Zechariah 6:1-8 And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains… The entire vision was designed to teach a great general lesson — the lesson of the universal supremacy and superintendence of the "God of Israel" over all the agencies of nature, and all the varying movements of progress or retrogression, of prosperity and adversity, of peace and war, amongst the nations; and to teach it with a special application to themselves, as His chosen people, and to those adjoining or more distant countries by which their condition had been, or might hereafter be, beneficially or injuriously affected. It called upon them to put their trust in the wisdom, power, and love of their own Jehovah, — the governor among the nations; — in one word, to "have faith in God." Let us learn the lesson. Amidst all the convulsions and revolutions that are agitating Europe, let us not only acknowledge but rejoice in the supremacy of the infinitely wise, and good, and mighty. All "the winds" are His. He "holds them in His fist." The zephyr and the hurricane are alike His agents. All influences — in every department of creation, and in the hearts and wills and words and actions of men of every kindred and tongue and people and nation, are under His absolute control. "None can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou? Let us trust in Him, own Him, pray to Him, — deprecating, on behalf of our country, and of our guilty world, merited wrath, — and imploring, especially, that all events may result in glory to His name. (Ralph Wardlaw, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. |
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