Messages from Heaven Part 3, Tuesday

0:00Hey kids, welcome to Junior's for Jesus. Go grab your Bibles. We're gonna be digging in and learning some really exciting stories. Let's get started. We're in the final section of messages from heaven concerning the minor prophets and our memory verse for this week is from Malachi chapter three verse 16. It reads, then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another and the Lord listened and heard them. So a book of remembrance was written before him for those who feared the Lord and who meditate on his name. That's Malachi chapter three verse 16. Tuesday, through Zachariah, God reminded's rubbable the governor of Judah at the time of the real reason for the fast progress in rebuilding the temple. What was that reason? Zachariah chapter four verse six. So he answered and said to me,

1:00this is the word of the Lord to the rubbable. Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the Lord of hosts. For years after the temple was finished, God still sent messages through Zachariah. In the first six chapters of his book, he tells about eight visions that he had. And like Ezekiel's visions, many of them used interesting symbols. God's people had been brought back from Babylon to their own land. And now God warned them not to become like their ancestors had been. He had urged their ancestors through his prophets. Turn now from their evil ways, but they had refused. Zachariah chapter one verse four. Now God longed to keep this new generation from the evil ways of their fathers. To help them and us understand the kind of love that he has, God said that when anyone hurts us, it's like hurting his eye. When we get something in our eye, it hurts terribly.

2:03And when anyone hurts us, God is hurt too. Zachariah chapter two verse eight says, he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. We have already studied Zachariah's vision of Joshua, the high priest wearing filthy clothes and Satan accusing him. Read it again in Zachariah chapter three verses one through five. Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord. And Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him. And the Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebuke you, Satan. The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you. Is this not a brand pluck from the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and was standing before the angel. Then he answered and spoke to those who stood before him, say, take away the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, see, I have removed your iniquity from you. And I will cloth you with rich robes.

3:05And I said, let them put a clean turban on his head. So they put a clean turban on his head. And they put the clothes on him. And the angel of the Lord stood by. Try to remember what you learned about it previously and answer these questions. Whom did Joshua represent? What do his filthy clothes represent? What does removing his filthy clothes represent? And what do his new clean clothes represent? God also gave Zachariah prophecies about Jesus. One of them told what kind of animal he would ride on into Jerusalem. Zachariah chapter 9 verse 9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king is coming to you. He is just and having salvation. Lowly and riding on a donkey. A cult, the foal of a donkey. Other prophecies said that he would be wounded and pierced.

4:08And when he would die, his followers would feel like sheep without a shepherd. Zachariah chapter 12 verse 10 and chapter 13 verses 6 and 7. All of those prophecies came true. Now, let's apply it. Jesus hurts when his people hurt. But it's impossible for us to hurt like he did on the cross when our sins hurt him so much that they killed him. He thought he might never see his father again. Think about that as you read Zachariah chapter 13 verse 6. And one will say to him, what are these wounds between your arms? Then he will answer those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. This podcast is sponsored by MyBibleFirst.org. Visit us for other great resources for children, youth, and adults.