Zech 1: 12-15

Excerpt:…But Jesus, Himself not knowing the answer —for Christ said that the Spirit will receive of mine and shew it unto you— the Comforter got His comfort from Christ, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the quandary pertained to His, Christ’s people. Let’s reread to see this deepened clarity: “ 12 Then the angel of the LORD … said, O LORD of hosts (Jesus), … wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem … 13 And the LORD (Christ) answered … with … comfortable words. 14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy …” —Zech 1: 12-15. The Holy Spirit gives to us, today, the comforting words, but He quotes them from Jesus, the author of the gentile church. Beyond that, this prophecy has significance for the gospel today for only now have we been given the commission to teach rest and peace for Jerusalem, I didn’t say the Jews but Jerusalem, the sons of America’s former Slaves. Thereby more of the complexity must become open to us…we must see the interaction between Christ, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as a three way conversation. They put their heads together —not as three Gods but— as three working under God’s united throne. Adventists evangelism was the theme of their caucus because afterwards Zechariah —not the ministry of the horses— was ordered to show the Lord’s commitment to His own heritage by commanding Zechariah to cry yet an addendum to the gospel of the equine ministers: He, Christ will revisit the descendants of Jacob, as shown by the below proof. His promised return will be —not a visible but — an invisible 2nd coming…