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NOTES for Zec 2:13

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13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
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What the prophet Zechariah is talking about here? God chose for Himself a holy habitation - the temple of Jerusalem. There, in the very inside of the place, "Holy of Holies", where is kept the holiness of the Old Testament, the hidden presence of God. Such was the case, before the cup of the sins of Israel got overfilled. God then left His temple; Jerusalem was destroyed, Israeli people taken to the Babylonian captivity.

But here is, the prophet sees a new picture. God returns, He visits again His habitation and calls His people. And there are no human strengths capable of resisting His will for the salvation of Israel and their return on His land. But there is another sense in these words. God will come into this world and will settle down in the middle of His people and will open His face - and what can then say man before God's face? Questions, complaints, justifications - everything will turn out worthless. Only meeting face to face will have an importance.

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For Zec 2:10-13
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.
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.
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"Let all flesh be silent before the Lord"... On the whole, comment is unnecessary. We can and should speak about God...  Read more

"Let all flesh be silent before the Lord"... On the whole, comment is unnecessary. We can and should speak about God. Preaching is a wonderful thing. We can and should speak with Him. Verbal prayer is beautiful and important. But sometimes we must stop and fall silent, simply remaining wordlessly in His presence...

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For Zec 2:1-3:10
1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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.
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:
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 her.
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.
7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
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Here the prophecy calls Zion not the mountain on which Jerusalem stands, but its inhabitants who are far away from it...  Read more

Here the prophecy calls Zion not the mountain on which Jerusalem stands, but its inhabitants who are far away from it. If so, does this not imply that it speaks not only of the particular city of Jerusalem, and not even only of those inhabitants of Judea who remain faithful to the Lord during the Babylonian exile, but of all who belong to the people of God, wherever they may be? For the faithful, the Lord will become an unbreakable wall in every place. Here we remember the Heavenly Jerusalem spoken of in John’s Revelation, the city that many of the saved will enter from every corner of the earth.

The cleansing of the priest’s garments means that the cleansing of the whole people and their return to God begins with the cleansing of the priests and their return to the path of unstained ministry. But the return only begins there, for not only priests but all of us are called, each in our own way, to serve the Lord and fulfill His will.

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Readings for  18 October 2020

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Zechariah 2:13

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Orthodox readings

2 Corinthians 11:31-12:9

Luke 6:31-36

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Catholic lectionary

Isaiah 45:1

Isaiah 45:4-6

1 Thessalonians 1:1-5

Matthew 22:15-21

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