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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">April 2, 2013</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>OCT
11 - ZECHARIAH 1-6 - EIGHT VISIONS</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
1:2-3 (1:1-6, ESV) ZECHARIAH: CALLS JUDAH BACK TO GOD. <font size="3">“The
LORD was very angry with your fathers. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">3
</font><font size="3">Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of
hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to
you, says the LORD of hosts.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Repentance
follows heart contrition, leading unto </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">reconciliation</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
with You again: </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">this</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is Your call unto us, Father. We submit and return. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
1:16 (1:7-21) VISIONS: HORSES, HORNS AND CARPENTERS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Therefore,
thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house
shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts and the measuring
line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
bless You for Your Plumb line, Father. We bless You for Your promise
to rebuild the city churches of the world. We bless You for
Jerusalem, the type of the City of God! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
2:10 (2:1-13) VISION: MAN WITH THE MEASURING LINE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Sing
and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell
in your midst, declares the LORD.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Jehovah
Father, You are </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jehovah
Shammah</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
(Ezekiel 48:25). </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
Name is upon the Restored City, the New Wineskin! You are also
Jehovah Jireh, the LORD our Provider! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">3:9 (3:1-10) VISIONS:
JOSHUA AND THE BRANCH. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone
with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of
hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Reconciliation
to You, Jehovah Father, comes only through Jesus and Your seven-fold
Spirit! Your Name Jehovah is engraved upon Your Son! Forgive us for
being so blind and dim of vision, in that we fail to perceive the
awesome majesty of this act! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
4:10 (4:1-5:4) VISIONS: CANDLESTICK AND FLYING SCROLL. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall
see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven are the
eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Your
plumb line Jehovah Father, has come to the Church, and we are found
wanting. We acknowledge and confess it. But </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Lord Jesus, are rebuilding and restoring Your church by Your Spirit.
We submit to the purging and pruning, that we might be found worthy
of Your last day army. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
6:4-5 (5:5-6:8) VISIONS: EPHAH AND CHARIOTS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Then
I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, ‘What are
these, my lord?’ </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">5
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
the angel answered and said to me, ‘These are going out to the four
winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the LORD of all
the earth.’” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
how Great and Majestic You are! You’ve got the whole, wide world </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">in
Your hands</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
Satan is a squatter. Jesus stripped him of legal authority at
Calvary. Open our eyes that we may see! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
6:15 (6:9-15) PROPHECY: SIGN OF JOSHUA CROWNED. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the
LORD. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of
the LORD your God.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we bless You for Joshua the high priest, Type and Forerunner of
Christ Jesus </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">the</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Branch</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Who triumphantly builds His church today! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
4:6-7 (4:1-5:4) GOD’S SPIRIT: CAUSE OF HIS TRIUMPH. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Then
he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: </span></font><u><font size="3">Not
by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts</font></u><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">7
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Who
are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a
plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of
‘Grace, grace to it!’” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a revelation!</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Quote
by Abraham Lincoln, </span><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Speech,
Republican State Convention, 1858 - </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">I
believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half
free.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 101:1-2 (101) I WILL WALK WITH INTEGRITY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“I
will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make
music. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">I will
ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will
walk with integrity of heart within my house.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
bless You Father, O Great Jehovah, for the heart of Your servant
David. He loved righteousness and hated iniquity. He desired Your
judgment on lawlessness.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Title:
“A Psalm of David.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
is just such a Psalm as the man after God’s own heart would compose
when he was about to become a king in Israel. It is David all over,
straight-forward, resolute, devout; there is not trace of policy or
vacillation - the Lord has appointed him to be king, and he knows it;
therefore he purposes in all things to behave as becomes a monarch
whom the Lord Himself has chosen. If we call this </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
Psalm of Pious Resolutions,”</span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
we shall perhaps remember it all the more readily. After songs of
praise a Psalm of practice not only make</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
variety but comes in most fittingly. We never praise the Lord better
than when we do those things which are pleasing in His sight.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">101:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I will sing
of mercy and judgment. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
ought as much to bless the Lord for the judgment with which He
chastens our sin as for the mercy with which He forgives it; there is
as much love in the blows of His hand as in the kisses of His mouth.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">101:2.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">O when will
You come unto me? </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">If
God be with us, we shall neither err in judgment nor transgress in
character; His presence brings us both wisdom and holiness; away
from God, we are away from safety. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I
will walk with my house with a perfect heart. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Reader,
how fares it with your family? Do you sing in the choir and sin in
the chamber? Are you a saint abroad and a devil at home? For shame!
What we are at home, that we are indeed. He cannot be a good king
whose palace is the haunt of vice, nor he a true saint whose
habitation is a scene of strife, nor he a faithful minister whose
household dreads his appearance at the fireside.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">101:5.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Whoever
privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">To
give one’s neighbor a stab in the dark is one of the most atrocious
of crimes and cannot be too heartily reprobated, yet such as are
guilty of it often find patronage in high places and are considered
to be men of penetration, trusty ones who have a keen eye and take
care to keep their lords will posted up.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">101:6.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">He that
walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
I wish myself to be, that I desire my servant to be. Employers are to
a great degree responsible for their servants, and it is customary to
blame a master if he retains in his service persons of notorious
character; therefore, lest we become partakers of other men’s sins,
we shall do well to decline the services of bad characters. </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.</span><span style="text-decoration:none">H.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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