OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER TWELVE

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OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER TWELVE

• DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL

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READ ZECHARIAH 121-2

• 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against
  Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the
  heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and
  forms the spirit of man within him
• 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of
  drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when
  they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against
  Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the
  heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and
  forms the spirit of man within him.
• 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of
  drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when
  they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
• WAS THIS WORD ONLY FOR ISRAEL AND JUDAH?
• WHO MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?
• WHO CREATED MAN?
• WHAT IS THIS CUP OF DRUNKENNESS?
• WHO SHALL DRINK OF IT? WHY?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against
  Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the
  heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and
  forms the spirit of man within him.
• WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?
• READ PSALMS 241-2
• 1 The earth is the LORDS and all its fullness
  The world and those who dwell therein.
• 2 He has founded it upon the seas And established
  it upon the waters.
• READ PSALMS 10225
• 25 Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,
  And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• 1 The burden of the word of the LORD against
  Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the
  heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and
  forms the spirit of man within him.
• WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?
• READ PSALMS 1042-5
• 2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a
  garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a
  curtain.
• 3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the
  waters. Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who
  walks on the wings of the wind,
• 4 Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a
  flame of fire.
• 5 You who laid the foundations of the earth, So
  that it should not be moved forever,

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?
• READ ISAIAH 6517-18
• 17 Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.
  And the former shall not be remembered or come to
  mind.
• 18 Be glad and rejoice forever in what I create.
  For Behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing And
  her people a joy.
• READ ISAIAH 425
• 5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens
  and stretched them out, Who spread forth the
  earth and that which comes from it, Who gives
  breath to the people on it, And spirit to those
  who walk on it
• READ JEREMIAH 5115
• 15 He has made the earth by His power He has
  established the world by His wisdom, And
  stretched out the heaven by His understanding.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH?
• READ AMOS 413
• 3 Behold, He who forms mountains And creates the
  wind. He who declares to man what his thought is
  And makes the morning darkness. He who treads the
  high places of the earth The LORD God of hosts
  is His name.
• READ AMOS 58
• 8 He made the Pleiades and Orion. He turns the
  shadow of death into morning And makes the day
  dark as night. He calls for the waters of the sea
  And pours them out on the face of the earth.
• The LORD is His name.
• READ HEBREWS 110
• 10 You, LORD, in the beginning laid the
  foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the
  work of Your hands.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• WHO MADE MAN?
• READ ISAIAH 431
• 1 Thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob,
  And He who formed you, O Israel Fear not, for I
  have redeemed you. I have called you by your
  name You are Mine.
• READ ISAIAH 4424
• 24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who
  formed you from the womb I am the LORD, who
  makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens
  all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by
  Myself
• READ ISAIAH 5716
• 16 I will not contend forever Nor will I always
  be angry. For the spirit would fail before Me And
  the souls which I have made.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of
  drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when
  they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
• WHAT IS THIS CUP OF DRUNKENNESS?
• WHO SHALL DRINK OF IT? WHY?
• READ PSALMS 758
• 8 In the hand of the LORD there is a cup And the
  wine is red. It is fully mixed and He pours it
  out. Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the
  earth Drain and drink down.
• READ PSALMS 603
• 3 You have shown Your people hard things. You
  have made us drink the wine of confusion.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• WHO SHALL DRINK OF THIS CUP? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 5117
• 17 Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, You who
  have drunk at the hand of the LORD The cup of His
  fury. You have drunk the dregs of the cup of
  trembling And drained it out.
• READ ISAIAH 5121-23
• 21 Please hear this, you afflicted and drunk but
  not with wine.
• 22 Thus says your Lord, The LORD and your God,
  Who pleads the cause of His people See, I have
  taken out of your hand The cup of trembling, The
  dregs of the cup of My fury. You shall no longer
  drink it.
• 23 But I will put it into the hand of those who
  afflict you, Who have said to you, Lie down,
  that we may walk over you. And you have laid your
  body like the ground And as the street, for those
  who walk over.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• WHO SHALL DRINK OF THIS CUP? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 1313
• 13 Thus says the LORD Behold, I will fill all
  the inhabitants of this land - even the kings who
  sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets,
  and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem - with
  drunkenness!
• READ JEREMIAH 2515-17
• 15 Thus says the LORD God of Israel to me Take
  this wine cup of fury from My hand and cause all
  the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
• 16 They will drink and stagger and go mad Because
  of the sword that I will send among them.
• 17 I took the cup from the LORDS hand and made
  all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent
  me.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• WHO SHALL DRINK OF THIS CUP? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 4912
• 12 Thus says the LORD Behold, those whose
  judgment was not to drink of the cup have
  assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will
  altogether go unpunished? You shall not go
  unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.
• READ JEREMIAH 517
• 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the LORDS hand,
  That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank
  her wine Therefore the nations are deranged.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 121-2

• WHO SHALL DRINK OF THIS CUP? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 2330-33
• 31 You have walked in the way of your sister
  therefore I will put her cup in your hand.
• 32 Thus says the Lord GOD You shall drink of
  your sister's cup, The deep and wide one You
  shall be laughed to scorn And held in derision
  It contains much.
• 33 You will be filled with drunkenness and
  sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup
  of your sister Samaria.

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READ ZECHARIAH 123-4

• 3 In that day that I will make Jerusalem a very
  heavy stone for all peoples. All who would heave
  it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all
  nations of the earth are gathered against it.
• 4 In that day, says the LORD, I will strike every
  horse with confusion and its rider with madness.
  I will open My eyes on the house of Judah. And I
  will strike every horse of the peoples with
  blindness.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 123-4

• 3 In that day that I will make Jerusalem a very
  heavy stone for all peoples All who would heave
  it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all
  nations of the earth are gathered against it.
• 4 In that day, says the LORD, I will strike every
  horse with confusion and its rider with madness.
  I will open My eyes on the house of Judah. And I
  will strike every horse of the peoples with
  blindness.
• WHAT IS THIS HEAVY STONE?
• WHAT WILL BECOME OF IT?
• WHAT WILL THIS STONE DO?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO IN THAT DAY?
• WHAT DO THESE HORSES REPRESENT?
• WHY WILL THE LORD OPEN HIS EYES ON JUDAH?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 123-4

• 3 In that day that I will make Jerusalem a very
  heavy stone for all peoples All who would heave
  it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all
  nations of the earth are gathered against it.
• WHAT IS THIS VERY HEAVY STONE?
• WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHESY?
• READ DANIEL 234-35
• 34 You watched while a stone was cut out without
  hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron
  and clay, and broke them in pieces.
• 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the
  silver, and the gold were crushed together and
  became like chaff from the summer threshing
  floors. The wind carried them away so that no
  trace of them was found. And the stone that
  struck the image became a great mountain and
  filled the whole earth.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 123-4

• 3 In that day that I will make Jerusalem a very
  heavy stone for all peoples All who would heave
  it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all
  nations of the earth are gathered against it.
• WHAT IS THIS VERY HEAVY STONE?
• WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHESY?
• READ READ DANIEL 245
• 45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out
  of the mountain without hands and that it broke
  in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the
  silver and the gold the great God has made known
  to the king what will come to pass after this.
  The dream is certain and its interpretation is
  sure.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 123-4

• 3 In that day that I will make Jerusalem a very
  heavy stone for all peoples All who would heave
  it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all
  nations of the earth are gathered against it.
• WHAT IS THIS VERY HEAVY STONE?
• READ ISAIAH 2816
• 16 Thus says the Lord GOD Behold, I lay in Zion
  a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a
  precious cornerstone, a sure foundation Whoever
  believes will not act hastily.
• READ ISAIAH 6618
• 18 I know their works and their thoughts. It
  shall be that I will gather all nations and
  tongues. They shall come and see My glory
• WHAT WILL BECOME OF IT?
• WHAT WILL THIS STONE DO?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 123-4

• WHAT WILL BECOME OF IT?
• WHAT WILL THIS STONE DO?
• READ LUKE 2017-18
• 17 He looked at them and said, What then is this
  that is written
• The stone which the builders rejected has become
  the chief cornerstone?
• 18 Whoever falls on that stone will be broken
  but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to
  powder.
• READ MATTHEW 2144
• 44 Whoever falls on this stone will be broken
  but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to
  powder.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 123-4

• 4 In that day, says the LORD, I will strike every
  horse with confusion and its rider with madness.
  I will open My eyes on the house of Judah. And I
  will strike every horse of the peoples with
  blindness.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO IN THAT DAY?
• WHAT DO THESE HORSES REPRESENT?
• READ EXODUS 1519-21
• 19 The horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots
  and his horsemen into the sea And the LORD
  brought back the waters of the sea upon them. But
  the children of Israel went on dry land in the
  midst of the sea.
• 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron,
  took the timbrel in her hand. All the women went
  out after her with timbrels and with dances.
• 21 Miriam said Sing to the LORD, For He has
  triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He
  has thrown into the sea!

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 123-4

• 4 In that day, says the LORD, I will strike every
  horse with confusion and its rider with madness.
  I will open My eyes on the house of Judah. And I
  will strike every horse of the peoples with
  blindness.
• WHY WILL THE LORD OPEN HIS EYES ON JUDAH?
• READ PSALMS 328
• 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way
  you should go.
• I will guide you with My eye.
• READ PSALMS 3318-19
• 18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who
  fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy,
• 19 To deliver their soul from death, And to keep
  them alive in famine.

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READ ZECHARIAH 125-6

• 5 The governors of Judah shall say in their
  heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my
  strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.
• 6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah
  like a fire pan in the woodpile, and like a fiery
  torch in the sheaves. They shall devour all the
  surrounding peoples
• on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem
  shall be inhabited again in her own place
  Jerusalem.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 125-6

• 5 The governors of Judah shall say in their
  heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my
  strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.
• 6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah
  like a fire pan in the woodpile, and like a fiery
  torch in the sheaves. They shall devour all the
  surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the
  left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in
  her own place Jerusalem.
• WHO ARE THOSE WHO GOVERN OVER JUDAH?
• WHERE IS THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD MANIFESTED?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THAT DAY?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 125-6

• 5 The governors of Judah shall say in their
  heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my
  strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.
• WHO ARE THOSE WHO GOVERN OVER JUDAH?
• READ EZEKIEL 3024-26
• 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of
  Babylon and put My sword in his hand. But I will
  break Pharaoh's arms and he will groan before him
  with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.
• 25 Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of
  Babylon, But the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down.
  They shall know that I am the LORD, when I put My
  sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he
  stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
• 26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations
  and disperse them throughout the countries. They
  shall know that I am the LORD.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 125-6

• 5 The governors of Judah shall say in their
  heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my
  strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.
• WHAT WILL THE GOVERNORS SAY IN THEIR HEART?
• WHERE IS THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD MANIFESTED?
• WHERE IS THE STRENGTH OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL?
• READ JOEL 316
• 16 The LORD also will roar from Zion And utter
  His voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and earth
  will shake. But the LORD will be a shelter for
  His people And the strength of the children of
  Israel.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 125-6

• 6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah
  like a fire pan in the woodpile, and like a fiery
  torch in the sheaves. They shall devour all the
  surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the
  left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in
  her own place Jerusalem.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THAT DAY?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 125-6

• 6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah
  like a fire pan in the woodpile, and like a fiery
  torch in the sheaves. They shall devour all the
  surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the
  left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in
  her own place Jerusalem.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
• READ ISAIAH 1017-18
• 17 The Light of Israel will be for a fire And his
  Holy One for a flame. It will burn and devour his
  thorns and his briers in one day.
• 18 It will consume the glory of his forest and of
  his fruitful field,
• Both soul and body. They will be as when a sick
  man wastes away.
• READ OBADIAH 118
• 18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire And the
  house of Joseph a flame But the house of Esau
  shall be stubble. They shall kindle them and
  devour them And no survivor shall remain of the
  house of Esau, For the LORD has spoken.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 125-6

• 6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah
  like a fire pan in the woodpile, and like a fiery
  torch in the sheaves. They shall devour all the
  surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the
  left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in
  her own place Jerusalem.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
• READ ZECHARIAH 1410-11
• 10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from
  Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem
  shall be raised up and inhabited in her place
  from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First
  Gate and the Corner Gate and from the Tower of
  Hananel to the king's winepresses.
• 11 The people shall dwell in it And no longer
  shall there be utter destruction But Jerusalem
  shall be safely inhabited.

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READ ZECHARIAH 127-8

• 7 The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so
  that the glory of the house of David and the
  glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not
  become greater than that of Judah.
• 8 In that day the LORD will defend the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem. The one who is feeble
  among them in that day shall be like David. The
  house of David shall be like God, like the Angel
  of the LORD before them.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• 7 The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so
  that the glory of the house of David and the
  glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not
  become greater than that of Judah.
• 8 In that day the LORD will defend the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem. The one who is feeble
  among them in that day shall be like David. The
  house of David shall be like God, like the Angel
  of the LORD before them.
• WHY SAVE JUDAH FIRST?
• WHAT WERE THEY TO GLORY IN?
• WHICH TRIBE SHALL BE THE GREATER? WHY?
• IN THAT DAY, WHO WILL DEFEND JERUSALEM?
• WHO WILL THE PEOPLE BE LIKE? WHY?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• 7 The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so
  that the glory of the house of David and the
  glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not
  become greater than that of Judah.
• WHAT WILL THEY GLORY IN?
• WHAT SHOULD THEY GLORY IN?
• READ JEREMIAH 924
• 24 Let him who glories glory in this That he
  understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD,
  exercising loving-kindness, judgment and
  righteousness in the earth. For in these I
  delight, says the LORD.
• READ 1 CORINTHIANS 131
• 31 It is written, He who glories, let him glory
  in the LORD.
• READ 2 CORINTHIANS 1017
• 17 He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• 7 The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so
  that the glory of the house of David and the
  glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not
  become greater than that of Judah.
• WHICH TRIBE SHALL BE THE GREATER? WHY?
• WHO DID THE LORD SAY WOULD BE GREATER?
• WHO DID JESUS PREACH THE GOSPEL TO? WHY?
• READ LUKE 418-19
• 18 The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me Because He
  has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.
  He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to
  proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of
  sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who
  are oppressed
• 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.
• READ LUKE 620
• 20 Jesus lifted up His eyes toward His disciples,
  and said
• Blessed are you poor For yours is the kingdom of
  God.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• WHO DID THE LORD SAY WOULD BE THE GREATER?
• READ 1 CORINTHIANS 126
• 26 You see your calling, brethren, that not many
  wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not
  many noble, are called.
• READ GALATIANS 328
• 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
  neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor
  female for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• READ COLOSSIANS 311
• 11 There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised
  nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor
  free, but Christ is all and in all.
• READ JAMES 25
• Listen, my beloved brethren Has God not chosen
  the poor of this world to be rich in faith and
  heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those
  who love Him?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• WHO DID THE LORD SAY WOULD BE THE GREATER?
• WHY?
• READ 1 CORINTHIANS 1222-25
• 22 No, much rather, those members of the body
  which seem to be weaker are necessary.
• 23 And those members of the body which we think
  to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater
  honor. Our un-presentable parts have greater
  modesty
• 24 But our presentable parts have no need. God
  composed the body, having given greater honor to
  that part which lacks it,
• 25 That there should be no schism in the body.
  But that the members should have the same care
  for one another.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• 8 In that day the LORD will defend the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem. The one who is feeble
  among them in that day shall be like David. The
  house of David shall be like God, like the Angel
  of the LORD before them.
• IN THAT DAY, WHO WILL DEFEND JERUSALEM?
• WHO WILL THE PEOPLE BE LIKE? WHY?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• 8 In that day the LORD will defend the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem. The one who is feeble
  among them in that day shall be like David. The
  house of David shall be like God, like the Angel
  of the LORD before them.
• WHO WILL DEFEND JERUSALEM?
• READ JEREMIAH 3018
• 18 Thus says the LORD Behold, I will bring back
  the captivity of Jacob's tents And have mercy on
  his dwelling places. The city shall be built upon
  its own mound And the palace shall remain
  according to its own plan.
• READ AMOS 911
• 11 On that day I will raise up the tabernacle of
  David, which has fallen down And repair its
  damages. I will raise up its ruins And rebuild it
  as in the days of old.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• WHO WILL DEFEND JERUSALEM?
• READ HAGGAI 222
• 22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I
  will destroy the strength of the Gentile
  kingdoms. I will overthrow the chariots And those
  who ride in them. The horses and their riders
  shall come down, every one by the sword of his
  brother.
• READ PSALMS 914
• 4 He shall cover you with His feathers And under
  His wings you shall take refuge. His truth shall
  be your shield and buckler.
• READ JOEL 316
• 16 The LORD will roar from Zion and utter His
  voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and earth will
  shake. But the LORD will be a shelter for His
  people and the strength of the children of
  Israel.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 127-8

• 8 In that day the LORD will defend the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem. The one who is feeble
  among them in that day shall be like David. The
  house of David shall be like God, like the Angel
  of the LORD before them.
• WHO WILL THE PEOPLE BE LIKE?
• READ PSALMS 826-7
• 6 I said, You are gods, And all of you are
  children of the Most High.
• 7 But you shall die like men And fall like one of
  the princes.
• READ MICAH 78
• 8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. When I fall,
  I will arise When I sit in darkness, the LORD
  will be a light to me.

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READ ZECHARIAH 129-11

• 9 It shall be in that day that I will seek to
  destroy all the nations that come against
  Jerusalem.
• 10 I will pour on the house of David and on the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and
  supplication. Then they will look on Me whom they
  pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one
  mourns for his only son and grieve for Him as one
  grieves for a firstborn.
• 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in
  Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in
  the plain of Megiddo.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• 9 It shall be in that day that I will seek to
  destroy all the nations that come against
  Jerusalem.
• 10 I will pour on the house of David and on the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and
  supplication. They will look on Me whom they
  pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one
  mourns for his only son and grieve for Him as one
  grieves for a firstborn.
• 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in
  Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in
  the plain of Megiddo.
• WHO WILL THE LORD SEEK TO DESTROY?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD POUR OUT ON THE HOUSE OF
  DAVID?
• WHAT IS THE SPIRIT OF GRACE AND SUPPLICATION?
• WHO PIERCED HIM? WHY?
• WHO WILL MOURN FOR HIM? WHY?
• WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PLAIN OF MEGIDDO?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• 9 It shall be in that day that I will seek to
  destroy all the nations that come against
  Jerusalem.
• WHO WILL THE LORD SEEK TO DESTROY?
• READ ISAIAH 297
• 7 The multitude of all the nations who fight
  against Ariel, Even all who fight against her and
  her fortress, and distress her, Shall be as a
  dream of a night vision.
• WHAT WAS ARIEL - JERUSALEM

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• 10 I will pour on the house of David and on the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and
  supplication. They will look on Me whom they
  pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one
  mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as
  one grieves for a firstborn.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD POUR ON THE HOUSE OF DAVID?
• READ ISAIAH 443
• 3 I will pour water on him who is thirsty and
  floods on the dry ground. I will pour My Spirit
  on your descendants. And My blessing on your
  offspring.
• READ EZEKIEL 3929
• 29 I will not hide My face from them anymore. I
  shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of
  Israel, says the Lord GOD.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• WHAT WILL THE LORD POUR ON THE HOUSE OF DAVID?
• READ JOEL 228
• 28 It shall come to pass afterward That I will
  pour out My Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and
  your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall
  dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.
• 29 And also on My menservants and on My
  maidservants
• I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
• WHEN DID THIS COME TO PASS?
• READ ACTS 217-18
• 17 It shall come to pass in the last days, says
  God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all
  flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall
  prophesy. Your young men shall see visions. Your
  old men shall dream dreams.
• 18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I
  will pour out My Spirit in those days. And they
  shall prophesy.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• 10 I will pour on the house of David and on the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and
  supplication. They will look on Me whom they
  pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one
  mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as
  one grieves for a firstborn.
• WHO DID THEY PIERCE? WHY?
• READ JOHN 1934-37
• 34 One of the soldiers pierced His side with a
  spear and immediately blood and water came out.
• 35 He who has seen has testified and his
  testimony is true. He knows that he is telling
  the truth, so that you may believe.
• 36 For these things were done that the Scripture
  should be fulfilled, Not one of His bones shall
  be broken.
• 37 Another Scripture says, They shall look on Him
  whom they pierced.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• 10 I will pour on the house of David and on the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and
  supplication. They will look on Me whom they
  pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one
  mourns for his only son and grieve for Him as one
  grieves for a firstborn.
• WHO IS THIS ONLY SON? WHO IS THIS FIRSTBORN?
• WHO WILL MOURN FOR HIM? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 504
• 4 In those days and in that time, says the LORD,
  The children of Israel shall come they and the
  children of Judah together. With continual
  weeping they shall come And seek the LORD their
  God.
• READ JEREMIAH 626
• 26 O daughter of my people, Dress in sackcloth
  And roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an
  only son , most bitter lamentation For the
  plunderer will suddenly come upon us.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• WHO IS THIS ONLY SON? ONLY BEGOTTEN SON?
• READ JOHN 114-18
• 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
  and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
  begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• 15 John bore witness of Him and cried out,
  saying, This was He of whom I said, He who comes
  after me is preferred before me, for He was
  before me.
• 16 And of His fullness we have all received and
  grace for grace.
• 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace
  and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only
  begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father,
  He has declared Him.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• WHO IS THIS ONLY SON? ONLY BEGOTTEN SON?
• READ JOHN 316-18
• 16 God so loved the world that He gave His only
  begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
  not perish but have everlasting life.
• 17 God did not send His Son into the world to
  condemn the world, but that the world through Him
  might be saved.
• 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned but
  he who does not believe is condemned already,
  because he has not believed in the name of the
  only begotten Son of God.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• WHO IS THIS ONLY SON? ONLY BEGOTTEN SON?
• READ 1 JOHN 49-11
• 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward
  us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into
  the world, that we might live through Him.
• 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but
  that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
  propitiation for our sins.
• 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to
  love one another.
• WHO IS THIS FIRSTBORN?
• READ ROMANS 829
• 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to
  be conformed to the image of His Son, that He
  might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 129-11

• 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in
  Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in
  the plain of Megiddo.
• WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PLAIN OF MEGIDDO?
• READ 2 KINGS 2329
• 29 In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went
  to the aid of the king of Assyria, to the River
  Euphrates. King Josiah went against him And
  Pharaoh Necho killed him at Megiddo when he
  confronted him.
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3523-25
• 24 His servants therefore took him out of that
  chariot and put him in the second chariot that he
  had, and they brought him to Jerusalem. So he
  died, and was buried in one of the tombs of his
  fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for
  Josiah.
• 25 Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this
  day all the singing men and the singing women
  speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made
  it a custom in Israel and indeed they are written
  in the Laments.

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READ ZECHARIAH 1212-14

• 12 The land shall mourn, every family by itself
  the family of the house of David by itself and
  their wives by themselves. The family of the
  house of Nathan by itself and their wives by
  themselves
• 13 The family of the house of Levi by itself, and
  their wives by themselves. The family of Shimei
  by itself and their wives by themselves.
• 14 All the families that remain, every family by
  itself, and their wives by themselves.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 1212-14

• 12 The land shall mourn, every family by itself
  the family of the house of David by itself and
  their wives by themselves. The family of the
  house of Nathan by itself and their wives by
  themselves
• 13 The family of the house of Levi by itself and
  their wives by themselves. The family of Shimei
  by itself and their wives by themselves.
• 14 All the families that remain, every family by
  itself, and their wives by themselves.
• WHO SHALL MOURN? WHY?
• WHY SHALL EACH FAMILY MOURN BY ITSELF?
• WHY THEIR WIVES BY THEMSELVES?

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 1212-14

• WHO SHALL MOURN? WHY?
• READ MATTHEW 2430-31
• 30 The sign of the Son of Man will appear in
  heaven and then all the tribes of the earth will
  mourn. And they will see the Son of Man coming on
  the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
• 31 He will send His angels with a great sound of
  a trumpet. And they will gather together His
  elect from the four winds from one end of heaven
  to the other.
• READ REVELATION 17
• 7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye
  will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all
  the tribes of the earth will mourn because of
  Him. Even so, Amen.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 1212-14

• 14 All the families that remain, every family by
  itself, and their wives by themselves.
• WHO ARE THOSE THAT REMAIN?
• READ ZECHARIAH 138-9
• 8 It shall come to pass in all the land, says the
  LORD, that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and
  die, But one-third shall be left in it.
• 9 I will bring the one-third through the fire. I
  Will refine them as silver is refined and test
  them as gold is tested. They will call on My name
  and I will answer them. I will say, This is My
  people. And each one will say, The LORD is my
  God.

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QUESTIONS ZECHARIAH 1212-14

• 14 All the families that remain, every family by
  itself, and their wives by themselves.
• WHY THE WIVES BY THEMSELVES?
• WHY WERE THE WOMEN SEPARATED FROM THE MEN?
• READ EXODUS 388
• 8 He made the laver of bronze and its base of
  bronze, from the bronze mirrors of the serving
  women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle
  of meeting.
• READ 1 SAMUEL 222
• 22 Eli was very old and he heard everything his
  sons did to all Israel. How they lay with the
  women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle
  of meeting.

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