Doug Van Pelt

Then I Saw Her Face...

As soon as I arrive in my office, I'll set my backpack down and take out its contents. Sometimes that includes one of those little "Jumpdrives" that hold 256 MG of information (and work that I've brought from home).

I've been working like MAD today trying to finish the new issue of Heaven's Metal Fanzine. I'm been laboring over this massive list of 95 (!) metal albums that "you may have missed" since we stopped publishing Heaven's Metal as a magazine back in '95. I'm making sure each artist name is bolded, each album title it italicized, and that it has the name of the label in (brackets), followed by the year it came out.
Whew!
It's a tedious process, but hopefully it will be well worth it. I've been working on this since all day yesterday, so I came in early and jumped on it right away. I'm almost finished. I'm just going over my shelves of CDs to make sure I didn't forget any that should be on the list.

So I'm only now sitting down for a devotion. I wish I consistently had these to start my day, but sometimes it gets away from me.

It's crazy to sometimes jump into the middle of a prophet's book and read without having the whole book read to provide context. But that's what I've done with Zechariah chapter 12. It's another oracle the Lord spoke concerning Israel. He says He will make Jerusalem like an "immovable rock" for all the nations. People will try to overtake her, but will fail.

The last part of the chapter has another amazing prophetic statement that seems to clearly speak about Jesus -- the wounded/pierced Messiah:

"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a first-born son."

Doesn't that sound like the mourning on Good Friday's aftermath?

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at February 9, 2005 12:31 PM