8-ZachariahEndnotes



			ZACHARIAH ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

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		[1] THE BIBLE, DANIEL 8:17-25 - ....Gabriel started toward me.� But as he approached, I was too frightened to stand....kings of Media and Persia...nation of Greece....the Grecian Empire will break into four sections....toward the end of their kingdoms....Prince of Princes.

	[2] THE BIBLE, 1 CHRONICLES 24:1, 10, 19 - The priests (the descendants of Aaron) were placed into...divisions....Eighth, the group led by Ahijah....Each group carried out the Temple duties as originally assigned by God through their ancestor Aaron.

[3] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:5 - During the rule of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest assigned service in the regiment of Abijah.� His name was Zachariah.� His wife was descended from the daughters of Aaron.

[4] THE BIBLE, NUMBERS 3:46-47 - ...total of all the Levites who were thirty to fifty years old and who were eligible for the Tabernacle service.

[5] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 15, 2:4 [About BC 38] - These Jews honoured Hyrcanus as their high priest and king....Herod...in order to secure his government...being cautious how he made any illustrious person the high priest of God, he went for an obscure priest out of Babylon, whose name was Ananelus, and bestowed the high priesthood on him.

[6] THE BIBLE, LUKE 2:36-38 - Anna the prophetess was also there, a daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher.� She was by now a very old woman.� She had been married seven years and a widow for eighty-four.� She never left the Temple area, worshiping night and day with her fastings and prayers.

[7] THE BIBLE, DANIEL 8:17-25 - ....Gabriel started toward me.� But as he approached, I was too frightened to stand....kings of Media and Persia...nation of Greece....the Grecian Empire will break into four sections....toward the end of their kingdoms....Prince of Princes.

[8] THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:19-20 [NIV] [Note:� John the Baptist's personality was influenced by his parents, Zacharias and Elizabeth.] - But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the other evil things he had done, Herod added this to them all:� He locked John up in prison.

[9] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 15, 3:3 [About BC 34] - ....while such of Herod's acquaintance as he had appointed to do it, dipped him as he was swimming, and plunged him under water, in the dark of the evening, as if it had been done in sport only; nor did they desist till he was entirely suffocated.� And thus was Aristobulus murdered...having kept the high priesthood one year only.

[10] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 15, 4:1-4 [About 30 BC] - Cleopatra...poisoned her brother because she knew that he was to be king of Egypt...and got her sister...slain....She also petitioned Antony to give her Judea....he took some parts...and gave them to her....tributes which Herod was to pay Cleopatra.

[11] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 15, 7:4, 6 [About BC 27] - They prevailed with the king [Herod] to do so...and thus was Mariamne led to execution....And thus died Mariamne, a woman of an excellent character, both for chastity and greatness of soul.

[12] THE BIBLE, LUKE 3:23-24 [NIV] - Now Jesus....was the [grandson] of...Heli, the son of Matthat....� [Note:� The Matthew 1 genealogy is Joseph's; therefore, it is believed this is Mary's genealogy.]

[13] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 15, 10:3 [About 20 BC] - Now when Herod had already reigned seventeen years, Caesar came into Syria....governed the vast Roman empire.

[14] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 6, 11:2, 7 [About BC 8] - ...there was no confession of any plots or contrivances against him [Herod by his sons]....Alexander also and Aristobulus were brought...by their father's [Herod's] command, and there strangled.

[15] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:6-7 - Together they lived honorably before God, careful in keeping to the ways of the commandments and enjoying a clear conscience before God.� But they were childless because Elizabeth could never conceive, and now they were quite old.

[16] THE BIBLE, EXODUS 30:7-8; LEVITICUS 10:13,17a - Every morning Aaron...shall burn sweet spices on the altar, and each evening...he shall burn the incense before the Lord, and this shall go on from generation to generation....he shall put the incense upon the coals, so that a cloud of incense will cover the mercy place above the Ark [gold chest with the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments]....Not another soul shall be inside the Tabernacle.

[17] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:8-9 - It so happened that Zachariah was carrying out his priestly duties before God, working the shift assigned to his regiment, it came his one turn in life to enter the sanctuary of God and burn incense.� The congregation was gathered and praying outside the Temple at the hour of the incense offering.

[18] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:11-12 - Unannounced, an angel of God appeared just to the right of the altar of incense.� Zachariah was paralyzed in fear.

[19] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:13 - But the angel reassured him, "Don't fear, Zachariah.� Your prayer has been heard.� Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you.� You are to name him John."

[20] LUKE 1:14-15a - You're going to leap like a gazelle for joy, and not only you - many will delight in his birth.� He'll achieve great stature with God.

[21] THE BIBLE, NUMBERS 6:2-5a - When either a man or a woman takes the special vow of a Nazarite, consecrating himself to the Lord in a special way, he must not thereafter, during the entire period of his special consecration to the Lord, taste strong drink or wine or even fresh wine, grape juice, grapes, or raisins!

[22] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:15b - "He'll drink neither wine nor beer.� He'll be filled with the Holy Spirit from the moment he leaves his mother's womb."

[23] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:16 - "He will turn many sons and daughters of Israel back to their God.� He will herald God's arrival in the style and strength of Elijah, soften the hearts of parents to children, and kindle devout understanding among hardened skeptics -he'll get the people ready for God."

[24] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:18 - Zachariah said to the angel, "Do you expect me to believe this?� I am an old man and my wife is an old woman."

[25] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:19-20 - But the angel said, "I am Gabriel, the sentinel of God, sent especially to bring you this glad news.� But because you won't believe me, you'll be unable to say a word until the day of your son's birth.� Every word I've spoken to you will come true on time - God's time."

[26] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:21 - Meanwhile, the congregation waiting for Zachariah was getting restless, wondering what was keeping him so long in the sanctuary.

[27] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:22 - When he came out and couldn't speak, they knew he had seen a vision.� He continued speechless and had to use sign language with the people.

[28] THE BIBLE, DANIEL 9:24-27 - From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.'� [49 + 434 = 483 years]

[29] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:62-63 - They used sign language to ask Zachariah....Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote....

[30] THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 6:12-13 - ....the MAN who will come, whose name is "The Branch"....He will rule both as King and as Priest, with perfect harmony between the two!

[31] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:68-69a - Blessed be the Lord, the god of Israel; he came and set his people free.� He set the power of salvation in the center of our lives.

[32] THE BIBLE, GENESIS 17:16-17, 18:12 - "I will bless her and give you a son from her"....Then Abraham threw himself down in worship before the Lord, but inside he was laughing in disbelief!� "Me, be a father?" he said in amusement.� "Me - 100 years old?� And Sarah, to have a baby at 90?"....Sarah laughed silently.� "A woman my age have a baby?"

[33] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:23-24a - When the course of his priestly assignment was completed, he went back home.� It wasn't long before his wife, Elizabeth, conceived.

[34] THE BIBLE, MALACHI 3:1 [Predicted about 430 years before Jesus] - "Listen: I will send my messenger before me to prepare the way.� And then the one you are looking for will come suddenly to his Temple - the Messenger of God's promises, to bring you great joy.� Yes, he is surely coming," says the Lord Almighty.

[35] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:57 - When Elizabeth was full-term in her pregnancy, she bore a son.� Her neighbors and relatives, seeing that God had overwhelmed her with mercy, celebrated with her.

[36] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:59-61 - On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father.� But his mother intervened:� "No.� He is to be called John."

[37] THE BIBLE, 1 SAMUEL 18:1-3 - David met Jonathan, the king's son, and there was an immediate bond of love between them.� Jonathan swore to be his blood brother.

[38] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:61-63 - "But," they said, "no one in your family is named that."� They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named.� Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John."� That took everyone by surprise.

[39] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:67-75 - Then Zachariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied...."just as he promised long ago through the preaching of his holy prophets: Deliverance from our enemies....So we can worship him without a care in the world."

[40] THE BIBLE, LUKE 1:76-79 - "And you, my child, 'Prophet of the Highest,' will go ahead of the Master to prepare his ways, present the offer of salvation to his people, the forgiveness of their sins.� Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us...."

[41] THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 2:11a - They [wise men] entered the house and saw the child in the arms of Mary, his mother.

[42] THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 2:16 - Herod...flew into a rage.� He commanded the murder of every little boy two years old and under who lived in Bethlehem and its surrounding hills.� (He determined that age from information he'd gotten from the scholars [wise men].)

[43] THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 2:13-14 - After the scholars [wise men] were gone, God's angel showed up again in Joseph's dream and commanded, "Get up.� Take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt.� Stay until further notice.� Herod is on the hunt for this child, and wants to kill him."� Joseph obeyed.� He got up, took the child and his mother under cover of darkness.� They were out of town and well on their way by daylight.

[44] THE BIBLE, JEREMIAH 31:15 (NIV) [PREDICTED 600 YEARS BEFORE JESUS]; MATTHEW 2:17-18 - A voice is heard [from as far away as] Ramah, Rachel [who died in Bethlehem during childbirth - Genesis 37:35] weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more....That's when Jeremiah's sermon was fulfilled:� "A sound was heard in Ramah, weeping and much lament.� Rachel [grand daughter of Abraham] weeping for her children, Rachel refusing all solace, her children gone, dead and buried."

[45] THE BIBLE, MARK 10:14-15 - Jesus..."These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom.� Mark this:� Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in."

[46] THE BIBLE, HOSEA 11:1 [PROPHECIED 750 YEARS BEFORE JESUS] MATTHEW 2:15 - When Israel was a child I loved him as a son and brought him out of Egypt....This Egyptian exile fulfilled what Hosea had preached:� "I called my son out of Egypt."

[47] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 17, 6:4 - Herod burnt the other Matthias, who had raised the sedition, with his [forty] companions, alive.� And that very night there was an eclipse.� (This eclipse of the moon is of the greatest consequence for the determination of the time for the death of Herod...and for the birth and entire chronology of Jesus Christ.� It happened March 13....the 4th year before the Christian era.)

[48] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 17, 7:1 - Antipater...hoping to...take the kingdom into his hands...Hereupon Herod...cried out and beat his head, although he was at death's door, and...commanded them to kill Antipater.

[49] FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 17, 6:5; 8:1 - But now Herod's distemper greatly increased...a fire glowed in him...it augmented his pains....His entrails were also exulcerated, and the chief violence of his pain lay on his colon; an aqueous and transparent liquor also had settled itself about his feet, and a like matter afflicted him at the bottom of his belly....his privy-member was putrefied, and produced worms; and when he sat upright he had a difficulty of breathing, which was very loathsome on account of the stench of his breath...he had also convulsions...to insufferable degree....he died, the fifth day after he had caused [his son] to be slain.

[50] THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 2:21-23 - Joseph...took the child and his mother, and reentered Israel.� When he heard, though, that Archelaus had succeeded his father, Herod, as king in Judea, he was afraid to go there.� But then Joseph was directed in a dream to go to the hills of Galilee.� On arrival, he settled in the village of Nazareth.

[51] THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:21, MATTHEW 11:14 [NIV] - ....They asked him [John], "Then who are you?� Are you Elijah?"� He said, "I am not"� ....[Jesus said] "he [John] is the Elijah who was to come."

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