Years ago, I felt that way. Yet, this is what Romans 10:14-15 has to say: How can they call on the One that they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One that they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And how can they preach unless someone is sent? As it is written, "How beautiful is the feet of those that bring good news!"
Additionally, Mark 16:15-16 told his disciples this: Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature He that believes and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believes not, shall be dammed.
How can they call, hear, and believe if no one is sent to preach to them, and take the good news of Jesus Christ to them?
That is why missionaries go to other lands to win others to Christ. And those of us that are not called to that purpose should support their ministry. By giving of our money, yes. But more importantly, our prayer.
Sometimes, we are not sure what visions mean. The symbols God uses in them may not seem to mean much to us. Or they may be confusing. But, they do mean something and the question we ask, is what do they mean. And specifically, what did Zechariah's vision mean that night that he had it in Zechariah 1:7-21.
He didn't know what it meant, so he asked the angel of the Lord? "What are these my Lord?" And the angel answered him, "I will show you what they are."
He went on to tell Zechariah, "They are the ones that the Lord sent to go throughout the earth.(speaking of the man on the red horse, among the myrtle trees and the red, brown and white horses verse 8)
And they had reported to the angel of the Lord that they had "gone throughout the earth and found it at rest and in peace. verse 11.
Then the angel of the Lord asked the Lord Almighty how long was he going to withhold mercy from the towns of Judah with whom he had been angry for the last seventy years? The angel spoke some words of comfort but then told Zechariah to go and tell them that he had been very angry with them but that he was going to "return to Jerusalem and have mercy on them and his house would be rebuilt there and his measuring line will be stretched all over it. verse 16
And then he goes on to say that, "My towns will overflow with prosperity and the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem. verse 17
So then Zechariah looked up and saw 4 horns and he asked the angel, "What are these?" The angel answered him, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem" And then the Lord showed him four craftsmen and Zechariah asked him what they were coming to do?
And the angel said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah so that know one could raise their heads but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter his people verses 18-21
Our promise for today comes from John 6:35: Jesus said, "I am the bread of life. whoever comes to me will never go hungry and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty
The prophesies, dreams and words from God that are in the bible are there for a reason. They are messages that God wants us to know and grab ahold of. What does what does this particular passage mean? Truly the Lord has not done what he promised in those verses. He has not come back to Jerusalem. Look what has been going over there for years with the fighting that gone on between them and Palestine. Is this prophesy of what is still to come even thousands of years later?
Come back next time and we will try to sort it out because it isn't there just to leave us hanging. We need to find out what it has to do for us in the here and now. If anything. God bless you for coming today and everyday!
This is what Zechariah vision meant that night that he had it.
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