LEGENDARY ADVANCEMENT - PART 7

TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2025

A highly desirable comfort is an important element in God's perceptive representation eliciting His utmost compassion and mercy upon Zion. More below!

Reference: Zechariah 1:17 New King James Version (NKJV)

"Again proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "My cities shall again spread out through prosperity; The LORD will again comfort Zion, And will again choose Jerusalem."'

Today's article is still majored on:

"The LORD will again comfort Zion"

Now I want us to consider and analyse an interactive guide into the dialogue between God Himself and the angelic messenger who was instructing Prophet Zechariah:

"Then the Angel of the Lord said, "O Lord of hosts, how long will You withhold mercy and compassion from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which You have had indignation and anger these seventy years [of the Babylonian captivity]?" And the Lord answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious and comforting words" (Zechariah 1:12-13 NIV).

What really transpired in the aforementioned verses? The angel knew and superbly took advantage of a deeper approach into the hidden realm of Supreme Divinity. In other words, the angelic messenger played the right role - with an accurate understanding, plus gusto attitudinal and relational response filled with divine intelligence, which inspired God's decisive recognition to behave differently and respond with attentive mercy and comforting wordings.

Now watch this:

Even in God's state of extreme furiousness, the angel of the Lord triggered the "sensitive spot'' of the Almighty God, characterized by soft-hearted warmth, solicitous tenderness, and a sense of empathetic comprehension. So within the corridor of the majestic attributes of Supreme deity, there is a hidden facet of noteworthy dispositional quality, which is effortless in exerting a mixture of His good humour, touching insight and imbued pathos, and that was apparently activated by an angelic prompting.

To clarify this revelatory insight furthermore, we can cite God declaring in the versified statement below:

"I was only a little angry, but they went too far with the punishment" (Zechariah 1:15 NIV).

Indeed, in God was a markedly-informed tendency which softened His ability to remain inconsiderate to Zion, thereby influencing His action - by discontinuing His already demonstrated wrath which empowered the other nations to oppress Zion.

To grasp the fullness of this incalculable truth, the Biblical perspective numbered as Zechariah 1:14-15 reads:

So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, 'Proclaim, "Thus says the Lord of hosts", "I am jealous [with a burning, fiery passion] for Jerusalem and for Zion [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine] with a great jealousy. But I am very angry with the nations who are at ease and feel secure; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster [against the people of Israel]"' (AMP).

While God was only a little more angry, the opposing nations intensified their affliction against the people of Israel, and now God is very furious with those nations. Put in another way, with an implicit connotation, God was a bit remorseful for allowing His wrath toward Zion to endure for a long while, hence introducing the privileges of His comforting influence. Admittedly, this expository knowledge entails the differing levels of God's wrath and His inspired propensity to chill out. Hallelujah!

Stay tuned for more on this particular segment: "the LORD will again comfort Zion." Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Ezra 3:11; 1 Chronicles 16:34; Psalm 100:5; 2 Chronicles 20:21.

Guided Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I offer heartfelt thanks to your Holy Name, for you are so good to me and your mercy endures forever, in Jesus' Name, Amen.