Yes, There is Good News! Part 14

I would like to continue with the topic of last week concerning the words found in Zechariah 3:10, “In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree, declares the LORD Almighty.”  I see this expression as one that bears much “fruit for good news”. 

We will find this same statement (albeit quite expanded) in the writings of the prophet Micah chapter 4, “In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s house will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills and peoples will stream to it.  Many nations will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob.  He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.’  The law will go out from Zion the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.  He will Judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.  They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.  Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.  Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree and no one will make them afraid, for the LORD Almighty has spoken.”

This is a very important piece of scripture for many reasons, but for us reading these articles, the importance is the overwhelming “good news” that it contains.  This is not a picture of the world today.  It is the picture of the ultimate “good news” that God has planned and promised for His children.  It is the expression from the mouth of God of the joy He has for the future.

Are you awaiting that day; a day when God’s dwelling is exalted as the best there ever could be, a day when people from many nations will want to worship God, a day when the One perfect in righteousness is the merciful judge, a day when peace and joy will be the ruling factors in His kingdom?  It will be on such a day as this that fears and terror will be banished.  (Terror banished!!  Wow!!  Ask our brothers and sister in the Middle East how they feel about that statement.)

Every man, (let me emphasize that) EVERY MAN, will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree.  And you know what?  No one will make them afraid – why?  “For the LORD Almighty has spoken.”

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!  Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!  See your King comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.  I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the war horses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken.  He will proclaim peace to the nations.  His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. 

It was Jesus who came into Jerusalem riding on a donkey (see Matthew 21:4) He is the Prince of Peace.  Wow!!  There is some really good news in these scriptures.

Till we meet again, Peace and joy to you all.