{"id":1922,"date":"2022-07-27T06:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:51:28","slug":"lesson-6-zechariah-and-ezra-6-gods-plans-for-the-future-and-the-temple-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/lesson-6-zechariah-and-ezra-6-gods-plans-for-the-future-and-the-temple-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 6: Zechariah and Ezra 6 God\u2019s Plans for the Future and the Temple Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform <\/strong>it<\/strong><\/em> until the day of Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Philippians\n1:6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read\nthe Key Verse. Try to understand that God promised to help His people. When we\ngive our heart and life to Jesus, He will help us live faithfully for Him.  Perform<\/strong>\nmeans \u201cto complete; to finish.<\/em>\u201d In this lesson, we will see the\nIsraelites finish rebuilding the Temple.\nThey had laid the foundation, but then the enemies stopped the work. Nevertheless,\nGod sent someone to encourage them to finish. God promised to help us complete\nthe work He has for our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis: <\/strong>Christians\nare to read the Bible, understanding that God will encourage us through His\nWord. We are to remember that God sent Jesus, just as He promised, to take away\nthe sin of man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson Summary: <\/strong>As\nwe begin this lesson, we need to remember that the building of the Temple\nhad been stopped. Haggai encouraged them to begin again, but the enemy had\nreturned to stop the work. The governor of the land had sent a letter for the\nking to search the records and find out if the people had permission to rebuild.\nIn the meantime, God sent another prophet to encourage His people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zechariah was a priest and prophet. He\nprophesied at the same time as Haggai also encouraging God\u2019s people. He wanted\nto let them know that God was not finished with them yet \u2013 for God had many\nmighty plans in store. Many of those plans were revealed in the visions that\nGod gave Zechariah. Among the most familiar: a man with a measuring line,\nJoshua with the filthy garments, a golden candlestick, and the flying scroll.\nFor lack of time, we will not study them all, but we will look at Joshua with\nthe filthy garments.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua was the high priest at this time, and\nhe was a representation between sinful man and God. We will learn that the\nAngel of the Lord (remember we learned through previous lessons that this is\nthe pre-incarnate Christ) removed the filthy garments from Joshua. We will find\nout the significance of that event today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zechariah understood that Jesus would come \u2013 just as God had promised. Just as Isaiah was the Major Prophet with the most prophesies about Christ, Zechariah was the Minor Prophet with the most prophesies about Christ.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zechariah especially had words of encouragement for Zerubbabel. He especially reminded Zerubbabel that when God asks His people to do something, he gives them the strength to complete it. Zechariah had a message of encouragement to the people as well. With those words of encouragement, the Temple was completed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 6 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 6 Children’s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are teaching this to younger children, the following is a craft idea to help them remember this lesson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We made frames with stickers and the verse Zechariah 9:9 to remember that Zechariah gave a great prophecy of Jesus that was fulfilled on what we now call Palm Sunday.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key Verse Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. \u2014Philippians 1:6 Key Verse Thought: Read the Key Verse. Try to understand that God promised to help His people. When we give our heart and life to Jesus, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[694,754,951,753,76],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-quarter-four","tag-ezra","tag-lesson-6","tag-quarter-4","tag-year-two","tag-zechariah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}