Analysis Of The Book ' Zechariah '

God’s righteousness can also be seen in his wrath. We first see the wrath of God in the Old Testament.

God abundantly showed mercy, patience, and forgiveness with His chosen people, the Israelites, under this covenant; but when His were laws were broken repeatedly and without regard God declared that surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord are on the sinful kingdom and it will be destroyed from the face of the earth” (Amos 9:8). God made clear He would take away good things He provided, pass judgement, and the sinful nation would be destroyed. God’s judgement was fierce and final for those nations that turned away, rebelled, or were wicked and evil (Deuteronomy 29:24-26).

I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” God makes an extensive covenant to Abram, declaring that he will become a great nation. Little does Abram know, this is the dawn of the nation of Israel, God’s chosen

“For we know him who said, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ And again, ‘The Lord will judge his people’” (Hebrews 10:30).

Mouw mentions that there are several ways in which humans have used the Old Testament in order to justify and reinforce racial prejudice (Mouw 71). He wants us to see the Holy City as a multinational world with no distinctions between God’s people. He says, “Christians should point to the love of neighbors as the ethical norm for the regulation of relationships among people” (Mouw 72). As it says in the Bible, Israel is God’s people and acts as a representative of the nations. Mouw indicates that both Jews and Gentiles will receive the benefits of God’s redemption. He uses the prophecy of Isaiah 19, in which the Lord refers to the Egyptians as “[His] people” (Mouw 76). People argue that the Old Testament supports the opposite view, in which gentile people are seen as inferior. In the beginning of time, God did make a covenant and established Israel as the representative of his kingdom, but he didn’t forget about everyone else. God has a plan for his creation and both blessed and cursed Israel for its position. The Holy City that Isaiah talks about reverses the curse of Babel. The curse of Babel is where God’s people let greediness and egocentrism take over their lives and God punished them by confusing their tongues and dividing them throughout the earth. Mouw believes that it’s the duty of the Christian community to pursue racial appeasement: “We must voice our protest against the suffering caused by the kinds of

Comparable mercy was shown when David infuriated God by taking the census of Israel in 2 Samuel 24. God spread a plague upon the entire nation as His punishment. Nonetheless, He did not have the disease destroyed Jerusalem by telling the angel who was afflicting the residents of the city to “withdraw your hand” (2 Samuel 24) at the threshing floor of Araunah. It can be concluded from both punishment incidents that despite His powerful and omnipotent character, God always show mercy to people who follows Him, especially in the sacred land of Jerusalem. The parallels between the two incidents once again convey the comparison between Jerusalem and the Garden of Eden, indicating them both as extremely sacred locations. It also showed the unique

Zechariah: 1-5 the Lord will destroy the enemy of Israel. Those who are opposed to Israel are always opposed to God. Israel is considered the church, so that means God is opposed to those who are opposed to the church. God loves Israel the physical and spiritual Israel. God will always fight for her. When God stretches out His hand and shakes the nations, it is in the utmost wrath. The only time that the worldly people will serve the people of God, is when Jesus reigns as King, and His people as His subordinates. God had saved Israel from out of the fire of captivity in Babylon. Satan tries to remind God of the sins. Jesus paid

I am currently a Junior at Mills High School and I’m also enrolled in the AP Language and Composition class. For our summer assignment, we were assigned to read Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, which recounts the story of a Muslim-American man named Abdulrahman Zeitoun who remained in New Orleans during 2005’s deadly Hurricane Katrina. While trapped in the city, Zeitoun paddles in his canoe in the flooded streets aiding those who are in danger; however, Zeitoun is suddenly arrested under accusations of being affiliated with an Al-Qaeda Terrorist Cell. Throughout the novel, Zeitoun is portrayed as a gentle and compassionate man who puts his own life on the line to save others. Through Zeitoun’s actions he defies the harsh stereotypes that surround Muslim-Americans following 9/11. While Zeitoun certainly redefines the views of the reader on Muslim-Americans and portrays a real struggle for Muslims in our America today; would you still appreciate this story’s message and meaning if I informed you that the real Abdulrahman Zeitoun was a man known for committing domestic violence to his wife? Mr. Zeitoun has indeed abused his wife and has been under trial several times and was convicted of domestic violence and later faced allegations of hiring attacks on his wife, Kathy. This controversy divided my class into two distinct advocates: some of my classmates support Zeitoun to be remain in the AP Language and Composition curriculum. While others, including myself, agree that by reading,

The ancient greeks have taught humans many lessons that have shaped the lives and actions of people in today’s society. These lessons can be found everywhere; in greek myths, plays, or in books that were influenced by the ancient greeks. The lessons taught in these stories are shown everyday in the actions of the people in this world. There is a countless number of things that have been taught to us by the greeks. One of, if not the most important one is, having hubris or hubristic qualities inevitably leads to consequences.

Turning to 2 Chronicles 7:14, Short read, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

The people was destroying what Abraham was longing for. They was ruthless and didn't care were they came from.

He will also not show the love Israel people, and also will not forgive them. but he will show the love to the Judah and he will also free them from their enemies - not by weapons, or armies, or horses or like this way, but from the power of the God.

The first vision (1:7-17) consists of four angelic riders on four horses of various colors. The angelic rider on the red horse dismounts his horse in the middle of a grove of myrtle trees. Zechariah asks the meaning of this vision and the angel of the Lord responds. The horses and riders

This scene looks forward to the day when people throughout the Earth will come to know the God of Israel, when the nations will come to Jerusalem for judgment and guidance (truthnet.org). This leads to what verse twenty-two says,”And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.” All these strong and authoritative nations will submit and bow down to the Messiah, the one who rules Jerusalem. To conclude, the final verse of Zechariah 8 talks about the knowledge that will flood out of Jerusalem and Israel “that will grasp the sleeve of the Jewish man” and show him the one true God, the God of

And the Lord said to Joshua See, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its King and its fighting men."