Biblical Reading and Reflections: October 3rd (Zechariah 13 & Matthew 23:13-39)
Alastair's Adversaria
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The Water That Comes From the Rock
The fountain cleanses the land from its wickedness, idolatry, and uncleanness. Prophecy, presumably false prophecy, is driven out. A flipside of making the people holy is the expulsion of that which is wicked from their midst. This pattern was already evident in the vision of the flying scroll in chapter 5. The cutting off of a name is elsewhere used to refer to the destruction or removal of a person's posterity. Here it likely refers to the cessation of their worship.
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