Category: Notes On The Minor Prophets by H A Ironside
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Malachi, Chapter 4 & Postscript
By H A Ironside The Sun-Rising The break between these two chapters seems unfortunate, and helps to divert the mind from what has just been presented. The fact is that verse 1 of chapter 4 is but a continuation of what has gone before. The Lord is going to discern between…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Malachi, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside Preparation For The Messenger Of The Covenant Malachi means, “My messenger.” It was through him Jehovah declared, “Behold, I will send My messenger (using the same word as the prophet’s name), and he shall prepare the way before Me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Malachi, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside The Sin Of The Priests In a fuller and more pointed manner are the sins of the priesthood brought home to their consciences in this second chapter. Anointed for temple service, set apart to holiness, and devoted to the most sacred of all offices, “ordained for men,…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Malachi, Chapter 1
By H A Ironside The Failed Remnant We know nothing whatever of the writer of this book. His name, Malachi, meaning “My messenger,” occurs in verse 1; but we read of him nowhere else in Scripture, and we get no particulars concerning him here. He was the last of the prophetic…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 14
By H A Ironside The True Feast Of Tabernacles Deep indeed is the darkness with which this chapter opens, but gloriously brilliant the light at the close. Of all Jerusalem’s sieges in the past, none were more severe than that depicted in the first two verses. They describe conditions which careful…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 13
By H A Ironside The Fountain Opened And The Shepherd Smitten Immediately linked with the time when Israel shall have reached, in spirit, the day of atonement, the fountain is provided for cleansing from all defilement which the first verse of this chapter announces. When the Spirit of God has wrought…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 12
By H A Ironside The True Day Of Atonement For Judah The last three chapters relate almost entirely to the period denominated the great tribulation, or the time of Jacob’s trouble, with the establishment of the kingdom following. To that short but solemn season our attention has already been directed in…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 11
By H A Ironside “Thirty Pieces Of Silver” Surpassingly lovely have been the scenes briefly depicted in the preceding chapters. But the glory there promised is in abeyance during the present interval because of the rejection of the One upon whom it all depends. So we now have a sorrowful account…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 10
By H A Ironside The Gathering The chapter pursues the same general subject, detailing the glory which might long since have been enjoyed by Israel had they owned Messiah’s claims, but which, consequent on their rejection of Him, has been in abeyance during the present period of the calling out of…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 9
By H A Ironside The Coming King We have already pointed out that this book divides into two parts. The second division embraces chapters 7 to 14. Our study has shown us that, of these, chapters 7 and 8 stand together. A second section, or subdivision, begins with chapter 9, and…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 8
By H A Ironside The Light Of The Future Shining On The Present Path The value of the study of future prophecy is strikingly displayed in this chapter, where we find God, through His servant, drawing back the veil that hides the coming glory, in order that His people may comprehend…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 7
By H A Ironside The Need Of Reality The opening date for the second division of the prophecy of Zechariah is a little more than two years later than what we have been considering. In the meantime royal permission had been given for the completion of the temple, and the work…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 6
By H A Ironside The Four Chariots, And The Crowning Day This chapter concludes the first division of the prophecy, and is itself divided into two parts. Verses 1 to 8 give us Zechariah’s final vision. Verses 9 to 15 set forth the glorious climax of all prophetic instruction, in figure;…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 5
By H A Ironside The Flying Roll And The Ephah The visions of glory which we have been contemplating in the last two chapters are succeeded by others of very diverse kind. If Judah and Jerusalem are to be blessed, it must be on the ground of sovereign grace alone. Merit…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 4
By H A Ironside The Two Anointed Ones The striking vision next recorded, being the fifth in the series, is of prime importance to any reverent student of the word of God. Not only does it set forth precious and important truth relative to Israel, as God’s light-bearer in the world,…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 3
By H A Ironside A Brand Plucked Out Of The Fire The fourth vision may be looked at in two ways. Primarily it sets forth Israel’s cleansing, judicially and morally, in the last days. It is also a lovely gospel picture, which the soul delights to dwell upon. Joshua the high…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside Jerusalem’s Restoration This chapter contains but one vision—that of the man with a measuring-line in his hand. Upon beholding him, Zechariah asked, “Whither goest thou?” The man replied, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the-breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.” Upon this, the interpreting…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Zechariah, Introduction & Chapter 1
By H A Ironside Introduction Zechariah, like Haggai and Malachi, was a post-captivity prophet. He was one of those who came up from Babylon with Zerubbabel (having been born in the land of the stranger) and gave the word of the Lord to the returned remnant. It was Haggai’s mission to…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Haggai, Chapter 2
By H A Ironside Be Strong The work of building the long-neglected house of the Lord had been going on less than a month when the word of Jehovah came a second time through the prophet Haggai. On this occasion it was a message, not of rebuke, but of cheer and…
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Notes On The Minor Prophets, Haggai, Chapter 1
By H A Ironside Consider Your Ways The date given in verse 1 is in harmony with the statement recorded in Ezra 4:24. There we learn that, owing to the opposition of the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin, the work of rebuilding the house of the Lord ceased “unto the second year…
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