this authority, He is the preincarnate Christ. Or Jesus before he came to live in the Gospels. This is how Jesus could say to the Pharisees, that before Abraham was "I AM". Jesus is God (He was there at creation of the world) and man, this is how He can intercede for us. Then the angel of the Lord told Joshua that he had to walk in God's Statutes and keep my words than you will be restored. This is the same command Jesus gives to us today. If you follow Jesus, your walk must match your talk and it must match what Jesus says. If not you are not keeping the Words of God. After you make a decision to live for Christ, you have to start taking off your old self and putting on the attributes of God. When you die you will be the closest you can be to the life of Christ and Christ will complete that work when He comes again.
I see I am again at the end of my allotted time and will have to post again. We will pick it up on chapter 4 of Zechariah.

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ISA 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways,"

declares the LORD.

Daniel 2:28

28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.

DT 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

MT 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

MT 24:15 "So when you see standing in the holy place `the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel--let the reader understand-- 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. 18 Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. 19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again. 22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. 23 At that time if anyone says to you, `Look, here is the Christ!' or, `There he is!' do not believe it. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if that were possible. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time.

MT 24:29 "Immediately after the distress of those days

" `the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will not give its light;

the stars will fall from the sky,

and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

MT 24:30 "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

MT 24:32 "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. 34 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

MT 24:36 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

MT 24:42 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him

MT 24:45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47 I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, `My master is staying away a long time,' 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

MK 13:24 "But in those days, following that distress,

" `the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will not give its light;

MK 13:25 the stars will fall from the sky,

and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

MK 13:26 "At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

MK 13:28 "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 29 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door

Galatians 1: 8 - 9

8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

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24th Meeting - Millennium Discussion - Zech. 3-5

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