Hey everybody. Welcome back to yet another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello. Happy Saturday. In fact, it is Men's Bible Study Saturday and Pastor PJ Departs for AV Saturday. Saturday. That's right, yes. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be out. In California tonight and surfing tomorrow morning. Yep. That's why I'm going surfing. Eat Chinese food, golf. Yeah. All the San Diego. Yeah. Just fun stuff. Mexican foods. No, I'm I'm preaching for our sending church, so I'll be preaching tonight. That is Saturday night at their night service and then twice tomorrow morning and then I'm getting back on a plane and coming back home. What are preaching? I'm preaching message. Word. Word around the block. Is that your preaching song of Solomon? That's not accurate. That's what people are saying. Strange enough. I know. Shocking. So people are saying, bro, shocking. There's a principle in ministry that if you're an invited guest in somebody else's pulpit, you don't preach anything that would be, heavily controversial or could cause a stir or create questions for that person when they come back. And I just feel like Song of Solomon might do that if I were to go that route. So I respect Pastor Mike enough to just say, Hey, let me, lemme just keep it within balance here. So think it should be bold, bro. Yeah. Okay. Just go for it. I think I'll take that under consideration. Let 'em know I encouraged you. No, but I'm preaching the message that I preached here a few weeks ago on family resemblance on the call to be holy as God is holy. So that's a good one. The means, the method, the motivation for our pursuit of godliness. Alright. Yeah. Sounds pretty good. But you're gonna be here and you're preaching. I will be here. One of two messages, two different messages. That's true this weekend, both of them. So talk to us about your Men's Bible study sermon. You're gonna wanna come to listen to our Men's Bible study sermon. If you're a man, if you're a man, if you're a woman, you can listen to the podcast. That would be okay. We do have a podcast for our men's Bible study, in case you didn't know that you should subscribe to that. We're gonna be kicking off with the book of Daniel chapter one. This is when Daniel and his friends are taken to Babylon. We're gonna look at how Daniel interacts with this new culture. He's immersed in a culture that is antagonistic toward Yahweh and is not too different from our culture too. So we're gonna learn some lessons from him. Hopefully take a couple cues that are helpful as we think about what it looks like to be a resolved man in a contrary culture. And then on Sunday, I'm picking up the book of one Peter, where you left off PPJ. So we're gonna look at one Peter 1 22 through the beginning of chapter two, verse one, and we're looking at the hallmark of love and how love is to function in the body of Christ. This is one of the natural or supernatural fruit that Peter expects to happen from. The Christian converted heart, those who have been regenerated, those who know the salvation that has been foretold produce love. And if there's no love, then there is no fruit and there is no salvation essentially, I think is his point. So we're gonna look at that and see how that applies to our ongoing interactions as Christians in the family of God. That's awesome. Should be good. Should be really good. I'm pumps. Yeah. Please don't let me be there by myself. No show up. I'd love for you all to be there. Be present. Yeah. And be president. Listen, take notes. Sing loudly, all the things. Yeah. Yeah. Is David leading worship for you? Yes, he is. Thank you, David. By the way, David and all the team the team is always so great, man. They come early, they set up, they stay late to tear down. They just do all the things. I'm so grateful for the worship team that we have. In fact, if you see anyone from the worship team. Give 'em a high five every now and then. Tell 'em they're doing a good job and let them know that you're thankful for their work. 'cause I sure am. Yes. Yeah, a hundred percent. They are, yeah. Not paid. They're volunteers and they give their time, not just on Sunday mornings. No, you do rehearsals Thursday nights. We have a rehearsal on Thursday nights because we value, if they're good enough where I could probably be show up on Sunday and just say, Hey, these are the songs we're doing, and they'd be okay. But we really wanted to bring excellence. In fact, one of our ongoing sayings is that we want to have. Distracting excellence in our worship leadership. And that's important. We wanna give God our best. But we also don't wanna be so showboaty where it's like it was David's doing a solo every three bars and everyone's looking at him. We wanna have distracting excellence. Yeah. So there's distracting excellence and there's un distracting. We want the distracting kind. Yeah. Yeah. It's that mindset of getting 1% better every day, you know that always strive to excel. Still more I heard or I read, I guess Erica Kirk posted something about a bracelet that Charlie used to wear and it was this red bracelet and I think on it said something like, work hard is better. Oh, okay. And he used to wear that all throughout college and then after they got married and everything else, and even into some of his ministry with Turning Point or his work with Turning Point. And then he eventually gave it to one of one of the people that asked him about it, but she said that was his drive was, I always wanna be working harder and getting better. And I think that applies, whether that's our worship team or somebody serving on Sunday morning or just life in general. I think it's such a good mentality to say, Hey, we can always be. Be running harder after Christ. And I think that was Paul's mentality when he said I'm forgetting what lies behind. I'm straining forward to what lies ahead. I'm agonizing to get better, to become more like Christ. And we know that's a synergistic work that's both us laboring and the spirit within us. But that's a good thing for us to wanna be excellent at what we do. It's a godly thing to wanna be excellent at what we do. I amen to that. He said to Timothy, do your best to present yourself to God as one of prove. Now obviously, Timothy's preaching and so there's a different kind of expectation that's. Put on him, but I think the mentality is the same. Every Christian wants to grow, and in fact, Peter says at the end of his letter, the second one, he says, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you're never gonna reach the end of that. Which is exciting for me because that means there's endless possibilities for us to continue growing in our relationship with God and our knowledge about God. I'm excited by that. In fact, this is what makes eternity exciting because if God were anything less than eternal and infinite, then we would get to the end of him and say oh, I guess there's nothing else to learn about you. But for God, there is no end. He has no beginning. He has no end. And therefore I will continually exhaust, never exhaust. Rather I'll continually plumb the depths of God and never exhaust the knowledge of God. That excites me. Yeah. I'm pumped about that. Yeah. You're never gonna, let's go to heaven now. You're never gonna beat the game in heaven. You're never gonna beat God as the final boss. He's always gonna have more for us. That's right. Hey, let's jump into our DBR. We are in Zacharia one through four. We read Ha Guy yesterday, and so now we're in Zacharia the counterpart to HA Guy. Counterpart, not in opposition, but just balancing out. Ha guy's message here and Zechariah is writing around five 20 BC is when he's gonna begin his prophetic ministry and his focus again is gonna be more on the spiritual state of the people there. And he opens with this call to repentance in the first six verses. And so he's identifying the fact that just because they're back from exile does not mean everything is great, everything is not going well currently. Come back and like we talked about yesterday, they've grown complacent they're, we're gonna see later falling even into some patterns of injustice again, and God is calling them to snap out of it and repent and come back to him. And so that's these opening six verses there. And then he transitions into a series of visions. And that's so much of what the Book of Zacharia involves is a lot of prophetic visions that Zacharia is gonna describe for us, including in verse. They're weird. What? And they're weird. They are weird. Yeah, they are weird. The first. Vision that we see here in verses seven through 17 are these four horses and they're riders and they patrol the earth and report back to the angel of the Lord. That all were at ease outside of Jerusalem. And this prompts God to intercede for Israel. The angel of the Lord there to intercede for Israel. And God responds that he was gonna judge the nations, but he was gonna bless. Jerusalem in the process. So we're, this is gonna have a near term, but also more than that, a long term as we're looking forward to the millennial kingdom. But what's interesting here, we talked about the timing of the 70 years, and I think we see something that helps inform our decision on that. In verse 12 says, then the angel of the Lord said, oh Lord of host, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem in the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these 70 years? So it would seem that Zechariah or the angel of the Lord there who. We believe to be the pre-incarnate Christ is stating that the 70 years are not yet completed. Perhaps because the completion is the completion of the temple, which is 5 15, 5 16. And so if we're five 20, we're still about five years out from that. I'm gonna have to think about that. That was something that I saw this time reading through. I didn't see before. Yeah. Okay. So he says, how long will you have? Oh, you have no mercy against which you have been angry these 70 years. So he's, you're in the 70 years is what we're saying. That's my read on it. Unless he's saying Interesting. The 70 years are completed. Like you were angry these 70 years. And so now I think you could read that either way. You could. Yes. But that's a great insight. I hadn't noticed that. Yeah. So that's this first vision. The horses and they're horses of judgment. Now you're gonna read things in the prophetic books that are gonna remind you of a lot of what we see in Revelation, and that's on purpose. God is the same author, and that is a reminder of those things. So when we see the eschatological language here in Zacharia, we see some of the similar language in the book of Revelation. That's why having a good Bible with some good cross references is helpful because you're gonna see similar concepts here. The next vision that shows up is in verses 18 through 21, and there's these four home. Horns and these four horns are going to represent four different nations. And these four nations are nations that opposed or oppressed Israel in my take specifically is that I think these are given the context of when he is writing the nations of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. So I think these are the main four nations that are, that show up in, in Nebuchadnezzar statue there with Rome being the. Two part, you've got Ancient Rome, then you've got Neo Babylon or New Rome that's gonna come in the future. And then you've got the fifth kingdom being the rock that was cut from the mountain as without hand. So I take these four horns to be the four nations of the top of the statue that will ultimately be destroyed by Christ. And that is these horns there are going to be judged and they're gonna be judged by these. For craftsmen that come along and there's gonna be this progressive fall until the fifth kingdom finally destroys the last and final horn. Can I ask a question that I'm betting at least a few of our readers are asking. Okay. I can't promise I'll have an answer, but sure. Yeah, sure. Yeah, of course. That's always the qualification. I don't expect it to be all knowing yet. Thanks man. I appreciate that. Next week, however, okay. Different story. Alright, homework. This is gonna sound totally irreverent, but I'm gonna say it 'cause I think other people are thinking it. Who cares? Yeah. Yeah. So what, like how does this, what does this have to do with the cas of tea in China? Yeah. Yeah. I, I think it matters when we consider again, that singular thread that's coursing from the beginning of the Bible all the way through to its end. And I think as Christians, we should care about what's hap, what's gonna come in the future. I think. Because we serve a sovereign God who's declared the beginning from the end. I'm the alpha and the Omega. And because we're gonna be present in the end, in the millennial kingdom, as we've talked about quite a lot recently, I think we should care about these things. And when Zechariah is saying, or the angel of the Lord to Zechariah, the angel revealing these things to Zechariah is saying. This is what's coming in the future. And just know that these are the things that's happening that, that man, that also gives me so much comfort when I look around at the chaos of the world that we live in right now is to think to myself, God's got a plan. Yeah. And the plan is on schedule and it's never gonna be bumped off schedule. It's always on schedule. And things like this, passages like this, give us a comfort towards that end. Yeah. Amen to that. I would also add sometimes we're not wise enough to know what we should care about. And it's God saying to us, this is worthy of my preserving for you to read millennia. After it's been written, I care enough to preserve it, to protect it, to keep you in this to have you know this. So even if you had no idea, ah, I know. I don't know. God wants us to know this. There's horses and there's horns, and there's women in baskets. Who knows? God knows. Yeah. And I think that's the comfort that you can take if you're reading this and you're just scratching your head and saying, ah, okay. PPJ. Yeah, I get it. This is. Here's this image and this image, and it's Zechariah and it's post exilic prophecy. I think you just need to trust that God has his reasons, and even if you don't know what those reasons are, trust Him enough to say, I'm gonna submit to your wisdom and giving me this information to learn to know, and hopefully to learn as much as I can about it, to understand it, and then let him tell you later if necessary, why he has you memorize it, why he has you understand this. I promise you it does fit within the grand narrative. Yeah. At the very least we can say this fits into it. Israel's history, which is a shared history that we have with them. And God's gonna complete the story that he begun. That's why it's important, at least in the interim for now. But there's probably lots more that we could say that God has in store for us. Yeah. Yeah. Chapter two, we get into the third vision. The third vision is gonna be of a man who shows up with a measuring line and this section depicts the future millennial kingdom. And you say how do we know it predicts the future? Because how do we know it predicts the future. Thanks, man. Because it hasn't happened yet. What we're reading about here, God dwelling in their midst, many nations joining themselves to the Lord in that day, as he says in verse 11 there and he's saying, I will dwell in your midst and you shall know that the Lord of hostess sent me to you. This is the angel of the Lord speaking and we know this is the pre incarnate Christ, because this is the Messiah that he's talking about here. Towards the end here in verse 11. So this is in verse in chapter two, really, a, a, a. Forecasting of the millennial kingdom and the reign of the Messiah, and we know that the Messiah is going to be the representative of God's presence because of what he says right there in verse 11 when he says, many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day and shall be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. You shall know that the Lord of Host has sent me to you, so the Lord is gonna dwell on their miss, and the Lord is gonna dwell on their miss through the presence of this Messiah that's gonna be there. Hence Jesus Christ. This should get you excited. It should. I think this is worth saying, man. That's an exciting future that I look forward to. One of the most obvious things about our culture right now is that we are very divided not just in America, but also across the globe. We're divided for a lot of different reasons and not the least of which, because we have religions that are fundamentally. Opposed to one another. The future that we're promised is that there's going to be a reunification. God's gonna bring his people together. There's gonna be all kinds of people, every tribe, tongue, and nation. This is the beginning of that endpoint. That's an exciting future to look forward to. Only God can do this. We've tried to use human means and mechanisms, but God says this is ultimately of me. I have to do it and he's gonna do it, and I look forward to that day. Yeah. Yeah the third chapter here, we get a fourth vision, and this is gonna be of Joshua, the high priest. And this is a scene where he's standing and Satan is standing next to him, accusing him before the Lord. And Joshua is depicted here as being dressed in filthy garments. And that filthy garments dis. They symbolize rather the corruption and defilement of Israel's priestly system. And what happens is God gives a command and his filthy garments are gonna be changed out for clean ones. And so Zechariah chapter three, even though it's about Israel, we see the gospel all over this. And Zechariah is gonna talk a lot about. Israel's future national repentance and what that's gonna look like. We'll get there towards the end of the book, but it is going to be through the same means that you and I first came to Christ through repenting and trusting in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins. So in Zechariah chapter three, we even get a glimpse into the fact that this is gonna be necessary, that he doesn't. Say, Satan you're wrong in accusing him. But rather he makes a way for the filth, the defilement of Israel to be made new, to be cleansed. And that's only gonna come as they look on him, whom may have pierced and they mourn. And we're gonna read about that later in Zechariah chapter 12. Yeah, this is one of the coolest parts of the book. And in fact, I think it might be one of my favorites, if not my favorite, in Zacharia Zacharias a struggle for a lot of people. Present company notwithstanding, and I love this imagery. This is a really cool image of being clothed in the righteousness of God. And of course, we are clothed in the righteousness of Christ, and so this is a really cool image. I love it. Enjoy it. Savor it. Yeah. Chapter four then one thing about Zechariah, you'll know it, it moves pretty quickly. And so we're into chapter four. Most of these chapters are maybe 10 to 15 verses at most. And so already Zechariah chapter four here, a fifth Vision shows up. And this time it's a lampstand with seven lamps on it and two olive trees, one on either side of the lamp stand. The lamp stand is gonna be similar in appearance to what's found in the temple. The bowl that we see with the lampstand represents an unending supply of oil to keep the lamps lit. This abundant supply of oil is from the Lord and included his spirit. We see in Zechariah four, six, he said to me, this is the word of the Lord is Abel. Not by my not nor by power, but by my spirit. But by my spirit says that Ron Cannoli, you know that song I might a version of that song. Oh, that's such a good song. I dunno about that. Melody. Such a good song. You guys should listen to that song. Go to your Spotify, Ron Cannoli. Not by might, I think it's not called cannoli. Canlis, not like the dessert. Yeah. K-E-N-O-L-Y. Oh, okay. I was gonna say cannolis are good, not cannoli. Okay. Yeah. Not that kinda cannoli anyway, anyways, but the spirit's gonna be there to enable the work That's to be done. The, there's these two olive trees and the two olive trees stand for the two anointed offices in Israel, which is that of priest represented by Joshua. And King, again, represented by Zabel. Even though he wasn't the king, he was the descendant of David. He's the ruler During this time, the governor, in the future, in the millennial kingdom, that's gonna be a role that is a singular role, and that is gonna be held by the Messiah. Jesus is gonna be the priest king for us, and he's gonna unite those two offices that were intended by God from the beginning as far as Israel was concerned to be kept in separation. All right, keep going. Keep reading, keep tracking with us. I know Zacharia can be a lot because again, we've got a lot of these visions. Remember the resources that we've committed to you the Bible Knowledge commentary is helpful. The bi, the MacArthur Study Bible is gonna be helpful. These are our good resources for you. Also, don't forget, you can always write in questions, so you can write to podcasts@compassntx.org and you can ask us questions and if we know the answers. We'll get 'em to you. If we don't know the answers, we'll try to find 'em. But keep with this. This is good. This is, this does matter. Pastor Rod was saying, it does matter. This is our future as well as Israel's future. It's gonna look different for us, but it's still part of what God has in store for us as the church. Alright, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, thanks for your word and thanks for the reality that, we get to wear the righteousness of Christ because of faith and repentance in Christ, in the trusting in Him for the forgiveness of our sins. That's what Israel is gonna need in the future. That's what Israel needs right now. That's what all lost people right now, is to repent and believe in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins. And so we thank you that if we've done that, then we are no longer clothed in the filthy garments of our sin, but we have the righteousness of Christ and so we praise you for that. And we look forward to gathering together even today for men's Bible study, tomorrow for church. And would you pray that you'd have a, that we would have a weekend where Christ is exalted in our midst? We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye y'all. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said