So I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down in His name, says the Lord,
( Zechariah 10:12).
Zechariah starts out speaking the watchers riding horses are commanded to walk to and fro through the world for the Lord.
As written in Daniel 4,the watchers watched the King Nebuchadnezzar walk in his pride as he knew the God of Daniel as God but had forgotten. He had decided the vastness of kingdom had to do from his hand and not the blessing of God……
Watchers saw the kings’s pride and he lost his kingdom because he did not give God the glory and first place. But do not fret, the Lord restored all and even more when the king came to his senses and praised God as the God who rules in the sons of men.
Guess what? Guess who is now doing this job for Him? As far as the scripture states- we are!!!! We pray and praise in heaven and bring His bread, His Words, His hope, His life and even His exhortation of correction to the nations we are established in…… We are His messengers of fire, beloved…….
Rejoice for this day! Be bold and courageous for and by Him…..
Our God has given us the mind of Christ and His Spirit clothing us and dwelling in us…… As written in the third chapter of Zechariah, as Joshua stood before the Angel of the Lord, ( the Lord), and Satan on His right hand to oppose him….. Notice in your bible it is a little him him.
First, the Lord rebukes Satan- My term- back off, this one I have chosen…… Beloved, this is you and me found in Christ….And note who is now at the right hand of God- it is not Satan…..Thank You- Our Mighty King!
Then the ones who stood before the Lord removed from Joshua his filthy garments, which represents his and our iniquity and clothed him with rich robes……. Beloved, these are His rich robes clothing us now too.
The Lord also spoke for a new turban to be placed on his head….. Now this represents the mind of Christ….. His mind is now upon and in us too! His mind! Look it up it is written !
What great gifts we have been given by our God…… These are the gifts of Himself to be within us. He has given us His best even if the earth was not good enough for us to have dominion over……
Then the Angel of the Lord, admonished Joshua saying,
If you will walk in My ways and if you will keep My command, then you shall also judge My house, and likewise have charge of My courts; I will give you places to walk among these who stand here.
Hear, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your companions who sit before you, for they are a wonderous sign; for behold, I am bringing forth My Servant the BRANCH.
For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua: Upon the stone are the seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave its inscription, says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
In that day, says the Lord of hosts, everyone will invite his neighbor under his vine and under his fig tree, ( Zechariah 3:6-10) .
Now it is interesting what is spoken over the next few chapters – the plan. He has implemented and is implementing His plan of building His Temple. We are it, beloved… We are His body today!…….We are His temple!
The angel that spoke to Zechariah returned to him in chapter 4. I love how he mentions the angel wakened me as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. I presume here, Zechariah was not asleep.
I have to wonder how much more of His sight we need to obtain from Him…… Give us eyes to see what You, Lord, have given us to believe and walk through in You. Only by Your Spirit can we be changed from children to sons and daughters and be busy about the business of our Father.
Open our eyes to see all the Truth before us today… Do not hide away any. Let our belief in seeing your glory and honor be and remove the blinders. Full range of vision as we see You and bow jn thanksgiving…… You always hear our prayers.
Just as it is written in Psalm 17:5, As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.
I always ask awake from what? Am I sleeping now? Awake me now, please, Sir….. I do not want to be sleeping. I do not want to miss anything You say to Me. Speak Lord I am listening and ready to obey.
When we are born again, and He takes our heart and fills us with His heart. A heart ready for the infilling of the Word of God and Holy Spirit….. The Spirit who reveals all His understanding, wisdom, justice and judgment and equity, discernment…….unto us….. ( The new turban)…..We are awakened out of our slumber of earthly life and transported into the kingdom of His love of His Son….. There is so much more to see. We must have our eyes gazing on our King.
Another example of this is Saul who became Paul in Acts. He was the sign of Jesus Christ’s Words from John chapter 9:39-41: And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.
Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, Are we blind also?
Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, We see! Therefore your sin remains.
Paul’s scales fell off his eyes as he was prayed over.
So, we have many new things to be shown by our King. So, we must continue to ask, seek and knock for increased sight to gain His vision according to His mind….
Let us see what and how You do, O gracious One….. We are blind, but in You we have sight because of Your light…… Let us see, for we see men as trees, we need to see You in all Your beauty.
His understanding is how we gain the sight and perception in using discernment to differ the Tree of Life from the tree of knowledge. The tree of knowledge speaks of things that are seen or made up so all may believe—– The Tree of Life is Christ our King, who chooses those to come and believe and see as He sees and be set free….. May we eat only from His Tree….. His fruit is good and delicious. The very basis of life giving us vision even unto eternity.
The Book of Zechariah is much like the Book of Revelation……The Book of Zechariah is where we live and move and have our being now…… We are the ones now who walk up and down in His name. If you doubt me, check out the Book of Zechariah and see…… Then hopefully by faith you will apprehend Him as you did when you first believed.
It is not for a select few…. If you say you are Christ’s- then take your rightful place in His Door that has been opened for you. Come up here! Hear His call. His Voice has risen you to His place….
Come and get the food for the hungry and give the Fountain of Living Water to the thirsty and dying…..
Come and touch Him and let His Spirit capture you in His grace so all that see and hear you may embrace the cross of Calvary. They shall then be cleansed from the touch of earth and death.
Come up here and sit at His feet. Hear His Words of life to set all the captives free……
Be free from religion that holds your position to a weekly show and then off you go.
You are more vital to His kingdom than what you have settled on…. You are His and He wants the world to see how He has done His work in you and through you!
God showing us what is to come in many different avenues of metaphors in the Book of Zechariah…… Grace and grace and grace is surely sufficient as we live by His strength to walk in His truth. Grace I think is the greatest power and shows the mighty strength of God given to His beloved…….
Increase in grace and knowledge of God in the Lord Jesus Christ is written many times. I believe it is imperative we sit before Him. We obtain His wisdom and understanding to perceive all He is doing today.
Give us more, please, King for we want Your power to be made perfect in our lives as written ……..
We must know and walk that as He is so we are in this world….NOW…..We are filled with grace and truth, and do not be surprised when the world does not want us around,…. As He is so are we in the world.
We are His body and are extremely connected to our King’s head, just as our body is connected extremely to our head…..
I use the example of a rose that is opening up….. The stem and leaves which are for healing of the nations is connected to the most beautiful flower…… Not much is thought of the stems and leaves, but everyone notices the budding flower—–They even stop and stick their nose in for a fragrance check. All notice the flower, not many check the leaves and stems out……… They see His glory.
Our King, the head of all…..has a beautiful and wonderful fragrance to the nations.
But He desires the stems and leaves to hold Him up so all may see Him and His glory. Just like us bringing the Food from heaven down to the earth…. We go up and are changed unto His image by His glory to glory and to another dose of Him and then come down and pray and give.
So we delight to know our Christ is in us…..as our hope of glory….. It is not about us, but all about Him.
The God power that makes Him so great is flowing in us to point the nations to Him….The same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells within us.
Do you notice how are mortal bodies are quickened when we sit before Him? He is our eternal life now, beloved.
So that brings me to the next chapter of Zechariah when the angel reveals unto him the next stage of what this new thing God is doing being presented to man is all about…..
When we believed in Jesus Christ as our Savior…… It was not a feeling but by the faith of God as a gift from His Spirit to receive His Son….. So apprehend all that Christ Jesus has given us and is for us is to be activated so to speak, by faith. The hungry and thirsty get filled before Him……
Sometimes when things happen, I say to the Lord, I believe You that I am healed or will write or anything…. He says show up and walk and or type and I AM there….. I obey and He shows up.
It was faith in His Beginning and is this day and will be till His End.
All we get in Him, we get by faith in and by Him, through the power of His Spirit.
I guess this is the meaning of Paul’s speech -Philippians 3:12, Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
Baptized in His fire, moves the reality of Christ around us to Christ within……
The still small voice is always speaking and guiding us into His perfect will. One obedience leads to more of Him. This is His way of increase and His fullness we live in.
Now do not say, I want to come up there- Lord…… Please pray, thank You Lord for placing me in You. I behold Your beauty and wait to be shown what You desire for me. Wait- it may be soon or later but He is faithful…. He is seeing if you are. He knows our motives- if it is for our fame or for His Name.
There may be times that we need Him and no one else is around…. Beloved, He is always there. He will always bring His scriptures to mind…..so we may be victorious in all things…Start now at His feet and be His saint that He has called us all to be. Do not fear for He is here!!!! He is here…..
We can do all things in Christ Jesus who strengthens us- for we are bringing heaven to earth. Our routine is this same route continually as we live and breath and have our being in Him.
It is imperative to read His Word. It is vital to get His Word, the King, in our heart. For they are very much life and our life to get through the race that is before us.
Know His resurrection power in any place of weakness NOW. So when the day approaches, you remember and walk the faith out. He will do it again as He did before for He is always the same. He is faithful.
Our leaning on Him is not out of fear to be rescued or delivered but in our delight for all that He is….. He is to us….. We love Him no matter what comes against Him……and us…. He is worthy of all our love and vision. His love does for sure cast out fear…… This should be our experience this day.
His power is made perfect in our weakness as written. Weakness is not our sin, beloved….. It is being in a mortal body that has not been resurrected yet….. So we must apprehend Him in His fullness. In Him, we are complete….
Do not allow religion and sayings of men to stop the Truth from flowering you into His complete and perfect purpose for Him… He has called you to come up here…… So go and do not turn back and do not let the enemy try to displace you from the life you have been given by Him.
You are essential to His beautiful mosaic He is building and He has started the building and will complete it…. I see you shining as a perfect stone He has made. So shine and glisten of the love of Your King….. Show Him off !
Behold, the King is among us even in our midst. He is speaking to us in our sleep. He is singing over our bad singing in the shower! He is here and we are His….. We are His body so we are as He is. He is where we are as we are as He is in this world.
He is the Voice that we shut all others out so we hear Him alone…. Then we shall know His Truth versus the false…. We shall not be deceived.
And he said to me, What do you see? So I said, I am looking and there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps.
Two olives are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.
So I answered and spoke to the angel that spoke to me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
So he answered and said to me: This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. Who are you, O great mountain? But Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it!
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying: The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; and His hands shall finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.
For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, which scan throughout the whole earth.
Then I answered and said to him, what are these two olive trees- at the right of the lampstand and at its left?
And I further answered and said to him, What are these two olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?
Then he answered me and said, Do you not know that these are? And I said, No, my lord.
So he said, these are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth,
( Zechariah 4:2-14).
This is the plumb line or standard now on this earth…..
So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him, ( Isaiah 59:19).
The foundation of the temple of the Lord has been started by Him as He is the Beginning. He is the One who has set the standard. THE LORD IS THE STANDARD. He is holy and there is no other like Him…
We live in and by Him. He is our standard and the world’s too. Though they may not agree. But the Creator has set the foundation of the earth and the foundation of His temple,…. the Lord Jesus Christ who in three days rose to life. The temple rose that day in Him too. US…..
We have risen in Him. We are dead in our sins but alive in Him. His children are being built in Him as a holy temple of the Lord. We are His bread that He gives for all to eat in the world and be saved. Not that in ourselves, we are our own light. But we as He has said in Matthew 5:14: You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
By His Spirit of grace that none of us should boast in our accomplishments in being a Christian….. That is religion. The doers versus the havers of His presence. The havers of His presence know that He is the center of all things.
This what I do know, that religion makes me feel guilty for never doing enough. In my God and my all, I am complete and being shown what is about His business of the kingdom…..His bid for prayer which is least in the importance in many houses of worship these days is my food. So I gladly suffer the reproach because His power is made perfect in my weakness. His Spirit rests on me so I may complete the call He has placed in me.
He is about the day we are in…. for that is all He has given…..Time to repent. Time to pray. Time to read His Word. Time to tune into His plan. Time to be filled with His fire for boldness and courage. Time to lay down all and pick up the cross and be a light…. We cannot blend. We cannot and be His……
The fire of His Spirit will bring us through to be the complete new creation we are planned to be in Him. We do not know what we shall be, but we shall see Him as He is……
A little clue though we are now as He is in the world.
I have nothing to boast about but the cross of Jesus Christ, my Lord. As written in Galatians 6:14-16, But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
We have been given so many precious promises. We have been given so many gifts of His Spirit within us. There is nothing that He has not supplied for us to win the race….. I pray you have been looking and some of you saw your gap in your race from Him and grabbed it…..and ran with gusto through it. Praise God.
The above scriptures are of the times we are in right now as we abide in Him. Right NOW!
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me, ( Galatians 2:20).
The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands; the seven stars are the angels or messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches, ( Revelation 1:20).
To the messenger of the church of Ephesus write, These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place- unless you repent, ( Revelation 2:1,5).
And they sang a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain. and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth, ( Revelation 5:9-10).
Who are the two anointed ones represented in the above scripture? I love seeing Jesus in you! Come on up and get His Food…….. for whoever He selects to put before you, beloved….. I love seeing Jesus coming through you! Rise up to His calling!
Selah!
Children,
My cross is the Beginning of My foundation of Life. Do you not see this to be the Truth? All that has not entered into My cross and rose in Me shall not enter the Kingdom of God and reign with Me. My way is narrow to enter into eternal Life…. For I AM the Door of Resurrection to you…. You shall not enter through any other but what I AM has laid before as the pathway….
Do you see how there are many ways that man has made there to be but has he died to set you free? Be wise on the path you chose your feet to walk. The end will be the same of many if you do not turn and seek Me. The time to repent has been given you. Do not delay or hesitate for this will be your mistake. Seek Me. I AM is waiting for you and I AM the One who holds the keys of death and life….. Only by Me shall you be set free from the lake of fire for all eternity.
Do you think this is all you require of Me? You are mistaken, there is more from Me than just your freedom from death. I AM also holds these keys to freedom in Me – I AM is your Beginning of life which is found by abiding in Me……….Not living as you desire without Me. Turn to Me and know the repentance of your heart will flow naturally….. as the birds starts to sing as the sun rises in the east, so will your new life in Me begin.
My robes shall be found on you on My Day. The ways of My kingdom shall be your fruit. The fellowship we share is My knowledge of you….. My ways will be written on you as we meet face to face and I AM sees My grace shining through your face. Your smile will I AM seek and that you are not afraid of Me. We are One through your time as We walk together Our Words do rhyme.
Change the garments of your ways and delight in the rich robes of My bounty. My Spirit teaches the ways which make your election sure. Obedience to Me is your key to living by My victory.
I AM does not want you to be found dead and deceived. My Spirit desires My dwelling place and makes all things new as My written word is written all over you. You shall see Me in you and then know this is My truth. The Temple of Mine is holy and divine. My living stones I AM does make shine into My eternal dwelling place.
Be found in Me and I AM will be found in you….. See this Truth is living by you. The outer man perishes someday but My Spirit dwelling in you will be alive all through eternity. All shall see the Temple has been finished through all eternity by Me, the Author and Finisher of My bride. She holds My glory…….in her heart. No king shall compete with the glory she has in Me. All to see this is her story leaning on Me through out all of My history.
Take heed to change your garments and found in My robes…… See My thoughts written in My Book and adhere to them. The Day is coming and will not delay as I AM the Judge approaches in your scene. Allow My fire in this day. Be quick to respond and do not delay for you do not know when My Day soon approaches.
Come to Me and I AM will welcome you delightfully… Show Me your faith and I AM will move the mountain past your face into the sea shall be My decree as you speak for Me… Watch what will be from Me working through you now and throughout eternity….. I AM has moved heaven to way above and hell to below the sea so you will be found in Me.
Come to Me and believe I AM as I AM says I AM and all things that shall be are from Me. Believe all I AM speaks over you so you shall be as I AM has created you to be. Rest in Me and give Me delight.
SELAH!! SELAH!!
