It took me about 7 minutes to read these last two chapters of Zechariah. There are people today who proclaim to speak for God, but a casual comparison of what they say to the Bible reveals a great disparity. There were similar people who returned to Jerusalem in the exile with Zechariah. They were speaking with confidence, but they were speaking lies. God told Zechariah that there was a day coming when the lies of the false teachers would be exposed. I don’t know if that day came in their lifetime, but there is still a day coming when everything will be set right. Sometimes we catch a glimpse of what that will look like when a prominent speaker of false Christianity is exposed as a fraud. Do I look forward to a display of vengeance by God on these false teachers? Not really. I know that I deserve the very same rebuke, the same separation from God, because of the sins that I have committed. The good news I believe is that some false teachers will repent and the grace of God will take away their eternal punishment, just as he has promised forgiveness for all Christians of every sin.
Stuart
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Paul of Tarsus
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