Your King is Coming to You

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Your King is Coming to You

Riverside Indonesian Fellowship
Published by Stanley Pouw in 2015 · 20 December 2015
Zechariah 9:9-16

"What's wrong with the world? Why is there all this injustice? Why is there all this turmoil? Why is there all this war everywhere? Why all the disease and the pain and the agony? And why is this chaos existing in the world?" There's a very simple answer. The King has not come yet and because of that there is chaos.

Well, Jesus came one time before and promised to right the world. He said He was the Messiah of the world, the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And He offered His Kingdom to his people but they rejected it. So Jesus went away and He said, "I will be gone a little longer, but I will be back."

When Jesus comes the second time, the world will be determined to destroy Him. But in contrast to His first coming, when men succeeded in killing Him, at His Second Coming, He will destroy His enemies all over the face of the earth. And then only after that judgment, He will begin to minister healing and the wonders of His salvation will come to pass. That is the message of Zechariah 9.

But the Lord inserted a historical event that would happen to let future generations know that whatever God says will always come true. Have you ever heard of Alexander the Great? Zachariah 9:1-8 describes to us the conquests of Alexander the Great as he swept through Syria, Phoenicia, Philistia and Israel. Now all that happened just a couple hundred years after this was written.

After finishing with Alexander in verse 8, Zachariah turns to Christ, an even much greater conqueror, in verse 8, and God says Alexander will pass by on his way to Egypt and return back again but he won't harm you. And then God looks to the future and says, "No oppressor shall march over them anymore, for now I will make sure of that."

Zachariah 9:9, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” I have never seen a conqueror riding around on a donkey's colt. Where is the white horse?" But this shows this is a different conqueror.

Let us look at the character of this greater conqueror. Compared to the army of Alexander the Great comes one who does not inspire fear, but He inspires praise and peace. This is Israel's own king who is not cruel and oppressive, He is righteous. He is not killing people, instead He is saving people.

So Zechariah says, "Get excited!" And then he describes four elements to His character. First, He's a King. Secondly, He is just. Thirdly, He has salvation. He is the Savior. And then lastly Jesus is meek. When they crucified Him, they took all of His belongings. Do you know how much He owned? Just one robe, that was it. But in reality Jesus owns the whole universe. So the word ‘meek’ means that even though He owns everything, He willingly subjected Himself to the wrath of God to save us from our sins. Because we cannot save ourselves.

Now let us see what God says about the Second Coming of Christ through Zechariah. It says in verse 10, "I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.”

And then in verse 11, “As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.” In Genesis 15 God made a promise to Abraham to make a great nation out of him and to bless that nation. But God was not making that promise with Abraham, God was making that promise with Himself.

And this covenant is fulfilled by the blood of Jesus Christ. And God says Israel has been in a dry well a long time but because I have made a vow to Israel, they will be out someday. And because of that God calls them ‘prisoners of hope’ in verse 12, “Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.” Everything that has been withheld from you will be given back in double measure.

The Holy Spirit gives us another pledge in verse 13-14, “For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword. 14 Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning the Lord God will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.” This describes God’s victory.

Now, the final triumph we see in verse 15, “The Lord of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.” Israel would take the strength of its enemies and turn it into its own strength.

And lastly, we see His care in verse 16, “On that day the Lord their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.” Now all of a sudden God is a Shepherd King, saving His flock and that now includes all who believe. Psalm 23 is the theme song of the Kingdom. God's people will be like the crown on His head in the Kingdom.

In that day, beloved, there will be joy like the world has never conceived. That is the message God calls us to pass on to everyone. The only reason you and I will ever enter that Kingdom is if we love Jesus Christ, Amen? My hope is that we tell everyone. Let's pray together.



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