I WILL LIVE AMONG YOU
Zechariah 2:1-13
“Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you. (11)
chapter 2
1. Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2. I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is."
3. While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him
4. and said to him: "Run, tell that young man, ’Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.
5. And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ’and I will be its glory within.’
6. "Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD, "for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven," declares the LORD.
7. "Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!"
8. For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you - for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye -
9. I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.
10. "Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD.
11. "Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.
12. The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
13. Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling."
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1. In Zechariah’s third vision, a man uses a measuring line to find out how wide and long Jerusalem is. An angel meets the man and tells him that in the future, Jerusalem will not be measurable. The city will not have walls because there will be so many people and animals living in it. But it will not be an unfortified city. God himself will be a wall of fire around it and his own glory will be within the city.
2. God invites his people to flee and escape from Babylon, where they had been exiled, and from all the places to which they had been scattered. The time has come to return to the LORD. God will plunder those who had plundered his people, the apple of his eye. Not only was this invitation and promise for the Jews, but for all nations (11). Instead of living in exile, far from the LORD, people from all nations are invited to live with God in this new Jerusalem. This is a picture of God’s kingdom.
3. Do you feel comfortable or stuck in a spiritual Babylon? Are you struggling for purpose and direction? God still invites you today to flee and escape your spiritual Babylon and live in his presence. God desires this not only for us individually but for peoples of all nations. Let’s shout, be glad, and pray for people everywhere to be joined to the LORD (10-11).
Prayer: Father, we flee from the world and into your presence. Bring many nations to repentance.
One Word: God will live among us