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Chapter 4 (ESV)

2 In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. 3 And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem, 4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. 5 Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy. 6 There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

 

REFLECTION:

  1. This chapter issues the hope for those survive God’s punishment upon Judah and Jerusalem. For after God’s judgment has removed sinners and purified survivors, a cleansed and holy Jerusalem will serve as a shelter and shade for people.
  2. But this will only be accomplished by a person called “the Branch of the Lord’. This is referred to Messiah who is to come from David’s family line and to accomplish the ultimate deliverance of the Jews and all humankind.
  3. Therefore, God’s ideal surely will be achieved but it is more than we can accomplish in our own strength. God Himself has acted in Christ to make it possible for you and me to walk in the light of the Lord.  We are His new creation.  All we can do is to honour the Lord by living righteous lives, however dark the ways of this present world.

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

The Power Of The Cross – youtu.be/uS7fc7VTJZs