Author: Rev. Herman Hoeksema

For he shall reign upon his throne! And he who shall reign will be a priest upon his throne. So it must be; it cannot

In the vision in Zechariah 6:1–8, there is closure! In this closure there is rest, the rest of God’s Spirit! Exactly because God is the

Separation! Separation is the Lord’s answer in this vision to a question that undoubtedly arises in the heart of the prophet as he considers the

Election and reprobation! Everywhere they go together. They are realized together, the one and the other, the latter for the sake of the former, reprobation

And the angel…wakes me. It is not as though the prophet is asleep. How could a prophet of the Lord fall asleep on such a

How can this stand? That question must have arisen in the mind of the prophet and certainly also within Joshua the high priest after their

Will Jerusalem become beautiful? Will the city of God be so established, spread over the whole earth, and glorified with the glory of God that

I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou?

How long, O Lord? How long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah? Thus had the angel of the

(This meditation is from the pen of the late Rev. Herman Hoeksema and is reprinted from The Standard Bearer 1, no. 10 (July 1925).) Toiling!