Any Sesame Street fans out there? Tonight's sermon is brought to you by the number four, and by the Hebrew letter yod.
I thought about preaching only on chapter 1 – but chapter 2 completes chapter 1. The promise of the measuring line in chapter 1, verse 16, is fulfilled in chapter 2, verse 1. And the judgment against the nations in chapter 1 ends in the salvation of the nations in chapter 2.
And what holds these two chapters together is the number 4.
The key number in these opening chapters is the number 4: - There are four horses (1:8). - There are four horns (1:18). - There are four craftsmen (1:20). - There are the four winds of the heavens (2:6).
In other words, these opening visions are all about the whole world. - The four horseman “patrol the earth.†- The four horns are all the nations that scattered God's people. - The four craftsmen are those who cast down the nations that scattered God's people. - And the four winds of the heavens describe the extent of the scattering.
And the Hebrew letter yod does something interesting to the story at the end of chapter 2 – which made me realize that the whole passage needed to go together...
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