Zechariah

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Zechariah

• Previews of the Messiah

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The Servant Branch

• Listen then, Joshua, you who are the High
  Priest and listen, you fellow priests of his,
  you that are the sign of a good future I will
  reveal my servant, who is called The Branch!
  (Zechariah 38)
• The man who is called The Branch will flourish
  where he is and rebuild the LORD's Temple.
  (Zechariah 612)

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• Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by
  people as worthless but chosen by God as
  valuable. Come as living stones, and let
  yourselves be used in building the spiritual
  temple (1Peter 24-5)

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The Servant Branch

• Then a shoot will come out from the stump of
  Jesse, and a branch from its roots will bear
  fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on
  him... (Isaiah 111-2)
• The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when
  I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and
  he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall
  execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  (Jeremiah 235)

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Suffering Servant

• The LORD says, My servant will succeed in his
  task he will be highly honored. Many people were
  shocked when they saw him he was so disfigured
  that he hardly looked human. But now many nations
  will marvel at him, and kings will be speechless
  with amazement. They will see and understand
  something they had never known. (Isaiah
  5213-15)

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Suffering Servant

• Who believes what we've heard and seen? Who
  would have thought that Gods saving power would
  look like this? The servant grew up before God--a
  scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched
  field. There was nothing attractive about him,
  nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was
  looked down on and passed over, a man who
  suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at
  him and people turned away. We looked down on
  him, thought he was scum. (Isaiah 531-3 MSG)

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Humble, riding a donkey

• Rejoice, rejoice, people of Zion! Shout for joy,
  you people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is
  coming to you! He comes triumphant and
  victorious, but humble and riding on a donkey---
  on a colt, the foal of a donkey. The LORD says,
  I will remove the war chariots from Israel and
  take the horses from Jerusalem the bows used in
  battle will be destroyed. Your king will make
  peace among the nations he will rule from sea to
  sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the
  earth. (Zechariah 99-10)

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1 Kings 138
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• he will send you a prophet like me from among
  your own people, and you are to obey him. On the
  day that you were gathered at Mount Sinai, you
  begged not to hear the LORD speak again or to see
  his fiery presence any more, because you were
  afraid you would die. So the LORD said to me,
  'They have made a wise request. I will send them
  a prophet like you from among their own
  people... (Deuteronomy 1814-18)

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• (Moses was a very humble man, more humble than
  anyone else on earth.) (Numbers 123)
• I am meek and humble of heart. (Matthew 1129)

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Peace

• Rejoice, rejoice, people of Zion! Shout for joy,
  you people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is
  coming to you! He comes triumphant and
  victorious, but humble and riding on a donkey---
  on a colt, the foal of a donkey. The LORD says,
  I will remove the war chariots from Israel and
  take the horses from Jerusalem the bows used in
  battle will be destroyed. Your king will make
  peace among the nations he will rule from sea to
  sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the
  earth. (Zechariah 99-10)

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Peace

• A child is born to us! A son is given to us! And
  he will be our ruler. He will be called,
  "Wonderful Counselor," "Mighty God," "Eternal
  Father," "Prince of Peace." His royal power will
  continue to grow his kingdom will always be at
  peace. (Isaiah 96-7)

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• Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
  good will toward men. (Luke 214)

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Peace

• God was pleased to have all of himself live in
  Christ. God was also pleased to bring everything
  on earth and in heaven back to himself through
  Christ. He did this by making peace through
  Christ's blood sacrificed on the cross. Once you
  were separated from God. The evil things you did
  showed your hostile attitude. But now Christ has
  brought you back to God by dying in his physical
  body. (Colossians 119-22 GW)
• But now, by means of the physical death of his
  Son, God has made you his friends (Col 122
  GNB)

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Peace with God

• Therefore, since we are set right by faith, we
  have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
  Christ. (Romans 51 NRSV)
• But God showed His great love for us by sending
  Christ to die for us while we were still
  sinners...For since our friendship with God was
  restored by the death of His Son while we were
  still His enemies, we will certainly be saved
  through the life of His Son. So now we can
  rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with
  God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us
  friends of God. (Romans 58-11 NLT)

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• I dont want to call you servants any longer,
  because servants do not know what their master is
  doing. Instead, I call you my friends(John
  1515)

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• When I was growing up, I tended to see the God
  of the Old Testament as the tough one Jesus was
  so gentle I didn't even see him as God. I knew he
  was "Son of God" and "divine" but God himself?
  Not really. Some vivid Old Testament stories and
  the picture of Jesus pleading with the Father on
  my behalf had convinced me that only as a last
  resort would the Father let me slip through the
  back door into the kingdom. Not until I was a
  second-year seminary student...did the "truth"
  strike home that Jesus was God in the flesh.
  Unless you have had such an experience, you can't
  possibly imagine the joy that flooded my soul. No
  longer was I haunted by the picture of a distant
  and reluctant God. If God himself took human
  flesh and came to earth to save sinners, he must
  really want me in his kingdom. The whole universe
  suddenly became a much friendlier place. Alden
  Thompsom

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• How wonderful it is to see a messenger coming
  across the mountains, bringing good news, the
  news of peace!(Isaiah 527)
• So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight
  around your waist, with righteousness as your
  breastplate, and as your shoes the readiness to
  announce the Good News of peace. (Ephesians
  614-16)

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• But now you have been united with Christ Jesus.
  Once you were far away from God, but now you have
  been brought near to Him through the blood of
  Christ. For Christ Himself has brought peace to
  us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people
  when, in His own body on the cross, He broke down
  the wall of hostility that separated usHe made
  peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in
  Himself one new people from the two groups.
  Together as one body, Christ reconciled both
  groups to God by means of His death on the cross,
  and our hostility toward each other was put to
  death. He brought this Good News of peace to you
  Gentiles who were far away from Him, and peace to
  the Jews who were near. (Ephesians 213-18)

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• Forgive usas we forgive others (Matthew
  612).
• Do not judge others, so that God will not judge
  you, for God will judge you in the same way you
  judge others (Matthew 71)
• Dear friends, let us love one another, because
  love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of
  God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not
  know God, for God is love (1 John 47,8).

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Two Shepherds

• Thus said the LORD my God Be a shepherd of the
  flock doomed to slaughter. Their owners kill them
  and go unpunished. They sell the meat and say,
  'Praise the LORD! We are rich!' Even their own
  shepherds have no pity on them. (Zechariah
  114-5)

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Bad Shepherds

• Mortal man, he said, denounce the rulers of
  Israel. Prophesy to them, and tell them what I,
  the Sovereign LORD, say to them You are doomed,
  you shepherds of Israel! You take care of
  yourselves, but never tend the sheep. (Ezekiel
  342)

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Bad Shepherds

• The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees are
  the authorized interpreters of Moses' Law. So you
  must obey and follow everything they tell you to
  do do not, however, imitate their actions,
  because they don't practice what they preach.
  They tie onto people's backs loads that are heavy
  and hard to carry, yet they aren't willing even
  to lift a finger to help them carry those loads.
  (Matthew 232-4)

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• For I will no longer have pity on the
  inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD. I will
  cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand
  of a neighbor, and each into the hand of the
  king and they shall devastate the earth, and I
  will deliver no one from their hand.
• So I became the shepherd of the sheep that were
  to be slaughtered and also of the oppressed
  sheep. I took two staffs one I named Favor, the
  other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep. In
  one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for
  I had become impatient with them, and they also
  detested me. (Zechariah 116-8)

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• The priests did not ask, 'Where is the LORD?' My
  own priests did not know me. The rulers rebelled
  against me the prophets spoke in the name of
  Baal and worshiped useless idols. (Jeremiah 28)

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• Then I said to the flock, I will not be your
  shepherd any longer. Let those die who are to
  die. Let those be destroyed who are to be
  destroyed. Those who are left will destroy one
  another. Then I took the stick called "Favor"
  and broke it, to cancel the covenant which the
  LORD had made with all the nations. So the
  covenant was canceled on that day. Those who
  bought and sold the sheep were watching me, and
  they knew that the LORD was speaking through what
  I did. (Zechariah 119-11)

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• I said to them, If you are willing, give me my
  wages. But if not, keep them. So they paid me
  thirty pieces of silver as my wages. The LORD
  said to me, Put them in the Temple treasury. So
  I took the thirty pieces of silver---the
  magnificent sum they thought I was worth---and
  put them in the Temple treasury. Then I broke the
  second stick, the one called "Unity," and the
  unity of Judah and Israel was shattered.
  (Zechariah 1112-14)

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• If the bull kills a male or female slave, its
  owner shall pay the owner of the slave thirty
  pieces of silver, and the bull shall be stoned to
  death. (Exodus 2132)
• What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?
  They counted out thirty silver coins and gave
  them to him. (Matthew 2615)

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• Then the LORD said to me, Once again act the
  part of a shepherd, this time a worthless one. I
  have put a shepherd in charge of my flock, but he
  does not help the sheep that are threatened by
  destruction nor does he look for the lost, or
  heal those that are hurt, or feed the healthy.
  Instead, he eats the meat of the fattest sheep
  and tears off their hoofs. That worthless
  shepherd is doomed! He has abandoned his flock.
  War will totally destroy his power. His arm will
  wither, and his right eye will go
  blind.(Zechariah 1115-17)

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• Arise, sword, against my shepherd, against the
  man who is my friend. (companion) declares the
  LORD of Armies. Strike the shepherd, and the
  sheep will be scattered.(Zechariah 137)
• I was like a trusting lamb taken out to be
  killed, and I did not know that it was against me
  that they were planning evil things. (Jeremiah
  1119)

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• All others who came before me are thieves and
  robbers, but the sheep did not listen to themThe
  thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and
  destroyI am the good shepherd, who is willing to
  die for the sheep.
• I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me
  and I know the Father, in the same way I know my
  sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die
  for them. There are other sheep which belong to
  me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring
  them, too they will listen to my voice, and they
  will become one flock with one shepherd. (John
  108-11,14-16)

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• The Father loves me because I am willing to give
  up my life, in order that I may receive it back
  again. No one takes my life away from me. I give
  it up of my own free will. I have the right to
  give it up, and I have the right to take it back.
  This is what my Father has commanded me to do.
  Again there was a division among the people
  because of these words. Many of them were saying,
  He has a demon! He is crazy! Why do you listen
  to him? But others were saying, A man with a
  demon could not talk like this! How could a demon
  give sight to blind people? (John 1014-21)

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• My commandment is this love one another, just
  as I love you. The greatest love you can have for
  your friends is to give your life for them.
  (John 1512-13)

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OT clues about the Messiah

• The Branch
• The Suffering Servant
• The Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the
  sheep