Zechariah 12
Look upon your Savior!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, October 21.
Before we were given the revelation of the incarnation in John 1:14, God manifested His presence through the angel of the Lord. In Exodus 23:20-21, God said about the angel of the Lord, “My name is in him.” Nearly a thousand years after the Exodus, and approximately five hundred years before Jesus’ incarnation, in Zechariah 12:8-10, God referenced the angel of the Lord, giving the hope of the incarnation with an eye towards why the only begotten Son of God would come from Heaven to Earth as the fullness of God uniquely dwelling in flesh:
In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them. And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
The incarnation is yoked with the crucifixion through this messianic prophecy, uniquely foretelling the victory of God through Jesus Christ – “so that they shall look on Me whom they have pierced.” The only begotten son of God took on flesh and dwelt among us so that He could be crucified for the forgiveness of sins (John 19:36-37).
Seize the moment and look upon your Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ! He is the incarnation of God who “was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
God bless you!
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