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To: Bob434

Three more days of Zechariah’s prophecies are on the way.


10 posted on 08/29/2022 6:59:19 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” Hebrews 10:24)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

According to the following site, 3 craftsmen have acted a,ready, one is about to act In The end times

“4. And in keeping with Daniel’s prophecy, the fourth Craftsman is associated with the Kingdom of Jesus Christ; who conquers not only the Roman empire (that empire of old that was visited by Him in His earthly ministry, as well as the revived Roman empire of the future at the time of His coming), but also all the earthly kingdoms that proceeded it. This Kingdom is the one represented in Daniel as the stone “cut without hands” (Daniel 2:34); which struck and shattered all the other nations, and itself became “a great mountain” that “filled the whole earth” (v. 35). It is the kingdom God will set up “which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people”; and that shall “stand forever” (v. 44).:

https://bethanybible.org/new/bible-study/pm/2010-12-08/four-horns-four-craftsmen

They are to punish the nation’s that punish the church and believers.

The other three were

“1. The first craftsman would be associated with the kingdom of Media-Persia; and specifically with Cyrus who cast down the kingdom of Babylon (see Daniel 5:25- 28). Note that though Darius was the king who received the kingdom of Babylon (see Daniel 5:31), it was his general Cyrus who had actually conquered it for him. That God would represent Cyrus as a “craftsman” should be no surprise to us; since He speaks in Isaiah 44:28 of Cyrus by name a century and a half before his time; and says, “He is My shepherd, and he shall perform all My pleasure, saying to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be built,’ and to the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’” And in Isaiah 45:1, we read; “Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut . . .”

2. The second craftsman would be associated with the kingdom of Greece; and specifically with Alexander the Great, whom God used to conquer Media-Persia and the surrounding nations (see Daniel 8:3-8, 20-21). Alexander laid siege against the Phonetician city of Tyree in 332 B.C. during his campaign against Persia; and to do so, he used the debris of the old abandoned city to build a causeway (a little over a half a mile long) from the coast to the island fortification. Of his remarkable feat —nearly two centuries before it occurred—we read in Zechariah that God Himself takes the credit and says; “For Tyree built herself a tower, heaped up silver like the dust, and gold like the mire of the streets. Behold, the Lord will cast her out; He will destroy her power in the sea, and she will be devoured by fire” (Zechariah 9:3- 4).

3. The third craftsman would be associated with the Roman empire; which conquered and took possession of the empire of Greece (see Daniel 2:40; 7:7, 19, 23-25)—after it had been divided among Alexander’s four generals. It too—dreadful as it was; and dreadful as it shall yet be—is a kingdom that God raised up to serve His sovereign purposes.”


13 posted on 08/29/2022 7:11:43 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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