Zechariah Main Lessons, 2019 study
Tod Kennedy
- If I have strayed from the LORD and His word, I need to return to fellowship with Him by confessing my sin and changing my attitude to faithful obedience.
- Each of us is dependent upon the Holy Spirit’s power and ability to serve God the right way and with God’s intended results. Each of us needs to walk by the Holy Spirit—to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
- Ritual for ritual sake did not please God in the past and neither will it please God now. Why do we observe communion? What do we think about during that ritual?
- God has disciplined Israel because of her sin, but her promised national future and blessing is sure and nonrevocable.
- History will have a period of unsurpassed hatred and attacks against Israel and her people and this will continue until the LORD returns to rule as king over all the earth.
- Just before LORD Jesus returns nations will be attacking Israel, but as the LORD descends to the Mount of Olives, many Israelites will realize he is the Messiah. They will go into mourning because they rejected him when he came the first time.
- The LORD will defeat the attacking armies, change the geography of Israel, be king of all the earth, and receive worship from the nations.
- God controls human history, even in the middle of terrible anti-Semitism. Let’s not give up on God when historical events are bad.