When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son into a nation that had been long downtrodden by Gentile tyrants. Stretching back to the times when the record of Scripture closed in the Old Testament, atheistic Greeks and polytheistic Romans had played their part in oppressing the Jewish n…
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Woe to the Idol Shepherd
Throughout the Scriptures the justice of Yahweh is presented in a poetic fashion: “as man soweth, that shall he also reap,” and perhaps there is no more useful way for Yahweh to teach man about his failings than to reward him even as he has rewarded others.
This is t…
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They weighed for my price 30 pieces of silver
Zechariah the prophet was one of the many faithful servants Yahweh sent into his vineyard for the benefit and nurture of His people; a shepherd who had given his life in service to his sheep, being one who was instrumental in the rebuilding of the hou…
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In describing the tranquil and unobtrusive manner in which the Lord Jesus Christ would go about his ministry, Isaiah foretold “he shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring f…
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Of all the great men who depicted the sufferings of Christ, Zechariah the prophet is not normally a name that comes to the top of the list. The spectacular visions of the prophecy have been a source of comfort and edification for saints down through the ages but tucked away in the eleventh c…
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One of the most famous symbols associated with our Lord Jesus Christ is that of a shepherd. As the good shepherd, he has laid down his life for us (John 10:11) thereby leaving us an example that we should walk in his steps (1 Pet 1:22-25). Furthermore, as a shepherd he goes before us (John 10:4), pu…
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