Zechariah 9
Embrace the Liminal Space!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, October 17.
Have you ever experienced a liminal space, a transitional time of waiting between what has been done and what is still to be done? The Lord gave Zechariah a series of prophecies that foretold of two such fertile voids in human history. The first oracle had a more immediate historical fulfillment with the future conqueror of nations, Alexander the Great (Zechariah 9:1-8; cf. Daniel 8). The second prophecy foretold the futuristic coming of the Messiah in Zechariah 9:9-10:
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, humble, and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; and the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to the nations; and His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
While there was a three-century gap between Alexander the Great and Jesus the Christ, we live today in the even greater liminal space between the first coming of Christ and His return. The first half of the messianic prophecy was quoted in the triumphal entry of Matthew 21:1-11, yet we are still waiting for world peace. Christ has come and Christ will return; this liminal space is the fertile void of opportunity called faith. We believe that what has not yet been fulfilled in His first coming will be finished in the end times.
Seize the moment and take on the easy yoke of Jesus to work the fields of this fertile void, learning to become like Him, “gentle and humble in heart” (Matthew 11:28-30). The Holy Spirit will fulfill the promise of Christian discipleship in and through you (Mark 1:17; Romans 8:29).
God bless you!
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