12<\/strong>. walk up and down<\/em> ] i.e. pursue the course of their lives. Comp. Mic 4:5<\/span>; Coloss. Zec 3:7<\/span>.<\/p>\n I will strengthen them in the Lord – <\/B>As our Lord said to Paul, My strength is made perfect in weakness, and Paul said in turn, When I am weak, then am I strong. And in His Name shall they walk up and down, have their whole conversation (Dionysius), in Him according to His will, and diligent in all things to speak and act in ills grace and divine hope. Jerome: Christians walk in the Name of Christ, and there is written on the new white stone given to them a new name Rev 2:17<\/span>, and under the dignity of a name so great, they walk with God, as Enoch walked and pleased God and was translated Gen 5:24<\/span>.<\/P> Saith the Lord – <\/B>Dionysius: Again the Lord God speaks of the Lord God, as of Another, hinting the plurality of Persons in the Godhead.<\/P> <\/p>\n Zec 10:12<\/span><\/p>\n And I will strengthen them in the Lord <\/em><\/p>\n Further and continuing grace<\/strong><\/p>\n This prophecy is closed with a promise concerning their way and carriage for whom the Lord doth all this, that they shall be encouraged and strengthened to be a holy people, and to persevere in faith and obedience, which is to be understood of the elect and truly godly among them, who yet at that time will be very many.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>When the Lord hath done greatest things for Him people, it is yet a new gift to give them the use thereof, to encourage and strengthen them thereby, for it is a new promise. I will strengthen them.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>I As God can easily encourage the most feeble and faint hearted, so their Sure grip of it is to have it laid up in God for them, and by faith and depend once draw it forth as there is need.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Encouragement in God is only well improven when it is made use of to strengthen unto holiness and perseverance, which is the only sweet fruit of all mercies, rendering them comfortable to the receiver, when he is led nearer God by them. They shall walk in their duty.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Holiness is then rightly set about, when we are constantly in it, when we adhere close to the rule, when by faith we drag furniture out of God, and aim at His glory, and give Him the glory of all our performances.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>The Lord needs not be hindered to show Himself gracious, by the unworthiness and unholiness of His people, but when He is about to do them good, He can be surety to Himself, that the fruit thereof shall be forthcoming to His glory, and can make them He doth much for, to be such a people as His dealing toward them obliges them to be, therefore, after all the former promises, the Lord Himself undertakes to make them holy.<\/p>\n 6. <\/strong>The sweet comfort and refreshment of the promises will only be felt by those who dwell much on the study of God the Promise Maker, and consider how all-sufficient He is, and how worthy to be credited for the performance of what He promiseth. Therefore doth He subscribe His name to all this prophecy. Saith Jehovah. (George Hutcheson.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Strong in God<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking <\/em>of Englands Forgotten Worthies of the sixteenth century, Mr. Froude says, Wherever we find them, they are still the same; whether in the courts of Japan or China, fighting Spaniards in the Pacific, or prisoners among the Algerines, founding colonies that were by and by to grow into enormous Transatlantic republics, or exploring in crazy pinnaces the fierce latitude of the Polar seas, they are the same indomitable, God-fearing men, whose life was one great liturgy. The ice was strong, but God was stronger, says one of Frobishers men after grinding a night and a day among the icebergs; not waiting for God to come sown and split the ice for them but toiling through the long hours, himself and the rest fending off the vessel with poles and planks, with death glaring at them out of the rocks. Icebergs were strong, Spaniards were strong, and storms, and corsairs, and rocks, and reefs, which no chart had then noted–they were all strong, but God was stronger, and that was all which they cared to know.<\/p>\n Walking in Gods name<\/strong><\/p>\n The Rev. John McNeil says, I owe more than I can tell to my father. He had a habit of which he never spoke to us, nor we to him. He was a quarryman, and I used to hear him going downstairs in the dark mornings, and, standing on the threshold before passing out, he would say aloud, I go today in Gods name. Then, strong in that strength, would trudge off to the quarry, the blasting and risks of the work. I can never forget the impression this made upon me, and thankfully say today, My fathers God is mine. (Christian World Pulpit.<\/em>)<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Verse 12<\/span>. I will strengthen them in the Lord<\/B><\/I>] I, the God of Israel, will strengthen them in the Lord-Jesus, the Messiah<\/I>; and thus indeed the Chaldee: I will strengthen them<\/I>, bemeymre dayai, in or by the WORD of Jehovah<\/I>, the same personal<\/I> Word<\/I> which we so often meet with in the Chaldee<\/I> paraphrases or Targum<\/I>.<\/P> <\/P> They shall walk up and down in his name<\/B><\/I>] In the name of the Messiah. Saith the Lord <\/I>– GOD speaks here, not of himself, but concerning his Christ<\/I>. The Jews shall have complete liberty; they shall appear everywhere as a part of the flock of Christ, and no difference be made between them and the converted Gentiles. They shall be all one fold<\/I> under one Shepherd<\/I> and Bishop of all souls.<\/P> <\/p>\n I will strengthen them: see Zec 10:6<\/span>. <\/P> In the Lord, their God, in Christ, say some; and it is true enough, whether these words so mean or no, God and Christ are the strength of the church, and of all believers. <\/P> They shall walk up and down, shall manage all their affairs, civil and military, secular and ecclesiastical, in his name; by authority derived from him, by power received of him, by wisdom given from above, to the glory of our God and our Redeemer. Thus far the great things promised to the Jewish church, and which were to be fulfilled in the time from the rebuilding the temple and city to the coming of Christ, through some four hundred and ninety years; in which times if aught fell short of-promise, it was because the sins of the people provoked God-to alter the course of his providence toward them. <\/P> <\/p>\n 12. I . . . strengthen them in . . .Lord<\/B> (Ho 1:7<\/span>). I, theFather, will strengthen them in the name, that is, the manifestedpower, of the Lord, Messiah, the Son of God. <\/P> walk . . . in his name<\/B>thatis, live everywhere and continually under His protection, andaccording to His will (Gen 5:22<\/span>;Psa 20:1<\/span>; Psa 20:7<\/span>;Mic 4:5<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n And I will strengthen them in the Lord<\/strong>,…. Not the Egyptians and Assyrians, but the Jews, as in Zec 10:5<\/span>, the Targum is,<\/p>\n “I will strengthen them in the word of the Lord;”<\/p>\n in the Messiah, by his power, and in the grace that is in him; and their faith and hope in him, and love to him: or “by” t him; so that, through him strengthening them, they will be able to do all things; to exercise grace; perform duty; withstand temptation; oppose indwelling sin; bear the cross of Christ; endure afflictions; engage with all their spiritual enemies, and conquer them: for the words may be rendered, “I will cause them to prevail”, or “overcome in the Lord” u; all their enemies, temporal and spiritual; and even to be more than conquerors through him that has loved them:<\/p>\n and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord<\/strong>; walk in him, the way to the Father, to heaven and happiness; walk by faith on him, in his strength, and in imitation of him; walk according to his Gospel, calling on his name, professing and worshipping him; and walk in his church and ordinances, agreeably to his will; see Mic 4:5<\/span>. Kimchi owns that this whole chapter belongs to the times of the Messiah, as well as the former. The words may be considered as a testimony to the doctrine of the Trinity; that I, Jehovah the Father, will strengthen them in Jehovah the Son; and they shall walk up and down in the name of the Son of God, saith Jehovah the Spirit. Moreover, as a promise of the saints’ final perseverance, very peremptorily expressed; I “will” strengthen them, and they “shall” walk, &c.<\/p>\n t “per Jehovam”, Piscator. u “et faciam illos ut vincant”, Cocceius.<\/p>\n Here at length he includes the substance of what we have noticed, that there would be sufficient help in God to raise up and support his people, and to render them victorious over all their enemies. He had already proved this by saying, that God had formerly sufficiently testified by many miracles how much superior he was to the whole world; but he briefly completes the whole of this proof, and shows, that the Jews, provided that they relied on God and expected from him what he had promised, would be sufficiently strong, though the whole power of the world were to rise up against them. <\/p>\n He also mentions the name of God, They shall walk, he says, in his name, that is, under his auspices. In short, there is here an implied contrast between the name of God and the wealth and the forces of their enemies, which might have filled the minds of the faithful with fear, and cast them down. Hence the Prophet bids the Jews to give the glory to God, and not to doubt but that they would be victorious, whatever hindrance the world might throw in their way. And by this word walk, he means a continued course of life, as though he had said, that the people indeed had returned from exile, that is, in part; but that more of them were to be expected, for the Lord had not only been a leader in their return, but that he would be also their perpetual guardian, and defend them to the end. <\/p>\n DISCOURSE: 1255 Zec 10:12<\/span>. I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in His name, saith the Lord<\/em>.<\/p>\n IF we were to judge of Christianity from what we behold around us, we should give it a preference, perhaps, to all other religions; but we should be far from thinking very highly of its nature and effects. The generality of those who profess it, are but little elevated above the better orders of the heathen world; and, in some respects perhaps, have a lower standard of morals than they. If it were asked of the great mass of nominal Christians, What has Christianity done for you? in what respect are you either a better or a happier man, than you would have been if Christ had never come into the world? it would be difficult for them to give any satisfactory answer, consistent with truth. Even those who do feel somewhat of its influence are far from manifesting its full power. In order to judge of its real excellence, we must go back to former days, and see how it wrought in the apostolic age; or must look forward to that glorious period, when it shall prevail over the face of the globe, and exercise a more complete sway over the hearts of men. It is to this period that my text refers; a period, when, in comparison of the present, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun sevenfold, as the light of seven days [Note: Isa 30:26<\/span>.].<\/p>\n In opening the passage to your view, I shall be led to speak of,<\/p>\n I.<\/p>\n The state to which the Jews shall, in due season, be restored<\/p>\n The Jews will, at a future season, be restored to God Persons who are adverse to the idea of a literal restoration of the Jews to their own land, will satisfy themselves with saying, that the whole of this description is figurative: but if this be figurative, where, I would ask, shall any thing be found that is to be taken in a literal sense? or, supposing God to have ordained to accomplish any thing literally, by what plainer terms could he possibly declare it? There must, I think, be an end of all certainty in language, if the event here predicted be not to be understood in its literal and most obvious sense.] Christianity being already embraced by us, we may see in this passage,<\/p>\n II.<\/p>\n The state which it is our privilege to enjoy at this day<\/p>\n We have been redeemed, if not by the power of divine grace, at least by the price once paid for us on Calvary. As the Lords people, therefore, we are privileged to live by faith on Christ, and to possess in him,<\/p>\n 1.<\/p>\n Invincible strength<\/p>\n [In ourselves, we remain as weak as ever: but in Christ we are strong: for in him there is all fulness treasured up for us [Note: Col 1:19<\/span>.]; and out of that fulness we are privileged to receive even grace corresponding with all the grace that is in him [Note: Joh 1:16<\/span>.]. He is appointed Head over all things to the Church, for that very end [Note: Eph 1:22-23<\/span>.]; that we, as members, may be strengthened with all might, by his Spirit in the inner man [Note: Eph 3:16<\/span>.], and have all our enemies bruised under our feet. We are commanded to be strong, not in ourselves, but in the Lord, and in the power of his might [Note: Eph 6:10<\/span>.]: and to regard our own weakness rather as an encouragement, than as any ground of despondency; because he will delight to perfect his own strength in our weakness [Note: 2Co 12:9<\/span>.].<\/p>\n Without hesitation, then, do I say to every believing soul, Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus [Note: 2Ti 2:1<\/span>.]: and never contemplate the strength of your adversaries, but the power of your heavenly Lord. Never doubt, for a moment, but that his grace shall be sufficient for you: and let your daily consolation be, that you can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth you [Note: Php 4:13<\/span>.].]<\/p>\n 2.<\/p>\n Assured confidence<\/p>\n [St. Pauls direction, probably in allusion to this very passage, is, As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him [Note: Col 2:6<\/span>.]. Never for a moment forget in whom you have believed, or how able he is to keep that which you have committed to him. Wherever you turn your steps, you will doubtless meet with many adversaries: but in him you may walk up and down with confidence, defying every enemy, and saying, If God be for me, who can be against me? See how the Messiah himself exulted in the days of his flesh; and what an example he has therein afforded you! The Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint; and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together. Who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? To, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up [Note: Isa 50:7-9<\/span>.]. Indeed, this very language is adopted by the Apostle Paul, who proceeds yet further to challenge every created being: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord [Note: Rom 8:33-39<\/span>.]. Here we have a perfect comment on the words of our text: here we see what that confidence is which every Christian should feel, when he says, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength [Note: Isa 45:24-25<\/span>.]. Thus it is, that in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified; and thus it is, that they should glory. To all of you, then, I say, Walk in Christ, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanks-giving.]<\/p>\n Is this, then, the state to which the whole world shall in due time be brought?<\/p>\n 1.<\/p>\n Contemplate it in reference to the Jews<\/p>\n [Does it not rejoice you to reflect on the mercy which is in reserve for them;for them, to whose ancestors you yourselves are so greatly indebted? As far as relates to their restoration to their own land, it is no otherwise of importance, than as fulfilling the Divine promises, and magnifying the grace of God towards them. But their believing in Christ, and experiencing the blessedness of his salvation, how ardently is it to be desired! and how should the prospect of it fill every soul with joy! Be not indifferent to it, beloved brethren. The Scriptures are full of this glorious subject; and universal nature is called upon to exult and glory in it. If you had no concern but for the benighted Gentiles, you should take an interest in the welfare of the Jews; seeing that the receiving them<\/em> into the Christian fold will be as life from the dead to the whole world [Note: Rom 11:15<\/span>.].<\/p>\n But put aside all consideration, except for the honour of your Lord and Saviour. Shall it be no joy to you that his kingdom shall be extended throughout all the earth; and that upon the whole face of the globe there shall be but one Lord, and his name one? Verily, if you have the smallest measure of love to his name, you will strive, and pray that this blessed period may be hastened, and that he may speedily be the King over all the earth.]<\/p>\n 2.<\/p>\n Seek to enjoy it in your own souls<\/p>\n [Hear the determination of the Church of old: All people will walk every one in the name of his God: and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever [Note: Mic 4:5<\/span>.]. And is not this the proper resolution for us<\/em> to adopt? Adopt it then, my brethren; and may Almighty God strengthen you to fulfil it! and may your whole walk and conversation, to your latest hour, illustrate and confirm it! ]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Blessed Jesus! thou hast promised to be as the dew to Israel, and here thou commandest thy people to ask those blessings of thee. Lord! when thou art coming forth in grace, thou inclinest thy redeemed to meet thee at the mercy seat, and then preventest them with thy goodness. We beseech thee, Lord, to fulfil thy promises to thy redeemed. Let the souls of thy people know thee, under all thy gracious characters. Thou art the chief corner stone in thy spiritual building. On thee would I rest all my hopes, for life, for death, for time, and for eternity. Thou art the nail in a sure place; for on thee is firmly fixed the whole hopes of the Church, not only in respect of the life that now is, but for that which is to come. Oh! do thou strengthen thy Judah, and bless thine Israel. Save the house of Joseph, as thou hast said; yea, save all thy redeemed, both of Jew and Gentile, and bring the whole as one fold into the land of spiritual Gilead; and into the everlasting mountain of Lebanon, thy glorious kingdom. To thee the whole Church are looking, and on thee, they are resting for those blessings. Do, Lord, as thou hast said. And, oh! that the Lord may hasten his blessed purpose for his people, when righteousness shall cover the earth, as the waters do the channel of the great deep; and when the whole earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, and incense shall be offered to the Lord, from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same. Amen.<\/p>\n Zec 10:12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.<\/p>\n Ver. 12. And I will strengthen them in the Lord<\/strong> ] That is, in Christ, the head of the Churches; “for by his own strength shall no man prevail,” saith holy Hannah, 1Sa 2:9<\/span> , and “without me ye can do nothing,” saith Christ, the true vine, Joh 15:5<\/span> , from whom we have both the bud of good desires, the blossom of good resolutions, and the fruit of good actions. Only we must fetch our strength by faith from Christ; and pray, as Isa 51:9<\/span> “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord.” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And they shall walk in his name<\/strong> ] i.e.<\/em> In his strength and to his glory. See that sweet promise, Isa 40:29-31<\/span> . See Trapp on “<\/em> Zec 10:6 “<\/em> <\/p>\n walkup and down, &c. = walk (habitually). Reference to Pentateuch (Gen 5:24; Gen 6:9; Gen 17:1). App-92. Compare Mic 4:5; Mic 6:8. <\/p>\n saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah’s oracle. <\/p>\n I will: Zec 10:6, Zec 12:5, Psa 68:34, Psa 68:35, Isa 41:10, Isa 45:24, Eph 6:10, Phi 4:13, 2Ti 2:1 <\/p>\n walk: Gen 5:24, Gen 24:40, Isa 2:5, Mic 4:5, Col 2:6, Col 3:17, 1Th 2:12, 1Th 4:1, 1Jo 1:6, 1Jo 1:7 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 49:24 – were made 2Sa 22:33 – strength Neh 6:9 – Now therefore Psa 29:11 – give Psa 43:2 – the God Psa 71:16 – I will go Psa 84:5 – strength Psa 86:16 – give Psa 89:21 – mine Psa 119:28 – strengthen Psa 138:3 – strengthenedst Pro 3:23 – General Pro 10:29 – way Isa 40:29 – General Isa 40:31 – mount Eze 30:24 – I will Dan 11:32 – shall be Hos 11:10 – walk Joe 3:16 – and the strength Mic 2:13 – they have Hab 3:19 – my strength Joh 10:9 – and shall Eph 3:16 – to be 1Pe 5:10 – strengthen<\/p>\n Zec 10:12. The strength of Ephraim was to come from the Lord.<\/p>\n Messiah would also strengthen the Israelites in the Lord. They would walk all over the earth (exercise dominion over it) in His name (as His representatives and in harmony with His character). All of this was a promise from Yahweh.<\/p>\n And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD. 12. walk up and down ] i.e. pursue the course of their lives. Comp. Mic 4:5; Coloss. Zec 3:7. 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CHRIST THE STRENGTH OF HIS PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n
[Of this, no man who believes the Scriptures can entertain a doubt. The passage before us, even if it stood alone, would be amply sufficient to warrant our expectation of this event. But it is one of many: for the prophets all, with one voice, agree in declaring that God has not finally cast off his people; but that they shall return to him, and enjoy under their Messiah a state of prosperity far exceeding any thing that they ever experienced since they became a nation. That that event is spoken of in the passage before us, will be evident to any one who will consult the context. Read it from the sixth verse. The persons spoken of are both Judah and Israel: I will strengthen the House of Judah, and I will save the House of Joseph. It was the former only that were brought from Babylon: and therefore the prophecy must relate to a period yet future, even to the return of the whole nation from their present dispersion. The Lord will hiss for them, as men in Eastern countries are wont to do when they would collect their bees [Note: Isa 5:26<\/span>; Isa 7:18<\/span><\/u>.with ver. 8.]; and they shall come from Egypt and Assyria, and from all countries whither they have been driven, unto the land of Gilead and Lebanon, where they shall increase as rapidly as they did in former times; insomuch that place shall not be found for them to dwell in [Note: ver. 10.]. This circumstance, which is considered by many as an objection to the literal interpretation of those prophecies which speak of their return to their own land, instead of being an objection to such an interpretation, is actually contemplated in the prophecy, and specifically predicted. In their present dispersion, they seem as if they were cast off<\/em>: but, though scattered over the face of the globe, they are only sown<\/em> there, as seed which the husbandman casts over his field, with a view to reap, and gather it to greater advantage at a future period [Note: ver. 9.]. Their return will be a season of most sublime joy, both to them and their children [Note: ver. 7.]: and the interpositions of God in their behalf will be as visible and as effectual as those which were vouchsafed at the Red Sea, on their departure from Egypt; or at the river Jordan, on their entrance into Canaan. Every obstacle shall be removed from before them, and every opposing enemy be destroyed [Note: ver. 11.].<\/p>\n
Their restoration, however, will be, not literal only, but spiritual also
[At their triumphant entrance into Canaan, they were strong in the Lord Jehovah, in whose name they took possession of the land, and in dependence upon whom they walked through its length and breadth. At their future restoration to God, such also will be their confidence in their Messiah; whom they will then acknowledge as their Lord, and their God. The Prophet Hosea plainly declares this: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their King; and shall fear the Lord, and his goodness, in the latter days [Note: Hos 3:5<\/span>.]. In his name, and in his strength, will they then go forth against their spiritual, no less than against their temporal, enemies: and their victories over both the one and the other will be complete. It cannot be doubted, but that, in that day, they will be as much distinguished for righteousness as for prowess in arms [Note: Isa 60:1-2<\/span>.]: for they shall be all righteous [Note: Isa 60:21<\/span>.]: their penitence will be exceeding deep [Note: Zec 12:10<\/span>.], their piety most refined [Note: Zec 13:9<\/span>.], their devotion to God universal and entire [Note: Zec 14:20-21<\/span>.].]<\/p>\n
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